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    Vaccine effectiveness and Herd Immunity

    Any adult can get a non-mRNA vaccine in the US. It is the Johnson & Johnson shot and has the added benefit of only requiring a single shot in order to be considered fully vaccinated.
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    Vaccine effectiveness and Herd Immunity

    https://www.businessinsider.com/unvaccinated-fully-vaccinated-people-delta-variant-covid-death-texas-data-2021-11?utm_source=reddit.com Looks like even in the anti-vax haven of Texas (incidentally, where both of my kiddos were born), the data strongly suggest that vaccination is a good way to...
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    Is Importing Meat Legal In Indonesia?

    I would ordinarily be more concerned about the American TSA opening up the cooler inside my suitcase and then not properly resealing it. They love to poke holes into powdered food packages (eg: protein powder, bisquit mix, etc), so I imagine they might vigorously inspect the contents of a...
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    Mosque loudspeakers

    You asked a question and I provided an answer.
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    Mosque loudspeakers

    https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=shitpost&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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    Mosque loudspeakers

    I think most people here would be totally fine with the five daily prayer calls. The frustration comes when mosque loudspeakers are used for other purposes (eg: sermons, announcements, neighborhood kids playing around, etc)
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    Mosque loudspeakers

    Don't hold your breath!
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    Vaccine effectiveness and Herd Immunity

    An 84-year-old cancer patient dying is not proof of anything. People in the 80+ age group are going to have a higher risk of dying even if they are 2x vaccinated.
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    Indonesia limits international arrivals to 90 passengers per flight

    A certain airline once sent my baggage (snow skis) to IAD instead of IAH. Fortunately, I was returning from a vacation, which is fairly obvious when one considers that there is not much use for skis in Houston!
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    Question: What does the government do if a person tests positive for Covid (but has only mild symptoms)?

    That is an excellent idea! Hopefully, he will just have a plain old sore throat and there will be no need for further testing.
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    Question: What does the government do if a person tests positive for Covid (but has only mild symptoms)?

    I am sorry if I was unclear. The friend has had a sore throat for a couple days (no fever or other symptoms) and is considering whether to get tested after work today.
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    Question: What does the government do if a person tests positive for Covid (but has only mild symptoms)?

    "Under the radar" is the difficult part, as he works in an IB school that has a pretty harsh sick days policy; he will be required to show a positive test in order to stay home with (minor) covid symptoms. Sounds like this is the consensus, though getting approved sick leave (even though he...
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    Vaccine effectiveness and Herd Immunity

    Yes. I do not know why it is such a controversial idea, but surviving an infection from an actual virus will likely generate as much or more of an immune response as an attenuated virus vaccine (eg: Sinovac) would.
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    Question: What does the government do if a person tests positive for Covid (but has only mild symptoms)?

    A friend of mine was asking about this. Does the government allow people to stay at home if they have only mild symptoms, or are those people required to go to a specific quarantine location? FWIW, the friend has had two jabs of Sinovac and no fever. Edit to add: this relates to someone who is...
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    Indonesia limits international arrivals to 90 passengers per flight

    That was quick! Maybe somebody discovered that no international long-haul carrier can afford to fly 777s with less than a third of their passenger capacity for any reasonable amount of time.
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    Supermarkets and vaccine requirement

    The nearby small Super Indo now has Peduli Lindungi QR codes, but enforcement is non-existent. I checked in and checked out yesterday, but that was irrelevant to my shopping experience. At least it is not like certain malls that require checking in at basement entrances that have zero bars on...
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    Dual citizenship, how likely is it?

    The two major political currents in the past 15-20 years of Indonesian politics have been Nationalism vs. Shariah. Nationalists are often openly hostile to the idea of dual citizenship (despite the fact that there have been high-profile cases of government ministers holding dual passports), and...
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    A very interesting docu from D.W. on viruses and lab research.

    Let's see... there is a virology lab in Maryland and there is a virology lab in Wuhan. Wuhan province has a suspicious global pandemic virus that begins in and is limited to that province for several months (starting in November or December of 2019). Maryland has no Covid cases until March of...
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    DON'T PANIC.... well, maybe a little bit.

    My school is bringing back all teachers this coming Monday (6 September). Among G9 - G12 students, approximately 80% are fully vaccinated, and another 10% have received their first shot. Reading the tea leaves, it appears that we will have students in classrooms when we come back from the term...
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    Indonesia to extend mandatory quarantine to 14 days for travellers from some countries.

    In quarantine a couple months ago, I was able to order outside deliveries from a beer distributor on Tokopedia using Go-Send and from Indo Maret using its app.

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