we'll be setting ourselves up to let the virus keep spreading, and keep mutating, continuing to give us new variants that will continue to pose new threats....

Ugh. I'm tired of reading this ignorant thinking by journalists who apparently have little to no training in microbiology or virology.

There isn't unlimited evolutionary space. There are only so many changes the virus can make to evade human immune responses, so the rise of new variants later this year or next year or three years from now isn't going to make it a brand spanking new virus that's invisible to existing immunity. These initial changes (increased binding strength to ACE2, major changes in S that partially evade antibody immunity) are entirely predictable as the virus evolves to humans as its new primary host.

But once it's adapted to humans as it's primary host, more than likely it will remain with us as a seasonal virus that will have variations in seasonal severity and case loads as existing population immunity waxes and wanes.

There may be the need for booster vaccinations at intervals, but with the slow rate of mutation in coronaviruses compared to influenza viruses I don't see that as being terribly likely and if they are needed they would be infrequent.

Why? This is not the first time and likely not the last.

It just sounds like a weak excuse as side arms are always on your strong side. Tasers are on your weak side and require a cross draw.

Or so it seems. Maybe I'm wrong.

I actually agree with this somewhat.

It would suck to reduce supply to another state and potentially make conditions for an outbreak in those states.

But at the same time, a dispassionate response would do just that because reducing the hot spot in MI could help nationally.

This was about punishing someone who resisted their authority. Going INTO Mexico that may be another matter - depends on the Mexico Authorities.

#5 | POSTED BY GALAXIEPETE

No disagreement with anything you said.

My point is that these types of abuses happen regularly, it's just kind of funny to me that it's a whiny ass republican who's finally bringing the issue to this much needed point.

Any backlash by the corporations against the GOP will live only so long as is needed to quell public discontent.
#5 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Or as long as it takes for Mitch to be removed from his leadership position.

They'll wait long enough for a more business friendly person to take the reigns.

In any case, there is a real need for civil forfeiture to be looked at and rule on. What I've read about it suggests a serious, systemic problem.

It's just too bad it took a whiny snowflake Repub being angry to find his own policy preferences being used against him to make it happen.

You don't have no rights here. I'm sick and tired of hearing about your rights.' That took me aback," Serrano said.

LOL boot licking repub finally tastes his own fascism and he's whining like a little girl.

Of course Trump is.

When will the idiots learn that they'll only get their crumbs so long as they're useful?

Better question is how could somebody vote for a person so lacking in character they show zero loyalty to anybody but themselves? How can you think that type of personality in charge of our country is a good thing?

A better economy was quite predictable given the usual cycle of things the past 40 years.

I notice nobody brags about Trump's GDP numbers over his tenure, likely because they were in the same region as Obama's numbers, which Trump and then his idiot parrot base derided as weak performance.

Detractors say that makes The Boring Company's projects little more than reinvented subways with significantly less passenger capacity.

Typical Musk. Lots of flashiness and advertising to hype something.

We should not have an unelected, politically biased, branch of our government with the power to overrule Congress.

Then who checks and balances Congress?

You do know what checks and balances are, right?

Damn I guess I better go get that lumber I wanted for planters and a work bench.

So DeSantis won't be happy until he can effectively spread COVID to all states with ease.

#29 what did you do?

I watched a cool Netflix documentary on the main research station there and their experiences wintering there.

Was amazed at the facilities and diversity of jobs that are there. Looked into what jobs were hiring and what the pay was. My wife said she'd kill me if I left for a year for $35K lol.

Look at how these idiots are holding their weapons.

Wanna be gangstas thinking they're playing a real life Training Day.

Seasonal ice is due to changes in the Earth's tilt and the drop in temperatures. What freezes is the ocean, not fresh water on the Antarctic Continent.

I'll add it fluctuates from year to year due to the complexity of interactions between currents, wind and Other environmental factors.

That's why climate change deniers point to years where sea ice is high, but all they're talking about is area whereas climate scientists are talking about ice volume that's on land.

Yav, have you spent time in Antarctica?

Isn't seasonal ice the result of melting freshwater from existing ice shelves and glaciers?

#17 | POSTED BY AMERICANUNITY

I'm no expert but IIRC seasonal ice (sea ice) is frozen sea water, not fresh water from glaciers.

That these human actions could have a cumulative adverse effect on the environment?

#8 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

I'm not sure you understand the scale of the amount of ice present.

Ice cores and ice breakers (who's paths would be refrozen as soon as they passed) aren't going to meaningful impact the ice we're talking about.

Especially in the old arctic sea ice (centuries old ice) and antarctic ice.

Between this and sending ice breaker boats to the North Pole for the past 150 years, what could possibly go wrong?

#1 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

This is a joke, right?

Absolutely. I just can't handle the pretentious nonsense they use in the reviews.

There's usually 5-6 words for any given type of wine that you can just say and more than likely you've given the description from the back of the bottle and people think you know what you're talking about.

Art is more about what you see in it than what's actually on the canvas.

#23 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

Does it really surprise you that an emotionally dysfunctional scientist would have trouble looking past what's on the canvas?

In any case, most of what I've seen of abstract "art" is talentless crap latched on to by people trying to sound sophisticated and smart.

You've never seen artwork that blew your mind? Or are you simply not a fan of abstract art?

The latter.

Same with wine reviews. And cigars. Pretty much everything.

#22 | POSTED BY REDIAL

Up to a point.

There are differences in wine, cigars ect in taste and quality.

But up to a point.

I rarely spend more than $12-15 for a bottle of wine. I haven't really found bottles more expensive than that to be worth the extra cost.

Funny you should mention it, though.

Abstract art is still art and art is a part of history worth persevering.
Sure there's garbage out there. But some of it is incredible.

Incredible? LOL

My favorite thing to do when I go with my wife to the art museum is listen to the idiots try to sound all artsy and pretentious talking about "the works."

It's all ---- bulls*&^.