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Covid-19 will never become endemic.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155
saved 2022-01-16

Why Covid-19 will never become endemic
For most of the pandemic Australia has worked to contain the virus through evidence-based public health measures such as border closures, case finding, contact tracing, quarantine, social distancing, vaccines and, at times, lockdown. Sadly, the weaponisation of lockdown as a pointscoring issue and emotional trigger has led to a conflation of lockdown with all other public health measures, most of which do not impinge on freedoms. Denial is a major theme during the pandemic.

Step 1, order covid test yesterday on Amazon for overnight delivery so I can quickly test
Step 2, Amazon telling me after the delivery window is over that “it now arrives tomorrow”
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COVID may have killed significantly more people in the U.S. in the first two years of the pandemic than official records indicate, with as many as one overlooked death for every five recorded ones. That brings the total to nearly one million deaths just in 2020 and 2021.
That calculation comes from research published today in Science Advances that seeks to understand how many COVID deaths fell through the cracks of official reporting systems. The untallied cases show the burden of the …

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show
We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say

Me: "wow I have surprisingly little reaction to eating gluten this week"
Also me: "the brain fog and achiness from the COVID vaccine sucks, but why do I have all this acne suddenly"

Maybe there is hope.
"All of the death rates were higher in states where more people claimed to pray daily. Only cancer and COVID-19 were correlated significantly with Trump’s percentage of the vote."
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1…

from my link log —
FAQs on aerosol transmission of COVID-19.
https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols
saved 2020-10-06 https://dotat.at/:/8RYZW.html

FAQs on Protecting Yourself from Aerosol Transmission
FAQs on Protecting Yourself from COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission Shortcut to this page: https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols Version: 1.88, 13-Aug-2021 Click here to jump over the scientific & historical details and go straight to the recommendations, Click here for automatic translation into many l...

COVID masks were a defense in the virus' war on humanity.
ICE masks are a weapon in Trump's war on humanity.

Not Enough Workers for the Job - The American Prospect https://prospect.org/2026/03/19/understaff-workplace-business-covid-cvs-pharmacies-hotels-grocery-stores/

Not Enough Workers for the Job
Understaffing has become an epidemic in American workplaces of all kinds.

Earth is hotter than at any time in the last 125,000 years,
but the news media is moving on,
trying to keep on top of a fire hose of pressing news
—from the daily chaos of the Trump administration to the breaking developments in the war on Iran.
The shift in attention started during the COVID-19 pandemic and,
despite a temporary rebound,
has gathered pace in recent years:
Since its peak in 2021, global news coverage of climate change has dropped 38 p…

The Planet Is Overheating, But You Might Not Know It From the News - Inside Climate News
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos and Jeffrey Epstein.

It feels weird to me that they can estimate uncertainty to that degree of accuracy. https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116091704024541005

Universal-Nasenspray gegen Atemwegsinfekte: Meilenstein in Stanford erreicht
Forscher der Universität Stanford haben ein Nasenspray entwickelt, das im Laborversuch monatelangen Schutz gegen Covid-19 und Krankenhauskeime bietet.

Sequential Counterfactual Inference for Temporal Clinical Data: Addressing the Time Traveler Dilemma
Jingya Cheng, Alaleh Azhir, Jiazi Tian, Hossein Estiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21168 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21168 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21168
arXiv:2602.21168v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Counterfactual inference enables clinicians to ask "what if" questions about patient outcomes, but standard methods assume feature independence and simultaneous modifiability -- assumptions violated by longitudinal clinical data. We introduce the Sequential Counterfactual Framework, which respects temporal dependencies in electronic health records by distinguishing immutable features (chronic diagnoses) from controllable features (lab values) and modeling how interventions propagate through time. Applied to 2,723 COVID-19 patients (383 Long COVID heart failure cases, 2,340 matched controls), we demonstrate that 38-67% of patients with chronic conditions would require biologically impossible counterfactuals under naive methods. We identify a cardiorenal cascade (CKD -> AKI -> HF) with relative risks of 2.27 and 1.19 at each step, illustrating temporal propagation that sequential -- but not naive -- counterfactuals can capture. Our framework transforms counterfactual explanation from "what if this feature were different?" to "what if we had intervened earlier, and how would that propagate forward?" -- yielding clinically actionable insights grounded in biological plausibility.
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This is sort of a WTAF? moment: "and the effects of a sudden supply shock on US defense readiness have never been modeled." And we have the recent COVID SCS (Supply Chain Shock) that apparently didn't result in lessons learned. And so many discussions about rare earths and essential minerals and sourcing concerns, apparently more lessons unlearned. Somehow I think the WW II industrial strategists actually did think about these problems, but hey, it's not high tech AI-ba…

