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Besides that much of the older Florida construction was actually quite strong, having always been subject to strong storms, and even those can be further hardened (hurricane roof straps, impact windows, lifting above older flood elevations, etc) to approach current building standards)... https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2022/10/17/690281.htm "Florida (today) is known for developing some of the strongest building codes in the nation for wind resilience, largely as a result of the wrenching impact that Hurricane Andrew had on southeast Florida in 1992" To the reverse mortgage itself, keep with your due diligence. Not sure why you'd limit the number of years (unless that's just estimating your remaining days) which might give you more money to draw but also acts as effective balloon possibly requiring repayment prior to death when a tenured (till death) rev mtg will give you protection against repayment for life as long as you don't leave the home (plus conditions apply such as continuing to pay taxes, insurance, maintenance etc. ). Getting the rev mtg is a time consuming (don't believe their 30-day ads, count on many months to accomplish), a total hassle to complete (complying w/FHA rules, invasive questions, lowballed appraisals, etc) and quite expensive relative to other instruments (initial fees, ongoing mtg insurance premiums) but can be well worth it if your situation corresponds to their requirements. An advantage many don't mention besides that you don't have to repay a tenured mtg until after you're dead (& never more than the house value at that time even if you've drawn more) is that you'd have to pay rent or outright to homebase elsewhere, so not only do you get to live in your investment but also you can rent spare bedroom(s) for additional taxable income and also have the house occupied while traveling. A rev mtg does however limit your travel to up to 6 months at a stretch, at which time you need be in residence (an FHA rule) before setting out for another half year. An ideal situation might be finding a property with a main house & guest house (adu--accessory dwelling unit) that you could also rent or simply a duplex which would appraise at full value for the rev mtg but be half rentable, besides even bringing in a roommate to the side you occupy. then you'd effectively have three income sources from one investment (extra unit rent, roommate income and rev mtg monthly income) all while maintaining yourself in your owned home. Note that in Florida the square footage rented out (for the separate unit) would come off homestead and be taxed as a non-homesteaded aspect of your otherwise homestead-protected property. To location, the I-4 corridor (Tampa/Orlando/Daytona) might offer better future appreciation (the metros have already probably tripled in the last decade) as it is set to be one of the next largest megalopolis areas of the country while also offering lower risk (given current knowns, not future climate changes) and so lower insurance premiums than very South Florida which have some of the highest wind rates. Also buying at higher elevations will reduce or eliminate private flood rates.

It'a fools errand going down the 'how many people are gay' rathole. Meanwhile, demographics actually do matter https://leadershipdevelopment.extension.wisc.edu/articles/what-you-can-learn-about-your-community-from-demographics/#:~:text=Demographic data can help provide,policy development or decision making. "Demographic data can help provide a basis for understanding communities as they are now, where they’ve been and where they’re headed. It can be a powerful tool for tracking change over time and for uncovering the needs or strengths of a community to guide planning, policy development or decision making." (bolding mine) Why, the numbers you thoughtlessly denounce probably even have something to do with whether networks even make or run gay tv shows and movies But here's the real kicker, you know who the percentages would matter to the most? How about to the friend whose best friendship you lament having lost. To think when he was a kid in a classroom of 20 that he wouldn't have been the only one, the 5%, the token fag desperate for a friend, fearful of being found out. Now imagine had he known he was one of 20% in that classroom that was not straight. Maybe he'd have breathed easier? To know it wasn't just him an oddity, but three others also not simply oriented towards the opposite sex as a normality. No longer a kid playing solitaire, but a game for four, a game of gin rummy, a game of bridge, a game of hearts.

Outside possible epigenetics or even nurtured differences, I don't know if there'd be significant deviation in numbers based on geography or culture because I suspect human nature more so commonly shared; and I'd doubt age group actual (not merely reported) differences even more, suspecting the younger reporting greater numbers simply by having been freed from fears suffered by earlier generations, so better able to explore within, express with others & present honestly in surveys their sexual selves. As to answering anonymously, read (link already provided above) NBER's research on what they call a "veiled study" designed specifically to get a more accurate survey. If I recall correctly, that was done at least a decade ago, so, interesting that their 19% aligns with more current surveys. It only seems like 40% when I go out partying, though your 15% was certainly closer than the 5% people used to think it was. Beer throws off that 80% every time. After all, what's the difference between a str8 man and a gay man? Three beers! Meanwhile, there's not enough beer in the world to incline me to go down on a chick

