summoned

I received a summons for jury duty next month. That once again made me glad I got my 2nd booster shot already. If I end up being selected for a jury, and if it's like last time where we had to spend hours together in a small room, discussing the case and having meals brought to us to eat in that same room...

I wonder what they would do if a jury member tested positive while a multi-day trial was still underway. Would they be excused? Would the jury member have to present a test stick showing the positive test as proof? I wonder if they are selecting more than the usual number of alternates for juries now because of that possibility.

I wonder what you're supposed to do if you get a positive test result right before the summons date. The summons letter doesn't mention anything about COVID or other illnesses. It says "Failure to appear at the address above at the specified time may subject you to penalties as prescribed by law."

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This is bad news: The COVID Event Horizon

On May 24, 2022, the CDC, of all places, announced that more than 1 in 5 COVID cases results in Long COVID. ... The next day, a study in Nature Medicine revealed that vaccines only reduce the risk of Long COVID by 15%.

That article has much other interesting info too.

candidates, primary election, website problems

Our SC primary elections are on Tuesday. I voted on Friday already, the last day of early voting. One bad aspect about early voting is that you may miss out on debates or interviews that are held later on.

Friday evening, a debate was televised between 3 of the Democratic candidates for South Carolina governor: Carlton Boyd, Joe Cunningham, and Mia McLeod. There are 2 more candidates who didn't take part in the debate.

It had been hard for me to decide which of the gubernatorial candidates to vote for, and I was curious if watching the debate before voting would have changed my mind. So I watched part of the debate.

When I had looked up info before voting, I found hardly any information on Boyd. I didn't even find a website, which knocked him off my list. But his performance in the debate impressed me. During one answer, he mentioned having a website, so I searched for it again, harder this time. It still did not show up in the Google or the DuckDuckGo results. But I finally found a link to it (see above) on Facebook.

I think the debate would not have changed my mind about who to vote for. But I felt bad at not having tried harder to find Boyd's website to begin with. When I originally didn't find it, I assumed he didn't have one.

Now in researching it further, I think the site's robots.txt file is causing the problem. Based on this info on robots.txt syntax, it looks like his would prevent all search engines from crawling the site. His webpages have "noindex" tags too. No wonder the site isn't showing up in search results. I will drop him a message about it.