Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog
Dark-eyed juncos living in urbanized Los Angeles have shorter bills than juncos in nearby natural areas— but while UCLA was closed for COVID-19 safety, campus juncos evolved longer bills again
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520996122
When it's observable that the very rich are steadily growing richer while the vast majority of people are growing poorer, it's obvious that the tax system is not neutral: it is actively redistributing wealth upwards. For the tax system to be neutral, it MUST tax the very rich much more. To do so is not redistributive, at least until it actively causes a net movement of wealth towards the poor: rather it is simply neutral.
For years, Sen. Ron Johnson has been spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and the safety of vaccines.
He’s promoted disproven treatments for COVID-19
and claimed, without evidence, that athletes are “dropping dead on the field” after getting the COVID-19 vaccination.
Now the Wisconsin politician is endorsing a book by a discredited doctor promoting an unproven and dangerous treatment for autism and a host of ailments:
chlorine dioxide, a chem…
Captain COVID
bot by @…
No laws were broken in the making of this bot: let's not have humor lead to homicide.
#satire #potus45
Eindelijk wordt de immuunschade van het Sara-Cov-2 virus erkend. Maar tegelijk worden degenen die het altijd maar onzin vonden en mensen die het wel tijdig zagen belachelijk maakten, witgewassen.
https://www.easychair.info/p/the-p…
Another unforeseen effect of COVID-19 vaccination has been detected.
Wait for it.
It reduces the incidence of autism (and other neurodevelopmental disorders).
Feierabend.
Next: Kein Spocht /o\
Weil ich wegen meiner Erkältung heute einen Multi-Test auf COVID-19 und Grippe gemacht habe und der Indikator für COVID-19 innerhalb von Sekunden rot wurde 🙄🙄🙄
Die #Kfz-Branche erwartet 2026 rund 700.000 neue #Elektroautos in Deutschland.
Das wäre ein Plus von etwa 30 Prozent gegenüber 2025. Der Anteil batterieelektrischer #Fahrzeuge an den
"Cough into your bent elbow, or use a tissue and dispose of it afterwards in the nearest bin."
I find it astonishing how many people don't bother, or don't know about this elementary precaution.
How to avoid catching flu, COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses this winter – UK Health Security Agency
»Die verstärkten Cyberangriffe während der COVID-19-Pandemie haben gezeigt, wie anfällig zunehmend interdependente Gesellschaften für Risiken mit geringer Eintrittswahrscheinlichkeit sind.«
Ich lese in "Richtlinie (EU) 2022/2555 über Maßnahmen für ein hohes gemeinsames Cybersicherheitsniveau in der Union". Den meisten hier wahrscheinlich besser bekannt als NIS-2.
Last season’s updated vaccine provides significant protection against covid-19,
particularly against severe illness and death.
The results reaffirm the benefit of staying current with covid vaccination.
Researchers analyzed data from approximately 1.8 million Americans between August 2024 and April 2025,
of whom only about 13 percent received the 2024–2025 coronavirus shot.
They evaluated three clinical outcomes related to the disease: infections, emergency departm…
Crosslisted article(s) found for q-bio.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.GN/new
[1/1]:
- Murmur2Vec: A Hashing Based Solution For Embedding Generation Of COVID-19 Spike Sequences
Sarwan Ali, Taslim Murad
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) introduced legislation on Wednesday seeking to
reverse the Trump administration's new childhood vaccine schedule that has alarmed health experts.
The measure, an amendment to an appropriations package currently under consideration by Congress,
would prohibit any funds going to the Health and Human Services Department from being used to implement the changes,
which removed the HPV, RSV, Rotavirus, COVID-19, Flu, Hepatitis A & B and Men…
OTD 5 years ago, I posted this:
So, in the last 24 hours we had
- Zombie minks in Denmark
- almost 400 km/h wind,
- thunderstorms and lightning in Iceland
Either someone is playing an updated version of Jumanji, or some Nordic director is shooting a video clip for a "Thriller"/"Bohemian Rhapsody" remix.
Heute bzw. jetzt schon gestern über den Mittag zum #Impfen gewesen und auf dem Rückweg trotz #Frostpendeln Saison draussen in der Sonne 'n Falafel-Dürüm genossen. Wie üblich mit dem #Faltrad am Tisch und…
Fenster auf!!! Ist gut für die Wirtschaft.
#Covid #LongCovid
"Dass die Zahl der Viren nicht nur mit hoher CO₂-Konzentration korreliert, sondern sie bei hohen Kohlendioxid-Anteilen in der Luft auch länger überleben, wissen selbst viele Ärzte nicht. Dabei ist der Zusammenhang von CO₂…
Heutzutage werden im #Fernsehen ja kaum noch die Abspänne gezeigt. In einem der seltenen Fälle habe ich gerade das hier entdeckt:
#Corona #Coronavirus
UK government continues to communicate the current bird flu status by amending a 2022 news item. (Because if there's one thing covid taught us about communicating the status of a multi-year unplanned event, it's... been lost to attrition.)
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/…
73 trick or treaters this year. Lowest year since the neighborhood was finished 28 years ago, except for the Covid year 2020.
I think Trunk or Treat and other organized events are superceding the traditional door to door Halloween.
More candy left for me.
Posting this here for others with #LongCovid.
One of the things I've done this year is rule out potential other causes of my symptoms (imaging, blood work, neurological testing). This, in addition to treating symptoms as best I can (insomnia, brain fog, joint pain, double vision, tinnitus, hearing loss, etc.).
This fall, I wrapped up with neurology (I didn't want to, a…
The hard right covid deniers, now frothing away on Musk's site, are far too uneducated to understand this excellent cartoon. And that includes Claire Fox, on Newsnight.
