The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

[NoodleLord]

A man and his uniform

This has become one of my screensaver images. I have shared it with friends. To the unknown gentleman in the picture, John, I take it, "Thank you so much for putting a face to the accused. Please step forward again; you are, once again, among the heroes we need to lead us away from evil."

 

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re·cru·desce (rē′kr-dĕs)
intr.v. re·cru·desced, re·cru·desc·ing, re·cru·desc·esTo break out anew or come into renewed activity, as after a period of quiescence.
[Latin recrūdēscere, to grow raw again : re-, re- + crūdēscere, to get worse (from crūdus, raw; see kreuə- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).]
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[Shiftless2]

The science of vaccines is very simple.
With vaccines, you grow pathogens in vats, kill them, and when you inject them, the immune system figures out how to remember them.
With mRNA, instead of growing thing in vats, you grow them in our own cells, which then are killed by our own immune system.
But there can't be any immunity memory since it is only our own human cells and not pathogens.

So science (and medicine) isn't allowed to advance and develop new techniques?

Remember - the original technique for immunizing someone against smallpox was called "variolation" and consisted of inserting tiny amounts of smallpox scabs or fluids from pustules into a healthy person's arm.

Variolation - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

But medicine has advanced from that to the use of vaccines - your argument against mRNA vaccines says that we should still be using those scabs.

That said - while smallpox is wiped out except for a couple of samples held in highly secure medical labs the question remains "What exactly is to be found in various museums and libraries around the world and should we be worried?"

A Scab Story Bites Back​

"What if possibly infectious samples of smallpox still exist . . . in museums and libraries?” That was the question posed in “A Scab Story,” a blog post previously posted on August 4, 2014, and since archived. The essay reviews the few examples of 19th century scabs that have appeared in library collections (and a few other places) over the past dozen years and argued that they might prove to be a scientific boon because we lack historical examples of smallpox and smallpox vaccine material. The blog concludes by suggesting how museum and library employees ought to handle any such material they find in their collections, including conveying old scabs to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for analysis. The essay reminded readers, “And don’t forget to blog about it.”

Admittedly, one of us (Robert D. Hicks) fantasized about finding an ancient scab from an early vaccination in the collections of the Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia that would yield a crucial insight about the origin of the smallpox vaccine. One should always be careful about what one wishes for. In April 2016, while .....

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[Shiftless2]

Now everyone is disappointed .....

 

[Shiftless2]

To be accurate - that's the number of felony convictions and doesn't include the ones where he hasn't been charged (yet)

 

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