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  • I got long covid from an infection before the vaccines were available.

    Getting the vaccination and boosters noticeably worsened my existing long covid symptoms. I still got the boosters because I assume a reinfection would be much worse than the vaccine’s effects. If I ever thought I could reasonably avoid risk of future infections I would not choose to get more boosters, but since exposure is inevitable, I’ll deal with the consequences of the booster.

    When essentially everyone has had exposure to covid your statement can’t actually be tested. We don’t have a cohort of people we know got vaccinated but were never exposed to the virus.

    Anyway, the vaccine is worth getting because the alternative is being exposed to the virus without protection, but that doesn’t mean the vaccine is actually free of side effects for everyone.


  • Factory construction spending booms post pandemic

    Companies got an abrupt lesson in how badly just in time supply chains can go when there’s so many potential failure points. A lot of them are finally learning that supply chains need to be shortened. Plus tensions have only continued to build with the China-Taiwan situation so there’s reason to question long term dependence on manufacturing from either area.

    None of Biden’s policies would explain a quadrupling of manufacturing construction spending, and we would expect to see similar changes no matter who is in office.




  • Other countries should also be looking at adding forest area and wetlands in a strategic fashion to improve freshwater retention. Deforesting clearly changes local climates. So we should be able to do the reverse as well.

    Historical accounts make it sound like the vast majority of land east of the Mississippi in the US used to be old growth forest. Between the chestnut blight and over 200 years of logging, most of the old growth forest is gone.

    India has had some notable successes with a grassroots movement to get rural communities to do small earthworks projects to colllect water during the rainy season and let it seep into the ground. They have demonstrated a notable reduction in crop failures during the dry season resulting from the community action.