Fall tasks: (1) inflate tires; (2) flu shot, and; (3) COVID

Yes, the new Vera Rubin Telescope is a wonderful advancement.

But I don't trust any science claims from people who don't know the difference between "astrological" and "astronomical". While their representations may differ by just two letters, or three ASCII binary bits, their meanings are vastly different.

 

These figures are not what I'd call "fairly rare":

"RSV leads to between 3.6 million and 6.5 million outpatient visits annually in the U.S., between 190,000 and 350,000 hospitalizations, and 10,000 to 23,000 deaths. For patients 50 or older, each year brings about 110,000–180,000 hospitalizations and 6,000–10,000 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

As for Medicare coverage, that may depend on the flavor of your Medicare plan(s). Mine said it is covered, though it hasn't been long for incorrect advice on that to be discovered and billed.

 

ours is covered under our medicare plan. and it's only once, which is nice.

i'm getting covid and flu shots wednesday, wish me luck, i hope i don't show up on vaers!

 

In laymans terms it gets the point across, it's a brain typo, I know the difference. If they can't win any of the major points they go for the minor ones. And none of the science claims are mine, they are all sourced from the doctors and scientists involved.

The CEO of Pfizer Albert Boarla's specialty was animal depopulation through infertility drugs

Why do major high profile doctors come out against the depopulation drug? When you know it severely jeopardizes their career? Because they are good people with a good conscience?

 

It is a pattern, not an isolated brain typo.

 

Re: RSV.

my doc. told me to get the vax. As in ASAP. I am 66. The issue is daughter is giving birth any day and they want max protection for the neonate.

Medicare Part D covers in my case.

Already up-to-date with flu, COVID and diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, shingles. And I have natural immunity with all the measles, mumps, chicken pox cases I caught as a kid. Of course, I had whooping cough too, but that apparently wears off.

 

On my risk scale, motor vehicle fatalities are well above the threshold of concern, and deserving of some attention. Got my RSV immunization a month ago, just after spouse learned it was now covered on our plan.

 

Came up four years or so ago, in a thread where this graphic got reposted:



and in later discussion the figure for motor vehicle death risk in a year was pegged at around 1:8303 or 1:8307, which would plop it onto the above chart somewhere around "low" on the horizontal axis, not as far left as "very low".

 

Lightning ... dang. I always say that because the idea of water inside one's body being flashed to steam is so very unpleasant.

Besides which, 1 in 10,000 seems a bit much to me. If definition of "at home' implies indoors, then typical lightning strike stats would not apply.

 

That chart is a standard thing published by the Risk Communication Institute, which I reposted here altered (with their gracious permission) five years ago after adding the cute virus progression and dates at the top.

I think what they meant by Risks With Which We Are "At Home" is idiomatic, as in risks we generally take in stride without thinking of much. It might have been clearer as "risks we are at home with", but I suppose the dangling preposition was something up with which they were unwilling to put.

I don't think they meant indoors.

But I agree maybe the lightning figure surprises me. 1:10000 for that and 1:8303 for vehicular deaths seem roughly similar, but I feel like I read about vehicular deaths more often than I read about people struck by lightning.

But those are just lightning strikes, not lightning deaths, so that could be influenced by a greater tendency for deaths to make the news.

 

From:
Lightning Strike Victim Data | Lightning | CDC

"About 40 million lightning strikes hit the ground in the United States each year. But the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are less than one in a million, and almost 90% of all lightning strike victims survive."

I suppose somebody slipped some zeroes. Which becomes important if there were also slippages in other categories.

 

The Vera Rubin telescope has a 634mm diameter 3.2 billion megapixel digital sensor. I have a Canon with a 25 sq mm sensor that was considered big at the time.

The Virgo cluster is 53.8 million light years away, if you had to walk there it would be 560,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (560 sextrillion) steps if your stride was 1 yard. If you can walk 20 miles a day and 7300 miles a year it would take you 43.287 billion years to walk the 316,000,000,000,000 trillion miles

This also signifies how empty space really is. If this telescope can get get clear images of galaxies that are 53.8 million light years away, then there must not be very much objects or debris within that vast distance.

 

Is that "25 sq mm", or "25 mm sq"? There is a huge difference.

 

6 by 4 millimeters sensor area is big for consumer cameras, so probably about that size.