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Eliminated for the students. It's billionaire socialism. Random maga brains must be exploding everywhere.

I'll be researching this before deciding. My concern arises not from a simplistic anti-vax stance but one similar to criteria I used to decide against a second bivalent boost which was my concern for imprinting upon immunity with an older version when I was aware a newer version soon on the way. So I haven't yet read but I'd imagine there's a new formulation in the works but also towards the end of the year we could have a next gen mucosal vax. I don't want to add risk at 67, but I still maintain good health, swim daily laps, etc., have the arteries of a 39 year old and I social distance outside & mask with an N-95 indoors in public always and I had the first new shot a few months back so I should be reasonably safe. I'm also researching to where the last shot might have waned in efficacy (do I still have 30 or 40% protection?) Because then I have to weigh an extra 10% or 20% protection of a boost that might only last a extra few weeks or months before that also wanes against the possibility of immunity imprinting which can interfere with future "now current" vaccine protection, all while not knowing when will be distributed a new formula for 2024 or when will come the next gen vax. So I emphatically disagree with anti-vaxxers putting themselves and others at risk for no good reason including their manufactured BS ones but I do understand seeking easier answers. If life was easy, anyone could do it.

I don't know if he's responsible for spreading HIV or herpes or syphilis for that matter if that is what you seem to be suggesting. As far as I recall, all we've heard about his sexual issues is something about a hooker or porn person complaining of his freakish mario kart toadstool. But I don't imagine any of that part of the scholarly methodology for determining him as worst president in all of USA history. Perhaps you can email the committee with your inquiry for further clarification.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9115435/ This article examines the Trump Administration's inability to mount a timely and effective response to the COVID‐19 outbreak, despite ample warning. Through an empirical exploration guided by three explanatory perspectives—psychological, bureau‐organizational, and agenda‐political—developed from the strategic surprise, public administration, and crisis management literature, the authors seek to shed light on the mechanisms that contributed to the underestimation of the coronavirus threat by the Trump Administration and the slow and mismanaged federal response... Donald Trump and his top officials failed to provide scientifically informed, normative leadership, resulting in fierce infighting between multiple power centers, blame‐shifting, ambiguity regarding who was in charge, and a delayed, disorganized response to the pandemic.... The US, although it represents just 4% of the world's population, accounted for over 20% of all confirmed COVID‐19 cases and deaths worldwide that took place on Trump's watch (Johns Hopkins University, 2022). This outcome was not inevitable. With a timelier, focused, scientifically informed, and sustained whole‐of‐government response, it has been estimated that hundreds of thousands of COVID‐19 deaths could have been avoided... https://doggett.house.gov/media/blog-post/timeline-trumps-coronavirus-responses May 2018 The Trump Administration disbands the White House pandemic response team. July 2019 The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency left the post, and the Trump Administration eliminated the role. Oct. 2019 “Currently, there are insufficient funding sources designated for the federal government to use in response to a severe influenza pandemic.” Jan. 22, 2020 “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” https://abcnews.go.com/Health/lancet-commission-examines-trumps-covid-response/story?id=75826837 Lancet commission examines Trump's COVID response Many U.S. deaths could have been prevented, the commission found. About 40% of the United States' COVID-19 deaths could have been avoided, according to a new editorial from the Lancet Commission. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/abstract etc etc etc

Brutal. Hopefully the vax will keep them from hospital and morgue. But everyone needs to understand that though the current vax is way better than the nightmare of when there was no vaccination, they don't stop transmission. All they do is make it manageable. So people need to continue masking until a next generation vax that better prevents transmission. That might be by end of 2024 or possibly into 2025. But they are on the way. I think the first mucosal aka intranasal vax that FDA could approve for use in the USA will be Codagenix's Coviliv I think it is called which I believe is in phase three trials now. Lemme google... https://codagenix.com/codagenix-announces-late-breaking-presentation-of-positive-clinical-immunogenicity-data-for-covid-19-vaccine-candidate-coviliv-at-idweek-2023/ and this link shows it in phase 3 https://codagenix.com/pipeline/ I haven't seen phase 3 data on any of the mucosals yet so I don't know the efficacy but some of the early animal studies look very promising. I'll believe it if I see it but supposedly possibly stops this in its tracks promising. Until then people have to learn to give up a little bit of fun now to better assure a lifetime going forward without the complications of long covid. I get that masking can be tough if still in the work world. But for retired people, I don't relate to not masking one bit. It is so easy to do yet hardly any do it. I might understand risking life to go, say, sky diving. But I'll never understanding risking life to go unmasked into a supermarket just to purchase some veggies or to a party to socialize. Because in all my decades I didn't already go to enough parties that I must risk life for one more party that can't wait until a next gen vax. Yeah, no, I'm gonna sit this one out.

