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  People who recover from mild COVID-19 have bone-marrow cells that can churn out antibodies for decades, although viral variants could dampen some of the protection they offer. Antibodies — proteins that can recognize and help to inactivate viral particles — are a key immune defence. After a new infection, short-lived cells called plasmablasts are an early source of antibodies. But these cells recede soon after a virus is cleared from the body, and other, longer-lasting cells make antibodies: memory B cells patrol the blood for reinfection, while BONE MARROW PLASMA CELLS (BMPCs) hide away in bones, trickling out antibodies for decades. To identify the source of the antibodies, Ellebedy’s team collected memory B cells and bone marrow from a subset of participants. Seven months after developing symptoms, most of these participants still had memory B cells that recognized SARS-CoV-2. In 15 of the 18 bone-marrow samples, the scientists found ultra-low but detectable populations of BMP...

  At a Glance The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection. The results provide hope that people receiving SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will develop similar lasting immune memories after vaccination. - Lasting immunity found after recovery from COVID-19 | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

 ‘No One Is Safe’: Extreme Weather Batters the Wealthy World Floods swept Germany, fires ravaged the American West and another heat wave loomed, driving home the reality that the world’s richest nations remain unprepared for the intensifying consequences of climate change. A firefighter battled the Sugar Fire in Doyle, Calif., this month.Credit...Noah Berger/Associated Press 1078 Somini Sengupta By Somini Sengupta Published July 17, 2021 Updated July 19, 2021, 9:16 a.m. ET Leer en español Some of Europe’s richest countries lay in disarray this weekend, as raging rivers burst through their banks in Germany and Belgium, submerging towns, slamming parked cars against trees and leaving Europeans shellshocked at the intensity of the destruction. Only days before in the Northwestern United States, a region famed for its cool, foggy weather, hundreds had died of heat. In Canada, wildfire had burned a village off the map. Moscow reeled from record temperatures. And this weekend the norther...

  CHILDREN NEED BOTH PARENTS   It is a Fact!  Here is why:      · 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau   of the Census).      · 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.      · 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes. (Source: Center for Disease Control).      · 80% of rapists motivated by displaced anger come from fatherless homes. (Source:             Criminal Justice and Behavior , Vol. 14, pp. 403-26).      · 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. (Source: National Principals Assoc. Report on the State of High Schools).      · 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home. (Source: Fulton County Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. Of Corrections, 1992). These statistics mean that children f...

  The obvious issue here is what should fill in that blank. The truth is several words fit perfectly. Liberalism as an ideology is complicated, it has many facets. Today, I will begin to define Liberalism for what it is, in terms I believe are indisputable. Liberals reading these will howl but, I defy anyone to refute my points. Some of these I have discovered through my own dealings with, and my own writings about Liberals. Others I have heard others say, and upon reflection, found that I agree. This first one, for example, I picked up listening to Dennis Prager, whom I admire greatly. As soon as I heard Dennis say Liberals say Liberals are narcissists it was like a light went on. So, with thanks to Dennis Prager allow me to explain why Liberalism is an ideology for the narcissistic.  Think about this. What are Liberals consumed with, I mean truly consumed by? Emotions? Yes, a sense that they care more? Certainly. A feeling that they are smarter, and better informed? Absolute...

  It’s difficult to understand liberals when you don’t live in their sheltered cocoon of participation trophies,   faux   caring and feel-good lies. Those of us who labor in the real world – who built this country, who make it work and who defend it – deal with reality. Most liberals don’t. And that can be baffling, because when they speak they sound like visitors from the planet Nimrod. Now, some liberals do understand the real world. They are the cynical liberal icons, the ones who know their entire ideology is a scam designed to wring power and wealth from the gullible. They are the rich ones who cry about poverty and racism then gleefully consign poor and minority kids to public school failure factories by doing the bidding of their unionized teacher partners and torpedoing educational choice. Their own kids wouldn’t get within a mile of an inner city public school, except maybe to swing by in the Mercedes C-Class they got for their 16 th  birthday to buy some we...

 Presented to the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, Illinois, November 2002 By Gary Mauser Professor Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, CANADA Introduction 1. Over the past few decades, in an effort to reduce firearm problems, Canada has introduced increasingly restrictive firearm legislation: first, in 1977, then in 1991, and then again, in 1995. But have these laws worked to reduce violent crime? Or, have they backfired, as they have in England? For some, Canada serves as a model. Strict firearm laws; low crime rates. However, it is illogical to credit the gun law with causing the low crime rates, as Canada had low crime rates before the gun laws were introduced. Why is it? Culture? Social cohesion? Less poverty than the US? Less racism? 2. Whatever the reason, it is important, as a matter of public policy, for both Americans and Canadians, to discover if the recent Canadian gun laws have actually reduced criminal violence. 3. The theory is straight forward behind restr...

 - Does Gun Control Reduce Murder? Let’s Run The Numbers Globally (thefederalist.com) Let’s look at the countries with the highest concentrations of gun ownership (excluding Yemen and Iraq as active war zones). Guns per murder in those countries are, United States at 20,967, Uruguay at 3,777, Norway at 55,893, France at 19,747, Austria at 59,608, Germany at 35,647, Switzerland at 35,435, New Zealand at 24,835, and Greece at 26,471. Norway is a particularly interesting example. It has 10 times the gun ownership rate of the United Kingdom, but only half the murder rate. When one excludes Iraq and Yemen, not one of the countries on the list of the 10 highest rates of gun ownership also appears on the list of the top ten highest murder rates. In fact, the countries with the highest murder rates have markedly low gun ownership rates. El Savador (108.64 murders per 100,000/5800 guns per 100,000) Honduras (63.75/6200) Venezuela (57.15/10,700) Jamaica (43.21/8,100) Lesotho (38/2,700) Beliz...

  Death and Lockdowns There’s no proof that lockdowns save lives but plenty of evidence that they end them. John Tierney March 21, 2021   Covid-19 Economy, finance, and budgets The Social Order  -"...“excess mortality,” which compares the overall number of deaths with the total in previous years. That measure rose among older Americans because of Covid-19, but it rose at an even sharper rate among people aged 15 to 54, and most of those excess deaths were not attributed to the virus. " -"The number of excess deaths not involving Covid-19 has been  especially high in U.S. counties  with more low-income households and minority residents, who were disproportionately affected by lockdowns. Nearly 40 percent of workers in low-income households lost their jobs during the spring,  triple the rate  in high-income households. Minority-owned small businesses suffered more, too. During the spring, when  it was estimated  that 22 percent of all small bus...