Thursday Throughput: Monkeypox Edition

Michael Siegel

Michael Siegel is an astronomer living in Pennsylvania. He blogs at his own site, and has written a novel.

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6 Responses

  1. Oscar Gordon says:

    Th3 – Grabs, or crabs, or both?Report

  2. Oscar Gordon says:

    Th9: The trick will be sending prospector probes out there, but if we can send hundreds of small sats up to orbit for internet, we can probably afford to seed the asteroid belt with probes, if we are willing to be patient.Report

  3. Jaybird says:

    Personally, I find the Monkeypox thing irritating as hell. It’s like the writers have given up.Report

  4. [ThTh1] Are the anti-vaxxers now going to go after the smallpox and monkeypox vaccines? I don’t see any reason to doubt it.Report

    • Eddie Nobody in reply to Mike Schilling says:

      ThTh1: negative pressure rooms for monkeypox? You can do the math.

      Yes, we are doing contact tracing. This is not an “out of africa” scenario. See above.

      Is it anti-vax when the FDA pulls the J&J and instead gives out a placebo, which is “acceptable” for all those “you must be vaccinated” CDC mandates…? Do we have a branch of the federal government that is anti-vax?Report

  5. Brandon Berg says:

    I just remembered the story about the time that a diabetes researcher rediscovered the trapezoidal rule (taught in introductory calculus), named it after himself, and got 75 citations.Report