Needle-Free: New Nano-Vaccine Effective Against All COVID-19 Variants
(Administered as intranasal spray, stable at room temperature, broad spectrum. No word on whether/when it'll be available.)
https://scitechdaily.com/needle-free-new-nano-vaccine-effective-against-all-covid-19-variants/
@cstross can’t wait to shoot this straight up my nose.
@cobweb Load it into cropduster tanks and spray it over cities inhabited by anti-vaxxers and chemtrail conspiracy theorists!
@cstross @cobweb @feorag It's a vivid mental image but if they believed in chemtrails as material things they'd be in respirators with organic vapour cartridges already.
Humans build community through shared meals, sure, but also through shared complex lies. This can be TTRPGs, fan fiction, fan activity around nearly anything, and so on. One of those things is "conspiracy theories"; the point is not that you believe it (though you don't not believe it), it's that you're helping tell the story.
@CGillanders @cstross @cobweb In a school classroom, office, etc.? Don't see this as particularly concerning.
Probably not in an airport, though there is a whole lot of upside to the hypothetical in a context of any place with customs checks.
@graydon@canada.masto.host@canada.masto.host @cstross@wandering.shop@wandering.shop @cobweb@corteximplant.com@corteximplant.com (deleted because I completely missed the top comment above the fold)
@allpoints @cstross @cobweb That is where Charlie started!
(well, with telling people that was happening.)
Really doing that wouldn't be especially effective; vastly more effective to mist the interior of the plane to a therapeutic dose. Getting Rₜ below 1 on flights would take away Covid's ability to teleport, which wouldn't be everything but which would be a lot.