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Hate to throw a little cold H20 on the vaccine news, but I think Moderna made a potentially fatal error on safety. Hard to describe here, but they went for a broad-coverage race to the finish-line approach without checking their homework. The early subjects may actually be at higher risk that unvaccinated subjects due to antibody-dependent enhancement.

It's like a road race. Ignore the urge to jump out in front and just hang back in the front pack. Over time, the leaders will make errors allowing you to leapfrog up to second. Then, the leader will be looking behind instead of in front, spin out, and you pass him on the inside.

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Follow the $

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I can't be the only person that knew right away that dog walking shit was a cover for something much uglier.

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Hell, that's exactly what my former state senator went to the hoosegow for. (The personal assistant thing, not the arms deal thing.) But hey, rules are for little people, right?

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Guarding the potatoes.

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Hard to do in these one-horse towns sometimes. Piss that guy off and all his friends who own all the other places in town just so happen to find that your qualifications don't match what they're looking for, isn't that a shame?

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Civilian Conservation Corps, WPA.

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Early example of social distancing.

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As long as you don't look the shoe in the mouth, it won't change its spots.

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The announcement was bullshit from the beginning. The only reason was to get the stock market to react.

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Pompeo looks like he licks his plate clean. There is no need for dish washing.

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Don't shoe a dead horse.

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Remember when Bill Clinton got a haircut, and THE WORLD ENDED?

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Wasn't Keith Schiller working as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Oval Office Operations when Trump would have him running out to pick up McDonald's because Trump didn't like the White House Chef's cooking?

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I KNEW this was going to be the argument. When they can't find a way to deny it, they avoid the issue of whether it's legal or not and instead go for, "Why are Dems so PETTY? They'll find ANY reason to complain."

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