• The day

    From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Saturday, February 22, 2020 21:54:49
    Saturday coming to an end. Today I

    - spent two hours helping a fellow sysop in Spain get setup with his Mystic BBS. Never remoted into Madrid before :)

    - had lunch and watched some YouTube (TED talks about AI and a CNBC clip
    about the rise of sourdough)

    The Rise of Sourdough - https://youtu.be/nX6SAH3w6UI

    TED talk - The danger of AI is weirder than you think - https://youtu.be/OhCzX0iLnOc

    - went shopping for some winter clothes with my wife, they were for her. We also got some groceries

    - offered to cook dinner

    - sent 8-10 emails to folks all about BBS stuff I am engaged with

    - watched some of The Chase gameshow

    - cooked dinner then watched some TV news, while also doing some more
    emails... naughty I know

    - recorded Total FM weather forecasts for the next 24 hours (totalfm.nz)

    - made a few cups of tea for the lady of the house

    - started on the evening BBS run and .. set up two nodes for interbbs-games, sent another 7 emails, remoted to a node to try and help get the 1.11 dated
    BBS re connected, set up a new node, troubleshot that one, said goodbye to another sysop, hatched out the nodelist and posted about it, sent 2-3 netmails and started typing this.

    It's 9.50pm now and I am heading to the shower then bed :)

    I share this just cause :) For not any real reason but just to share. It's a busy life and many are like this. I enjoy it but it can be quite time consuming.

    Tomorrow family for dinner and some outdoor stuff around the home. I hope to make time to do some DNS zone file stuff for fsxNet and play with Franks
    script (thanks again good sir)..

    Best, Paul

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  • From Netsurge@21:4/154 to Avon on Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:20:50
    Tomorrow family for dinner and some outdoor stuff around the home. I
    hope to make time to do some DNS zone file stuff for fsxNet and play
    with Franks script (thanks again good sir)..

    If you have any issues deciphering the code (I am terrible at commenting my work), let me know.

    |15frank |08// |15netsurge
    |07disksh0p|08!|07bbs |08% |07bbs.diskshop.ca |08% |07mystic goodness |11SciNet |03ftn hq |08% |07https://scinet-ftn.org

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  • From Zip@21:1/202 to Avon on Saturday, February 22, 2020 18:10:38
    Hello Avon!

    On 22 Feb 2020, Avon said the following...
    Saturday coming to an end. Today I

    :-O

    You've been busy for sure! Hoping you'll get some well-deserved rest now. =)

    Best regards
    Zip

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  • From ryan@21:1/168 to Netsurge on Saturday, February 22, 2020 16:02:21
    If you have any issues deciphering the code (I am terrible at commenting my work), let me know.

    Two rules of thumb I believe in but never follow:

    1. Good code should be human readable and never need to be commented
    2. Code should always be commented

    :P

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  • From Netsurge@21:4/154 to ryan on Saturday, February 22, 2020 19:13:34
    Two rules of thumb I believe in but never follow:

    1. Good code should be human readable and never need to be commented
    2. Code should always be commented

    And then there is me who years later needs to study his own code just to
    figure out what the hell I was trying to do.

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Avon on Saturday, February 22, 2020 19:27:45
    Avon wrote to All <=-

    Saturday coming to an end. Today I

    - spent two hours helping a fellow sysop in Spain get setup with his Mystic BBS. Never remoted into Madrid before :)

    Wasted my whole Saturday, or the daylight bit anyway, trying to upgrade the linux distro on my Up Board. The UP folks moved away from their close-to-Debian distro and to Ubuntu. It (eventually) required a full
    deleted and reinstall, so I had to restore all of my user space things, get synchronet, etc., working again.

    It was sort of a pain in the bottom. The system originally came with the
    whole partition dedicted to '/'. I have broken it into three now, so at
    least my /sbbs and /opt will survive any future changes of course.