https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/gen-z-women-identify-as-bisexual-in-unprecedented-numbers/ A new analysis of Census Bureau data reveals that between 19% and 22% of women aged 18 to 25 identify as bi. https://news.gallup.com/poll/470708/lgbt-identification-steady.aspx Adult members of Generation Z, those born between 1997 and 2004 who were aged 18 to 25 in 2022, are the most likely subgroup to identify as LGBT, with 19.7% doing so. https://www.nber.org/papers/w19508 The veiled method increased self-reports of non-heterosexual identity by 65% (p<0.05) and same-sex sexual experiences by 59% (p<0.01). https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w19508/w19508.pdf We do not describe the alternative categories for non-heterosexuality, but these could encompass homosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, undecided, and other categories. In the Direct Report treatment, 11% of the population reports that they do not consider themselves heterosexual (8% for men, 16% for women). In the Veiled Report treatment, this increases to 19% (15% for men, 22% for women). So the latest data seems to indicate that 80% of the world is str8. Meaning that the ~1,600,000,000 people who are not str8 are just as normal.

I have reviewed what I'd written and found a few minor typos but one structural error of a misplaced closing parenthesis such that "...well studied in various mystic schools of world religions (the Dzogchen of Buddhism, the Kabbalah of Judaism, Sufism of the Muslim & Rosicrucianism of Christianity as well as dreaming and so-called sorcery of native cultures such as the Toltec, etc.), and pretty much daily practiced..." should read: ...well studied in various mystic schools of world religions (the Dzogchen of Buddhism, the Kabbalah of Judaism, Sufism of the Muslim & Rosicrucianism of Christianity) as well as dreaming and so-called sorcery of native cultures such as the Toltec, etc., and pretty much daily practiced... Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will endeavor to be more careful in the future.

Lifelong lucid dreamer (LDer) here -- born that way (or at least since my very earliest pre-k memories) -- who's also well studied in various mystic schools of world religions (the Dzogchen of Buddhism, the Kabbalah of Judaism, Sufism of the Muslim & Rosicrucianism of Christianity as well as dreaming and so-called sorcery of native cultures such as the Toltec, etc.), and pretty much daily practiced personally throughout my many decades in various dream techniques including lucid dreaming per se where we experience our conscious selves as being self-aware but instead of perceiving ourselves as acting in a physical body we perceive ourselves acting within a dream body w/in a dream we can given practice manipulate to some degree, hey, just like in real life, and LDings many variations including OOBE's aka obe's aka out of body experiences where we experience the self as a dream body but perceived as if dislocated from our physical body, and so-called astral projection AP were we perceive ourselves sans even a dream body but rather as a disembodied point of consciousness and the more commonly experienced especially by the more inexperienced dreamers, sleep paralysis SP, which is simply experiencing the physical body & mind before full sleep where many let their imaginations go a bit too wild. Most freak out upon SP and imagine all sorts of demons & silly things which is of course nothing but delusion but seems very real to the inexperienced, fearful dreamer. Throughout my innumerable experiences exploring consciousness through conscious dreaming, approaching it all from as much of a scientific point of view as I can maintain, I'd say one thing for certain with regard to NDE's that I'm not at all embarrassed to share: I have no idea whatsoever if there's a so-called life after death. But also I can say for certain that so long as alive, we are more complex a being than most might ever imagine.

