ben-data.bsky.social
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I think we need proof of this
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I'd say the content itself serves nearly zero purpose for 99% of the population.
But the way it's presented is purely meant to create fear and anxiety. The account itself is designed to scare people.
Fear is a terrible messaging strategy for public health. It does more harm than good.
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Could be entirely animal sources...
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Gonna give it more and more time. Every tweet from Elon seems to reduce my interest in being there.
On tea, Davidsons yunnan black is my favorite straight black tea currently. And their ceylon op black is what I mix with hibiscus.
Extremely cheap tea, but I enjoy more than some very expensive teas
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For a non caffeine 'tea' I quite love ginger lemongrass. Sounds fairly similar to yours.
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I've been really enjoying a mix of a very intense black tea with dried hibiscus at a 1:1 ratio. Both 1 tbls per 18oz.
I make multiple cups each morning now.
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So you can throw ad nominems then? Apologize.
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Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇
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If you think that's an ad nominem then please never interact in the real world. It's dramatically more direct and hard than that.
I'll leave you in your anxiety.
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It's not confirmed. It's unknown still if there was animal contact. Your irrational anxiety is exactly what I said the tweet would cause. Thanks for proving my point
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And?
This type of tweet is neither breaking nor helpful. It just causes people to panic without any real information. It's akin to yelling fire in a crowded building. It's meant to cause fear, not inform.
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The design issues are also called "the real world". Yes intervention that should work in theory often fail when they encounter human behavior and cost/manpower issues.
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Not necessarily no. Not if the money can be spent in other ways for larger end results.
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You're literally explaining why filtration, as we try to do it in 2024, fails. The study is just the messenger.
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Doesn't look like Adelaide... 😜
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I've always used the term mobility to describe why flu basically died but covid didn't.
Human mobility dropped around 70%. That brought Reff under 1 for flu, not Covid19.
I wonder if the same drop in mobility would do similar to covid, now, with 2024 levels of immunity. Likely not as much still.
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We reduced death and severe disease by multiple orders of magnitude. It's now riskier for almost the entire population to drive a car, even with seat belts airbags and breaks.
The risk of death and long term issues are dramatically lower now.
My guess is you don't know just how low the risk is.
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It's possible a few were the same, just viral shedding.
Basically impossible to get a true reinfection in that period.
In Australia they'd genomically sequence things like this. Basically all were the same infection.
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You can test positive from viral shedding with pcr tests. Maybe even from rats potentially.
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Anecdotes are just that
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United is changing all of its cabins out to the new larger overhead bins that can accommodate roller carryons. So hopefully carry on space isn't a big issue in another few years.
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Already successful....
Twitter has more bots than ever?
They probably got rid of 10% of bots but 25% of active users. Oops.
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This guy is truly an embarrassment. Will he ever go away?
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Awesome
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I know almost no one who's had it 3 times yet. Even those who test regularly.
I know some have, but I can't believe the yearly attack rate is over 75% personally. Even that strikes me as too high now.
Most people I know have only had it once as far as they know.
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I always assumed the baseline scenario we should expect, unless data showed otherwise, was a 5th endemic and fairly low severity Coronavirus. The problem was dealing with the harm before it got there.
I've never understood why people expected dramatically different to occur.
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I believe only fun guys like this stuff
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I'm basing it on two things.
1. John's tweets here
2. Covid has definitely been getting milder in general due to increasing immunity in the past 18 months. So even if he was off a bit then, covid IFR would be lower now then it was then.
Obviously it's very hard to get a true flu IFR though.
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I think it's entirely possible 2024 sees flu deaths pass covid, IF it's a bigger flu year. Not just in the season, but for the full year.
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Flu IFR has been above covid IFR for a while. Orders of magnitude higher in younger groups in particular. But even for the full population it's been higher since... Early to mid 2022.
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Thanks! We'll see how this place goes. Hard to be worse than the other.