AZ is not a 'traditional' vaccine, viral-vector vaccines are just as 'new' as mRNA vaccines. In both cases the technology dates back to the 1970s but only very recently have they … (View Post)

The kind of poeple who would do a cost-benefit analysis of deflecting a civilization-ending asteroid. (View Post)

From what I've read on this masks, and certainly ordinary cloth and surgical masks, have a very marginal effect on the order of a change of the reproduction rate by as little as 0.1. So any effe… (View Post)

Storm Arwen and the Omicron virus. Those are good names. (View Post)

SARS escaped the same lab in China TWICE. A big flu epidemic in the 70s was almost certainly a lab escape from Russia as well. More generally serious lab accidents involving chemical, biological, and… (View Post)