https://nypost.com/2018/03/01/1-in-4-straight-men-watch-gay-porn-survey/ "24 percent of heterosexual men say they watch gay content, while 39 percent of straight women have seen lesbian porn. Survey users also ‘fessed up to some steamy offline habits — 36 percent of women polled reported having a same-gender sexual experience, while 24 percent of males surveyed said they’d hooked up with another guy" https://www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/2017/4/5/how-many-straight-men-watch-gay-porn-and-how-many-gay-guys-watch-straight-porn/ "a recent study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior in which researchers surveyed 821 adult American men who reported having watched porn in the last month [1]. Of the 534 gay men who participated, almost all (98%) had watched gay porn; however, 55% said they had watched at least some heterosexual porn. Likewise, among the 134 heterosexual men who took part in the study, almost all (99%) had watched straight porn; however, 21% said they had watched man-on-man porn... ...the number of people who report same-sex attractions or behaviors is much higher than the number who identify as gay...because, rather than falling into a handful of clearly defined categories–gay, straight, and bisexual–sexual attraction instead falls along a continuum. This means that people can have varying degrees of heterosexuality and homosexuality... ...also the fact that some of us have a lot more sexual fluidity—or the capacity for a “flexible” erotic response—than others. It was once thought that sexual fluidity was largely unique to women; however, recent research suggests that men are pretty darn sexually fluid, too... ... Dr. Justin Lehmiller is a social psychologist and Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute" Yachting is a lifestyle. Hitting the bars is a lifestyle. A person's sexuality isn't a person's lifestyle; it is their orientation.

Similar headlines were seen in the US when the original bivalent was about to expire and before the updated variant booster was ready for distribution. But "we're going to throw this into the garbage if we can't get it into your arm" seems rarely good marketing. I was fully vaxxed at the time though long between boosters and concerned about imprinting so being retired, easily able to social distance and mask in closed-in social settings, I decided to wait for the update. If I was dependent upon working in very social settings and a while since my last shot, I'd have taken the last of the bivalents instead of waiting for an updated shot, but I'd certainly understand someone not wanting to inject something headlined as pre-garbage into them, especially when you don't get to at least sniff it first to see if it's gone bad already.

Is that your conspiratorial lockstep theory of competition? Perhaps you've failed to understand what motivates a scientist. https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/race-bottom-how-competition-publish-first-can-hurt-scientific-quality "Scientific research is a critical piece of R&D. Understanding what motivates scientists has important economic implications. A primary motivator in science is the credit associated with publishing first." (bolding mine) ...Given the importance of priority, it is not surprising that scientists compete — sometimes fiercely — to publish their findings first. There are many well-known historical examples of priority races and disputes. Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz fought bitterly over which one of them deserved credit for inventing calculus. Charles Darwin was distraught upon receiving a manuscript from Alfred Wallace, which bore an uncanny resemblance to Darwin’s (yet unpublished) On the Origin of Species.... https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/10/24/as-the-need-for-highly-trained-scientists-grows-a-look-at-why-people-choose-these-careers/ "...So, what draws people into these careers? Roughly one-third (32%) of working Ph.D. scientists said a main motivator for their career path was a lifelong interest in science and desire for intellectual challenge ... Many of these scientists reported an interest and curiosity in science or the natural world starting in early childhood. For some 12% their curiosity was fostered by parents and other family members who brought them in contact with scientists and science labs, nature or science and technology museums. Others (27%) remembered effective mentoring and encouragement from teachers whether in elementary school, graduate school or somewhere in between. And some 17% talked about the importance of lab and field work, often at the high school and college levels, which spurred their interest in a science career." Huh, surprisingly contrary to your conspiracy theory, Pfizer money wasn't mentioned once.

Just as an aside, how did Operation Lockstep work for the conspiracy gang? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/14/fact-check-operation-lockstep-covid-19-conspiracy-theory/6567231002/ "Fact check: 'Rockefeller Playbook' and 'Operation Lockstep' are hoaxes" Oh, not so good, huh? Well, then let's google and see if even your silly conspiracy theory of lockstep thinking in the sciences holds any water. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/iai.02939-14 "Science has always been a competitive undertaking. Despite recognition of the benefits of cooperation and team science, reduced availability of funding and jobs has made science more competitive than ever." https://explorable.com/competition-in-science "Science can be a really nasty business. Competition in science is a necessity; it promotes a drive within the scientific community to excel." https://www.masterstudies.com/articles/pros-and-cons-of-competition-in-research "In the field of science, competition reigns supreme, and it has its shares of advantages and disadvantages." Oh, so the sciences are actually quite competitive, how unsurprising. So if one scientist found something wrong with another scientist's study, they probably wouldn't keep that to themselves. Why, they might even do a paper on it. And be the first to publish, at that! So now let's look and see if conspiracy theorists (we call them theorists because we know how much effort they put into their thinking and we have so much respect for that) are at least as competitive as scientists in their thinking or if they're actually the ones in lockstep with one another as a conspiracy-ist might project upon a scientist. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-time-cure/202110/conspiracy-beliefs-vs-critical-and-analytical-thinking "A lack of certain thinking skills can contribute to beliefs in conspiracies ... conspiracy believers have less developed critical thinking abilities and that when these skills are developed, conspiracy beliefs are reduced ... It’s not that people aren’t intelligent, rather that they may not have the tools to allow them to differentiate between credible and non-credible sources ... Conspiracy theories may allow them to feel they have the information that explains why they don’t have the control that they want ... a need to feel unique, both individually and as a group, is associated with belief in conspiracy theories. An overinflated sense of importance in conspiracy groups leads to the belief that you and your group are good while outsiders are evil" (bolding mine) Houston, we have lockstep!

