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Trump admin suppresses CDC guide to reopening country

Posted on May 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Leaked instantly of course. Scientists despise Trump.

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“British Columbia’s top physician Dr. Bonnie Henry told people on Canada’s west coast that the risk of catching coronavirus outdoors is infinitesimally small.”

Posted on May 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The evidence I have seen supports this.

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Apple iPhone SE: “It’s a slow burner that’s going to help Apple upgrade their base,”

Posted on May 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This happened because Apple is a service company now.

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“a March report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows young adults take up more ICU beds than the very old.”

Posted on May 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Makes sense. Many oldest are not hospitalized

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“lattice QCD can now successfully predict the proton’s mass to within a few percent of the experimentally determined value.”

Posted on May 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. mass arises from relativistic effects.

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MN: “MDH officials on Wednesday accused other states in the region of not as accurately counting deaths.”

Posted on May 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I believe

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“the battery on the d780 is rated for 2200 pictures, while a mirrorless camera battery craps out at about 400.”

Posted on May 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Nobody mentions that.

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Judy Mikovits in Plandemic: An antivax conspiracy theorist becomes a COVID-19 grifter.

Posted on May 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Useful antidote for people sharing latest nuttiness. We are so screwed.

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Microsporidia MB infection makes mosquito falciparum resistant

Posted on May 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Marvelous discovery!

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34 days of pandemic: Historical record of the worst and the dimmest. l

Posted on May 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. No need to read, you know what they are. Important for historians.

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Francisco Marty, MD on Twitter: Remdesivir usage tips from lead researcher

Posted on May 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Ink not dry yet but will be widely read.

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“researchers estimated that closing schools is not enough on its own to stop an outbreak, but it can reduce the surge by about 40 to 60 percent and slow the epidemic’s course”

Posted on May 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We need testing to identify the super-spreaders. School sewage tests for COVID followed by all-student saliva tests. Teacher saliva tests weekly.

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Avalanche 1.1.3: Migrate Aperture to Lightroom, Luminar pending

Posted on May 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The CYME team is proud to announce the  availability of Avalanche 1.1.3, an update to our photo migration software for macOS with machine learning capabilities.Avalanche for Lightroom is designed to convert catalogs of photographs from one application to Adobe Lightroom Classic while keeping the organisational structures intact,

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[toread] Was Donald Trump good at baseball?

Posted on May 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Better than me, but basically an average high school player for his era. He lies of course.

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Obama to lead nationwide senior commencement May 16.

Posted on May 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The best.

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Study claims coronavirus strain more infectious.

Posted on May 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Intense research.

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Hydroxychloroquine: “suppressing cytokine signaling in the immune response.”

Posted on May 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Use LATE in disease. More like RA/SLE use.

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Monoclonal Antibodies for the Coronavirus

Posted on May 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Odds are not bad.

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Can I Upgrade or Downgrade macOS? Every Mac From 2006-2020

Posted on May 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Key ref

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The WiFi problem – when cafe, library, and mall are closed.

Posted on May 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Remember when people shared guerilla wifi?

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COVID biology review.

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Nature.

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COVID transmission: close indoor contact.

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Outdoor masks are security theater.

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“Fortunately, almost every restaurant in America has the ability to quadruple its footprint overnight, with one weird trick: putting tables in the parking lot.”

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Same for gyms.

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Respiratory allergies and allergic asthma may have protective mechanism in COVID-19 due to lower ACE-2 receptor levels.

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Asthma known to be not a risk factor.

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China COVID suppression: “Three volunteers involved in Terminus2049, an online project that archived censored articles, went missing and are presumed detained.”

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Emperor Xi.

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Betrayal of Trust — collapse of global public health. Published 2001.

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “During the Reagan administration, Garrett says, budget cuts dramatically weakened public health”. The book is out of stock on Amazon.

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“for a lot of use cases, the 2020 MacBook Air offers a great value that should handle average computing needs with plenty of power and speed”

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Nicely done comparisons. I’m enjoying the options.

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States created a bureaucratic fire pit to block unemployment claims. Still in place.

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. All American social safety net is like this. Such a screwed-up nation.

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“our sun is rather tame compared with its stellar siblings, and that hundreds of other sun-like stars in our galaxy have on average five times more magnetic activity than our parent star”

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Fermi paradox help.

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“I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.”

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Paging Elizabeth Warren.

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CDC sitrep May 2020 published NYT.

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. CDC staff in full rebellion mode.

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“He said the $137 billion he had on hand “isn’t all that huge when you think about worst-case possibilities.”

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Right.

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Jane Brody’s Guide to Life in Lockdown.

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. She is an optimal 79 – good genes but also strategic and disciplined. Good advice.

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Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count – The New York Times

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Now the best source. Some others fading or failing.

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COVID-19 variability: four contributing factors.

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Research on variations in people, virus, initial exposure viral load.

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Anti-vaxxers join the openers.

Posted on May 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Attention is one hell of a drug.

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68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice.

Posted on May 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. At least 90% good.

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Outdoors: Evidence of Airborne Transmission of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Virus (NEJM April 2004)

Posted on May 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This one is the problem for people like me.

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SARS 2002-2003: Outdoor transmission: “most consistent with transit of virus aerosols through improperly sealed plumbing U-traps, up an airshaft in the index building, and then along prevailing winds into neighboring buildings up to 60 m away [61, 62]”

Posted on May 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I dislike this study because it doesn’t fit my bias.

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Indoor transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | medRxiv

Posted on May 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. No evidence of significant outdoor transmission.

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How to Build A Mountain Bike Manual Trainer.

Posted on May 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This is just within my hardware skills.

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How Trump blew April.

Posted on May 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Pence at the Mayo belongs in the history textbook.

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America’s nazis leverage COVID-19.

Posted on May 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Trump’s base.

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Apple peculiar YouTube iPhone tutorials.

Posted on May 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I can’t find these on Apple’s own site or any reference to them. Some are two years old. They are an unsorted mix of basic and more advanced. Weird.

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Wearing a cloth mask outdoors is like wearing a helmet in your car (tweet expanded).

Posted on May 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “We should be developing N95 equivalent reusable masks for at risk persons to wear indoors in place of the cloth masks most of us wear.”

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“If this was 1990, I don’t think we’d feel much more isolated than we’re feeling now”

Posted on May 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. True.

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Colorado Paramedic Who Came to Help New York Dies From Covid-19.

Posted on May 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He was 66. Very brave, very devoted, but I wish NYC would not accept volunteers over 50. (Maybe they don’t any more.)

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“By invoking the Defense Production Act to order that meatpacking plants stay open, President Donald Trump did not just open a can of worms, he opened a whole barrel”

Posted on May 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Best discussion.

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NYC: “take those deaths and that total number of infections we get a death rate of .878%. We can round it to .9%”

Posted on May 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. A bit higher than 0.7% I favor but very much in expected range. We can get to 0.7% if not overloaded.

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Bakersfield Duo: “Erickson and Massihi are probably fine physicians. But they are shit epidemiologists.”

Posted on May 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Soon to join Trump COVID response team. (Half-joking.)

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