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    Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

    I rode twice when I was in town for the Gartner conference. I don't remember any cannons on either ride, so I assume that is a feature that was missing. BB8, the Rey projection, and the Kylo AAs were all active. I had ZERO spoilers going in, as I avoided any thread/article/discussion about...
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    What did you do?

    Ran 3 miles over lunch hour today. I had a running buddy for about 1/3 of it, as a neighbor's dog saw me go past and decided to join me for the loop in my route. He stayed ahead of me darting back and forth across the yards as though he was running reconnaissance (making sure no squirrels...
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    What did you do?

    The two hardest parts I found with training for the half-marathon were: 1. My knees (Between decades of sports and cartilage removal surgery, they're pretty beat up) 2. Time (It's hard to find blocks of time to run for 2-3 hours). On the plus side, the endurance part was not a problem, and I...
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    What did you do?

    That's my theory, too. I trained for and ran a half-marathon back in April. My Garmin watch tells me at all times what heart rate zone I'm in, and for those longer runs, I cruised in the low-aerobic zones for most of them. Didn't sweat that much. I sweat like crazy on my regular 3-5 mile...
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    Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

    Give me the Novavax vaccine, and the conversation is over.
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    Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

    In what way does an attenuated, inactivated, or subunit vaccine instruct your body to make something it fights? The intruder is in the vaccine, and the body fights it. In mRNA technology, the body is instructed to make the proteins that it then fights.
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    Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

    Instructing the body to make cells it is then going to fight is a radical new concept.
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    Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

    Yes, something could happen. It could be the body gets good at making the spike proteins and just keeps doing it, even after the instructions have dissolved. Or, it makes so many it overwhelms the immune system. I don't know all of the combinations and permutations of what could happen when...
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    Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

    V1.0. Studies are much smaller numbers of participants than real world applications.
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    Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

    Studies are wonderful, but I want to see years of real world results when you are introducing something of this magnitude. Make no mistake, this could end up being a truly great technology. Time will tell.
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    Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

    You are correct. The mRNA and J&J vaccines are (briefly) teaching your body to make (harmless) spike proteins that your body is then going to fight. This concept in and of itself gives me pause. I don't believe the six-week standard for vaccine adverse reactions is enough to build trust in...
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    Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

    There's a world of difference between study and real world application. V1.0 of anything should be viewed skeptically until trust can be proven. That trust may take weeks, months, or years of analyzing results.
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    Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

    This is the first use of mRNA technology for anything other than study. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mRNA.html?s_cid=11344:what%20is%20mrna%20vaccine:sem.ga:p:RG:GM:gen:PTN:FY21 https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243
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    Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

    If you look at the CDC data for Florida, deaths are already on their downward trend while cases are still going up.
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    Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

    The only thing that I think will move the needle (heh) on vaccinations is availability of the Novavax vaccine. It's built on "classic" vaccine technology, so there are fewer arguments against it. It's not briefly teaching your body to make (harmless) spike proteins, and it's not known for...
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