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Esteban's avatar

Just today-

Singer Tori Kelly rushed to the hospital with blood clots

LeBrons son Bronny James, 18yrs old. cardiac arrest during basketball practice.

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It will be interesting to see what happens now with the new RSV vaccines. From what I gather RSV is not a new illness, but they have managed to get fast track approval from the FDA, even though the disease can be dangerous in some cases but not especially so. The trials have not seen to show much benefit in preventing death or severe illness, but surely they are racing to push them on the people for the fall. I hear talks of a "tripledemic" of influenza, cov-sars2 and rsv. Surely people will line up for some shots to help against these three dangers at the same time. One visit at the clinic, triple the profits, triple the side effects, maybe. It will certainly take years to find out about this one, once more.

On the power outages front, I would agree as well, and can't help to read some headlines with cynicism, such as this Bloomberg piece about how the massive power issues in South Africa have helped it get in front of its climate change goals. With just enough suffering, we can all make it as well.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-15/south-africa-beats-climate-goal-as-blackouts-slash-emissions

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