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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Blue White on Sunday, February 23, 2020 19:28:49
    On 22 Feb 2020 at 07:27p, Blue White pondered and said...

    Wasted my whole Saturday, or the daylight bit anyway, trying to upgrade the linux distro on my Up Board. The UP folks moved away from their close-to-Debian distro and to Ubuntu. It (eventually) required a full deleted and reinstall, so I had to restore all of my user space things, get synchronet, etc., working again.

    Good you got it sorted, what a pain, but good now :)

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Monday, February 24, 2020 09:48:00
    On 02-22-20 21:54, Avon wrote to All <=-

    Saturday coming to an end. Today I

    Wow, buay! :)

    Monday morning here, there's a reason I've been quiet for around 36 hours. :)

    Saturday morning started with volunteering at Parkrun, then off to the track to do my training session proper. It was one of those simple, but nasty sessions.
    A bit of a tune up for the coming championship season that runs from early March to Easter this year. The session was:

    Warmup (including drills) - approx 30 minutes.

    300 metres at full race speed - I managed this in about 43 seconds.

    20 minutes rest, to try and get full recovery.

    200 metres, again full race speed. My third 200 in a row at sub 27 second
    ime.

    The combination of those 2 runs was pretty exhausting. :)

    Saturday arvo, had time to catch up on BBS mail among other things. :)

    Sunday was spent in Melbourne, necessiting a 5:40AM departure. Started with the annual Pride Run in Melbourne. I entered the 1 lap event (3.8km), and somehow ended up winning it! Time wasn't super fast - 18:48 at 4:56/km - 28 seconds slower than when I did the AV Tan relays last year on the same course.

    Then I visited family and friends during the day, before getting back home around 10PM. :)


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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195 to Vk3jed on Monday, February 24, 2020 13:18:48

    Hello Vk3jed!

    24 Feb 20 09:48, you wrote to Avon:

    Sunday was spent in Melbourne, necessiting a 5:40AM departure.

    So your the one that drove past the tram in the old clapped out car, with the antenn's sticking out?





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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Vk3jed on Monday, February 24, 2020 19:50:29
    On 24 Feb 2020 at 09:48a, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    Then I visited family and friends during the day, before getting back
    home around 10PM. :)

    ..and that is a busy weekend too! Sounds like you had a lot of fun which is
    the main thing :)

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  • From Phoobar@21:2/147 to Avon on Saturday, February 22, 2020 08:46:15
    Tomorrow family for dinner and some outdoor stuff around the home. I

    Mmmmmm...family. Which way ya gonna cook 'em...rotiserie or BBQ??? ;)

    Feeling pretty good...since I passed the 1st part of my forklift cert at work...then hopefully a better paying job in the future.

    ACME BBS-Member of fsxNet/WWIVNet/SciNet/AmigaNet/VKRadio/FidoNet/MicroNet.

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  • From Joacim Melin@21:2/130 to Avon on Monday, February 24, 2020 02:40:05
    Since wednesday:

    Caughing
    Fever
    Blowing nose
    Repeat

    Oh, and also salvaging files from my SAN which decided to kick the bucket the weekend. It's about 13-14 years old and only holds about 10TB so it's no big deal but I managed to salvage everything.

    Also decided to retire my VMware virtual environment and go full KVM instead. Basic and easy to maintain and also open source.

    Oh, and some more caughing and fever and blowing nose.



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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Netsurge on Monday, February 24, 2020 22:35:58
    On 22 Feb 2020 at 11:20a, Netsurge pondered and said...

    hope to make time to do some DNS zone file stuff for fsxNet and play with Franks script (thanks again good sir)..

    If you have any issues deciphering the code (I am terrible at commenting my work), let me know.

    I'm going to move this thread over to FSX_NET :)

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Vorlon on Monday, February 24, 2020 20:22:00
    On 02-24-20 13:18, Vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-


    Hello Vk3jed!

    24 Feb 20 09:48, you wrote to Avon:

    Sunday was spent in Melbourne, necessiting a 5:40AM departure.

