xpost Yeah, I have no idea. But I assume majority black churches (of which there are many) are giving a lot, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
Prosperity gospel, one of the greatest cons.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
we've come so far in terms of public health, science, general knowledge, all literally free to anyone with a phone more powerful than almost every computer that has come before it, and as comprehensive as a library. And yet here were are, willingly choosing stupid again and again
this is probably the most depressing part of this pandemic for me. the one hope I had about avoiding climate change related catastrophe was that one day the reality would become simply undeniable and we'd all get on the same page but if anything the more information we have the dumber we get. Florida is gonna be underwater and these idiots will still say "the climate's always changing, you idiot" as they pull the lever for Don Jr. yes this pandemic is tricky but it's not exactly complicated stuff. we know exactly what we need to do to save lives and we simply choose not to.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
Tracer, I agree about ethics, but then the issue becomes whose ethics? If we're going with Christian ethics, then we're going to come into so many disagreements within the first few minutes of discussion that the point is moot.
The despair of my outlook is underscored by the fact that I truly do believe that we are all brothers and sisters, and that so many people refuse to believe that as part of their guiding belief system is not just baffling or infuriating, but incredibly sad.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
any ethics at all would be hotttwas going to write “good” but my phone autocorrected to “hottt” - phone otm obvstarting to rethink my “humanism is bad” position as the product of a privileged age perhaps
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
The stupidest thing about these stupid idiots is they have no idea how good they have it and how much they will regret destroying systems that once allowed them to have it so good.
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
starting to rethink my “humanism is bad” position as the product of a privileged age perhaps
Focus on climate change and maintain your stance guilt-free.
― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Why do British people say “r number”? It’s just “r”.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
isn't it r0?
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
isn't she r0v31y
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
R0 and Rt depends or just R is fine if the difference doesn’t matter. “R number” is like calling x in an equation “x number”.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
we're close enough to cornwall that otherwise people assume we're pirates
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
wait I thought this was a message board for pirates
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
ilx-arrrrr
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it's the pirates thing
― stet, Thursday, 17 September 2020 11:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/covid-19-acoustic-face-mask-music-enhancing-hungary-conductor-13105742
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
Fucksake
'They didn't stop off in pubs on the way'A club trip to Doncaster Races was blamed by the Welsh Government for a covid cluster.The partner of one member hits back pic.twitter.com/ZnBBkeDa94— BBC Wales News (@BBCWalesNews) September 17, 2020
― groovypanda, Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
how the fuck are we 6 months into this and there are still people who don't understand you can have CV without symptoms? and that maybe if you get tested (so presumably did have symptoms) you wait for the results before getting all your mates together on a bus trip?
― kinder, Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
The American woman in Germany who broke quarantine to throw a barhopping "rona party" while she had a sore throat should have to spend the rest of the year in solitary.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 17 September 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
Dean of St Andrews has announced a 7pm curfew for students starting tonight, apparently.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 18 September 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
(Though that’s according to my mum, so who knows)
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 18 September 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
Pretty grim news here on the Oxford coronavirus vaccine: 2 of the 8,000 UK participants in the trial have developed a rare illness involving inflammation of the spine; in the US the illness hits about 1 in every 236,000 people annually. https://t.co/zcBbAbLNBg pic.twitter.com/mVVFZOMCHd— Tom Gara (@tomgara) September 20, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 20 September 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
This is all making me super excited to get my second dose of Moderna's on Tuesday (tho i think i got placebo fortunately)
― origami condom (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 September 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
The Moderna vaccine is a mRNA for the spike protein. Body cells absorb it by endocytosis, and hopefully enough express the spike protein that it's presented on cell membranes to the immune system.
The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is a chimp adenovirus (non-encapsulated, unlike SARS CoV-2) that expresses the spike protein, though not for its own construction. Some SARS CoV-2 spike protein in infected cells presumably finds its way to cell membranes to elicit immune response. But the chimp adenovirus vector means a lot of other potential antigens, some of which may present molecular mimicry problems. Chimp adenovirus vaccines have been used successfully for vaccines against Ebola and Zika in animal models, but AFAICT never for a successful human vaccine. There are more potential antigens in the Oxford vaccine candidate, and potential for the Oxford vaccine's proteins to have molecular mimicry with CNS proteins. I'm very glad that there are over 100 vaccine candidates at various stages of research, though only a few dozen being pushed through human testing ATM. Some won't provide (much) immunity to SARS CoV-2, some may elicit autoimmune disorders through molecular mimicry. There will be Nobels for the team lucky enough to make the first vaccine against any coronavirus.
― Disgraced, committing sudoku (Sanpaku), Monday, 21 September 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link
what’s a CNS protein?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 September 2020 07:37 (three years ago) link
The case prompted a pause in AstraZeneca’s vaccine trials to allow for a safety review by independent experts. A company spokeswoman told the Times last week that the volunteer was later determined to have a previously undiagnosed case of multiple sclerosis, unrelated to the vaccine, and that the trial resumed shortly thereafter.
Transverse myelitis can sometimes be the first sign of multiple sclerosis, which involves more complex symptoms. But the myelitis alone can also occur after the body encounters an infectious agent like a virus.
It's alarming but I don't think it necessarily means the Oxford vaccine is necessarily unsafe.
― Matt DC, Monday, 21 September 2020 08:58 (three years ago) link
Tracer: CNS = Central nervous system. The concern is that antibodies to vaccine proteins could be cross reactive with endogenous proteins, starting up autoimmune disorders.
