Link. Love his reviews because they predict my experiences
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The openers: “Michigan, they appear to be in part in reaction polling showing severe declines in public support for President Trump. They’re organized by groups funded in large part by the DeVos family”
Link. Scamway money.
COVID Tracking Project: Percent of tests that are positive
Link. I think there are other sites, but this one works.
[toread] We need triple testing: “expanded testing could reduce the rate to 10 percent, which is the maximum rate recommended by the World Health Organization. In Germany, that number is 7 percent, and in South Korea, it is closer to 3 percent.”
Link. MN was under 5% but now over that.
Fentanyl: “Huge amounts of these mail-order components can be traced to a single, state-subsidized company in Wuhan”
Link. US brought the Bitcoin.
Quantifying the malevolent ignorance of Oz.
Link. Particulary despicable because he had so many gifts.
Why Did The World Shut Down For COVID-19 But Not Ebola, SARS Or Swine Flu?
Link. Well done overview
Soulcycle owner big Trump supporter.
Link. Don’t go there.
Gravel Road Maps and Biking Routes – Gravelmap
Link. Route finding.
Murdoch’s dominate McConnell fund.
Link. They are right to be afraid.
“Your chances of catching the virus when you go outdoors is extremely low, provided you’re keeping a safe distance from others.”
Link. Mask isn’t needed.
I just wasn’t careful. God knows where I got it. The bad thing is I might have spread (it) to somebody. I feel bad about that,“
Link. Hospitalized. Most likely infected by whacko cult.
2017, via Twitter: “The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is, but as it goes on it becomes more and m
Link. Somehow I missed this.
Coronavirus relapse cases in S Korea
Link. Post-infection many viruses recur lifelong. Varicella zoster – chickenpox/shingles. We already knew we needed a vaccine.
Aledade COVID-19 Positive Test Rate Map
Link. When under 5% then pos/neg stats meanigful.
“only wealthy country with a larger positivity rate than the U.S. is the United Kingdom, where more than 30 percent of people”
Link. Canada and Germany around 7%.
[toread] How to use Slide Over on your iPad — Apple Support – YouTube
Link. series of videos on the incomprehensible ipad
“I don’t see any small molecule antiviral therapies that have much to recommend them based on the evidence in hand”
Link. HCQ uninteresting.
Two-factor authentication for Apple ID: when you sell, you need to remove from trusted devices
Link. Nobody knows this.
Coronavirus Vaccine Programs: “78 are definitely real. Of those 78, five of them are in the clinic”
Link. There’s never been anything like this. Deep dive.
“there’s been a global shortage of glass stretching back to at least 2015”
Link. Prisoner’s dilemma, tragedy of the commons.
“For more than 100 years, people fleeing war zones and abject poverty have put in long hours at the eight-story plant that churns 24 hours a day alongside the tree-lined Big Sioux River”
Link. Hard work, sometimes dangerous, but rewarding for those who could endure.
‘Mystery Bags’: a way to support a local bookstore.
Link. Every small bookstore should do this. We’ve been placing orders at ours rather than using Amazon.
Germany: “Among the first shops allowed to reopen are bookstores, bike stores and car dealers.”
Link. In MN, lowest per capita COVID rate on mainland US, bike shops never closed.
A Comic Strip Tour Of The Wild World Of Pandemic Modeling | FiveThirtyEight
Link. Awesome. I’m so impressed with quality of social media discussions. First saw this from a friend’s Facebook post.
Longterm COVID modeling incorporating URI coronavirus
Link. Interesting details on virology and cross-reactivity with familar “cold” coronaviri.
COVID excess mortality is twice lab confirmed
Link. Takes CFR from 1% to 2%. Seems right.
“The team decided to hook Dr. Padgett up to a machine known as an ECMO”
Link. Tough bastard. How many COVID have come back from that?
“People will have enough to eat; they just may not have the usual variety.”
Link. GOP gonna fly this bird into the ground.
“150 million tests a week.”
Link. President Biden would let that happen.
The case for COVID as Wuhan biolab escape.
Link. Leaks happening.
Reopening considered.
Link. Thoughtful, informed. Science States of America will use this to guide policy.
PDF Expert gets Reading Mode for iPhones
Link. Feature justifies buying app. Very hard to do.
NY’s crisis. A historic document.
Link. How did she keep such a detailed record?
RIP John Conway
Link. Must see.
Putins war on science and on medicine.
Link. He gets vaccinated, but funds antivaxxers and medical conspiracies that infest weak minds of certain Presidents.
“losing hope that Moscow would be spared the fate of hard-hit Western cities, in part because residents last week seemed to be relaxing their adherence to stay-at-home orders.”
Link. US and Russia increasingly similar nations.
COVID-19 – EMCrit Project
Link. US critical care cutting edge
NEJM paper on remdesivir reveals nothing.
Link. Would not normally get published.
Ventilator debate in COVID-19.
Link. Weingart (EMCrit) saying don’t vent. If true that’s big and good news in several ways. Treat like lung injury high altitude.
Outdoor exercise: “transmission risk should be minimal, both for others, if a runner were infected, or for the runner,”
Link. Article then advicates masks purely as a social convention. Unlikely to affect transmission
Dintch 1.1: file integrity checks and timestamps
Link.
“Ghost Train you never know what’s going to happen next: one minute everything’s gone black, then all hell breaks loose, just like a T2 installing a macOS update.”
Link. I had similar experience running disk utility on an SSD.
Stanford Medicine National Daily Health Survey for Novel Coronavirus
Link. I signed up. Every day I complete it.
NYTimes dives into COVID-carrier story.
Link. Trump destruction of government matched by destruction of US military.
“Johnson, whose fiancée Carrie Symonds is carrying his sixth or maybe seventh child”
Link. He’s back. Wiser one hopes.
Facebook still has RSS (iCal) feed for Calendar Events but it is insanely obscure.
Link. Hidden away by a nameless dev who still loves us.
Sentinel surveillance for COVID-19: nasal swabs of teachers, service workers, gym coaches and healthcare workers
Link. The McClellan et al containment paper 4/7/2020 sort of talks about this: “robust sentinel surveillance system that routinely monitors for infection among samples of the population to enable early identification of small outbreaks, particularly in vulnerable populations”
Efficient sentinel surveillance strategies for preventing epidemics on networks
Link. Sentinel sampling is what I was wondering about — like weekly self-administered nasal swab tests for schoolteachers, health care personnel, etc. Part of early-detection systems.
Second article on Coronavirus dosage and disease severity.
Link. Neat historical context on variolation, similar to NYT article of 2w ago.