    So your the one that drove past the tram in the old clapped out car,
    with the antenn's sticking out?

    Haha what tram where and when? ;P


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Monday, February 24, 2020 20:26:00
    On 02-24-20 19:50, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    On 24 Feb 2020 at 09:48a, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    Then I visited family and friends during the day, before getting back
    home around 10PM. :)

    ..and that is a busy weekend too! Sounds like you had a lot of fun
    which is the main thing :)

    Was a good weekend. :)


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  • From Zip@21:1/202 to Joacim Melin on Monday, February 24, 2020 19:11:52
    Hello Joacim!

    On 24 Feb 2020, Joacim Melin said the following...
    Caughing
    Fever
    Blowing nose
    Repeat

    %-(

    Hoping you'll get well soon!

    bucket the weekend. It's about 13-14 years old and only holds about 10TB so it's no big deal but I managed to salvage everything.

    Glad to hear that!

    Best regards
    Zip

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  • From alter ego@21:2/116 to Blue White on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 16:34:18
    Re: Re: The day
    By: Blue White to Avon on Sat Feb 22 2020 07:27 pm

    Wasted my whole Saturday, or the daylight bit anyway, trying to upgrade the linux distro on my Up Board. The UP folks moved away from their

    I'm curious on the upboard - how well does it perform?
    ...deon


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Vk3jed on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 17:56:13
    On 02-24-20 13:18, Vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-



    Sunday was spent in Melbourne, necessiting a 5:40AM departure.

    So your the one that drove past the tram in the old clapped
    out car, with the antenn's sticking out?

    Haha what tram where and when? ;P

    It was about 3:30-4pm, on the Stkilda line heading to southern cross
    station. ^=>







    \/orlon



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  • From Joacim Melin@21:2/130 to Zip on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:44:24
    Thanks Zip. I'm on the mend now, actually back at work today.


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  • From Phoobar@21:2/147 to Joacim Melin on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:18:51
    Thanks Zip. I'm on the mend now, actually back at work today.

    Glad to hear that. Take it easy & get well.

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to vorlon on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 08:53:00
    On 02-25-20 17:56, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    On 02-24-20 13:18, Vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-



    Sunday was spent in Melbourne, necessiting a 5:40AM departure.

    So your the one that drove past the tram in the old clapped
    out car, with the antenn's sticking out?

    Haha what tram where and when? ;P

    It was about 3:30-4pm, on the Stkilda line heading to southern cross station. ^=>

    Wasn't me, I was in Yarraville at the time. :P


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Vk3jed on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 10:52:48
    Sunday was spent in Melbourne, necessiting a 5:40AM departure.

    So your the one that drove past the tram in the old clapped
    out car, with the antenn's sticking out?

    Haha what tram where and when? ;P

    It was about 3:30-4pm, on the Stkilda line heading to southern
    cross station. ^=>

    Wasn't me, I was in Yarraville at the time. :P

    There must be a doppleganger running around then. @=>




    \/orlon



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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to alter ego on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 18:34:58
    alter ego wrote to Blue White <=-

    Wasted my whole Saturday, or the daylight bit anyway, trying to upgrade the linux distro on my Up Board. The UP folks moved away from their

    I'm curious on the upboard - how well does it perform?

    Quite well. I have the Intel z8350 version with 4GB RAM. It might be my favorite machine since my 386DX-40. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to vorlon on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 11:27:00
    On 02-26-20 10:52, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Wasn't me, I was in Yarraville at the time. :P

    There must be a doppleganger running around then. @=>

    LOL must be. :D

    Apparently there's one around here. I visited a friend's grave at a local cemetary a few weeks ago, and a family thought they recognised a friend when they saw me! :)


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  • From Zip@21:1/202 to Joacim Melin on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 18:40:14
    Hello Joacim!

    On 25 Feb 2020, Joacim Melin said the following...
    Thanks Zip. I'm on the mend now, actually back at work today.