― Disgraced, committing sudoku (Sanpaku), Monday, 21 September 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link
i don't know what endogenous means either, sorry :( You're talking at a technical level that I just can't understand
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 September 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
Q: Is Dr. Fauci right that masks help stop the spread?A: He’s a liar.Q: Why is that?A: Because I don’t believe in numbers. pic.twitter.com/ZLqUlK5Z2M— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) September 21, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 September 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link
It's a good thing these people have an outsized influence on, and representation in, our government. This fuckin' country.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 September 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
Wish these people would stop believing in breathing. Oxygen must be some sort of Soros-G5-PizzaGate-Bilderberg ploy à la chemtrails amirite?
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 21 September 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
I can't say I can read the graph too well but if it supports the question..
Anyone with a theory about why COVID-19 cases have started rising again has to be able to explain why the timing of the rise was so simultaneous across the whole of the UK. This is every local authority in the country on the same plot: pic.twitter.com/rQfJqx3pnO— Colin Angus (@VictimOfMaths) September 22, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
It's probably a combination of schools + people getting more relaxed/complacent in pubs and restaurants in late August?
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=47574f7a6e454dc6a42c5f6912ed7076
This is probably the most granular map so far of where the cases are and even that is only showing the confirmed cases, not as much use when the testing system has fallen over.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
twitter ruined that image (their compression is garbage; even worse for videos)
Apologies for the fuzzy image, Twitter doesn't like the original - it's too big. You can find a massive, zoomable version here: https://t.co/uKBPP5gRG1And the code to create it is here:https://t.co/fY9Wykn0Kl— Colin Angus (@VictimOfMaths) September 22, 2020
xp
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
haha, the massive, zoomable version is too big for my display.
Colin Angus: create a 1600x1200 jpg or something!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
Branwell was wondering what he was up to these days
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
This is the friend of someone I know here in Cardiff. Sounds absolutely horrible but as an update, almost six months later, she was finally able to go for a run yesterday (although only for a minute)
https://sarra43.wixsite.com/saracovid19blog
― groovypanda, Friday, 25 September 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
Wow. I don't get why people are so blasé about it, I'm constantly seeing "well you only have a 0.001% chance of dying" or whatever they reckon it is. For many families even one person getting it badly would screw up jobs, childcare, dependants, let alone the toll on mental health and longterm physical health.
― kinder, Friday, 25 September 2020 12:24 (three years ago) link
"well you only have a 0.001% chance of dying"
This is just the usual binary thinking trap that people put their foot into time and time again. For those without firsthand experience, the dominant idea is that you either die or recover and dying is bad, but recovery is good. All other details tend to get overlooked. The fact that this disease is so new also means that its long term health effects aren't really identified and familiar, yet, so people haven't learned to fear them.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Friday, 25 September 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
tbf I'm not sure many people are being blase, per se, so much as taking calculated risks, just like every time we get in a car. and those risks are different for different people. and people are just different, too. for example, I know low risk people taking more precautions than some higher risk people I know.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 September 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
yeah it's insane that people think that way and again I feel like our poisonous political environment & media coverage has something to do with it. if you're pro-Trump you can point to the death toll as the only "bad" outcome and then say "well we all know these numbers are bogus, right?" and if you're anti-Trump you can point to it and say "holy shit all these people are dying because of our idiot president" and either way you kind of oversimplify the total effect of this thing
do we know how likely "long term health effects" are to manifest? you'd think that after 9 months we'd have some idea
― frogbs, Friday, 25 September 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
There are so many numbers I don't know after all this time. for example, not how many people get it, but how many people are hospitalized with serious conditions, what percentage. I dunno.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 September 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
Yeah I guess I meant people being blase in what they say to people who are likely to already have it/be at high risk from it (eg healthcare workers). People's own actions vs risk is a whole other thing, and likewise I've seen the full range. Age is the biggest single risk factor I believe, so that's why I find it sobering when 26-year-olds are really struck down by it. A relative thinks they've had it for 100+ days and they were the one venturing to the shops to protect the asthmatic partner!
― kinder, Friday, 25 September 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
well, let's bust out the good ol envelope and turn it around to the back, where the work must be done
https://covidtracking.com/data/national
mortality rate6,941,911 confirmed cases194,852 deaths (confirmed + probable)
194,852 / 6,941,911 = 0.0280
converting that to a percentage, that's a 2.80% mortality rate.
hospitalization rate6,941,911 confirmed cases400,840 cumulative hospitalizations
400,840 / 6,941,911 = 0.0577
converting that to a percentage, that's a 5.77% hospitalization rate.
(all figures for the US only)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 September 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
so basically, in the US at least, about 5% of the cases end up going to the hospital, but of those, almost half die.
(unless my envelope got really messed up. a lot of pushing going on lately)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 September 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
although actually, i guess it's not always true that one goes to a hospital for covid19 before dying. so i suppose the likelihood of dying after hospitalization is lower than "almost half", sorry.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 September 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
Hi, y'all https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article246005375.html
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 September 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
^
The governor’s announcement Friday allows restaurants across the state to immediately reopen at full capacity — and prevents cities and counties from ordering restaurants to close or operate at less than half-capacity...
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Friday, 25 September 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
missionaccomplished.jpg
florida wins!
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 September 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
What's kept us sane since March -- I've said so here many times -- are local mask ordinances; they've been required since late March in MDC and enforced with fines since July. DeSantis' order says nothing about public spaces, so I hope counties still have this flexibility.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 September 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link