Talking about WDW restaurants
I haven't dove into it completely, but apparently there was a disagreement between Dr. Faucci and ACT-UP on the use of bactrim as a prophylactic against Pneumocystis pneumonia in HIV+ patients back relatively early in the AIDS epidemic (long before effective antiviral treatments existed). The brief info I skimmed mentioned that ACT-UP wanted all HIV patients to receive bactrim prophylaxis if there was a localized Pneumocystis outbreak near where they lived, whereas Faucci thought it should be reserved for those who met more strict criteria. I don't know what exactly Faucci advocated at the time, but the current guidelines for prophylaxis mostly restrict prophylaxis to patient's whose CD4 counts fall below certain thresholds. So, today's guidelines probably fall more along the lines of what Faucci recommended than what ACT-UP wanted.
Voila. Perfect should not be the enemy of good.
Who would have thought that maybe mandates might work. Let’s bring in passports and really get this vaccine kicking.A very positive article in NY Times!
Covid, in Retreat
New cases in the U.S. have fallen by more than a third in the past month.www.nytimes.com
"The share of Americans 12 and over who have received at least one vaccine shot has reached 76 percent, and the growing number of vaccine mandates — along with the likely authorization of the Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 — will increase the number of vaccinations this fall. Almost as important, something like one-half of Americans have probably had the Covid virus already, giving them some natural immunity."
A tidbit on DHS Sci Fi is the license plates of each of those drive in cars in the theatre are the initials of the WDI cast that brought Sci Fi to life at DHS.
Paywall, so I can't read it. But I hope the main reason is because the virus has hit a vaccinated wall and starting to run out of susceptible hosts. Otherwise, if this is just one of those temporary ebbs, I fear certain people will declare premature victory yet again, and we'll start seeing hospitalizations rise as soon as we start celebrating. We're probably still at least a month or two away from Merck's oral medication receiving EUA, so these next couple of months will be crucial if we really are going to start seeing the end of this.
Where I live, yes. Most restaurants are crowded. Distancing is a thing of the past. Hence why we almost always get take out. I'm glad people have jobs and happy to support good places to eat, but it's much too people-y out there for me sometimes.
Yeah, closing all restaurants to indoor dining would be 100% effective at least for customers. Nobody really wants that.
In the wintry states it could be possible those outdoor patio heat lamps could be popular to try to warm up the crowds for outdoor dining if indoor dining doesn't happen.
I like eating outside when it’s nice out, but cramming on an outdoor patio with plastic tarps and heat lamps in the dead of Winter isn’t exactly appealing to me. I’ll just do takeout.
What if there was..stick with me…a hot tub?
It's why here the only people that can eat indoors is those vaccinated.
Eat in a hot tub? Maybe drink and a snack but a meal?
I have a hot tub at home too
Even that’s not 100%….but I would be fine with that as a plan.
I don't know one way or the other if the claims made in that piece are true but it sure reads like a hit piece with all the buzz words.Whitewashing AIDS History
In my book, I recount how slow the federal government was in publicizing the use of Bactrim and other sulfa drugs to prevent PCP (the pneumonia that was then the leading killer of people with AIDS) in addition to its long-time and well-known use to treat PCP.www.huffpost.com