Was just kidding but here's one I googled which is indeed critical of the posted study https://osf.io/preprints/osf/nt8jh and suggests further study into potential harm for these vaccinations and for future ones, that this process and potential throw-offs be better understood and controlled. Meanwhile, we are nearly 3 full years into vaccinating billions of people with minimal known ill effects especially in comparison to what we do know this pandemic would have continued to look like (ventilator shortages, morgue overflows, etc.) without any vaccination whatsoever.

I haven't read up on it in its entirety and even if some studies do find some correlation, I'd be less surprised by that then I'd be that this virus is dumbing down society generally, perhaps showing up in the students because they're the ones who get tested. I'm frankly getting concerned of dealing with doctors who don't mask, understanding that their brains might already be effected of their prior infections. So how do I know that they're working at the same capacity of expertise they might have enjoyed pre-pandemic. If it was up to me, I'd insist every professional of every discipline get relicensed to assure competency. I see mental depletions in people I know and I know still people who I grew up with so I know these people quite well. Especially some of the anti-vaxxers, their brains don't work as well as they did before. It's real obvious. Extend that to those I didn't know before and especially to those who are making medical decisions for others and that can be scary.

I believe he was quoting directly from one of the peer reviews from science.org The scholars often start their critiques with an exasperated Good Grief, give it a break! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_(journal) "Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine,[1] is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[AAAS 2][2] (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.[3] It was first published in 1880"

Besides that the cited article states: "There’s no doubt the disruption of the pandemic was a major factor in the global setbacks. But the OECD cautions against blaming it all on COVID-19. Science and reading scores were falling before the pandemic, it says, and some countries were already trending downward in math, including Belgium, Finland, Canada and France. It also finds the link between school closures and academic setbacks was “not so direct.” (bolding mine)" I'd like to see further studies examining if poorer test results now might be in part by potential brain damage caused by SARS-CoV-2 as it has already been discovered that Covid spike proteins accumulate in the skull-meninges-brain axis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.04.535604v1 Covid causes brain shrinkage (including grey matter thinning) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10063523/#:~:text=After being infected with COVID,et al.%2C 2022). Children show developmental impairments when exposed during pregnancy to to maternal covid infection (not that they'd have their SAT scores yet, but, again, indicating direct effect of covid on their brains) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38061413/

I suggest you don't step out into traffic because recent studies estimate high risk of getting run over. Still a problem? Meanwhile, let's see what else the study says https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-076990 "Results Of 299 692 vaccinated individuals with covid-19, 1201 (0.4%) had a diagnosis of PCC during follow-up, compared with 4118 (1.4%) of 290 030 unvaccinated individuals. Covid-19 vaccination with any number of doses before infection was associated with a reduced risk of PCC (adjusted hazard ratio 0.42, 95% confidence interval 0.38 to 0.46), with a vaccine effectiveness of 58%. Of the vaccinated individuals, 21 111 received one dose only, 205 650 received two doses, and 72 931 received three or more doses. Vaccine effectiveness against PCC for one dose, two doses, and three or more doses was 21%, 59%, and 73%, respectively." (bolded, underlined mine) again, only louder this time for the cheap seats: ~"Vaccine effectiveness against Post Covid-19 Condition ... WAS (bolded capping mine) 21%, 59%, and 73%". Guess they must've misspelled *has been suggested by the evidence to be* as *was*, huh?