Très dangereux le Dr Khadir, et encore une fois la complexité du sujet par un simple article dans le journal enlève beaucoup de nuances.
Y'a pas une seule maladie dans le monde qui demande un traitement de ces mêmes antibiotiques sur plusieurs mois ou années. Ca va contre tous les principes de médecine. C'est d'un ridicule absolu que ça soit encore débattu, c'est extrèmement dangereux (pas juste un "problème gastrique")
Excellent keynote by @… from this year's @… on the UK's app for Covid tracing:
https://
Flu and Covid immunization upgrades installed! Let's heckin' go! 💪🏻
In Nov 2019, some relatives flew in from Milan and stayed at my home for a few days.
By the third day I developed a very high (39 ) fever with dry cough that lasted a couple days and then was gone.
To this day, I believe that was COVID-19 and I had it before it was cool.
The COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives globally during the pandemic
could help spark the immune system to fight cancer.
This is the surprising takeaway of a new study published in the journal Nature.
While developing mRNA vaccines for patients with brain tumors in 2016, our team, led by pediatric oncologist Elias Sayour, discovered that mRNA can train immune systems to kill tumors – even if the mRNA is not related to cancer.
Based on this finding…
#idw #Corona-Pandemie traf #Geflüchtete besonders hart
Psychische Erkrankungen, Verletzungen und andere Erkrankungen nahmen in Flüchtlingsunterkünften während der Covid-19-Pandemie deutlich zu. Forschende de…
[x] covid 5G firmware update
Trump und/oder RFK:
- flößen Schwangeren Angst vor einem sicheren Arzneimittel ein
- schränken die Empfehlung für COVID-19-Impfungen ohne Evidenz ein
- besetzen wichtige Gremien mit Wissenschaftsfeinden
- verlangen ein Treuegelöbnis von Universitäten
#GWUP: "Lasst uns euch erklären wieso Trump eigentlich ganz cool ist, coole Politik macht und die republikanische Pa…
"ME/CFS ist eine Ansammlung trauriger Superlative: Der Guardian nennt den Umgang mit der Krankheit den größten Medizinskandal des 21. Jahrhunderts, sie ist Studien zufolge eine der schwerwiegendsten chronischen Krankheiten überhaupt und die Krankheit mit der verhältnismäßig geringsten Forschung." #MECFS #LongCovid
We initially set out to write a
David-vs.-Goliath narrative
about the town’s response to the
COVID crisis.
But there came a turning point
at which we realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany than COVID-19.
They were about #race and #power.
In the week…
"The study’s authors emphasized that, as an observational study, the findings do not prove that covid-19 causes the conditions diagnosed in children, but rather signal an association between maternal infection and these outcomes. "
Covid in pregnancy tied to autism, developmental issues, study says - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/eSFKO
Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days,
accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses.
The Utah plastic surgeon faced up to 35 years in prison if the jury found him guilty
on charges that included conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Testimony had paused for the weekend when Moore’s lawyer called him early one Saturday this July
with what felt to him like unbelievable news.
U.S. Attorney Gener…
More people have now downloaded the GOV.UK app than died of Covid-19 in the UK. A remarkable achievement.
The U.S. may deny migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border access to asylum under a newly finalized regulation drafted during the COVID-19 pandemic in Donald Trump's first term.
https://bsky.app/profile/legal.reuters.com/post/3mb5ct5yzol2j
The leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a far stricter course for federal vaccine approvals,
following claims from his team that Covid vaccines were linked to the deaths of at least 10 children.
Experts suggest the announcement will make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
Dr Vinay Prasad, whose vaccine policy direction has been supported by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, told FDA staff that…
Wenn der Bund bei Crédit Suisse zahlen muss, hat der Bund Milliarden-Kosten, die ähnliche Dimensionen wie Covid erreichen
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/karin-keller-sutter-verhaengnisvoller-satz-bei-ubs-cs-fusion-858083236201
Gerade einen Account hier gesehen der immer noch für jede seiner COVID Impfungen ein 💉 Emoji im Accountnamen(!!) hatte. War dann auch mit Zeilenumbruch. Fediverse halt. ✌️
Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi.
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
https://buff.ly/16gTRJa
COVID vaccines protect children from severe illness per CDC.
⬇️76% reduced risk of ER visits in kids 9 mo. to 4 years
⬇️56% reduced risk of ER visits in kids 5 - 17 years
-- @drruth.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/atranscendedman.bsky.social/po…
There’s an unwritten rule in publishing,
or so I’ve been told:
don’t write about COVID.
Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners of apartments, staring out at a world we could no longer take part in.
When the worst of it passed, we felt an urge to close that chapter, to padlock it behind a heavy latch.
But in doing so, we also tuck away the hard-won lessons of that time:
how quickly s…
🤧 Wenn ihr erkältet seid, macht einen #Corona-Test!
💉 Ansonsten lasst euch gegen #Grippe und #Covid impfen.
#Flu
Through mid-October, IHS had published far fewer posts on Facebook promoting vaccine clinics this year than last.
And in those posts as well as other notices, it replaced language touting immunization’s benefits
with wording that frames both routine childhood vaccinations and annual flu and COVID-19 shots as a personal choice,
advising patients to consult health care providers about their “options regarding vaccines.”
Current and former IHS clinicians told ProPublica…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday
he is deploying the state’s National Guard to help staff food banks
amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
Newsom said the move mirrors steps he took during the COVID-19 pandemic a few years ago.
He warned that the prolonged shutdown
— now in its 22nd day
— could disrupt California’s CalFresh program,
which provides food benefits to about 5.5 million residents.
@pre@boing.world
