On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 4:22:34 PM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
Get sick on you, Eric? Not a chance. Due to my location, social
distancing is a fact of life and I'll have had my shots before you get
here. If you fit the loading requirements, I'll show you the fun of the
gyro, if you like.

Dan
5J
On 2/17/21 2:18 PM, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Dan Marotta wrote on 2/17/2021 12:24 PM:
Does that include the guy who had the virus and was run over by a truck?

Dan
5J

On 2/17/21 12:12 PM, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
On Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 4:56:02 PM UTC-7, Gregg Ballou
wrote:
...Yearly flu has a higher body count...

Quick update: Sometime in the next few days, the US death toll from
Covid-19 will exceed half a million. That's in about 380 days since
the first US death in early February 2020.

Fortunately, the vaccination effort is now recovering from its slow
start and is ramping up to scale.

--Bob K.

We are swiftly approaching 500,000 "excess deaths" since last February.
Traffic accidents normally claim about 35,000, and can not explain that
number. Don't let the conspiracy promoters talk you out of wearing a
mask, social distancing, and other CDC recommended practices. I still
want to see your autogyro this summer, so don't get sick on me!

In a fascinating and erudite book, Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond said in the
Germs section , " the most serious threat to humankind , is a pandemic
with no effective vaccine". That was published 20 years ago; there but for the grace
of clever microbiologists go we.
BTW a Chinese researcher unravelled the genome sequence and published it on the internet
at the beginning of 2020, thus giving the vaccine scientists a head start.
John Firth not a biologist.