tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post5448569201497843510..comments2024-03-24T11:01:27.668-04:00Comments on Resource Insights: Is Denmark about to export a more dangerous form of COVID-19?Kurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-4967908379990789332020-11-12T12:41:26.040-05:002020-11-12T12:41:26.040-05:00You are certainly correct commenting on the effica...You are certainly correct commenting on the efficacy of vaccines. The Pfizer version haS BEEN CALLED THE VACCINE OF THE 1% because of what it is expected to cost. It is counter productive to have the largest drug companies in the world who don't request subsidies from their governments which impede their profits. It is way too early to know if vaccines will work long enough to be worth the cost and some like the Pfizer variety have enormous costs like freezers which work to almost 100 below zero. Notice that Pfizer is not providing the freezers. Paint me cynical and skeptical.sv kohohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11058401490041584973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-66100050733157178192020-11-09T15:57:18.936-05:002020-11-09T15:57:18.936-05:00NYT article on 8Nov2020 entitled Covid Infections ...NYT article on 8Nov2020 entitled Covid Infections in Animals Prompt Scientific Concern. As mentioned, our unfavorite betacoronavirus "has shifted from humans to mink and back to humans, and has mutated in the process." Minks are the only animla known to have accomplished the leap in both directions, aside from the alleged bat source near Wuhan, China. <br />Famously, domestic cats + dogs have been infected by the virus, but not productively in terms of transmission to humans. <br />Ferrets + mink are the two best species for laboratory experimentation with this agent. Zoo tigers + monkeys, plus hamsters + genetically engineered mice are also susceptible. This is a pretty classic zoonosis, and what with climate change + people moving into the wildland interface, we need to be prepared for the next epidemics after ebola, zika, coronavirus. The only certainty is that there will be others.S. W. Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01654864579983316386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-51628046732742315722020-11-08T14:04:49.162-05:002020-11-08T14:04:49.162-05:00If there is one thing the last year of American el...If there is one thing the last year of American electioneering demonstrated, it's that rethinking our relationship with the natural world is not a part of American politics. Repeat that for just about every other country in the world.Ken Barrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02713400119168020630noreply@blogger.com