Fuck Lockdowns¡

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-05-03/macadamia-nut-prices-tumble/102292440

Wait what the fuck, that was

Macadamias will be cheaper as a global glut caused by COVID lockdowns and increased plantings, send farmgate prices tumbling.

like 3 years ago, why is this even a fucking thing, except some unhappy joker is just wanting to smear some shit¿

In 100 years from now, breaking news, arms manufacturers blame COVID-19 lockdowns for decrease in sales and mass murders, fuck¡

SCIENCE said:

AussieDJ said:

Keep it up.

Sure, that’s what them there RBA are doing,

KPMG’s chief economist Brendan Rynne says the cash rate may need to rise one more time to bring inflation back under control in a timely way.

right¿ Wait, what

“The continuation of wages growth around 4 per cent per annum without a corresponding increase in productivity means these input costs are directly adding to inflationary pressures in a circular fashion,” he argued.

the fuck¿

Oh shit did someone say “without a corresponding increase in productivity”, god damn, something almost like saying there’s a problem on supply side, wow¿¡

All good, just reap more lazy useless people like this and The Economy Must Grow just fine¡

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-03/advocates-call-for-long-covid-to-be-recognised-as-a-disability/102290446

Fuck Lockdowns ¡

I been reading some old research lastnight, and reading wiki pages to elucidate my ignorance, an explorative endeavor

that was after I quizzed my AI friend about certain things, it seems to point to more correct views, preferred explanations, had to push it some to look for the term injury in relation to long covid

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2033369

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-B%C3%B6tzinger_complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsal_nucleus_of_vagus_nerve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrinogen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medulla_oblongata

Almost $600 million spent on RATs in WA without ‘clear, considered and coordinated’ plan, report finds

roughbarked said:

Almost $600 million spent on RATs in WA without ‘clear, considered and coordinated’ plan, report finds

neat ‘insurance’ to assist with the transition from non-pharmaceutic hard-prophylaxis toward whatever it evolved into, and all were ‘delivered’ into the kingdom of pharmaceutic soft prophylaxis, maybe a hint of it put like that

transition said:

roughbarked said:

Almost $600 million spent on RATs in WA without ‘clear, considered and coordinated’ plan, report finds

neat ‘insurance’ to assist with the transition from non-pharmaceutic hard-prophylaxis toward whatever it evolved into, and all were ‘delivered’ into the kingdom of pharmaceutic soft prophylaxis, maybe a hint of it put like that

Imagine the same money spent on prevention and therefore preserving productivity potential.

SCIENCE said:

transition said:

roughbarked said:

Almost $600 million spent on RATs in WA without ‘clear, considered and coordinated’ plan, report finds

neat ‘insurance’ to assist with the transition from non-pharmaceutic hard-prophylaxis toward whatever it evolved into, and all were ‘delivered’ into the kingdom of pharmaceutic soft prophylaxis, maybe a hint of it put like that

Imagine the same money spent on prevention and therefore preserving productivity potential.

Think I’ve already done that.

Check Out This Surprising Thing There ¡

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05/02/covid-outbreak-cdc-annual-conference/

SCIENCE said:

Check Out This Surprising Thing There ¡

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05/02/covid-outbreak-cdc-annual-conference/

Dear oh dear.

SCIENCE said:

Check Out This Surprising Thing There ¡

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05/02/covid-outbreak-cdc-annual-conference/

by memory..

‘…the clearest example yet of the global situation…’

the deferral to the bigger picture

previous to that ..again by memory

‘…fewer than 100,000 cases….the lowest levels in two years…not being tracked…’ (meaning NFI how much disease there is, faded into normal)

again by memory…

‘…illustrates persistence of an evolving virus…’

again by memory..

‘…make masks as abundant as toilet paper…’

not the best comparison imo, but if secretly you wanted to associate it with wiping your arse

again by memory…

‘…conducting investigation will help understand transmission…’

what could possibly be learned by experts this late in the pandemic

getting tired of reading that, it makes all the right noises toward covid normal, for relaxed covid, the correct grunts

transition said:

SCIENCE said:

Check Out This Surprising Thing There ¡

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05/02/covid-outbreak-cdc-annual-conference/

by memory..

