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Ive heard people say that if you have the covid injection and dont have any reactions from it that its a sign you have a good immune system., however yesterday someone told me the opposite is true. Who is right? Does anyone know please?
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Thank you rockyracoon and woofgang. I'm very grateful for your interest.
Peter Pedant, given that you read my posts, forgive me for not reminding you that I also hold the military rank of Colonel and all that it entails including uniform due to my seniority at the laboratories on site. I've always felt uneasy at being addressed as "sir" and being saluted but it comes with the job.
Lets concede PP that my current university role is as a "senior" Professor of Biochemistry. I won't expand on that to protect my identity. However, I can tell you that of the vast number of staff on site at this facility, there is not another "organic chemist" with the rank of Colonel. Methinks PP, I must be doing something right.
Peter Pedant, given that you read my posts, forgive me for not reminding you that I also hold the military rank of Colonel and all that it entails including uniform due to my seniority at the laboratories on site. I've always felt uneasy at being addressed as "sir" and being saluted but it comes with the job.
Lets concede PP that my current university role is as a "senior" Professor of Biochemistry. I won't expand on that to protect my identity. However, I can tell you that of the vast number of staff on site at this facility, there is not another "organic chemist" with the rank of Colonel. Methinks PP, I must be doing something right.
Thank you THECORBYLOON.
PP claimed I was an organic chemist and given that I have academic qualifications in the subject, he was not incorrect as I was once a university professor in organic chemistry in a non-collegiate university many years ago. However, I work at the facility as a professor of biochemistry, my current area of expertise. Mind you, I do have a few organic chemists in my team who were lecturers and readers in organic chemistry in a previous life.
That information alone will assist in identifying me in academia, but without access to my academic CV, it's not possible otherwise. Comprehensive staff information is no longer disclosed on university faculty websites for various reasons. Furthermore, I've never disclosed my age on AB apart from saying I'm a grandparent, a pretty obvious disclosure given my career timeframe.
I really do try to leave it at that and I'm grateful to you for pointing out the risk. You are absolutely right.
Staff at this facility are forbidden from discussing or identifying colleagues outside the facility. Research papers are also forbidden from being published if the research involves the facility except in extreme circumstances. These measures in general, make staff identification next to impossible - a few months ago, I discovered my youngest daughter's boyfriend worked in another laboratory onsite and I had no idea!
A few years ago, a member of AB on a thread disclosed that he knew exactly who I was. Fortunately, he didn't mention my name on the thread. I thought nothing of it until I was sitting at home one evening and he telephoned my landline. It turned out I had indeed known him for years via my university, but it was a shock all the same. He had worked in a refectory. It was an educated guess on his part but he had made the connection and I was startled. Regretfully, he is no longer around on AB.
I do try my best to avoid jigsaw identification and I'm grateful to you for pointing out the dangers. Thank you.
PP claimed I was an organic chemist and given that I have academic qualifications in the subject, he was not incorrect as I was once a university professor in organic chemistry in a non-collegiate university many years ago. However, I work at the facility as a professor of biochemistry, my current area of expertise. Mind you, I do have a few organic chemists in my team who were lecturers and readers in organic chemistry in a previous life.
That information alone will assist in identifying me in academia, but without access to my academic CV, it's not possible otherwise. Comprehensive staff information is no longer disclosed on university faculty websites for various reasons. Furthermore, I've never disclosed my age on AB apart from saying I'm a grandparent, a pretty obvious disclosure given my career timeframe.
I really do try to leave it at that and I'm grateful to you for pointing out the risk. You are absolutely right.
Staff at this facility are forbidden from discussing or identifying colleagues outside the facility. Research papers are also forbidden from being published if the research involves the facility except in extreme circumstances. These measures in general, make staff identification next to impossible - a few months ago, I discovered my youngest daughter's boyfriend worked in another laboratory onsite and I had no idea!
A few years ago, a member of AB on a thread disclosed that he knew exactly who I was. Fortunately, he didn't mention my name on the thread. I thought nothing of it until I was sitting at home one evening and he telephoned my landline. It turned out I had indeed known him for years via my university, but it was a shock all the same. He had worked in a refectory. It was an educated guess on his part but he had made the connection and I was startled. Regretfully, he is no longer around on AB.
I do try my best to avoid jigsaw identification and I'm grateful to you for pointing out the dangers. Thank you.
Bazile, tell me about it. Five years in secondary modern dipping blotting paper in inkwells and flicking them around the room before I said I wanted to do my "A" levels at grammar school. What a waste!
Why didn't I knuckle down like the lad who sat next to me in junior school? He read over everything he was taught in class every night at home, passed his eleven plus, went to grammar school and became one of the leading experts on HIV in Europe.
I could have made something of myself!
Why didn't I knuckle down like the lad who sat next to me in junior school? He read over everything he was taught in class every night at home, passed his eleven plus, went to grammar school and became one of the leading experts on HIV in Europe.
I could have made something of myself!
When discussions on AB (which was, unless I am mistaken, set up to facilitate subject based questions and answers) turn into a personal tussle, I feel rather sad. Had theprof genuinely wanted to only put the record straight on his knowledge of immunology and as little as possible blow his own trumpet, me thinks the military credentials would have been left out. Given his evident age (range) he will not have been conscripted so must have volunteered (assuming it was UK military service). Those of us who are disinclined to revere the military will at that revelation lose interest/respect - not that that will matter to the rest.
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