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Supposedly Georgia's biggest strength is the their defensive front 7. The secondary not so much - so aside from reputation, OSU would really be be a tougher match up for them. M will probably have to throw effectively to win and M's pass game is sort of a black box, We really don't know that much about what might be in there.

TBF to the CDC, politics does matter, in the sense that good compliance with a reasonably effective program that people will accept is better than no compliance with a better one they won't, and even more so, if you can keep business on your side helping push folks toward compliance, that is better than having them fighting you in court over a marginally better program. Purists don't like to hear that "science" is subject to real-politik, but in the end public Policy always has to be driven by more than just pure science. Science can only tell you what the likely outcomes will be, how society judges the relative value/cost of those outcomes is in the end not a scientific question.

Sensitivity of rapid antigen tests for Omicron expected to be degraded. Less impact is anticipated on the accuracy of PCR ("molecular") tests. https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/sars-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-covid-19-tests#omicron

so the new increase is in SE MI where vax rates are higher, while rates are actually falling some out state. The question is whether out state is going to fair better with Omicron -maybe because of the lower population density - or whether Omicron just hasn't gotten there yet and they are fated to just bounce back up. again.

no - 182 were vaccinated. 475-182-8 = 285 were the unvaccinated. So, the 1st generation of mRNA vaccines do substantially wear down. Whether a next generation vax can be designed with greater staying power remains to be seen. Or another possible outcome is that Covid ends up morphing into a non-dangerous form (like maybe Omicron V2) that keeps circulating widely in the population as a cold and keeps everyone's immunity up against any more dangerous variants that might subsequently emerge here or there.

Washtenaw county is now breaking out vaccine+booster in hospital admissions stats. Of the last 475 hospital admissions, 182 were vaccinated, 8 were vaccinated and boosted. Total cases are going through the roof though - over 100/100K yesterday. And Wash has the highest vax rate in SE MI. If there is such a thing as herd immunity for Omicron it's at a vaccination level we could never have reached under the best of circumstances. Of course if the world had reached herd level for Delta - Omicron might not have emerged. Than again, if Omicron is really closer to the common cold, maybe better that it did. Hard to know which side your bread is buttered on anymore!

right. Some people harbor the virus or even just residual DNA detritus that will show positive on PCR. So it is certainly theoretically possible to catch a cold 7 months out and then test positive by PCR. Probably pretty rare, but certainly possible based on what they are finding out about how long some people carry the virus. They could maybe do antibody titers to nail it down more certainly but for one person having mild symptoms it's probably not worth the effort.

the national organization definitely had some problems. Most local troops were certainly fine. But times change -- in our area kids seemed to be falling away even before the big problems came to light.

then he and Schoop will be great pair together as long as we can keep them in sync (or out, depeneding how you look at it) so at least one is hitting at a time. 🙄

'Tis but a scratch!

Just read on MLive that Dingell will move to A^2 and run for the Washtenaw county district 6.

Multi-verse is the ultimate RetCon.

Yeah, Dingells old district was a terrible gerrymander, but if wash co is most of a new district she can win it.

40 sb is worth a portion of the walk deficiency. Though the prob with SB is some teams can take them away pretty completely.

Take care of yourself. Even with all the COVID blowing up I managed to a very nasty conventional cold this month, so you never know till your tests come back.

Boy Scouts are now on the ‘out’ list

Whatever new deal Harbaugh scores, it won’t be payed from general funds, Ward is going to have to go out and raise the funds and that’s not an overnight process.

much of what is in the 10 commandments can also be found in earlier codes with varying levels of religious framing.

Actually the East side would be Ypsi. Now that is another whole story......

Culture is full of anachronisms. It's the natural state of things.

just multiply all the Covid numbers by 820/550. ......

someone in either WaPo or the NYT made a reasonable argument that a referral from the committee just makes the DOJ's life more difficult. Of course the writer assumed the DOJ was eventually going to get there anyway. I have no way of evaluating that piece of the arg.

No - no. I'm just responding to the Buddha's implication that I live a life with no contact points with Red America. I buy a lot of Gatorade from Red America. Of course as to the first point - you do get the occasional wahoo in a dualie pickup tryng to blow you off the road. Not particularly appreciated.

good read