‘…the clearest example yet of the global situation…’

the deferral to the bigger picture

previous to that ..again by memory

‘…fewer than 100,000 cases….the lowest levels in two years…not being tracked…’ (meaning NFI how much disease there is, faded into normal)

again by memory…

‘…illustrates persistence of an evolving virus…’

again by memory..

‘…make masks as abundant as toilet paper…’

not the best comparison imo, but if secretly you wanted to associate it with wiping your arse

again by memory…

‘…conducting investigation will help understand transmission…’

what could possibly be learned by experts this late in the pandemic

getting tired of reading that, it makes all the right noises toward covid normal, for relaxed covid, the correct grunts

I wonder how effective toilet paper is for a mask for when you don’t have a mask.

One could wrap the toilet paper around ones head a few times.

It might look like a Egyptian mummy walking around.

But its a global pandemic so it shouldn’t matter.

Tau.Neutrino said:

transition said:

SCIENCE said:

Check Out This Surprising Thing There ¡

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05/02/covid-outbreak-cdc-annual-conference/

by memory..

‘…the clearest example yet of the global situation…’

the deferral to the bigger picture

previous to that ..again by memory

‘…fewer than 100,000 cases….the lowest levels in two years…not being tracked…’ (meaning NFI how much disease there is, faded into normal)

again by memory…

‘…illustrates persistence of an evolving virus…’

again by memory..

‘…make masks as abundant as toilet paper…’

not the best comparison imo, but if secretly you wanted to associate it with wiping your arse

again by memory…

‘…conducting investigation will help understand transmission…’

what could possibly be learned by experts this late in the pandemic

getting tired of reading that, it makes all the right noises toward covid normal, for relaxed covid, the correct grunts

I wonder how effective toilet paper is for a mask for when you don’t have a mask.

One could wrap the toilet paper around ones head a few times.

It might look like a Egyptian mummy walking around.

But its a global pandemic so it shouldn’t matter.

probably read something about reflexivity and were hypnotized previously

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexivity_(social_theory)

transition said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

transition said:

by memory..

‘…the clearest example yet of the global situation…’

the deferral to the bigger picture

previous to that ..again by memory

‘…fewer than 100,000 cases….the lowest levels in two years…not being tracked…’ (meaning NFI how much disease there is, faded into normal)

again by memory…

‘…illustrates persistence of an evolving virus…’

again by memory..

‘…make masks as abundant as toilet paper…’

not the best comparison imo, but if secretly you wanted to associate it with wiping your arse

again by memory…

‘…conducting investigation will help understand transmission…’

what could possibly be learned by experts this late in the pandemic

getting tired of reading that, it makes all the right noises toward covid normal, for relaxed covid, the correct grunts

I wonder how effective toilet paper is for a mask for when you don’t have a mask.

One could wrap the toilet paper around ones head a few times.

It might look like a Egyptian mummy walking around.

But its a global pandemic so it shouldn’t matter.

probably read something about reflexivity and were hypnotized previously

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexivity_(social_theory)

Yes, your right. They were told to stay home and it would have passed.

Disinformation Agents Never Heard Of Convertibles

SCIENCE said:

Disinformation Agents Never Heard Of Convertibles

same dickheads that removed the airfilters from their car engines

sort of equivalent stupid

SCIENCE said:

transition said:

roughbarked said:

Almost $600 million spent on RATs in WA without ‘clear, considered and coordinated’ plan, report finds

neat ‘insurance’ to assist with the transition from non-pharmaceutic hard-prophylaxis toward whatever it evolved into, and all were ‘delivered’ into the kingdom of pharmaceutic soft prophylaxis, maybe a hint of it put like that

Imagine the same money spent on prevention and therefore preserving productivity potential.

