Very best wishes to all readers on this auspicious Festival of S Frideswide, Patron of the City and University of Oxford. Of course, I am observing the day as a Double of the First Class.During the 1980s, some savants shewed quite a lot of interest in historical aspects of the Shrine of S Frideswide at…
A Royal Visit, which might have changed History. — Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment
WHO Meeting Amidst the Rise of the Nu Variant Underscores Failing Vaccination Strategy
About the Trump policy of “test, test, test”
The testing infrastructure was dismantled in the United States. That was a Trump policy of “test, test, test” then it suddenly stopped. Just this week reporters blew open the story that policy makers advised against testing asymptomatic people.
In schools, do they perform contact tracing when a student is sick? Do they test for the type of variant? Government dollars no longer support testing and it’s a barren landscape in testing with few players left in the game.
Without adequate testing, it is difficult for scientists to know what society is up against, and it is much more difficult for policymakers to make rational, informed decisions. That lack of testing spilled over to breakthrough infection reporting where the number of cases were skewed to only report hospitalizations. Not compiling this data [disguised] the waning immunity of the vaccines.
In mid May the Delta Variant cases exploded and became dominant in about 2.5 months. Looking at this chart,
the trajectory on the Nu variant is closer to 30 days. Without a testing infrastructure, once it hits our shores, we have nothing to contain it and it’s probably already here. The surge in Michigan and unconfirmed reports of very high percentages of breakthrough infections could be explained by the Nu variant.
Not sure where to go with this. It’s tentatively a case for organized widespread testing, part of an exhaustive (as I see it) coverage by Zero Hedge . . .
The Comma: “When in Doubt, Leave it Out” (Don’t We Wish!)
The comma question . . .
Something I heard from my father (born 1895), which he had been taught at mostly public schools on West Side of Chi (two years at Presentation, 7th and 8th grades), which comes to my mind regularly or used to.
Once I taught grammar to frosh at St. Ignatius HS Chi and Loyola Academy Wilmette (note my leaving commas out*), I had the various uses down cold.
So does this writer, who has a very good site.
via Gone Writing
* FYI: Leaving them out in this case is a matter of blogspeak, not to be emulated in other kids of writing. Verb sat sap.
Dialogue of the pill-disposers . . .
He to she: I have these pills I’ll be getting rid of. Shelf date violation.
She: Put them here (pointing to garbage).
He: Not the toilet?
She: No. Then they pollute the water supply.
He: My excrement doesn’t pollute the water supply?
She, heading for door: OK. I’m on my way.
Kiss, departure.
“Bool sheet” ideal comment . . .
. . . when encountering viewpoint or assertion opposed to your own.
Bulls center Robin Lopez removed from chippy Monday practice
Either way, Boylen said practice got “very, very competitive” — code for chippy. At one point, Boylen had to send Lopez out of the gym for close to 10 minutes to cool down after a run-in with guard Kris Dunn.
Wait. Perfectly usable phrase requires de-coding by use of multi-meaning word that to some readers calls for its own de-coding.
To some. Happens all the time. There’s jargon for every field. Technical terms in some fields, lingo in others.
You gotta know the lingo to catch the drift. Follow?
Just sayin’.
Short items of little import . . . 