This is sort of a WTAF? moment: "and the effects of a sudden supply shock on US defense readiness have never been modeled." And we have the recent COVID SCS (Supply Chain Shock) that apparently didn't result in lessons learned. And so many discussions about rare earths and essential minerals and sourcing concerns, apparently more lessons unlearned. Somehow I think the WW II industrial strategists actually did think about these problems, but hey, it's not high tech AI-ba…

2024-25 COVID vaccine 80% effective against death, CDC estimates:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/2024-25-covid-vaccine-80-effective-against-death-cdc-estimates

on the reality of the covid pandemic : that never ended
🔁 https://brennan.day/the-pandemic-never-ended-we-only-pretend-it-did/

The Pandemic Never Ended. We Only Pretend it Did
Six years into COVID-19, the world has moved on while the virus continues to disable millions. An examination of the ongoing pandemic, long COVID, and our collective failure to prevent a mass disabling event.

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…

The Price of Denial
Early Warnings, Arrogant Dismissal, and the Lingering Cost of COVID's Immune Legacy

Heutzutage werden im #Fernsehen ja kaum noch die Abspänne gezeigt. In einem der seltenen Fälle habe ich gerade das hier entdeckt:
#Corona #Coronavirus

Treibhausgas: Saubere Luft während der Coronapandemie ließ Methananteil steigen
Als im Kampf gegen Covid-19 die Weltwirtschaft zum Stillstand kam, wurde die Luft messbar sauberer. Das hatte unerwartete Folgen für ein potentes Treibhausgas.

Day 13 of this cold. Flu/Covid test is negative. What mystery ailment has me in its clutches?

Captain COVID
bot by @…
No laws were broken in the making of this bot: let's not have humor lead to homicide.
#satire #potus45

There are two wolves inside you. You used to hardly ever get wolves, and two at a time would have been unthinkable. Covid really HAS weakened your immune system.

»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.

🄸ndus🅅alley

Endettement de la Confédération. On est Š 15% du PIB. Il y a 20 ans, c'était 25%. On a presque amorti le Covid, 15% c'était en 2017.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Universal-Nasenspray gegen Atemwegsinfekte: Meilenstein in Stanford erreicht

Während der #Coronapandemie sank die #Luftverschmutzung deutlich.
Eine Studie zeigt, dass dadurch weniger Hydroxyl Radikale entstanden, die normalerweise #Methan abbauen. In der Fo…

Treibhausgas: Saubere Luft während der Coronapandemie ließ Methananteil steigen
Als im Kampf gegen Covid-19 die Weltwirtschaft zum Stillstand kam, wurde die Luft messbar sauberer. Das hatte unerwartete Folgen für ein potentes Treibhausgas.

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

Reuters Legal (@legal.reuters.com)
The U.S. could deny migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border access to asylum under a newly finalized regulation drafted during the COVID-19 pandemic in President Donald Trump's first term. https://reut.rs/45lOW7P

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Universal-Nasenspray gegen Atemwegsinfekte: Meilenstein in Stanford erreicht

Happy covid-19 day to all that observe.

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…

ICE Has Been Detaining Native Americans In Minnesota

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Treibhausgas: Saubere Luft während der Coronapandemie ließ Methananteil steigen

Vancouver airport parkade might never be finished, construction halted 6 years ago
#YVR #Vancouver #airport #parking
“We see fewe…

Vancouver airport parkade might never be finished, construction halted 6 years ago
The parkade was part of a $9 billion expansion plan announced in 2018, but construction was halted in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.