gets some twitchin’
‘em spasms are ya friends
yeah tremors’n shit
neurons fried or ya’s dead?
just a flu said listen
nah is not very pathogenic
is unwell for little bit
turn into mass injury event
must be preexisting
vulnerability truth so’s bent
sure’s inconvenient
don’ts be worryin’t ya head
worldist they helpin’
with answers all economic
plenty of Darwinian
lots of injury they done lets
the healthy do wins
inevitable evolution you bet
endemicity’s callin’t

Well you could argue about the seriousness…

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3377624/dod-investing-in-wearable-technology-that-could-rapidly-predict-disease/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-04/heavy-rain-floods-kill-at-least-135-in-rwanda-and-uganda/102305378

SCIENCE said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-04/heavy-rain-floods-kill-at-least-135-in-rwanda-and-uganda/102305378

What’s this got to do with Covid?

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-04/heavy-rain-floods-kill-at-least-135-in-rwanda-and-uganda/102305378

What’s this got to do with Covid?

It’s good news, at least 135 people saved from dying of SARACAIDS-CoV.

Actually we’ve worked this one out¡

So they were going to end the emergency or something in a few days, but just like the Russia-Ukraine squabble, they needed a plausible assassination attempt to retaliate against.

⚠ actually we think they’re just fucking stupid like everyone else but still, wouldn’t be surprised if this turned out to be partially the case

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-04/heavy-rain-floods-kill-at-least-135-in-rwanda-and-uganda/102305378

What’s this got to do with Covid?

It’s good news, at least 135 people saved from dying of SARACAIDS-CoV.

ultimate injury that prevents all further injury, any further injury

SCIENCE said:

I think people got all weird (read that as casual deception) with denial through deresponsibility regard covid, and given part of that was shifting covid into the category of common cold including influenza, the relaxation if you will wasn’t confined to just covid, but amplified relaxation across the entire category, after the category was adjusted to include covid

but you know covid is a model worldist

welcome herd impunity scaled up

transition said:

welcome herd impunity scaled up

Typo or genius pun?

dv said:

transition said:

welcome herd impunity scaled up

Typo or genius pun?

probably dumb pun, though meant it literally

Proof That Communism Is Far Inferior To STEMocracy

RCR but then again

so guess it really was a good study, needed to prove that mask wearers weren’t magically immune, it was actually a difference during the masking phase.

LOL Did We Not Tell You

Buy¡ Buy¡ Buy¡

The trouble with calling it all ॐicron is that

it’s all ॐicron¡

Fun Is Back¡

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/first-monkeypox-case-found-in-sydney-since-november/news-story/c2a7cb0328eadc395e572316edafb237

NSW Health has identified the first case of mpox in the state in six months as it issues an urgent warning for one group.

SCIENCE said:

The trouble with calling it all ॐicron is that

it’s all ॐicron¡

gets ya some covid soup, mate, gets yaself some immunity soup too, yummy soup, it’s free, free of warranty or guarantee, try some, take off that mask, take a deep breath, swap some air, it’s just air, transparent air, honest air

SCIENCE said:

The trouble with calling it all ॐicron is that

it’s all ॐicron¡

needs some nice graphs for long covid now, where are they, a look at the injury profile and frequency, of that innocuous little fucker that is covid, so contagious that people went about eliminating any evidence of it not being so contagious, what a fucken turn of lunacy that was

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-04/heavy-rain-floods-kill-at-least-135-in-rwanda-and-uganda/102305378

What’s this got to do with Covid?

It’s good news, at least 135 people saved from dying of SARACAIDS-CoV.

Another Life Saved ¡

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-05/department-of-education-port-fairy-pool-charged-after-boy-drowns/102308984

It’s all over now.
puts arm around SCIENCE

Come on lets go and have a nice cup of tea and talk about something else.
How do you think Steve Smith will go in the Ashes this year?

Peak Warming Man said:

It’s all over now.
puts arm around SCIENCE

Come on lets go and have a nice cup of tea and talk about something else.
How do you think Steve Smith will go in the Ashes this year?

