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.”
Link. The evidence I have seen supports this.
Apple iPhone SE: “It’s a slow burner that’s going to help Apple upgrade their base,”
Link. This happened because Apple is a service company now.
“a March report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows young adults take up more ICU beds than the very old.”
Link. Makes sense. Many oldest are not hospitalized
“lattice QCD can now successfully predict the proton’s mass to within a few percent of the experimentally determined value.”
Link. mass arises from relativistic effects.
MN: “MDH officials on Wednesday accused other states in the region of not as accurately counting deaths.”
Link. I believe
“the battery on the d780 is rated for 2200 pictures, while a mirrorless camera battery craps out at about 400.”
Link. Nobody mentions that.
Judy Mikovits in Plandemic: An antivax conspiracy theorist becomes a COVID-19 grifter.
Link. Useful antidote for people sharing latest nuttiness. We are so screwed.
Microsporidia MB infection makes mosquito falciparum resistant
Link. Marvelous discovery!
34 days of pandemic: Historical record of the worst and the dimmest. l
Link. No need to read, you know what they are. Important for historians.
Francisco Marty, MD on Twitter: Remdesivir usage tips from lead researcher
Link. Ink not dry yet but will be widely read.
“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”
Link. We need testing to identify the super-spreaders. School sewage tests for COVID followed by all-student saliva tests. Teacher saliva tests weekly.
Avalanche 1.1.3: Migrate Aperture to Lightroom, Luminar pending
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,
[toread] Was Donald Trump good at baseball?
Link. Better than me, but basically an average high school player for his era. He lies of course.
Obama to lead nationwide senior commencement May 16.
Link. The best.
Study claims coronavirus strain more infectious.
Link. Intense research.
Hydroxychloroquine: “suppressing cytokine signaling in the immune response.”
Link. Use LATE in disease. More like RA/SLE use.
Monoclonal Antibodies for the Coronavirus
Link. Odds are not bad.
Can I Upgrade or Downgrade macOS? Every Mac From 2006-2020
Link. Key ref
The WiFi problem – when cafe, library, and mall are closed.
Link. Remember when people shared guerilla wifi?
COVID biology review.
Link. Nature.
COVID transmission: close indoor contact.
Link. Outdoor masks are security theater.
“Fortunately, almost every restaurant in America has the ability to quadruple its footprint overnight, with one weird trick: putting tables in the parking lot.”
Link. Same for gyms.
Respiratory allergies and allergic asthma may have protective mechanism in COVID-19 due to lower ACE-2 receptor levels.
Link. Asthma known to be not a risk factor.
China COVID suppression: “Three volunteers involved in Terminus2049, an online project that archived censored articles, went missing and are presumed detained.”
Link. Emperor Xi.
Betrayal of Trust — collapse of global public health. Published 2001.
Link. “During the Reagan administration, Garrett says, budget cuts dramatically weakened public health”. The book is out of stock on Amazon.
“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”
Link. Nicely done comparisons. I’m enjoying the options.
States created a bureaucratic fire pit to block unemployment claims. Still in place.
Link. All American social safety net is like this. Such a screwed-up nation.
“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”
Link. Fermi paradox help.
“I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.”
Link. Paging Elizabeth Warren.
CDC sitrep May 2020 published NYT.
Link. CDC staff in full rebellion mode.
“He said the $137 billion he had on hand “isn’t all that huge when you think about worst-case possibilities.”
Link. Right.
Jane Brody’s Guide to Life in Lockdown.
Link. She is an optimal 79 – good genes but also strategic and disciplined. Good advice.
Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count – The New York Times
Link. Now the best source. Some others fading or failing.
COVID-19 variability: four contributing factors.
Link. Research on variations in people, virus, initial exposure viral load.
Anti-vaxxers join the openers.
Link. Attention is one hell of a drug.
68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice.
Link. At least 90% good.
Outdoors: Evidence of Airborne Transmission of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Virus (NEJM April 2004)
Link. This one is the problem for people like me.
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]”
Link. I dislike this study because it doesn’t fit my bias.
Indoor transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | medRxiv
Link. No evidence of significant outdoor transmission.
How to Build A Mountain Bike Manual Trainer.
Link. This is just within my hardware skills.
How Trump blew April.
Link. Pence at the Mayo belongs in the history textbook.
America’s nazis leverage COVID-19.
Link. Trump’s base.
Apple peculiar YouTube iPhone tutorials.
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.
Wearing a cloth mask outdoors is like wearing a helmet in your car (tweet expanded).
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.”
“If this was 1990, I don’t think we’d feel much more isolated than we’re feeling now”
Link. True.
Colorado Paramedic Who Came to Help New York Dies From Covid-19.
Link. He was 66. Very brave, very devoted, but I wish NYC would not accept volunteers over 50. (Maybe they don’t any more.)
“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”
Link. Best discussion.
NYC: “take those deaths and that total number of infections we get a death rate of .878%. We can round it to .9%”
Link. A bit higher than 0.7% I favor but very much in expected range. We can get to 0.7% if not overloaded.
Bakersfield Duo: “Erickson and Massihi are probably fine physicians. But they are shit epidemiologists.”
Link. Soon to join Trump COVID response team. (Half-joking.)