Link. Fair article.
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“Federal Prison Industries, which employs some 17,000 prisoners and draws $650 million in revenue each year”
Link. America is a terrible nation.
John Ioannidis – COVID denialist.
Link. Reputation killed by metastatic iconoclastosis.
WaPo on COVID coagulation disorders.
Link. Maybe have things in common with Ebola coagulopathy, but clot rather than bleed.
[toread] Trump chloroquine plan was serious.
Link. The GOP War on Science destroyed the GOP.
Hokkaido Forced to Reinstate Lockdown.
Link. Japan is struggling.
NYC: “an infection mortality rate of .76%”
Link. That was my guess in Feb :-).
“Kemp’s office distributed defective memory cards to African-American and Democratic precincts, though not to white and Republican ones”
Link. I didn’t know that.
The Order of Battle: “If you’re very lucky, you might find something that can be jammed on with a hammer and aligned with duct tape, and that’s pretty much what drug repurposing is like even at its best”
Link. One of the top analysts of the war on COVID-19.
[toread] COVID coag: “As he used a needlelike device to pull out the clot, he saw new clots forming in real-time around it.”
Link. freakin horror movie.
“finding of 165,000 residents is roughly 15x higher than the Miami-Dade’s official number of lab confirmed cases.”
Link. I think when test to WHO standard multiple will be 10x test positive.
“At every level, the White House is using access to PPE, medical supplies and testing as patronage. Friends get help; enemies can talk to the hand.”
Link. We will out-sleaze anybody.
Wuhan in remission: far from normal.
Link. Must read.
The Same People Who Peddle Climate Denial Are Behind Coronavirus Pseudoscience
Link. Same firms were smoking Denialists 70s through 90s. These are McConnell class evil people.
Lysol Warns Against Drinking Disinfectants After Trump’s Bizarre Coronavirus Rant
Link. Saved screenshot for my scrapbook.
[toread] “We’re about to find out, in countries around the world, whether massive government deficits prove to be inflationary.”
Link. The biggest economics experiment ever.
“Open the Apple Books app and go to Books > Computers & Internet > Free Apple User Guides”
Link. This is so obscure.
Bike Snob best bikes list
Link. All at least great.
1918 Flu: “he created the Committee on Public Information, which was inspired by an adviser who wrote, “Truth and falsehood are arbitrary terms….The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.”
Link. Wilson was one of the worst Presidents.
Trump: “pores over newspapers, which he treats like official briefing books”
Link. He is a psychological wreck. So vulnerable.
“Local weather condition with low temperature, mild diurnal temperature range and low humidity likely favor the transmission.”
Link. MN is encouraging outdoor life.
Wi-Fi 6E: “biggest spectrum addition since the FCC cleared the way for Wi-Fi in 1989”
Link. Wired ethernet feels ancient now.
Vehicular cycling: John Forester obit.
Link. I never knew hs name but my cycling life has been greatly influenced by his disciples. They were right in many things, but wrong on the big things. The iPhone sealed the doom of pure vehicular cycling. Bikeways are wonderful.
Frontrunning Coronavirus Vaccines.
Link. Exciting and also kind of scary.
Clinical and virologic characteristics of the first 12 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States | Nature Medicine
Link. We need this information faster. New format for publication please.
Scotland framework for COVID management.
Link. Not too much fluff. Seems consensus. Anticipate analysis. via Stross.
“As of Wednesday last week, Ms. Ingraham was no longer talking about hydroxychloroquine, and she hasn’t brought it up on her show since.”
Link. Does Rupert have COVID yet?
“test every person admitted to hospitals, every person in a nursing home, homeless shelter, or other congregate facility exhibiting symptoms.”
Link. 3 times current level.
LifeTime CEO on Georgia gym openings: He’s a complete loon.
Link. He may be stupider than Trump.
Doonesbury 1994 — the recovered memory movement.
Link. That was an American fiasco.
The year ahead.
Link. Trump’s name will become an epithet.
Seology: “Roche scrutinised some existing products now on offer but rejected them as unreliable in determining if somebody has actually ever had the disease.”
Link. They are doing one.
“Medically supervised isolation facilities in converted hotels and dormitories are a key part of an effective offensive response.”
Link. MA trying to be SK.
“liberate”: “wide-ranging and well-financed conservative campaign to undermine restrictions”
Link. It’s too easy.
US: Social Distancing History
Link. I was amazed. Never suspected.
“widening freeways never reduces congestion; even when you have 23-lanes of freeway, as in Houston.”
Link. Demand management.
[toread] “obvious that the 2020 iPhone SE is going to be my next iPhone without any doubt”
Link. My wife, my sister. Probably my son.
“Oppenheimer and Einstein considered the study of black holes to be too applied, an examination of anomalies and specific solutions unworthy of thinkers thinking deep thoughts”
Link. Great essay. Resurfaced via twitter.
High value Twitter thread on Covid science
Link. Study this
“observed repeated events of inter-species transmission by animal CoVs rely on the exceptional ability of CoVs to expand their host range”
Link. I was hoping to read more about the veterinary experience. Expected this weeks ago.
“Over the span of a month, scientists have learned, the version of the novel coronavirus moving through a community will mutate about twice”
Link. Contact tracing not looking so good.
China now amplifies disinformation.
Link. COVID “cures” a fave.
Which file formats survive corruption?
Link. Lessons for designers.
Coronavirus variants: looking for nastier variants.
Link. Fauci said US strains were consistent, but we are learning more.
U.S. Virus Guidelines Reject Trump miracle cure.
Link. The combo is real bad. HCQ by itself is a great drug – for Lupus.
NYC Sets a Lower Bound for COVID lethality
Link. It’s been in 0.5% to 2.0% range since Feb depending on env, healthcare, smoking, demographics
Aspirin associated with small reductions in GI cancers
Link. Unlikely to justify risks of aspirin.
Complement Associated Microvascular Injury and Thrombosis in the Pathogenesis of Severe COVID-19 Infection: A Report of Five Cases – PubMed
Link. NYC. Been looking for this.
“snakemake manages creating and updating these environments for you, and activate/deactivates them on a per-rule basis.”
Link. A window into modern biosciencing. Via Jon Udell.
“Simply having ECC enabled doesn’t mean that damaged files can be recovered.”
Link. I wonder if that is why Apple omitted from HPFS.