    Glad to hear that! =)

    Best regards
    Zip

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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Vk3jed on Thursday, February 27, 2020 09:32:23
    On 02-26-20 10:52, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Wasn't me, I was in Yarraville at the time. :P

    There must be a doppleganger running around then. @=>

    LOL must be. :D

    Apparently there's one around here. I visited a friend's grave at
    a local cemetary a few weeks ago, and a family thought they
    recognised a friend when they saw me! :)

    They say that there is a double for everyone around the world, so why
    not. %->



    \/orlon



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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to vorlon on Thursday, February 27, 2020 14:21:00
    On 02-27-20 09:32, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    On 02-26-20 10:52, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Wasn't me, I was in Yarraville at the time. :P

    There must be a doppleganger running around then. @=>

    LOL must be. :D

    Apparently there's one around here. I visited a friend's grave at
    a local cemetary a few weeks ago, and a family thought they
    recognised a friend when they saw me! :)

    They say that there is a double for everyone around the world, so why
    not. %->

    Yeah. My first partner did worse, his double was a wanted criminal, and did that lead to a story to tell! :D


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Vk3jed on Friday, February 28, 2020 17:35:11
    Apparently there's one around here. I visited a friend's
    grave at a local cemetary a few weeks ago, and a family
    thought they recognised a friend when they saw me! :)

    They say that there is a double for everyone around the world,
    so why not. %->

    Yeah. My first partner did worse, his double was a wanted
    criminal, and did that lead to a story to tell! :D

    There is someone around here with the same nane (all three), same date of birth. The only thing different was our address's...

    Luckly I've not run into that problem in the last ten years. nBut it was
    a suprise when going to the doc's. %->




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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to vorlon on Monday, March 02, 2020 10:45:00
    On 02-28-20 17:35, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    There is someone around here with the same nane (all three), same date
    of birth. The only thing different was our address's...

    Luckly I've not run into that problem in the last ten years. nBut it
    was a suprise when going to the doc's. %->

    Now that one is freaky!


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Saturday, September 04, 2021 20:37:22
    Spent quite a bit of it outside which was good for me, it was a mild Saturday and the temps got warmer as the day went on. I've mowed lawns, pulled out
    weeds and other unwanted plants from a garden at the front of the house.

    Watched a news conference at 2pm where our Prime Minister gave an update on
    the terrorist stuff that happened the other day. Short version is they knew
    of the offender, he had been in prison but was released when they exhausted
    all available avenues under current legislation, they had the gut under
    active surveillance at the time he committed the acts of violence. Within 1 minute of him doing this they had confronted the guy and when he went to
    attack the police he was shot and killed. There's 7 injured with stab wounds,
    5 are in hospital and 3 are in critical care.

    This all happened in the North Island (I'm in the South Island) in a city called Auckland (which is our largest one in the country). Auckland is sadly the scene of our current Covid-19 delta outbreak so has been in a high level
    of lock down for 2 weeks with a further 2 weeks to roll, so they have been doing it tough.

    On the upside the total number of new daily cases in our country continues to drop as we all take steps to keep up our lockdown and work towards
    eliminating the virus. We've done it before and ended up enjoying almost a
    year of normal life with no infections just lots of normal day to day stuff, concerts etc. A current push is to get everyone vaccinated and everyone 12+
    is able to get the Phisor?? vaccine.. thats the one on offer here. I've had both vaccinations now and glad to have had them.

    We drove over to our eldest sons house tonight and dropped food at his front door, (contact-less) they are renovating their kitchen so have no major
    cooking facilities at present. Each workday he comes to our place and my wife cooks a meal that he can take back to his family. On the weekends we do the short drive to their house to deliver the food. It will be like this for a
    few more weeks while he rebuilds their kitchen.

