#1
Absolutely beautiful flight until landing. Came in half on and half off the pad a little fast with a amazing explosion.
For a test flight I give it %90.
He has five or more test platforms waiting to fly.
I would not be surprised to see the landing successful on the next flight and nailed on the one after. Aerodynamic surfaces and fins worked perfectly.
#4
Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed! Congrats SpaceX team hell yeah!!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2020
[Jpost] Britannia began mass vaccinating its population on Tuesday in a global drive that poses one of the biggest logistical challenges in peacetime history, starting with the elderly and frontline workers.
Britannia's medicine regulator has advised that people with a history of significant allergic reactions do not get Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine after two people reported adverse effects on the first day of rollout.
Britannia began mass vaccinating its population on Tuesday in a global drive that poses one of the biggest logistical challenges in peacetime history, starting with the elderly and frontline workers
National Health Service medical director Stephen Powis said the advice had been changed after two NHS workers reported anaphylactoid reactions associated with getting the shot.
Would that require more than an Epi-pen or the equivalent to treat?
"As is common with new vaccines the MHRA (regulator) have advised on a precautionary basis that people with a significant history of allergic reactions do not receive this vaccination, after two people with a history of significant allergic reactions responded adversely yesterday," Powis said.
"Both are recovering well."
Given that the first round is going to medical workers and the elderly in retirement homes, no doubt there are ample Epi-pens or the equivalent on hand.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said the advice to healthcare professionals was "precautionary," and MHRA Chief Executive June Raine said that the reaction was not a side-effect observed in trials.
"Last evening, we were looking at two case reports of allergic reactions. We know from the very extensive clinical trials that this wasn't a feature," she told politicians.
[NationalReview] The Federal Trade Commission and 48 state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook on Wednesday, which, if successful, could lead to the first court-ordered breakup of a U.S. corporation in a decade.
The lawsuit claims that Facebook has engaged in anticompetitive practices and attempted to stymie or gain control over rivals to monopolize its social media network. In particular, the suit seeks to end Facebook’s control over WhatsApp and Instagram.
“Facebook recognizes that its continued ownership and operation of Instagram and WhatsApp…neutralizes their direct competitive threats,” the FTC lawsuit states. “Facebook continues to monitor the industry for competitive threats, and likely would seek to acquire any companies that constitute, or could be repositioned to constitute, threats to its personal social networking monopoly.”
The FTC is seeking “divestiture of [Facebook] assets, divestiture or reconstruction of businesses (including, but not limited to, Instagram and/or WhatsApp), and such other relief sufficient to restore the competition that would exist absent the conduct alleged in the Complaint.”
New York attorney general Letitia James announced on Wednesday that she would be leading a group of 48 state attorneys general in a separate lawsuit against Facebook, writing on Twitter that the company held an “illegal monopoly.”
The lawsuits come after the Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against search engine Google in October.
#3
The US Army is recruiting through TikTok. How dumb is that? The Chinese have years of internet activity of these potential recruits. No blackmail or recruiting turncoat opportunities there.
[France24] More than 20 months after it was grounded following two deadly crashes, Boeing's 737 MAX returned to the skies Wednesday with a commercial flight in Brazil, said AFP journalists on board.
Low-cost airline Gol's Flight 4104 from Sao Paulo to the southern city of Porto Alegre took off using the revamped jet in a first that Boeing hopes will turn the page on a badly damaging crisis in the wake of the twin crashes.
Most passengers aboard the 88-percent booked and 90-minute flight took little notice of the model number painted on the plane's nose, and Gol made no fanfare for the occasion.
"Good to know," a passenger said when told by an AFP journalist that the flight would be the first to use the 737 MAX since its worldwide grounding in March 2019.
"If it's here, that must mean it's safe, right?" said the man, who asked that his name not be used.
The pilot -- one of 140 at Gol who received special updated training in the United States on the overhauled jet -- flashed a thumbs-up from the cockpit window as passengers boarded the plane.
[AlAhram] The language on both sides has hardened, and both have called on the other to compromise ahead of a meeting that is widely seen as a last throw of the dice
Talk of a chaotic British split from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... grew on Tuesday with just three weeks left to break a deadlock in trade deal negotiations, with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... warning that the two sides may have to accept "no deal".
The EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, told a meeting of the bloc's ministers that he believed a no-deal scenario at the end of the year was now more likely than an agreement on trade ties, an EU official and two diplomats told Rooters.
Deepening the gloom, Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said that unless there was a breakthrough "in the next day or two", EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday and Friday would have to discuss contingency plans for the economic disruption a rupture with no trade accord would bring.
[IsraelTimes] But questions remain about ability to protect those over 55; health officials around the world hope to rely on shot because of its low cost, availability and ease of use
New results on a possible COVID-19 vaccine from Oxford University and AstraZeneca suggest it is safe and about 70% effective, but questions remain about how well it may help protect those over 55 — a key concern for a vaccine that health officials hope to rely on around the world because of its low cost, availability and ease of use.
Still, experts say the vaccine seems likely to be approved, despite some confusion in the results and lower levels of protection than what some other vaccine candidates have shown.
"What we can see looks reasonable, but it’s a bit more complicated than what we’ve seen so far," said Dr. Buddy Creech, a Vanderbilt University researcher helping to test two other vaccines. "If this had been the first report out, the field would have still been excited to have a vaccine."