KTHXBAI

SCIENCE said:

Peak Warming Man said:

It’s all over now.
puts arm around SCIENCE

Come on lets go and have a nice cup of tea and talk about something else.
How do you think Steve Smith will go in the Ashes this year?

KTHXBAI

Paging SCIENCE, Paging SCIENCE. Could SCIENCE please make your way to the office?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgubA8BF3CM
Excess deaths in UK rise

watching^

transition said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgubA8BF3CM
Excess deaths in UK rise

watching^

Should that be in the Coronation thread?

Peak Warming Man said:

transition said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgubA8BF3CM
Excess deaths in UK rise

watching^

Should that be in the Coronation thread?

Ventilation in Buildings Summary of Recent Changes

read that below, and one other older
https://theconversation.com/covid-fatigue-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-could-help-people-manage-persistent-symptoms-new-research-205365

https://theconversation.com/three-in-five-long-covid-patients-have-organ-damage-a-year-after-infection-200013

and where’s SCIENCE these days, since PWM seems to have pissed him off

anyways, looks a lot like the sort of infection no sane person would want floating around, characterized as like a common cold or flu

but it’s the way of the world, just a little bit of continuing mass injury, and death, quite tolerable if you apply your mind to it, have correct notions to make it so, blunted moral faculties might help

WHO advisers recommend switch to monovalent XBB COVID vaccine.
The World Health Organization (WHO) COVID vaccine composition advisory group met last week to discuss the latest SARS-CoV-2 changes and impacts on the vaccine and today recommended that vaccine makers drop the ancestral strain and switch to a monovalent (single-strain) vaccine that contains an XBB.1 descendant lineage such as XBB.1.5.

In other developments, the WHO said overall global cases and deaths continue to decline, but the situation still reflects a mixed picture at the regional level.

Better response needed against XBB lineages
In a statement, the advisory group said current vaccines continue to provide substantial protection against severe illness and death, but new formulations are needed to protect against symptomatic disease.

They noted that XBB descendant lineages, including XBB.1.5 and XBB.1.16, are highly immune-evasive, with XBB.1.5 as one of the variants with the highest magnitude of immune escape from neutralizing antibodies. They acknowledged, however, that vaccine efficacy (VE) estimates against circulating strains are limited, with some studies showing VE similar to BA.5 and others showing reduced VE against XBB.1 lineages.

Meanwhile, studies involving blood samples of people who had two to four mRNA vaccine doses showed substantially lower neutralization against XBB.1 lineages. But people with hybrid immunity—from both infection and vaccination—had higher antibody titers against XBB.1 viruses.

The group said there is in vitro evidence of immune imprinting—when memory B cells after initially encountering an antigen have a reduced response to new antigens. “However, based on observational epidemiological studies to date, the clinical impact remains unclear,” they wrote.

Preclinical data on XBB.1 candidate vaccines, shared confidentially by vaccine makers, showed a higher neutralizing antibody response to current subvariants compared with currently approved vaccines.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/who-advisers-recommend-switch-monovalent-xbb-covid-vaccine

Bubblecar, have a word with MV; he’s got an Excel spreadsheet with details of food energy content per serve, with a column for what’s going in your meal for now, so you can keep track of it.

btm said:

Bubblecar, have a word with MV; he’s got an Excel spreadsheet with details of food energy content per serve, with a column for what’s going in your meal for now, so you can keep track of it.

I’ve no idea how that ended up in here. It was meant for chat.

btm said:

btm said:

Bubblecar, have a word with MV; he’s got an Excel spreadsheet with details of food energy content per serve, with a column for what’s going in your meal for now, so you can keep track of it.

I’ve no idea how that ended up in here. It was meant for chat.

pfft. loser.

btm said:

Bubblecar, have a word with MV; he’s got an Excel spreadsheet with details of food energy content per serve, with a column for what’s going in your meal for now, so you can keep track of it.

