Link. That sucks.
Daily Archives: December 31, 2021
Zambia: “Covid is not at the top of her list of health care worries. “It’s cholera season, and people have malaria, and there is H.I.V. and TB,” she said. She does not know anyone who has been diagnosed with Covid.”
Link. Very different mortality context.
Renaming schizophrenia.
Link. Why we shouldn’t: “Scientists are reworking the clinical definition of schizophrenia … more as a syndrome than as a single disease.”
Potter verdict:,“committing a “conscious or intentional act” with her gun that creates a substantial risk”
Link. I will be surprised if the first degree manslaughter charge is not reversed on appeal. I don’t understand jury’s logic.
Moderator Sues TikTok for Failing to Protect Her Mental Health
Link. “suffers from horrible nightmares when she does manage to sleep over the content she’s watched”
“Do viruses always evolve to be less lethal? Some people call this the “Avirulent Theory”. The short answer is “no.”
Link. Natural selection finds good-enough local minima solutions.
“hourly workers have been securing raises, while middle-managers and white collar workers are, on average, losing significant ground”
Link. Hourly workers don’t vote and don’t get interviewed.
10 Best Illusions of the Year
Link. The changing room and ring oscillation illusions didn’t work for me. Hope that’s not a bad sign.
“More than half a dozen experiments made public in recent days all pointed to the same conclusion: Omicron is milder than Delta and other earlier versions of the virus.”
Link. Vaccine for FoxGOP.
Alzheimer’s Drug Aduhelm sucks and so do sales.
Link. Still can’t believe FDA approved it. EU smarter and I expect Canada to reject. Hope medicare declines to cover.