Link. Accurate reporting.
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HCQ: “An investigational drug combination that showed this effect in mice would not move forward in the normal course of things.”
Link. Reminds me of all the vaccine-autism studies politicians made us do.
“Apple hasn’t – as yet – exercised its powers to help sustain the industry which supports its own products.”
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“With his catastrophic mishandling of the coronavirus, Trump has established himself as the worst president in U.S. history.”
Link. We have had a remarkable number of stinkers. We might do better selecting presidents by lottery.
How the Executive branch failed America.
Link. Trump directly owns most of the fiasco, his appointees own the rest. So, overall, Trump. Which means Trump voters.
What’s Up with the Feds Seizing PPE Shipments to States and Hospitals?
Link. Trumpworld
Everywhere School
Link. “A calendar of educational livestreams for kids during the COVID-19 pandemic”
“It would be relatively simple for the government to pick up all the medical costs for all treatment of COVID-19, inpatient or outpatient, and insured or uninsured, but this has not happened yet”
Link.
“there might be a little peak in September when the little horrors come back”
Link. Mostly mainstream except not all agree imfectious period is so short especially with procedures involved.
Ventilators aren’t great for COVID-19 ARDS.
Link. Often they prolong misery and outcomes aren’t so great for many survivors. Ventilator shortages may not change outcomes much.
It’s just the flu.
Link. And WW I was just a war.
COVID lung damage means ventilators often fail to save.
Link. More ventilators probably won’t change mortality, but they do reduce provider suffering from triage misery.
TidBITS overview of all Zoom’s security flaws.
Link. A fair and long review.
Why German COVID death rate low.
Link. Lots of testing, started in young people, social distancing, great public health, universal health care, wealthy nation, smart government, smart medical leadership. Didn’t elect a Trump.
Vo’ Italy is now world center of COVID research.
Link. How do we pronounce Vo’?
“make cloth masks and wear them if and when you must venture out; reserve all medical-grade masks for health workers”
Link. No value on a bicycle or when running. Is for indoor and crowded areas.
Zoom is controllable by Xi.
Link. I suspect US government will block use.
Covid mortality often hidden: Italy.
Link. Regional at this time. Matching curves.
Zawhari, still on FBI most wanted, now aged 68.
Link. Still thought to be in NW Pakistan. Perhaps COVID-19 will take him.
[toread] COVID-19 genomics interactive.
Link. students!
“Louisiana, people from the ages of 40 to 59 account for 22 percent of all deaths”
Link. Obesity? Smoking?
“Numbers took 9.4 times as long as Excel”
Link. Previously 100x. Excel is demon fast.
“headless Chrome, a browser mode that’s open to automation; puppeteer, an API for headless Chrome; and the devtools protocol”
Link. Nice intro to modern browser tooling
Capt. Brett Crozier, commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, fired for courage.
Link. I hope President Biden makes him Secretary of the Navy. After retiring every military leader who has kissed Trump’s ass instead of serving America.
The TP shortage: “If you make a delivery to a Walmart distribution center, they give you a half-hour window, and your truck has to show up then.”
Link. An ultra-efficient world with no elasticity or reserve.
Giuliani stem cell con gets FDA covid blessing
Link. WTF WTF WTF.
“even though the brain looks much like an ape brain, it has a human-like feature—that it grows for a long period of time”
Link. Lucy. Australopithecus.
Tocilizumab for COVID cytokine storm.
Link. Article bit confused about usage.
“For years, Mr. Limbaugh has encouraged his audience to be suspicious of science as one of his so-called Four Corners of Deceit”
Link. Baron of the Despicables.
Uninstalling Zoom on MacOS
Link. /Applications/zoom.us.app
~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin
200kya there were at least 7 hominin species roaming the world.
Link. And then there was 1.
It Will Haunt History: Holland America Zaandam cruise ship.
Link. Obama would have handled this effortlessly
HMPI Stanford Medicine-Engineering Partnership Launches an Interactive Model for COVID-19
Link. County level modeling.
High vs low dose coronavirus exposure.
Link. Hinting that low dose exposure is possibly advantageous. I’d like to see an expert opinion.
In advance of vaccine: “We can start now by building the facilities where these vaccines will be made.”
Link. Gate essay mostly common sense but this is novel and correct. Build 10 for the 1-2 that produce.
China lied, misleading world about COVID behavior.
Link. Xi and Trump belong together.
Ex-NSA hacker finds new Zoom flaws to takeover Macs again, including webcam, mic, and root access
Link. Zoom kind of sucks.
Science in COVID era
Link. Speed before secrecy.
2020-002 Update Causes Some Macs to Freeze Up While Using Video Conf Apps
Link. Zoom, etc
“many of the files inside a Photos library, particularly images stored in its originals folder, have a great many unusual extended attributes”
Link. Scary. Especially for backup.
Phone scam: how to social hack someone’s confirmation code
Link. “. ..came on the same source number as had other texts from my bank in the past. But that’s because Jerk was using the “I lost my password” feature on my account to generate the codes direct from First Tech.”
Trump: “levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again”
Link. Just wanted to record this for posterity. I appreciate Trump’s transparency. In a peculiar way he’s the most honest politician I’ve ever seen.
COVID quotes shoe Elon Musk smarts are focal, his stupidity is broad.
Link. Dunning-kruger. Dumb as a rock in many areas.
COVID-19 UW IHME COVID simulation predictions
Link. Widely used in health care systems.
Jitsi open source video conferencing
Link.
FDA goes in for HCQ.
Link. I’m very suspicious this was driven by Trump, not science. if so, more evidence of the corruption of federal science.
Another weird COVID story
Link. She seems good now.
“The Mac version of Zoom is not available through the App Store, which makes me trust it not a bit”
Link. Good point.
Mortality rate of COVID-19 patients on ventilators | Physician’s Weekly
Link. Worse than I had thought.
Russian troll farm tactic update
Link. Sounds like they are in trouble – weak responses to current defenses