Renzatic on 8/10/2020 at 20:17
And of course it's not peer reviewed, because "peer" is just dog whistle for "deep state smear campaign."
Gryzemuis on 9/10/2020 at 12:47
Tuesday I wrote that we were at 4500 new infections a day. During the last 24 hours, we had 6000 new infections. Whooptiedoo.
I'm pretty sure we're number 1 in the world now.
(
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/)
Click on the arrow at "New Cases" to sort by new infections today.
Oh, no. Belgium is coming back. 5728 new cases, on a population of 10M, against our 5971 again 17M people. They win.
We're getting more and more new rules. More people work 100% from home again. "Shopping evenings" are not allowed anymore. (In NL, supermarkets close at 20:00, a few close even later. But regular shops close at 18:00 or 17:30. Only one night a week (Thu or Fri) those regular shops stay open until 21:00. Not any more. Not for the rest of the year. More people wearing facemasks. In spring, our government kept insisting that facemasks weren't worth the hassle. Now there is an official recommendation to wear facemasks as much as possible. Restaurants and bars close early. Fewer (thanks Stannis) people allowed in restaurants again. Gonna be a fun winter.
nbohr1more on 9/10/2020 at 13:04
Quote Posted by Renzatic
And of course it's not peer reviewed, because "peer" is just dog whistle for "deep state smear campaign."
It's being made public with the presumption that many scientists are aligned to China or their friends in the west.
Hopefully peers who are not aligned to China will review it...
Starker on 15/10/2020 at 05:44
The race is on: (
https://dangoodspeed.com/covid/total-cases-since-june)
Quote:
The numbers are the total confirmed normalized* cases per million for each state since June. A '10,000' means 1% of the state's population has tested positive of COVID since June 1. June 1 was chosen as it was around that time that countries worldwide that had been sucker-punched months before had the opportunity to apply proven preventative measures. It also provided an opportunity to contrast the resulting data with states' political affiliations, using the Cook Partisan Voting Index. The results suggest a strong correlation between a state's political leanings and its ability to employ proven science to slow the spread of COVID.
* "Normalization" means the abnormalities in the data were evened out. For example, if there were 10 days in a row of a few cases/deaths a day and then one day of 1000... that looks awful and frenetic on a chart like this, even when framed in a per-week display. In reality, that 1000 is just a backlog catch-up, so I normalized it by spreading the thousand over previous dates for a more even / more realistic data. It works similarly when the total number of cases/deaths drops one day. Likely a correction from a previous report, I just subtracted the difference over previous dates to numbers that are probably closer to reality.
heywood on 15/10/2020 at 11:57
That is a really cool infographic. I would love to see a world version using national data from worldometers.
demagogue on 15/10/2020 at 14:27
This is old news now, for me at least, but there's something really reaffirming when someone else tells you what you're going through and you're not trying to convince your doctor that what you're going through is a real thing.
I remember my cardiologist saying something like "no, there's no connection between arrhythmia and tinnitus" and "the tachycardia shouldn't be giving you vertigo. That doesn't happen." (I wouldn't even mention the blurry vision and skin hives because that sounded embarrassing to mention even to me, although it was obvious to me they were part of the same thing.) But seeing it all in one place, by an independent source and in such overlapping detail, there's something really reaffirming about it. It's hard to express how reaffirming it is after going through so many months not having any idea what was going on with me, what to expect, if it was just me, what was part of it and what was just a coincidence, and just not having any reaffirmation that what I was going through was a real thing.
What's crazy to me is that if it's true that 1/3 of cases get to this stage, that's already over 10 million people globally, the vast number of them I imagine still thinking what I was a few months ago.
Anyway, here's how this chart matches up to my case. It's almost shocking to me how much it overlaps.
(Incidentally, almost all of these have now ended several months ago now, about 4~6 months after the March onset, except for the annoying continuance of the tinnitus and blurry vision. So don't worry about me. This is just something reaffirming for me now thinking back on my time then.)
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https://i.imgur.com/JmR6Yqg.jpgSubJeff on 15/10/2020 at 23:08
I've talking about this risk from the start. \
Loads of cases. There is a case set specifically of doctors who've had Covid in the UK.
The greater risk is lifelong damage. It may be minor but if you get it at 20 who knows what the long term effect will be.
Gryzemuis on 16/10/2020 at 16:22
(
https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/16/coronavirus-daily-infections-hit-record-high-in-22-european-countries-13431636/?ito=socialmetrouktwitter)
22 Countries in Europe have hit a record "new infections per day". Higher numbers than what we had during the spring. (Not sure if that's true for Italy as well). Belgium and the Netherlands in the lead regarding "new infections per day per million inhabitants". I guess the fact that we now do more testing has some impact. But overall, it looks like this 2nd wave is gonna be bigger than the first wave. Luckily it seems the virus is now a little less deadly. Probably because doctors have learned more about how to deal with the virus. Still, people are dying. People are getting ill, with long-term effects.
I got 10 months of social isolation behind me. I've met with people a few times during the summer. Been out to a restaurant with friends 3 times. Sat on a terrace for an hour. Visited my parents three times. That was it for the year. I'm not looking forward to another 6 months of isolation. I quit my job last year, thinking I'll go look for a new job this year. Not gonna happen, I'm afraid. Fuck 2020.