While currently there are less hospitalizations and less deaths than the deluge of destruction this infection initially inflicted, while there might even be less known long-covid cases, much of that is resultant of the immunity (which we know wanes over mere months) by prior & repeated infection, by vaccination & by hybrid immunity, as well as by antivirals, not necessarily simply because "Covid disease (isn't what) it once was" which is a fallacy in thinking if only because... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10066022/ "Do pathogens always evolve to be less virulent? The virulence–transmission trade-off in light of the COVID-19 pandemic ... Formerly, it was theorized that pathogens should always evolve to be less virulent. ... In the case of COVID-19, a higher viral load does not mean a higher risk of death; immunity is not long-lasting; other hosts can act as reservoirs for the virus; and death as a consequence of viral infection does not shorten the infectious period. Consequently, we cannot predict the short- or long-term evolution of the virulence of COVID-19. (bolding mine)" So even if by current strains per current chance and current community health as noted above, current results might "fit a rhetoric" of seeming like Covid has been currently domesticated, try being less careful in handling your pet viper who you gave a cute current name to because you thought venomous Viper "is not bad any more" and see how that works for ya. And if you don't believe that, ask Australian zoologist and conservationist Steve Irwin about cute stingray, oh wait, you can't, he's dead. Because sometimes even an expert still has to be careful. Or just read up on some current studies of what your current "isn't what it was" covid strain of cute omicron can do to your brain https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/small-study-finds-brain-alterations-after-covid-omicron-infection "the researchers evaluated 61 men before and after infection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in January 2023. The men had been part of a larger cohort who had undergone magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and neuropsychiatric screenings before infection in August and September 2022. Average age was 43 years. The researchers collected MRI and neuropsychiatric data after COVID-19 infection and tracked clinical symptoms for 3 months... ...In certain regions of the brain, gray-matter thickness had thinned, and the ratio of right hippocampus volume to total intracranial volume was significantly reduced after infection. (bolding mine)" full study here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2812387

Yet the actual data upon which correct evaluations rely (in disagreement with your bizarro-world opinion) advises by the very numbers that elders ought--in direct opposition to what you've said-- vax themselves to increase their odds of surviving infection of an easily spread airborne virus. Publicly wrongly advising elders to not reduce their risk of death from CoV-2, basing your opinion on magical thinking of religious belief or on your politics or by your sadism, etc,, based on anything but scientifically derived data is perverted in that it does not align with empirically known reality. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7224a6.htm "Notes from the Field: Comparison of COVID-19 Mortality Rates Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years Who Were Unvaccinated and Those Who Received a Bivalent Booster Dose Within the Preceding 6 Months — 20 U.S. Jurisdictions, September 18, 2022–April 1, 2023 Weekly / June 16, 2023 / 72(24);667–669 ...Mortality rates among adults aged ≥65 years peaked in December 2022 during the BQ.1/BQ.1.1 predominance period. Higher mortality rates were observed among unvaccinated persons during all three periods of Omicron lineage predominance..." https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7224a6.htm#T1_down Period (predominant Omicron lineage) Total Vaccination status Unvaccinated Vaccinated with bivalent booster dose, by time since vaccination** 2 wks–2 mos 3–6 mos No. of deaths (mortality rate) No. of deaths (mortality rate) RR (95% CI)†† No. of deaths (mortality rate) RR (95% CI) Sep 18–Nov 5, 2022 (BA.5) 1,717 1,623 (13.5) 94 (0.8) 16.3 (13.8–19.1) NA§§ NA§§ Nov 6, 2022–Jan 21, 2023 (BQ.1/BQ.1.1) 4,537 3,532 (18.8) 794 (1.6) 11.4 (9.4–13.9) 211 (1.8) 11.0 (8.4–14.4) Jan 22–Apr 1, 2023 (XBB.1.5) 1,907 1,247 (7.3) 114 (0.9) 8.4 (6.1–11.7) 546 (1.0) 7.3 (6.1–8.7)

