Saturday: martial arts but Vic’s closed

Handwritten signs in the window saying closed because short kitchen help, and other signs advertising for a cook and a dishwasher. Yikes! No Vic’s for us after martial arts today.

Martial arts was fun. First time since the beginning of March 2020 that we went to martial arts without putting on a mask at any point. Still ludicrously safe — T., me, the two instructors and the junior instructor (everyone fully vaccinated altho T. is still waiting the 2 weeks technically) and no one else there. Not that it would matter.

Really hilarious tale of Naomi Wolf being banned from Twitter: https://meaww.com/naomi-wolf-banned-twitter-vaccine-misinformation-twitter-celebrates

The tweet that broke twitter’s back seems to involve Wolf advocating for segregating the sewage of vaxxed households from unvaxxed household sewage?!? Poopoo segregation indeed.

All the Things: mRNA edition

I spend a lot of time telling people that they should trust the mRNA vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer, they are the best vaccines we have ever had, the most studied, the safest, the most effective, yada yada yada and then I wind up by saying: I think we should go back and redo all the old vaccines with mRNA ones because they would be better.

Well, never fucking mind! There are Bright, Bright Days Ahead, Dear Readers! There are mRNA vaccine candidates for herpes 2, CMV and RSV (I know, generally neither is a problem, but occasionally, they are an absolute nightmare, and statistically, that occasional nightmare is a real problem) and BEST OF ALL, there’s an HIV candidate.

https://www.contagionlive.com/view/moderna-unveils-results-of-new-mrna-vaccine-candidate-trials

https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/can-mrna-vaccines-defeat-herpes

I realize that there is some time between having a candidate and having something you can get at the local CVS / mass vax center, but we’ve already shown we can speed that process up.

The future looks bright indeed.