Link. Chronic kidney disease, for first time, shows as 2.5x mortality predictor. Multiple metabolic syndromes equivalent 10y age. From national AllScripts disease registry.
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Twin Cities Ride Planning: avoiding covid exposure
Link. Great reference on ride planning, some generalizeable
“FEMA makes the decisions, unless President Trump says to send stuff somewhere else. Or unless Jared Kushner does”
Link. Why Mafia rule is less than optimal.
John Horton Conway (1937-2020)
Link. Memorium well done.
Why is eπ√163 almost an integer?
Link. Ramanujan’s Constant. Is this a How or a Why? There are valiant attempts to to explain. Among integers, 163 is kind of magical.
Women are much better drivers than men
Link. Much better cyclists too. Men should not drive
Global Covid-19 Case Fatality Rates – CEBM
Link. Updated daily. IFR CFR
MN COVID-19 model April 10, 2020
Link. The slides (PDF) are worth a look. R0 3.87 – higher than we once thought. CFR equivalent about 2%.
Hong Kong trackers less than perfect
Link. On average probably useful
NYT reviews hydroxychloroquine
Link. A fair summary. It is less toxic than some claim. It is unlikely to be useful against COVID.
“vaccine, called NVX-CoV2373, is set to begin human trials in Australia in mid-May.”
Link. Crazy fast. Volunteers must be brave.
“89.3 percent had underlying medical conditions. The most common of those was hypertension”
Link. This doesn’t mean much. Most over 60 have something
Battelle N95 decontamination.
Link. Thank you.
“oil fracking has never been financially viable”
Link. Viable only if oil price rises a lot.
Singapore covid strategy failure.
Link. Asymptomatic spread.
Driving and Travel Restrictions Across the United States.
Link. A historic document.
Contact Tracing Google-Apple: “Surprisingly, it’s in Objective-C”
Link. Good description
“not a single shipment of medical-grade N95 masks arrived at U.S. ports during the month of March. The federal government was not only disorganized; it was absent.”
Link. Shame there’s no Hell for McConnell.
“What if the American public is once again ready, finally, for a president who keeps himself to presiding?”
Link. Please.
“financial markets are betting that there is some reasonable approximation of normal on some foreseeable horizon.”
Link. Betting on Keynes and the megacorp.
California – leading sane America.
Link. Good-bye red states. Hope your orange deity saves you.
“Ever since subscriptions have been opened up to all types of app, they have become a scammer’s best friend”
Link. Subscriptions disaapoint.
“White House has created a highly chaotic and disorganized process and then Trump and Jared Kushner have layered over that a thin blanket of their own corruption, the commerce in favors and mutual back scratching and paydays that are the mother’s milk
Link.
“what just happened in Wisconsin scares me more than either disease or depression”
Link. Vote Biden or kiss America good-bye.
Video chat for elders and cognitively disadvantaged
Link. Superb. “Oscar Senior can be used to call, text, and voice chat, as well as track important care data.”
Covid-19 Antibody Update: “positive result with that test only means a 50% chance that you actually are positive”
Link. It isn’t a bad test, but prevalence is low.
“Many drugs we believed were fantastic ended up killing people”
Link. Trumpista are idiots.
NYT covid world coverage
Link. Helpful context
US prison COVID is, of course, disastrous.
Link. Barr responsible.
Working with macOS Snapshots: “If you need to roll back your Mac to the state it was in when a snapshot was taken, such as after a software upgrade that went bad, you can do so by booting into the Recovery environment”
Link. Time Machine, but choose “startup drive” for source. Important to know this is a possible.
“To see space occupied by snapshots, select the disk and temporarily enable CCC Snapshots”
Link. I need to delete some APFS snapshots.
“How long? “I would say one month after you drive down the R naught to zero,”
Link. We need a better federal government.
PPE Seizures.
Link. Fits a picture.
“So far, the Mt. Sinai researchers have identified seven separate lineages of viruses that entered New York and began circulating”
Link. Pandemic central.
“there are three ways to try to staff Trump at this point, and two of them will end badly”
Link. Successful strategy: marry Ivanka.
Factories post-COVID.
Link. More automation, fewer vulnerable people.
Cycling Route Planning Apps: how Western Spirit plans backcountry routes
Link.
‘By December, we are going to go through this again’
Link. Best summary of our near term future that I have seen to date. We are very dependent on China. Practice being humble, the first American Era is done.
“revolutions are periods in which social actors with different agendas (peasants stealing rabbits, city dwellers sacking tollbooths, …) become fused into a more or less stable constellation”
Link. Not personally a fan of revolutions.
“Singapore on Monday became the latest to reverse course and impose a lockdown after winning initial praise for its aggressive coronavirus response”
Link. Preliminary serology and modeling place immune rates at <5%.
Book calls Apple’s IS&T group ‘a Game of Thrones nightmare’
Link. Root cause analysis needed.
Daring Fireball: Hobby Lobby vs. Coronavirus, a Tale in Three Acts
Link. Justice from the heavens.
“Preview version 11.0 remains a mess, and has some upsetting bugs.”
Link. Apple’s PDF rewrite fail deserved a root cause analysis
Homemade Masks: what we believe works
Link. Until we get used to them.
Live map of COVID-19 evidence – NIPH
Link. Norway’s Public Health – Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Evidence mapped.
“In conclusion, both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination of SARS–CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19 to the environment and external mask surface.”
Link. Masks may work more by encouraging social distancing than by blocking viruses.
“Giuliani described himself as a special science adviser to Trump”
Link. It is so hard to imagine how stupid these people are.
Dr. Drew, who plays a doctor on TV, was a COVID denialist
Link. Never heard of him. Sounds pretty dumb.
New York: “remarkable overlap of lockdown to peak fatalities and infections in Italy and China”
Link. 19 days from lockdown to peak.
Where Have All the Heart Attacks Gone?
Link. Damn good question.