[ExI] etymology of just a piece of paper

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat

>>... He didn’t have a blanket pardon, as Dr. Fauci does.  Dr. Fauci cannot be incriminated if he cannot be prosecuted.

>...A sitting US President can not be prosecuted so long as he is in office.  Even just running for office gave him enough protection to, in practice, forestall any attempt to prosecute him during his 4 years out of office.

>...On the other hand, the hearing Dr. Fauci was attending was explicitly intended to find anything that Dr. Fauci could be prosecuted on - anything outside the confines of his pardon (which was rather more limited than the term "blanket" implies).  That's a textbook case of where the Fifth Amendment applies.

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Ja, what I sense is that Rand Paul wanted to ask him point blank if he approved funding for viral gain of function research in China, since it is crazy expensive to do that research in the states: the precautions required here make it prohibitive.  China is more open minded about GOF studies, and they have a convenient way to get rid of the dead bats: they EAT the damn things.

Dr. Fauci has never admitted the USA funded GOF research in China, but plenty of us suspect that's what happened.

We may never find out why the CDC didn't cut the mRNA dosage or extend the interval between vaccinations after it had reliable reports of adverse reactions, particularly after the second injection.  Is it not clear enough that the prudent course would be to divide the second dose?  In principle, that should still produce the desired immunity.

In practice, word got around quickly that the second dose often carried negative outcomes (that kind of news travels quickly thru schools.)  Many students responded by taking only the first, not taking the second dose.  

I was on a committee which we call the SSC, School Site Council.  We discussed what action the school should take if students took only one dose.  Should we exclude them from activities, and if so, could we do so legally?  At that time it wasn't clear we could legally exclude them even if they took no vaccines.  Reasoning: they might have been early catchers, and if so, they would have natural immunity and wouldn't need the vaccine at all.  So what if they had one of two?  Adrian, what would you have recommended?  

With the risk the school district could get our collective asses sued off should we pressure students to get vaccinated then a student perished, the committee recommended allowing single-dose students to participate.  The impact was not clear.  In practice (as far as I know) they didn't exclude even the non-vax students.

spike