The medical journal Lancet on Tuesday published partial results from tests of the vaccine in the United Kingdom, Brazil and South Africa — safety results on 23,745 participants and protection levels on 11,636.
They’re hard to interpret because a mistake led some participants to get a half dose followed by a full one rather than two full doses as intended.
Researchers claim the vaccine protected against disease in 62% of those given two full doses and in 90% of those initially given the half dose. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... independent experts have said the second group was too small — 2,741 people — to judge the possible value of that approach and that more testing is needed.
The half-dose group also didn’t include anyone over 55, and among others in the study, only about 12% were in that age group. Older people also were enrolled later, so there hasn’t been enough time to see whether they develop infections at a lower rate than those not given the vaccine.
It’s unclear if the results will be enough to lead regulators in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to approve its use right away.
"We have no safety concerns about the vaccine," with no hospitalizations or severe disease among those who received it, and results from all study locations consistently showing benefit, said one study leader, Oxford’s Andrew Pollard.
#1
How MSM will Spin VAX protests and report it
Given the C19 was documented to be far more deadly for the age groups of 60+ and those with existing medical issues.
We just wanted to acknowledge the growing number of generous offers of those Healthy Citizens Groups, least likely to experience seriously illness and possible death if infected.
We are hearing a growing number of reports of Groups offering to forego being VAX'd, until after those more like to be infected and/or die, are first treated.
ACTUALLY IN REAL LIFE
What I am hearing and reading. Is many are very clear that they'll let others be the 1st wave of Lab Rats, then wait and see if there are any issues.
BTW: We have already seen one warning that women and dress up She-He's/He-She's Transgenders (☺) should NOT get pregnant for 2-4 months after being VAX'd.
Which raises a Question?
It took the Phramacy Industry 7-8 months to develop this VAX. Were there miscarriages and deformities discovered in the VAX Testing?
#3
The pregnancy warning may be from an abundance of caution with a new vaccine without widespread testing yet. I gather that miscarriages have been an occasional side effect from some vaccines, but I can't give chapter and verse.
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#4
and Moderna and Pfizer are 94-95% effective, so why go with AZ?
#5
Moderna and Pfizer are 94-95% effective, so why go with AZ?
(a) According to Moderna and Pfizer. (at least Astra-Zeneca owed up to screwing their tests).
(b) Moderna and Pfizer are mRNA (very experimental) vaccines - which, even if everything goes well*, are not "user-friendly" (you have to keep them refrigerated at - 70 C).
*Eukaryotic cells are NOT build to take up nucleotide compounds (wrapped in lipid membrane, or not) from their surrounding. [I saw an article comparing mRNA vaccines to USB - well, in this metaphor, eukaryotic cells are computers without USB drive]. We don't know that the companies put in their mRNA packages to make the cells take them up without degradation.
[Breitbart] The United States Supreme Court will not take up a case based on a parents’ lawsuit against a school district for allowing students to use locker rooms and bathrooms based on the perceived gender rather than their biological sex.
The legal case began in the Salem, Oregon area against a school district’s policy of allowing access to spaces based on "gender identity."
The Associated Press (AP), which defines biological sex as "sex assigned at birth," reported on the court’s decision:
[Hot Air] Over the weekend, Los Angeles held its annual gun "buyback" program for the eighth consecutive year. Mayor Garcetti always loves to talk up this event, claiming that it’s an important piece of the puzzle in terms of reducing gun violence. This year was no different and he was quick to sing the praises of the program to the local media. Of course, the underlying reality is considerably different than the sunny outlook being touted by the Mayor. And when you look at the specific issues that the LAPD is currently dealing with, along with the lack of details provided by City Hall, the entire idea seems to fall apart a bit. (CBS Los Angeles)
Seriously only a Idiot would think that
DISARMING HONEST CITIZENS would reduce
CRIMINAL RELATED GUN CRIMES.
BTW: When any Socialist Government in history has turned its weapon on its own Citizenry to stay in power. It was deemed Legal Use to suppress the Counter-Revolutionaries (Fighting for Freedoms).
#5
It would seem that L.A. might be incentivizing the stealing of guns, With what the city is paying for firearms, they are likely to get "crap" firearms and financing junkies desperate for drugs.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NationalReview] The Federal Trade Commission and 48 state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook on Wednesday, which, if successful, could lead to the first court-ordered breakup of a U.S. corporation in a decade.
[France24] More than 20 months after it was grounded following two deadly crashes, Boeing's 737 MAX returned to the skies Wednesday with a commercial flight in Brazil, said AFP journalists on board.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
[Breitbart] The United States Supreme Court will not take up a case based on a parents’ lawsuit against a school district for allowing students to use locker rooms and bathrooms based on the perceived gender rather than their biological sex.
[Hot Air] Over the weekend, Los Angeles held its annual gun "buyback" program for the eighth consecutive year. Mayor Garcetti always loves to talk up this event, claiming that it’s an important piece of the puzzle in terms of reducing gun violence. This year was no different and he was quick to sing the praises of the program to the local media. Of course, the underlying reality is considerably different than the sunny outlook being touted by the Mayor. And when you look at the specific issues that the LAPD is currently dealing with, along with the lack of details provided by City Hall, the entire idea seems to fall apart a bit. (CBS Los Angeles)