I already have lots of that info, thanks btm. And typing a specific food and calories in Google will usually get you the answer (or look it up on Fat Secret or other calorie databases).

I’m planning daily menus in advance using relatively few ingredients, so it’s quite easy to do.

just read this work of artful associationism, has me wonder again if ideology didn’t work through what an understander predictably would or will associate this with that, if it didn’t patronize the ‘integrity’ of a persons conceptual categories, reinforce them, save individual work across the categories, would it work at all much

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/17/long-covid-symptoms-and-pandemic-s-aftermath-what-we-know-now/2d55fbce-f46a-11ed-918d-012572d64930_story.html

I reads a fact check
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/05/19/covid-19-vaccine-not-proven-to-cause-brain-damage-fact-check/70229793007/

and the full version of the original article address below
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.04.535604v1.full

not sure that fact check effort was entirely to it

one might speculate covid spike protein is very unfriendly to many people, no matter how it is induced

I notice also that policies that push for herd immunity and mass infection produce a lot of spike protein

and to help take your mind off the reality of covid being a dementia accelerant, you can find reassurance in the possibility, and likelihood for sure, there still exists examples of dementia progression unrelated to covid

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-teen-thought-she-had-brain-fog-due-to-long-covid-it-turned-out-to-be-dementia-4050606

Person, woman, man, camera, TV.

Covid, Virus, Spreading, World, Universe.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Person, woman, man, camera, TV.

Covid, Virus, Spreading, World, Universe.

Purple monkey dishwasher…

Been doing COVID RAT’s from last night. I was feeling very weary and had the chills. I was running a bit of a temperature and felt very cold.
This morning I’m feeling better but still a little colder than I’d like to be – Normally I’m okay down to about 15° wearing my standard uniform of shorts and a t-shirt but not so right now.

Spiny Norman said:

Been doing COVID RAT’s from last night. I was feeling very weary and had the chills. I was running a bit of a temperature and felt very cold.
This morning I’m feeling better but still a little colder than I’d like to be – Normally I’m okay down to about 15° wearing my standard uniform of shorts and a t-shirt but not so right now.

Have you picked up COVID?

Michael V said:

Spiny Norman said:

Been doing COVID RAT’s from last night. I was feeling very weary and had the chills. I was running a bit of a temperature and felt very cold.
This morning I’m feeling better but still a little colder than I’d like to be – Normally I’m okay down to about 15° wearing my standard uniform of shorts and a t-shirt but not so right now.

Have you picked up COVID?

We’re not sure yet. The RAT indicated no, but they aren’t exactly the most reliable test.
If I do have it, it’s likely to be from Spocky & I helping a woman that a car accident pretty much right in front of us. It was near us so a fairly quiet street.
We ran over to help, and forgot to put masks on before we did so. She needed an ambulance (having minor epileptic seizures and going unconscious for a short while a few times) And I had to stay there with her until help arrived.

Spiny Norman said:

Michael V said:

Spiny Norman said:

Been doing COVID RAT’s from last night. I was feeling very weary and had the chills. I was running a bit of a temperature and felt very cold.
This morning I’m feeling better but still a little colder than I’d like to be – Normally I’m okay down to about 15° wearing my standard uniform of shorts and a t-shirt but not so right now.

Have you picked up COVID?

We’re not sure yet. The RAT indicated no, but they aren’t exactly the most reliable test.
If I do have it, it’s likely to be from Spocky & I helping a woman that a car accident pretty much right in front of us. It was near us so a fairly quiet street.
We ran over to help, and forgot to put masks on before we did so. She needed an ambulance (having minor epileptic seizures and going unconscious for a short while a few times) And I had to stay there with her until help arrived.

If you had to stand around in the night in your shorts and tshirt, you may have got a chill?

roughbarked said:

Spiny Norman said:

Michael V said:

Have you picked up COVID?

