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GeekNights Thursday - Road Trips
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the humble road trip, wonder at its proper definition, and lament its destruction at the hands of money and smartphones, as well as its eventual return with the SELF DRIVING RV. In other news, a crazy train accident in New Jersey, get your flu shot, and avoid Tim Burton's company.
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There tends to be a base level of inluenza variants (that have been devastating in the past) and projected variants which may be present in the coming year. The times when there is an influenza outbreak it may be from an unexpected variant from another part of the world or a mutation that has not been accounted for during or after the research phase. So yes get flu vaccinations, especially if
@Apreche MMR viruses do not "evolve" (for lack of a better word) or variants aren't generated as easily as influenza which is why the latter is a pain the but for humans, birds and pigs (and probably other animals in the acceleration cycle which creates the variants).
Tetanus is a vaccination against a bacterium that doesn't change or evolve variants as quickly as viruses and due to the lack of hosts hasn't had the chance to accelerate its evolution to beat the host defences. The method of traversal is particularly difficult so your one initial and second booster are good for a long while and you will usually get a booster to keep on the safe side to refresh the number of T cells that know how to deal with Tetanus when you possibly encounter the tetanus bacterium again.
Chickenpox hasn't been allowed to have variations due to good vaccination protocols but if it gets going again, you'll need new pox vaccinations for everyone around the world again because it is highly contagious. The initial encounter you have as a kid is likely the only variant in the wild.
It lasts your entire life because the immune system stores how to recognise these various attacks in T cells. T cells are like your huge backed up cloud data, when the immune system finds a new threat, it checks with the T cell bros if they remember how to get rid of it. When they say they do, the T cells meet up with B cells and produce antigens to go attach themselves to the attacker, the nullified attackers with antigens attached are then destroyed by phagocytes which eat all the bad stuff in your blood and lymph.
@Rym your immune system definitely has enough receptors and would just generate more if required. It's another part of the human body that people have difficulty replicating, kind of like how much data can be stored in DNA or how complex the brain is. Also your brain doesn't remember, the information is distributed across T cells.
For a pax groupie that is REALLY temping if you rather drive to each of the events and can have the time to do so with your job.
Now that I'm reminded of it, why doesn't anyone compete with them? If they do all these anticompetitive practices, why doesn't the FTC regulate on them?
Adam is the Best. Really wanna meet the guy.