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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

Let me be clear up front that I don't think it is likely in the least, but should M win out in the playoff we are going to be driven absolutely crazy locally with Harbaugh speculation.

I only mentioned it because as noted, some of the media still act like the Tigers are a fall back for Correa and I don't that is true at all. I can't see any way the Tigers are interested in mirroring the Rangers.

and here I always thought it was just because the Spanish built their ships from Mahogany and the British out of oak.

fair point. though on the LGBQT issues while it is true inner city churches are often conservative, the don't generate much political power since theirs is the minority view within the democratic party to which they mostly belong. Same lack of political relevance as moderate Republicans suffer today!

and it is, or should be, ironic that it is Evangelical America which seems to have the most anti-communitarian outlook right now. I guess they missed that 'common religion' somewhere? There is definitely an aspect where it isn't just religiosity pre se but the nature of the particular strains in vogue.