We’re not sure yet. The RAT indicated no, but they aren’t exactly the most reliable test.
If I do have it, it’s likely to be from Spocky & I helping a woman that a car accident pretty much right in front of us. It was near us so a fairly quiet street.
We ran over to help, and forgot to put masks on before we did so. She needed an ambulance (having minor epileptic seizures and going unconscious for a short while a few times) And I had to stay there with her until help arrived.

If you had to stand around in the night in your shorts and tshirt, you may have got a chill?

Nah it was around the middle of the day.

Another negative RAT, so that’s good.

Spiny Norman said:

Another negative RAT, so that’s good.

Bubblecar said:

Spiny Norman said:

Another negative RAT, so that’s good.

:)

5th wave of air-borne disease coming.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-23/covid-omicron-fifth-wave-winter-2023/102374504

Tau.Neutrino said:

5th wave of air-borne disease coming.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-23/covid-omicron-fifth-wave-winter-2023/102374504

read that earlier, the possessive australia’s crossed my mind to be neat dissolving of alternative ways of perceiving, or conceiving it, sort of sounds like the national perspective re local relevance, focus that way, which i’m sure it is, surely unlikely a device for any other purpose

global pandemic, national wave

i’ll read it again..

approaching probably assume well into it

‘…how is the rest of the nation tracking…’ sounds like talk about a wheel alignment

‘…doesn’t depend on how many cased there are, but rather that there is a surge in numbers…’ small wave, big wave, background infection numbers between waves, it’s all relative, relativity is your friend

‘…what will the fifth wave look like…’ mostly invisible i’d expect, like the virus is not visible to the naked eye, and most of everything in the universe is not visible, and who’d want it to be

‘…if they get infection at all, will get it only mildly to moderately if at all…’ maybe ignore the injuries related variously sequelae, long covid too, it’s only mild to moderate, make what you will of only as used in that paraphrased or whatever

‘…the virus is running out of ways to mutate and evade our immunity…’ is it?, and I guess if repeat infections don’t hammer the immune systems of a lot of people, make people less healthy, less fit. Make what you will of the inclusive our in our immunity, speaker for the greater organism I expect, a herd perspective

‘…finding occasional subtle ways to be different…’ just occasionally, no worries

‘…each infectious disease effects people differently depending on their age and where they live…’ not sure if much or any useful information in that, but I could say something like that if wanted to say something that seemed substantial but said not much, helps if it’s a little bit true of course, and it is

‘…regional areas where you seldom have contact with other people…’ which would be uncommonly reclusive and solitary I expect

mutterings about next five sentences being contradictory and perhaps worse if I bothered over it

but I won’t

I has me more reads
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/immunologist-akiko-iwasaki-we-are-not-done-with-covid-not-even-close

more that 65million with long covid, a startling number reportedly, and I wonder what it would be if that was a serious understatement, underestimate or whatever it is, if it were, then you’d have something else really

I dunno, maybe it would help with normalizing a misrepresentation, normalizing an understatement

but it could be technically correct that number, any number above 65million is more than 65 million, it could be nearer 650million and be technically correct, ten times as startling I guess

are you startled?

I expect not, probably few people are, really, perhaps largely desensitized might be a more appropriate term, how could a program toward herd immunity and endemicity increase sensitivity

anyway i’ll continue reading the good work, see if I get more startled

transition said:

I has me more reads
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/immunologist-akiko-iwasaki-we-are-not-done-with-covid-not-even-close

more that 65million with long covid, a startling number reportedly, and I wonder what it would be if that was a serious understatement, underestimate or whatever it is, if it were, then you’d have something else really

I dunno, maybe it would help with normalizing a misrepresentation, normalizing an understatement

but it could be technically correct that number, any number above 65million is more than 65 million, it could be nearer 650million and be technically correct, ten times as startling I guess

are you startled?

I expect not, probably few people are, really, perhaps largely desensitized might be a more appropriate term, how could a program toward herd immunity and endemicity increase sensitivity

anyway i’ll continue reading the good work, see if I get more startled

read the rest of that, sounds a lot like something nasty you wouldn’t want getting around, an injurious pathogen, highly injurious