I’m trying to get into a phase III trial. The problem is I’m not essential and my lifestyle places me at below average risk. Most studies don’t want that.
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Is it? I have no background in this, so I’m reluctant to say.
You’re essential to me dammit!
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Once you get it then go crazy. For science. Please??
I don’t believe in punching stupid people just for being stupid but for those who make decisions for children like this, I’m starting to wonder if we should make exceptions.
my retort for that was always how ****ing dumb are you that you actually believe trump could cure cancer.
this is from a section in my future book titled how not to make friends and influence others.
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You were losing those friends anyway.
ha, I never had them in the first place.
And if I get a placebo and get sick, that’s good news for everyone else.
We are seeing the radicalization of wheatrich in real time.
Chat shit get hit.
Who coulda possibly thought?
“The district sent a letter to families at Woodbine Elementary School warning them that if they attended a 3rd grade materials distribution drive on August 26, they may have come in contact with the employee.”
While waiting for my results, I checked the latest batch of announcements from companies trying to assure their customers that they were doing everything right. A major U.S. airline informed me how it was diligently sanitizing surfaces inside its planes and in terminals many times a day, without mentioning anything about the effectiveness of air circulation and filtering inside airplane cabins (pretty good, actually). A local business that operates in a somewhat cramped indoor space sent me an email about how it was “keeping clean and staying healthy,” illustrated by 10 bottles of hand sanitizer without a word on ventilation—whether it was opening windows, employing upgraded filters in its HVAC systems, or using portable HEPA filters. It seems baffling that despite mounting evidence of its importance, we are stuck practicing hygiene theater—constantly deep cleaning everything—while not noticing the air we breathe.
How is it that six months into a respiratory pandemic, we still have so little guidance about this all-important variable, the very air we breathe?
In multiple studies, researchers have found that COVID-19’s secondary attack rate, the proportion of susceptible people that one sick person will infect in a circumscribed setting, such as a household or dormitory, can be as low as 10 to 20 percent. In fact, many experts I spoke with remarked that COVID-19 was less contagious than many other pathogens, except when it seemed to occasionally go wild in super-spreader events, infecting large numbers of people at once, across distances much greater than the droplet range of three to six feet. Those who argue that COVID-19 can spread through aerosol routes point to the prevalence and conditions of these super-spreader events as one of the most important pieces of evidence for airborne transmission.
Saskia Popescu, an infectious-disease epidemiologist, emphasized to me that we should not call these “super-spreaders,” referring only to the people, but “super-spreader events,” because they seem to occur in very particular settings—an important clue. People don’t emit an equal amount of aerosols during every activity: Singing emits more than talking, which emits more than breathing. And some people could be super-emitters of aerosols. But that’s not all. The super-spreader–event triad seems to rely on three V’s: venue, ventilation, and vocalization. Most super-spreader events occur at an indoor venue, especially a poorly ventilated one (meaning air is not being exchanged, diluted, or filtered), where lots of people are talking, chanting, or singing. Some examples of where super-spreader events have taken place are restaurants, bars, clubs, choir practices, weddings, funerals, cruise ships, nursing homes, prisons, and meatpacking plants.
Strikingly, in one database of more than 1,200 super-spreader events, just one incident is classified as outdoor transmission, where a single person was infected outdoors by their jogging partner, and only 39 are classified as outdoor/indoor events, which doesn’t mean that being outdoors played a role, but it couldn’t be ruled out. The rest were all indoor events, and many involved dozens or hundreds of people at once. Other research points to the same result: Super-spreader events occur overwhelmingly in indoor environments where there are a lot of people.
As another example, you may have seen the many televised indoor events where the audience members are sitting politely distanced and masked, listening to the speaker, who is the only unmasked person in the room. Jimenez, the aerosol expert, pointed out to me that this is completely backwards, because the person who needs to be masked the most is the speaker , not the listeners. If a single mask were available in the room, we’d put it on the speaker.
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If you’re not following the “6%” story, I think the following timeline is accurate:
1: Earlier this week, the CDC published a new report (Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics) that includes the following under “Comorbidities”:
Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.
2: Last night, the Gateway Pundit published an article headlined “SHOCK REPORT: This Week CDC Quietly Updated COVID-19 Numbers - Only 9,210 Americans Died From COVID-19 Alone - Rest Had Different Other Serious Illnesses”. It’s a bunch of nonsense about how we shut down the whole economy for just 9000 deaths (“miniscule”!), the reported death rates are all wrong, and it really is more like the flu, because “only 6% of all coronavirus deaths were completely due to the coronavirus alone”. It is, to state the obvious, wildly wrong, misleading, and irresponsible.
3: This message was further misunderstood and misinterpreted and spread like wildfire across facebook and twitter, and conservative media generally.
4: At some point last night, somebody tweeted “This week the CDC quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6% of all the 153,504 deaths recorded actually died from Covid” and “the other 94% had 2-3 other serious illnesses”
5: At some point during this morning’s tweet storm, Trump retweeted the above tweet.
6: At some point later in the day, Twitter removed the tweet because it is obviously dangerous misinformation.
7: This “censorship” is obviously being used to further drive the narrative that the media and tech companies and Fauci and the Deep State are all working fervently to hide the truth and hurt Trump!
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Who had - the zombie twitter account of the most famous political figure to die of covid - tweeting out covid denial misinformation?
https://twitter.com/THEHermanCain/status/1300211456126803968
Twitter is going to have to figure out how to deal with blue checkmarks dying. Is Trump’s twitter going to keep stirring up shit in perpetuity long after he’s dead?
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Yeah you can’t have a blue check mark next to someone’s name when you know for a fact it’s not them tweeting it because they are dead
It’s especially disgusting because this stuff literally kills people.
Man, this is some super scary stuff. I know misinformation is a thing, but here’s an anecdote that has made me very uncomfortable about the future.
Yesterday afternoon I overhear my wife talking with her mother, who had already absorbed this new “omg, hardly anyone actually died from COVID-19” narrative. She is an average 65 year old woman living in an extremely rural area, who worked her whole life as an RN. And within a day, probably just from Facebook, has bought into a conspiracy.
Yeah, they are definitely right-leaning, certainly a bit xenophobic/light racist, but are just your typical rural white folks. How the fuck is stuff like this going to be stopped?
Its the Great Irony of the Internet. With the capability to instantaneously connect with people all around the globe and access virtually unlimited information, the majority of people chose to use the technology to find people as similar to them as possible and find information, factual or complete fantasy, that confirms their preexisting beliefs. What was billed as the ultimate unifying technology for the human race has in fact delivered tribalism on steroids.
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No no no.
King of mutton chops, nay Emperor probably…Ray Dorset of Mungo Jerry fame
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Cmon, she should know better!
“If somebody with diabetes catches Covid and dies, why shouldn’t that count?” should be the end of the argument.
I guess it goes along with the other conspiracy that they’re testing all dead people and counting it as a Covid death if positive no matter how they died.