{"id":79145,"date":"2021-08-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79145"},"modified":"2021-08-11T15:37:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T20:37:01","slug":"ill-stipulate-in-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79145","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll  Stipulate In Advance&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;that actual science is about skepticism, about diligently questioning one&#8217;s assumptions, about relentlessly searching for the facts on either side of them, pro or con. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of that being said?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m astounded at how many of my knee-jerk responses to Covid turned out to be scientifically valid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natural immunity is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77772\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"77772\">significant and long-lasting<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virus is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73893\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"73893\">spread via <\/a>the air &#8211; not surface contact.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the latest among them?   The J&amp;J vaccine ap<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/j-j-vaccine-highly-effective-against-delta-variant-in-south-african-trial-11628292645\">pears, despite some early hysteria from the US government, to be the better bet against Delta<\/a> &#8211; in addition to its initial sales pitch, it&#8217;s efficacy against hospitalization and serious symptoms (which, having reason to believe that natural immunity was itself a serious hedge against infection, was my biggest goal), appears to be better at allaying the Delta Variant than Moderna or Pfizer.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not quite a Berg&#8217;s Law, but it&#8217;s getting there. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that actual science is about skepticism, about diligently questioning one&#8217;s assumptions, about relentlessly searching for the facts on either side of them, pro or con. All of that being said? I&#8217;m astounded at how many of my knee-jerk responses to Covid turned out to be scientifically valid. Natural immunity is significant and long-lasting. The virus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79177,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79145\/revisions\/79177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}