    Tonight some BBSing, some pondering about how to best upgrade a Linux system
    I have the radio station gear running on, my teenage daughter wants iPad
    help, I have eaten too much (again) but did take the dog and myself for a
    walk earlier... so that's something :)

    Might be time for a cuppa I think :)

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Avon on Saturday, September 04, 2021 20:22:00
    Spent quite a bit of it outside which was good for me, it was a mild Saturday and the temps got warmer as the day went on. I've mowed
    lawns, pulled out weeds and other unwanted plants from a garden
    at the front of the house.

    Snap.. The unit has no-one that does gardening, or cleaning the assorted tree debris that collect out in the car park. From time to time I get out there with the leaf blower and have a cleansing, it cuts down how much makes it inside. So there was that, and there's a raft of semi-wild geranium/pelargonium if you prefer that grows out of a nominal garden bed over the drive, I got out with a spade and chopped it back to the gutter/edging.

    On the upside the total number of new daily cases in our country continues to drop as we all take steps to keep up our lockdown and work towards

    Ours are still chaotic.. NSW is now out to ~1900/day and showing no signs of slowing soon. Vic on the other hand is a lot earlier in the curve, reported 190, the depressing part of which some 80-90 are untraced/unknown in origin, so they've been out spreading it around. Or as the Cadogan man said on his YouTuba channel, how ever many you detect, you have to expect there are more out there that aren't being found for whatever reason. Don't see it improving here any time in the short term.

    On the plus side they cut the re-jab time for Astra Zeneca from 12 weeks back to 6, so I got the second one at about 10 weeks. Went better than expected, sore arm again, and they stuck it in the right instead of the left this time. A bit out of sorts in the head for a bit also, but it all seems to have worn off now.

    Spec


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  • From N1uro@21:4/107 to Avon on Saturday, September 04, 2021 10:01:00
    Hey Avon;

    Avon wrote to All <=-

    Spent quite a bit of it outside which was good for me, it was a mild Saturday and the temps got warmer as the day went on. I've mowed lawns, pulled out weeds and other unwanted plants from a garden at the front
    of the house.

    I'll be doing that later this afternoon here as the morning dew was really heavy from the ground being so saturated! 6.5" of rain earlier in the week didn't help the dew factor but the lawn ate it up! We've had a very unusual year for hurricanes here. Three of them right in a row with the last one packing an unusual punch considering the path it took. Fortunately this year
    we did NOT lose power!.. even though we do have a generator ready to roll.

    Watched a news conference at 2pm where our Prime Minister gave an
    update on the terrorist stuff that happened the other day. Short
    version is they knew of the offender, he had been in prison but was released when they exhausted all available avenues under current legislation, they had the gut under active surveillance at the time he committed the acts of violence. Within 1 minute of him doing this they
    had confronted the guy and when he went to attack the police he was
    shot and killed. There's 7 injured with stab wounds, 5 are in hospital
    and 3 are in critical care.

    Glad to hear *someone* is fighting back!.. and not releasing them into the world like some countries recently did (embarassment emoji here!) I hope
    those who are hospitalized there make a full recovery!

    This all happened in the North Island (I'm in the South Island) in a
    city called Auckland (which is our largest one in the country).
    Auckland is sadly the scene of our current Covid-19 delta outbreak so
    has been in a high level of lock down for 2 weeks with a further 2
    weeks to roll, so they have been doing it tough.

    In California, they recently discovered the MU variant. What amazes me is
    how they've already claimed that there will be variants to fill up the greek alphabet. How do they know that so well in advance if they're not aiding
    to it's mutation cause?? Sounds too fishy to me, but that's just my opinion.

    Tonight some BBSing, some pondering about how to best upgrade a Linux system I have the radio station gear running on

    What distro? Before you attempt this, I suggest a passport or large USB drive and a copy of clonezilla! It makes a nice stripe image of your current drive
    so you can restore a bootable backup if things don't work out first shot.
    You can find it on sourceforge.



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  • From Mindsurfer@21:3/119 to Avon on Monday, September 06, 2021 00:38:16
    work towards eliminating the virus.
    Good luck with that.