Same. And this is prob why I get so upset. One has genetics for Parkinson's. One for Alzheimer's and the third i remember his mom had some sort of dementia but I don't recall the specifics, might have been Lewy but I'm not certain now as two decades back quite a few of my group was dealing at the same time with parents with similar issues. I remember how unfun that was. The first two vaxxed but only boosted intermittently and didn't mask "among friends". Also never stopped going to restaurants, outside at first but then inside which I still won't do. The third guy refused to mask at all and of vaxing would say "I'm not putting THAT in my body," while regularly snorting COVID, a line I will remember and mock forever. With the first two conversation has become so nuts as to be impossible. When I tried to get them to go to a doc for their brains they became paranoid of me. I've no legal recourse, hopefully their idiot kids will kick in. A friend in crisis intervention says all I can do is help pick up the pieces later. Oh joy! The third guy, an anti-vaxxing denier who calls SARS "that flu", admits without prompting that his thinking has become difficult, acknowledges having had "that flu" a number of times, but then Que Sera Sera's his condition, so I haven't cut off contact but I do limit it because I can't sit back and watch others I've known my whole life purposely destroy their lives. This is ongoing and this sucks.

So possibly somewhat hopeful news for all the idiots who've refused to mask and vax as well as for those who did their best to protect themselves against COVID but sadly got infected anyway. Science has identified a "breakdown to the integrity of the blood–brain barrier." Now all they have to do is figure out how to repair the damage done by inflammation and figure out how to repair the blood-brain barrier so that the brain is not attacked further both by this again nor by any number of offending elements that the blood-brain barrier would have normally protected against. Then they need to figure out how to rid the skull-meninges-brain axis of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein accumulations so it doesn't continue to disrupt the blood-brain barrier--and we already know how easy its been to rid the body of HIV, of herpes, of varicella zoster, of name a virus that so far stays for life and that decades of research hasn't fixed--as well as how to stop further transmission (hopefully the mucosal vaccines later this year, but, wait, the idiots won't take that either because "I'm not putting THAT into my body!"). I want to be more impressed by the accomplishment of new findings, but even in the face of such small hope, what a disaster this has been.

I'm just gonna leave this here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 Project 2025 is a plan to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election ... the project seeks to recruit tens of thousands of conservatives to Washington, D.C., to replace existing federal civil service workers ... Project 2025 consists largely of a book of policy recommendations titled Mandate for Leadership ... several experts in law criticizing it for violating current constitutional laws that would undermine the rule of law and the separation of powers. Additionally ... The Mandate states that "freedom is defined by God, not man." Christian nationalism As the leader of the Center for Renewing America, Russell Vought has spearheaded an effort to instill precepts of Christian nationalism into government and public life should Trump win a second term. Politico reported Vought "has embraced the idea that Christians are under assault" and he sought to use his regular contacts with Trump to "elevate Christian nationalism as a focal point" in a second administration. Vought has close ties with another former Trump administration official, Christian nationalist William Wolfe, with whom he said he was "proud to work with ... on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism." Wolfe said at an October 2023 "Jesus and Politics" conference that he thought "we are getting close" to needing to "heed the call to arms" in defense of Christianity as "the art of war becomes a part of our religion." Former Christian nationalist Brad Onishi, who now studies religion and extremism, noted in February 2024 that Lance Wallnau of the New Apostolic Reformation, who has said Trump was "anointed," had recently announced he was partnering with Charlie Kirk, a Project 2025 member. Onishi observed that Speaker Mike Johnson has direct ties to the New Apostolic Reformation. https://www.project2025.org/ It is not enough ... to win elections

It's probably easier to be cynical, to belittle or merely make jest about a study that found what you might have suspected, but what if it hadn't? Thus the study to understand as well as possible. This reminds me of unforeseen consequences, the dangers of not knowing all we can, not often by skeptical me, but apparently by plenty of others, of, say, taking an arthritis med which can harm the immune system that, being sexually active, I decided to not take. Then very early in the pandemic, listening to NPR, sure enough there was discussion by elders fearful that they'd been taking these meds to protect them from some ravages of arthritis but now might put them at risk for COVID's ravages. And even that complicated because to remove yourself from the meds could screw with your immune system even more and who wants that mid-pandemic? So, yeah, we need the studies to know what can be known, even if just to rule out issues so as to concentrate on more pressing aspects. Also what the study speaks to is resilience & reserve capacity* which is so very important to aging well. Even though I was naturally pretty active as a kid, a daily lap swimmer for most of life, etc., I think what reinforced my convictions to health--besides that I enjoyed it--was not just lucking into the repetition of being raised by health conscious parents (mom was doing daily protein shakes when I was in high school, so very early in that) but even watching my grandparents age. I could often see my athletic grandpa alongside his couch potato friends and I could tell myself I want to be that, not that, such that into my 60s I've still the arteries of a 39 year old while so many of my cohorts are with stents and TAVRs and heart attacks and strokes and yikes. So I appreciate the studies even when they don't surprise me. *https://medicine.jrank.org/pages/997/Life-Span-Development-Plasticity-reserve-capacity-resiliency.html#ixzz8SjGPDDmG Individuals also exhibit varying capacities to protect themselves from impairment and insult associated with aging and disease, and to adapt effectively to the demands of stressful situations. The term reserve capacity refers to the individual's resources for responding effectively to challenging conditions. The term resiliency is similar in its meaning, and refers to a capacity for successful adaptation and recovery in response to stressful life events. (bolding mine)