You can’t successfully argue with figures that are facts, but some certainly effort to perversely present facts in revisionist fashion for propagandist means. As sick as is the psychology that would motivate such sadistic behavior, as loyal are the allies of a virus – also known as anti-vaxxers – in their constant efforts to sway even lesser informed or those of even lesser intelligence into self-destructive decisions, they may do some damage but by the numbers have not won any battles and certainly not the war the rest of the world has waged against the anti-vaxxers’ low bar demon overlord SARS-CoV-2. Fact is, the numbers of those damaged by vaccine, as sad as that is, pales to nearly invisibility in comparison to the damages caused by the unvaxxed (& unmasked) in terms of damage to themselves, damage to those around them, damage to the system that must tend to them as they get sick, damage to the societies & their purses that must support those systems even for those who refused a simple shot in the arm. https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/unvaccinated-covid-patients-cost-the-u-s-health-system-billions-of-dollars/ "there were a total of 690,000 vaccine-preventable COVID-19 hospitalizations form June through November 2021, a period that overlaps with the delta variant surge. It estimates that the preventable costs of treating these patients iat $13.8 billion during the six-month period. (bolding mine)" So, okay, let's talk compensation. When can we expect your check?

Again, only louder this time for the cheap seats https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/updated-covid-vaccine-10-things-to-know# "EG.5 made up 29.4% of cases at the end of September, more than any other SARS-CoV-2 virus strain at the time, followed by another XBB descendent called FL 1.51, which accounted for 13.7% of cases. “The XBB characteristics of the shot are genetically similar to EG.5,” Dr. Roberts says. “They're not identical, but they're pretty close. So, there's going to be protection with the updated vaccine.”" "vaccines are covered by insurance, including private insurance, Medicare plans, and Medicaid plans. Uninsured children and uninsured adults also have access through the Vaccine for Children Program and Bridge Access Program, respectively." https://abcnews.go.com/Health/36m-american-adults-received-updated-covid-vaccine-cdc/story?id=104874582 "An estimated 36 million adults in the United States have received the updated COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday, according to new data from the federal government. Additionally, about 3.5 million children have also gotten the updated shot, according to the survey, which is a sample size of the U.S. population, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is roughly equal to the number of Americans who had received the bivalent booster -- which was targeted against different COVID variants -- by this time last year." https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/ At least 270,227,181 people or 81% of the population have received at least one dose. Overall, 230,637,348 people or 70% of the population are considered fully vaccinated. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-booster-percent-pop5 Vaccinated People (at least 1 dose) Count Percent of U.S. Population Total 270,227,181 81.4% Population ≥ 5 Years of Age 268,021,871 85.8% Population ≥ 12 Years of Age 256,511,884 90.5% Population ≥ 18 Years of Age 238,239,640 92.3% Population ≥ 65 Years of Age 58,758,542 95.0% People Who Completed a Primary Series* Count Percent of U.S. Population Total 230,637,348 69.5% Population ≥ 5 Years of Age 229,426,936 73.5% Population ≥ 12 Years of Age 219,966,681 77.6% Population ≥ 18 Years of Age 204,327,579 79.1% Population ≥ 65 Years of Age 51,708,613 94.4% People with an Updated (Bivalent) Booster Dose‡ Count Percent of U.S. Population Total 56,478,510 17.0% Population ≥ 5 Years of Age 56,352,709 18.0% Population ≥ 12 Years of Age 54,974,636 19.4% Population ≥ 18 Years of Age 52,996,306 20.5% Population ≥ 65 Years of Age 23,699,191 43.3%

Though Covid-19 continues to evolve now in humans--thus updated vaccination boosters--before jumping over to humans ("jumping over" being the operative phrase), unless you've empirical evidence of this particular covid migrating back & forth between human & animal over the centuries to evolve as you've described, as far as has been scientifically observed & reported, it hadn't originally evolved in humans to do what it's done to human societies once it made the jump, rather it had evolved independently in non-human animals, regardless of the ethnicity of those critters. That doesn't say that, prior to SARS CoV-2, other previous coronaviruses that had made the jump couldn't have prewired various populations to better (or worse off) deal with the ravaging effects of this one. https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/origins-coronaviruses "Research evidence suggests that SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV originated in bats. SARS-CoV then spread from infected civets to people, while MERS-CoV spreads from infected dromedary camels to people. To date, the origin of SARS-CoV-2 which caused the COVID-19 pandemic has not been identified. The scientific evidence thus far suggests that SARS-CoV-2 likely resulted from viral evolution in nature and jumped to people or through some unidentified animal host."

