Links for you. Science:
Neutralizing response against SARS-CoV-2 variants 8 months after BNT162b2 vaccination in naïve and COVID-19 convalescent individuals (no Omicron data)
Cognitive Rehab: One Patient’s Painstaking Path Through Long Covid Therapy
The 1918 flu is even more relevant in 2022 thanks to omicron
This Isn’t the California I Married: The honeymoon’s over for its residents now that wildfires are almost constant. Has living in this natural wonderland lost its magic (no, I didn’t stick this in the wrong place)
Mapping the antigenic diversification of SARS-CoV-2 (we’re probably going to need an Omicron booster if Omicron persists)
Whales Once Walked Along the Coasts of North America
Other:
Won’t Somebody Think Of The Children
The Bill for My Homelessness Was $54,000
These DC Businesses Will Require Proof of Vaccination AND Boosters. A trendy restaurant, coffee shop, and gym chain are among those going beyond city regulations.
Metro Reduces Bus Service, Strengthens Vaccine Requirement Amid Omicron Surge (“In another effort to reduce spread and keep the community safe, bus operators are also allowed to bypass customers not wearing masks.”)
The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare
Lies are bad. A press corps enabling liars is worse
The Land-Hoarding Elite Should Be Paying the Rest of Us Rent. A major land tax could bankroll a universal basic income.
U.S. Catches Kremlin Insider Who May Have Secrets of 2016 Hack
If we are to save our democracy, there must be a reckoning for the Jan. 6 attack
Unapproved process change grounds Metro’s 7000-series railcars (again)
The smoking gun that Liz Cheney is looking for on Trump comes into view
GOD TOLD ME TO.
Kelly Ernby, former Orange County GOP state Assembly candidate and deputy D.A., dies of COVID-19 (she was anti-vaccination before COVID)
11 Montgomery County schools to go virtual for two weeks as COVID-19 cases rise
The Mighty Right Has Lost Direction
Since Jan. 6, the pro-Trump Internet has descended into infighting over money and followers (rooting for injuries)
What Would an ‘Unbiased Perspective’ on January 6 Even Look Like?
Trump’s Supreme Court allows Trump’s other crank judges to run free
The American Republic Is Not Exceptional
Entrata chairman accuses ‘Jews’ of COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy in antisemitic email to Utah politicians
mikethemadbiologist
It looks as though Kelly Ernby wasn’t vaccinated:
https://www.ocregister.com/2022/01/04/husband-kelly-ernby-wasnt-vaccinated-when-she-died-of-covid-19-complications/
In MoCo I’ve had a kid home from school the last two days because ninety (90) (!!1! wtf) school bus drivers called in sick with COVID this week and there’s nobody to drive her route. They’re already running two or three routes per driver, meaning some days it takes two hours or more for kids to get home.
Parents have been keeping kids home from Northwood as well due to high positive rates, and I notice that one’s not on the list you linked.