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The poem is a parody of the first lines of Yeat's poem, "Sailing to Byzantium":

That is no country for old men. The young

In one another's arms, birds in the trees,

—Those dying generations—at their song

The time to market for a new vaccine is mostly not in the development, it is in the necessary safety testing before deploying it.

The courts have a third party doctrine. If you willingly give your data to a third party (the airlines) it's not a violation for the government to also use it.

Hard to believe an Alphabet company doesn't support Android.

I wonder if a water only fast would also work.

The problem with developing new antibiotics is that pharma wants to sell them at a high price to recover research costs. But older antibiotics are out of patent an are dirt cheap. So the new antibiotics only make sense in the limited cases where no old antibiotic works. So pharma finds itself selling into a small market that is hard to sell to, because antibiotic resistance is unpredictable. That's why there's a perennial problem of no new antibiotics. The problem isn't the science, it's the economic system of our system of medicine.

Disappointed that Tibetan is still not available. It's not clear how the decision of what languages to add was made.

No, in Spanish double negations are not positive statements.

There are two problems. The first is while testosterone reduces fertility, it does not reduce it sufficiently without another steroid like progestin. The second is that testosterone must be injected or reliable birth control and self-injection is a problem for many men.

Among other errors they overestimated the effectiveness of the Covid vaccine, said it stopped transmission when it didn't, didn't consider measures to mitigate the risk of myocarditis in young people, and claimed contracting Covid didn't provide immunity equivalent to vaccination.

The currency was devalued to bring the official rate in line with the black market rate. So anything imported is going to have a big jump in price. But also making Argentine products more attractive abroad. Inevitable, if Argentina is going to solve its economic problems.

The Indian word for caste, "varna" literally means color.

To viruses and bacteria the human body is like a buffet table. If one virus is eliminated, another virus will evolve to take its place. Already we have acute flaccid paralysis, a disease with the symptoms of polio that is not caused by the polio virus. Although we can celebrate our successes, we shouldn't imagine we can eliminate all childhood diseases through vaccination programs.

The average Venezuelan cannot survive on what they can earn because of poverty and inflation caused by the incompetent and corrupt socialist government of Venezuela.