    Regards,
    Mindsurfer / Stephan


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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Mindsurfer on Sunday, September 05, 2021 19:08:42
    Re: RE: The day
    By: Mindsurfer to Avon on Mon Sep 06 2021 12:38 am

    work towards eliminating the virus.
    Good luck with that.

    Regards,
    Mindsurfer / Stephan

    I have recenlty posted it on Dovenet, but I think eliminating the virus is not a reasonable goal as
    of now and that the virus crisis will be over once the virus becomes endemic.

    Endemic, in this context, means an overwhelming majority of the population develops natural
    resistance so people's immune systems become capable of eating the virus with potatoes, thus
    turning COVID-19 into another flu.

    Some relevant article:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how-we-live-coronavirus-forever/619783/

    "When I spoke with vaccine experts as the trials were under way last summer, they universally told
    me to temper expectations. Vaccines against respiratory viruses rarely protect against full
    infection because they are better at inducing immunity in the lungs than in the nose, where
    respiratory viruses gain their first foothold. (Consider: The flu shot is 10 to 60 percent
    effective depending on the year.)"

    "Then came the less pleasant surprise: new variants, like Beta, Gamma, and now Delta, that erode
    some protection from vaccines. [---] The vaccines still protect against serious illness very well,
    as expected, but herd immunity again seems out of reach."

    So basically, vaccines are mitigators but they are not making the virus disappear. Since vaccines
    are allegedly our best weapon and it is not sufficient, we must conclude the virus is here to stay.

    From another article from the same site:

    "Still, several lines of evidence, including formal outbreak descriptions and more anecdotal
    reports, suggest that vaccinated people can transmit Delta onward, even if to a lesser degree than
    unvaccinated people."

    Please, notice The Athlantic is clearly pro-vaccine yet they acknowledge we are not crushing the
    virus with vaccines. Their suggestion is to take the vaccine and brace for impact anyway because
    chances is the probability of somebody NOT getting the virus in a 5 year period is close to ZERO.


    ####

    Then again:

    PEOPLE DOES NOT BECOME IMMORTAL BECAUSE THEY JUST HAD THE VACCINE

    Don't be like the old people in my village, who act as if there is no pandemic anymore because they
    got the two shots, end up getting infected, and have a trip to the hospital at the expense of the
    tax-payers.

    Gosh, those people are as bad as the people who wears the mask under their noses.


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Arelor on Tuesday, September 07, 2021 04:37:00
    Endemic, in this context, means an overwhelming majority of the population develops natural resistance so people's immune systems become capable
    of eating the virus with potatoes, thus turning COVID-19 into
    another flu.

    Ponder mebbe... supposedly some of the best resistance going round now is those that have been vaccinated and still having been hit by a covid variant. So at some point you may well reach a herd immunity level. The flip side is of course the Israeli experience where it looks like vaccinations will need to be ongoing.

    I suspect, countries in a better off position economically will be able to keep it down reasonably well in the long run, with a combination of vaccination, lockdowns (although they have a bad rep) and sheer numbers of persons ultimately being infected over time.

    Its your poorer communities that appear to feed the mutation cycle more and keep it in the hunt.

    Spec


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  • From Mindsurfer@21:3/119 to Spectre on Monday, September 06, 2021 22:08:48
    Its your poorer communities that appear to feed the mutation cycle
    more and keep it in the hunt.
    could you please back up that statement with a peer reviewed study? i
    hear
    that the first time, that it is the "poorer communites that".."feed the mutation cycle more"..

    Regards,
    Mindsurfer / Stephan

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Mindsurfer on Wednesday, September 08, 2021 05:19:00
    could you please back up that statement with a peer reviewed study? i
    hear that the first time, that it is the "poorer communites
    that".."feed the mutation cycle more"..

    No I can't, its paraphrased from news reports here...but anywhere it gets to run rampant its got more opportunity to mutate.

    Spec


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