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(Originally posted to my GoFundMe two days ago on Saturday. This is basically copied verbatim (modulo formatting), including the fundraising stuff at the end; I *was* posting to GoFundMe after all. Feel free to ignore those bits if you want. Link to the fundraiser will be provided in the comments and upon request.)
Real life rather overtook us for the last 10 days of August and all of September, and therefore it's only now at the start of October that I'm getting to my next installment of "SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 related PSA / traditional weblogging plus the usual begging post mashup" -- but to some extent that's all right, as the Science Magazine organization spent a couple weeks reorganizing their web and blog sites, and thus our favorite pharmacological chemist and blogger Derek Lowe was inactive for a chunk of August. Anyway, let's check out the COVID-related stuff that he talked about in his blog for Science, during August and roughly the first half of September.
A New Antibody-Dependent Enhancement Hypothesis
Keeping Up With the Coronavirus Variant Landscape
Awful Trials, With Awful Results
Vaccines Will Not Produce Worse Variants
mRNA's History- And Its Future
Enough of that for now; let's continue on to the usual PSA-and-begging part of this post. Unless you're a first-time reader of this type of post you can predict what comes next: the plea for those of you who are able to SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES. Some of these were "essential" and never closed during the initial lockdowns. Others, after having opened back up, are now trying to figure out the best safe ways, if any, to stay open as we move back and forth between varying levels of semi- (or even complete) lockdown, highly dependent on location. What these businesses tend to have in common is that locally owned and operated businesses generally give better "bang for the buck" when it comes to keeping the local economy moving. So please do what you can to help keep your local economy a little bit more afloat. Locally owned businesses are, and will continue to be, struggling to survive and get back on their feet, so please patronize them as much as you can. BUY LOCAL. Please however, do so in a safe manner, especially now. Keep on, or go back to, wearing masks and other protective equipment when going shopping in person, continue and even increase social distancing. Act intelligently, because I know you can.
( Rest of the begging stuff is behind the cut. )
Real life rather overtook us for the last 10 days of August and all of September, and therefore it's only now at the start of October that I'm getting to my next installment of "SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 related PSA / traditional weblogging plus the usual begging post mashup" -- but to some extent that's all right, as the Science Magazine organization spent a couple weeks reorganizing their web and blog sites, and thus our favorite pharmacological chemist and blogger Derek Lowe was inactive for a chunk of August. Anyway, let's check out the COVID-related stuff that he talked about in his blog for Science, during August and roughly the first half of September.
A New Antibody-Dependent Enhancement Hypothesis
Keeping Up With the Coronavirus Variant Landscape
Awful Trials, With Awful Results
Vaccines Will Not Produce Worse Variants
mRNA's History- And Its Future
Enough of that for now; let's continue on to the usual PSA-and-begging part of this post. Unless you're a first-time reader of this type of post you can predict what comes next: the plea for those of you who are able to SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES. Some of these were "essential" and never closed during the initial lockdowns. Others, after having opened back up, are now trying to figure out the best safe ways, if any, to stay open as we move back and forth between varying levels of semi- (or even complete) lockdown, highly dependent on location. What these businesses tend to have in common is that locally owned and operated businesses generally give better "bang for the buck" when it comes to keeping the local economy moving. So please do what you can to help keep your local economy a little bit more afloat. Locally owned businesses are, and will continue to be, struggling to survive and get back on their feet, so please patronize them as much as you can. BUY LOCAL. Please however, do so in a safe manner, especially now. Keep on, or go back to, wearing masks and other protective equipment when going shopping in person, continue and even increase social distancing. Act intelligently, because I know you can.
( Rest of the begging stuff is behind the cut. )
