A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org

@TomWellborn@universeodon.com https://www.sciencenews.org/article/superconductor-room-temperature-scrutiny

Time will tell

@JoePajak

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/from-our-experts/johns-hopkins-to-cease-live-covid-19-data-reporting-on-march-10

The Day The Data Died

Don't forget to set your clocks ahead an hour in most of the US this weekend.

I normally never say this to anyone, but I've found a LOT of people seem to think that Congress ended the twice a year time shenanigans last year. They didn't. The Senate passed it, but the House never even took it up.

@fritzoids

Yeah that's always best. As much as we like to think there's "the best one" out there for everyone it just doesn't work that way. I've done some fairly unorthodox stuff to get a good fit at times over the last few years.

The Elipse ended up being the best elastomeric for me that I've tried, and I tried a few before settling on it.

@sherrig312

I'm so sorry for your family's loss. May Nick RIP.

@fritzoids @ckkellymartin @dioneira

Big fan of my GVS Elipse. Hopefully yours works out for you!

@augieray

Finally an article that speaks on so many of the ignored issues, including probably THE biggest one of the moment. What a sucker society we are that we're letting them divide and conquer us again.

"It's only right wing anti-vaxxers who are dying. Who cares?"

"Long COVID's just a psychosomatic issue with liberals."

Two years ago we were getting checks from the government, nearly wiping out childhood poverty, and that same government was paying for a big chunk of your health care. Now we're on the verge of, literally, nothing once the emergency declaration ends. Instead of being mad at them they've divided and conquered the nation once again.

With the authors being a medical anthropologist and a public health practitioner I don't know if I'd be caught bagging publicly on Michael Olseson, who's an actual board certified infectious disease epidemiologist with a work history of pandemic preparation, but, OK.

Anyway. Chalk another win up for manipulating the ever gullible American public.

@faab64 @fitterhappierAJ

I'm not going to take credit for this, nor do I know who to credit, but I saw a description of the US recently that said "50 third world countries stuck together that pool their money for a giant military" and I think it's disturbingly apt at times.

@voron

Yes, beware of the party that makes their identity "not fascists" because they can do anything short of that without reprisal.

"The mayor of NYC, recently knighted by the Biden administration, has taken up a crusade against masking. He suggests mask use helps criminals by telling shops that they shouldn’t let in people wearing a mask."

https://easychair.substack.com/p/the-war-on-masks

The "science" of constant reinfection laid out by @fitterhappierAJ

@voron

The loophole is that if they really cared they would have passed it when they controlled the House. Everything they propose this year, that they didn't last year, is more than likely just theatrics that they'd like people to believe they care about.

@tomkindlon

I'd just like to point out the link between this and another post from this morning for those paying attention.

https://zeroes.ca/@adolfor20/109993032800694641

https://blog.designsforhealth.com/node/892

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056568/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00044/full

@StillIRise1963

And, yet, people are still surprised they're often anxious and depressed.

@pbump

I think this just backs up something I've been thinking about for a while now. Woke doesn't have a real meaning at this point in time as there's not much of a shared definition across society at large. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

What got me thinking about it was that my wife's ~90yo grandfather asked her what it meant late last year. When she explained he said "Nah, it can't be that because they're always talking about it as being evil on Fox."

Even given a common definition a large chunk of people aren't going to accept it as that at this point.

@driusan

Unfortunately @tylerblack32 doesn't seem to have stuck here on Mastodon, but this is essentially what he's been saying all along. Great to have more data on it!

@deonandan

Great info, but I'd argue not more complicated or unexpected. Just as smokers have general worse COVID outcomes, I would expect people exposed to more air pollution to have worse outcomes.

I hope someday clean air is thought of the way we think of clean water today. Sure is taking us a long time to get there, though.

@adolfor20

It's always kind of shocking to me when you talk to people who have had long COVID for years and have figured out the role of the vagus nerve on their own, versus doctors who almost never discuss it.

@noyes @trendless

I'm afraid that's correct at this point.

@augieray @carlos

Very well said.

@trendless @subjacentish @nb_covid_info

Yes. That is why. All of the air is taken up by vaxx vs anti-vaxx in this space.

I've mentioned before that I try to rarely say the "v" word at all. I came to the conclusion a year or two ago now from my scientific journal reading that both anti-vaxx and endless vaccines are bad, for very different reasons. If it weren't a non-stop vaxx vs anti-vaxx fight I think the science could have been more clear by now, but there's not a lot of people who want to look too deeply into it and feed an anti-vaxx narrative.

It'd be nice if we could just have good science and good decisions that didn't rely on political or marketing calculations, but we don't, so this is another situation we're all on our own with. The science, frankly, isn't fully developed, so it's hard to make concrete decisions at this point, but, it's made so much worse in that it can't even be discussed openly. Nuance is hard and people don't generally take the time to understand shades of good and bad when making decisions, unfortunately, so they're looking for a line in the sand with a good and a bad side and there's plenty of people willing to give them that.