As if these so-called Christians complicit in COVID deaths weren't galling enough, also they get to keep their nonprofit tax advantage while doing harm to the population of the country giving them those tax breaks--in a swirl of insanity--to help facilitate the harm they do to that very population while being paid profit, um, I mean exorbitant salaries. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/300209280#:~:text=Designated as a 501(c)3 National Christian Foundation Inc Alpharetta, GA Tax-exempt since Dec. 2003 EIN: 30-0209280 https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/How to Lose Your Tax Exempt Status.pdf 1. Private Benefit/Inurement Private benefit: A 501(c)(3) organization’s activities should be directed toward some exempt purpose. Its activities should not serve the private interests, or private benefit, of any individual or organization 2. Lobbying Lobbying is when an organization contacts, or urges the public to contact, members or employees of a legislative body (or any executive branch official who may participate in the formulation of legislation) for the purpose of proposing, supporting, or opposing legislation, or when the organization advocates the adoption or rejection of legislation. How about the IRS adds another 3. Using supposed nonprofit funds to disseminate propaganda that causes COVID deaths

Five score years ago, at a great Golf Course, in whose membership some of us play today, was signed the Segregation Proclamation. This momentous decree came with great bacon & eggs, lightly buttered toast, served by Negro slaves and then for lunch we had seared hamburger with wilted arugula, a joyous break to end a long morning of cheating at golf. So even though we face the difficulties of finding good help today and tomorrow, I still have a nightmare deeply rooted in America. I have a nightmare that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of greed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, some more equal than others.

+ = And while we're at it. let's cancel the Ride of the Valkyries, as composer Richard Wagner is known for his association with the Nazi Hitler. Then there are the various misogynists, alleged cannibals, racists, (google artists & their dark sides) or name your ists of any number of brilliant art pieces that now must be burned because some simple minded alt-right-winger can't understand the complexities of humanity and thinks if only he can find one bad thing to say about someone, that destroys all the works arising there, which is either quite powerful or quite lame. Never mind the musical genius of Keith Moon who ran over his bodyguard or the brilliance of Jim Gordon who stabbed to death his own mother. No more Layla for you. And since when was stabbing your mother ever even a practice du jour? Oh, but slavery, sadly, was. And so even at Monticello, those sins of the founding father are freely noted: https://www.monticello.org/slavery/slavery-faqs/property/#:~:text=How%20many%20people%20did%20Thomas,bondage%20on%20Jefferson's%20other%20properties. "How could Jefferson write “all men are created equal” and still own human beings? Thomas Jefferson wrote that slavery was evil, yet never freed the vast majority of people he held in bondage. Jefferson wrote about the differences between groups of people based on emerging ideas about race in his Notes of the State of Virginia and in many personal letters. The racist ideas promoted by European Enlightenment philosophers strongly influenced Jefferson’s worldview, and his writings confirm he harbored the same racist beliefs as many of his peers. He knew slavery was wrong, yet rationalized his ownership of others through a sense of paternalistic racism, writing that freeing them was like “abandoning children.” It is impossible to understand the Trans-Atlantic slave trade or American chattel slavery without understanding the context of Enlightenment racism. Whereas slavery has been officially illegal in the United States for over 150 years, the racist ideas that undergirded the system remain." And so besides the magnificent American Constitution from the brilliant minds of our founding fathers that created a wall of separation between State (capitalized) and religion (lower cased), denying today's Christian Nationalism its own seat at the political table, relegating it to within its own walls of its own demon churches and within the evil hearts of evil men feigning righteousness, this is part of our history too. One thing does not deny the other's existence.

You appear to be confusing the reproduction (of sexes) with the sexuality (of attraction). Also you appear to be confusing the components with the process. The embryos in question are not* as you said or seem to imply "created in an actual human body". *https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/freezing-embryos#:~:text=To create an embryo (a,for five to seven days. "To create an embryo (a fertilized egg), an embryologist fertilizes one or more of the harvested eggs with the sperm of a partner or donor. The embryo is observed as it grows in a petri dish for five to seven days." (bolding mine)

Oh my, lol, easily distracted much? Petri dish wasn't the point. The point is that if an embryo created outside the body is considered by the conservative Republican AL supreme court to be a child, then heterosexuality, the attraction of a opposite sexes, is not required to produce a child, which is entirely what the argument of procreation was based upon in its attack of recognizing non-strictly str8 relationships. Your maga has pulled the rug out from under its own argument.

+ = Just to clarify. That's from Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, not just signed by then President, founding father John Adams in 1796 but importantly also ratified without debate unanimously by the Senate. So that wasn't even just one founding father; rather, that was the entire United States government in the times of the founding of this great nation declaring that the USA is NOT a Christian country.* This is also highlighted in President founding father Thomas Jefferson's letter** to the Baptists explaining that establishment of religion means separation of church and state: "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties." (bolding mine) *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli **https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letter_to_the_Danbury_Baptists_-_January_1,_1802