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betise

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  1. The way I see it, even those that are not extreme right in their beliefs often vote for Le Pen in the first round, to "exprimer leur ras-le-bol", and then vote for whoever they dislike least in the second round. This time around there may be enough Le Pen votes for her to actually get in on the first round.
  2. At the end of the day, it matters not which vaccine we have had, the desired result is that we have less risk of a severe covid infection, and less risk to end up in an ICU. Whatever the vaccine, the risk is so much lower than the risk of covid that the chatterings of the media should pale into insignificance.
  3. I did a bit of research Lori, and found...

    “Vaccines work differently because it’s not about having a certain level of it in your blood, it’s about stimulating the immune system, and most people’s immune system’s will react to a very small amount of whatever it is that they’re being exposed to,” Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told McClatchy News.

    “So, it’s not a dose-response relationship. It’s about finding the perfect dose for the immune system to get the right amount of stimulation, and for most vaccines, it’s pretty much ‘one size fits all,’” Adalja added.

    Just think about how tiny viruses and bacteria are. The coronavirus is 60 to 140 nanometers across. For reference, a sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick.

    All it takes is a microscopic amount of virus to make someone sick. “That type of principle really applies to vaccines,” too, Adalja said.

    “Because immune systems have evolved to respond to such minute quantities of something they deem foreign, for most vaccines it’s the same dose no matter what your size is,” he said.
  4. Was your uncle a UK resident? It will make a difference, as an inheritance from a UK resident is not taxable in France under the double taxation treaty, I believe. https://www.connexionfrance.com/Archive/Is-UK-inheritance-taxed-in-France https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1963/1319/schedule/made

  5. I read a very interesting article in The Week, scientists believe less and less in the jump between bats, pangolins and humans. They now think it may have mutated directly from bats to humans, but well before 2019, and that it has been quietly circulating for much longer. But that it is only in the last two years that it has adapted to infect humans so effectively.
  6. It is true that type 2 diabetes can be reversed or avoided altogether by weight loss. A report in the BMJ stated "A condition that costs NHS £22m a day could be beaten into remission if patients shed the pounds, say experts

    Type 2 diabetes is generally perceived as progressive and incurable, but for many patients it can be reversed with sustained weight loss of around 15 kg, say experts in The BMJ today."
  7. You probably know this by now Norman, but "Woke is a slang term that is easing into the mainstream from some varieties of a dialect called African American Vernacular English (sometimes called AAVE). In AAVE, awake is often rendered as woke, as in, “I was sleeping, but now I'm woke.” 'Woke' is increasingly used as a byword for social awareness." Copied from the interwibble.
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