Is Cuomo headed for the end of the trail?
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“We need a lot of humility.” — Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, of University of California San Francisco, discussing the many unknowns surrounding whether one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine provides sufficient protection for the previously infected.
“You either choose to live with it, or avoid anything that makes life meaningful.” — Alex Myers, DO, a doctor for the U.S. rugby team at the Olympics, describing the pandemic precautions being taken in Tokyo.
‘We Need a Lot of Humility’: What We Heard This Week
Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today reporters
Suddenly the scales fell from their eyes
[J]ust a year ago, much of blue-state America was lusting after Governor Andrew Cuomo… The erotic interest was documented in a Jezebel article—“Help, I Think I’m in Love with Andrew Cuomo???”… The term “Cuomosexual” was popularized in a song called “Andy,” by the comedian Randy Rainbow, set to the tune of “Sandy,” from the musical “Grease”….Celebrities such as Ellen DeGeneres and Trevor Noah announced their Cuomosexuality…..
“Diving Into the Subconscious of the ‘Cuomosexual’/How could we have witnessed the Governor’s narcissism, bullying, and hackneyed paternalism, and found these qualities attractive? A psychoanalyst gives her take.”
Ah! Perfect! This is exactly the article I’d have requested if The New Yorker had asked me What can we write for you? I could go looking fo…
A month later nobody knows who killed Haitian president
Haitian officials crucial to the investigation are now in hiding. Callers to Mr. Destin, the crime-scene officer, from blocked numbers have threatened his life and family, he said. Three other clerks and judicial officers on the case said they received the same calls. One colleague, tasked with interviewing suspects, left his lights on one Sunday night, then casually strolled away from his home with his wife, slipping into hiding with pages of handwritten notes from interviews with suspects, which haven’t yet been typed up.
Is it time to worry?
US intel digging through genetic data to uncover virus origins
It’s unclear exactly how or when US intelligence agencies gained access to the information, but the machines involved in creating and processing this kind of genetic data from viruses are typically connected to external cloud-based servers — leaving open the possibility they were hacked, sources said.
Exclusive: Intel agencies scour reams of genetic data from Wuhan lab in Covid origins hunt
US intelligence agencies are digging through a treasure trove of genetic data that could be key to uncovering the origins of the coronavirus — as soon as they can decipher it.
Can we handle the truth?
Americans Deserve the Truth about Gain-of-Function Research and the Wuhan Lab | National Review
And Dr. Anthony Fauci needs to stop his deception.
Editorial denounces the De Blasio vaccine passport
It is common to hear that the ‘selfish’ are inflicting negative externalities on the ‘selfless’ during the pandemic. But the ‘selfless’ also impose negative externalities on everyone else. This happens because nothing is free. Striking the right balance is a matter of cost-benefit estimates and calculated risk. Anyone who promises ‘free’ and totally safe is less than truthful.
Lockdowns create vision problems for kids
An analysis of eye test data from nearly 2,000 Hong Kong school-age children revealed that the rate of nearsightedness that developed during the pandemic more than doubled what was found in a pre-pandemic study of children the same age, according to the report in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. …
The researchers also found “significant changes” in the children’s lifestyles during Covid restrictions; outdoor time decreased by 68 percent, and screen time increased 2.8-fold.
When you’re not sure but can’t let on
Seniors wasting away under pandemic curbs
More than a third of the 2,074 U.S. adults aged 50 to 80 who took part in the online survey in January reported a decline in physical activity in the first 10 months of the pandemic, and 27% said their physical conditioning — flexibility, muscle strength and endurance — had worsened.
The great historical mission fantasy
Does new delta plus variant mean life imprisonment?
South Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Tuesday that it had recorded at least two cases of the new coronavirus delta-plus variant, which some experts believe to be more transmissible than the original delta variant that was first detected in India and has since thwarted plans for returning to life before the pandemic.
But what do we know about “delta plus,” yet another new variant causing alarm among governments and health officials? First identified in Europe in March, the variant is also known as B. 1.617.2.1 or AY.1.
It has been detected in several countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States and India.
It’s the only way
North Korea Is Willing to Talk, but First It Wants Fuel, Suits and Liquor
SEOUL—North Korea has a few demands to restart nuclear talks with the U.S., according to South Korea’s spy agency. Kim Jong Un’s regime wants sanctions restrictions relaxed to allow exporting minerals and importing more refined fuel.
Also on the must-have list: fine suits and premium liquor.
North Korea breaks out last ditch food
Seoul’s intelligence service says climate change effects appear to have hit crops, causing shortages
North Korea releases wartime rice reserves amid food crisis
Seoul’s intelligence service says climate change effects appear to have hit crops, causing shortages
I can mashed potato, do the twist
New York AG releases audio of Gov. Cuomo singing ‘Do You Love Me’ to advisor Charlotte Bennett as part of damning sexual harassment report
During a phone call with Bennett included in the report, Cuomo began to sing: “Do you love me, Do really you love me, Do you love me, Do you care?”