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/updated-covid-vaccine-10-things-to-know#:~:text=A booster shot gives a,new response to those variants "EG.5 made up 29.4% of cases at the end of September, more than any other SARS-CoV-2 virus strain at the time, followed by another XBB descendent called FL 1.51, which accounted for 13.7% of cases. “The XBB characteristics of the shot are genetically similar to EG.5,” Dr. Roberts says. “They're not identical, but they're pretty close. So, there's going to be protection with the updated vaccine.”" "vaccines are covered by insurance, including private insurance, Medicare plans, and Medicaid plans. Uninsured children and uninsured adults also have access through the Vaccine for Children Program and Bridge Access Program, respectively." https://abcnews.go.com/Health/36m-american-adults-received-updated-covid-vaccine-cdc/story?id=104874582 "An estimated 36 million adults in the United States have received the updated COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday, according to new data from the federal government. Additionally, about 3.5 million children have also gotten the updated shot, according to the survey, which is a sample size of the U.S. population, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is roughly equal to the number of Americans who had received the bivalent booster -- which was targeted against different COVID variants -- by this time last year." 2023 US population ~334 million meaning 11.8% have so far gotten the latest booster version which was recently FDA approved in Sept/Oct 2023 For more information on USA vaccination status see https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/data-research/dashboard/vaccination-trends-adults.html

Without any magical thinking, without God or gods, without organized religion or even personal spirituality, without the Rosicrucianism of Christianity, without the Sufism of Islam, without the Vedanta or Bhakti schools of Hinduism, without the Kabbala of Judaism without the animism of Thai Theravada Buddhism, without the sorcery of the Toltec, but considering merely a demystified Universe within the science of existence, it can be said that unimagined Universe as we empirically know it, not as we wish it to be but as science has thus far determined, began in a violent big bang. Through further scientific observation of existence as far as we can see it over the 13.8 billion years since, we can objectively say that Universe has since the Big Bang calmed down a tad. Perhaps we can extrapolate without too much imagination that as violent was original Universe, as violent was early Earth, that perhaps even humanity might similarly evolve.

I found this: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1826629/london-pro-palestine-protest-video-pride-flag-fight-lgbtq "fight breaks out over Pride flag at pro-Palestine protest ... As people surrounded the flag bearer, it isn't clear whether the person waving it was attacked or if someone grabbed the symbol of inclusivity to tear it down ... two men dressed in black and with their face covered can be seen running away ... the attack on the Progressive Pride Flag suggests some of the pro-Palestine protesters gathered in London were uneasy with the presence of the LGBTQ+ community" "Were uneasy" lol so polite. Polite-washed homophobia. To the topic generally: Sometimes it is not always just the what but especially the when that's telling. There is nothing inherently wrong with being a gay person and having sympathy for the hardships of any other peoples. But did Queers for Palestine protest Hamas raping with their undistracted penises in the blood of the kids they murdered? Did they even condemn that? Criticize that? Or do we just hear from them when Israel fights back to protect themselves against future such attacks? Where were the protests against the raping and the murdering and the kidnappings done by the Palestinian Gaza Strip's de facto government Hamas? None. There were none. So then is this just supposed sympathy for Palestinians or de facto celebration for the actions of Hamas which is the governing body of Gaza.

You're welcome to mystify either to manufacture differences, or even find actual differences, but the bare fact is that both bugs are about not caring enough about self and others to take proper precaution to help prevent spreading infection or becoming infected; and, the on-topic psychology of self-destruction by whatever infection of the day applies as well to people engaging abusive relationships, to people seeking the approval of those who couldn't care less about them, to a minor subset of gay people who'd support even those who'd behead them.

In a world of variety, it is not surprising to find a small subset hooking into any weird, even self-destructive, perverted idea, thus the relatively small number of gift givers & bug chasers of the HIV endemic effecting mostly gay people and the ever more moronic gift giving & bug chasing of the larger-by-multiples hetero population with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic who don't merely refuse to simply moderate their own behavior to reduce suffering but actually attempt in their sick humor to mock those who'd seek to protect themselves from a potential lifetime of the ills of long covid. The blood of gay person protesting on behalf of someone who'd behead them, putting that perversion in everyone else's face, runs through the same vein as someone who'd, oh, I don't know, would post into a thread about being self-destructive