Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)

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sadmanbarty

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luka said:
Does this mean you're reconsidering your let grandma die stance?

I asked vimothy where he stood on that btw and he says we should save grandma. I wasn't sure which way he'd go.
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i never said let grandma die. don't know enough about it all to have a serious opinion about it.
 
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I asked vimothy where he stood on that btw and he says we should save grandma. I wasn't sure which way he'd go.
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speaking of vim's opinions he retweeted something the other day along the lines of:

the woke left are stupid. the alt right are smarter but have no morals. the world needs people who are smart but not immoral"
 
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sadmanbarty said:
speaking of vim's opinions he retweeted something the other day along the lines of:

the woke left are stupid. the alt right are smarter but have no morals. the world needs people who are smart but not immoral"
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I saw poetix retweet the same thing but to condemn it funnily enough.
 
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They're both guitar shredding death metal loving computer programmers and family men but their politics are a bit different
 
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the alt right are like rap nerds. cast dispersions on everything and never give your hand away so as to protect a fragile veneer of intellectual superiority.
 
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Coronavirus may have infected half of UK population — Oxford study

The new coronavirus may already have infected far more people in the UK than scientists had previously estimated — perhaps as much as half the population — according to modelling by researchers at the University of Oxford.

If the results are confirmed, they imply that fewer than one in a thousand of those infected with Covid-19 become ill enough to need hospital treatment, said Sunetra Gupta, professor of theoretical epidemiology, who led the study. The vast majority develop very mild symptoms or none at all.

“We need immediately to begin large-scale serological surveys — antibody testing — to assess what stage of the epidemic we are in now,” she said.

The modelling by Oxford’s Evolutionary Ecology of Infectious Disease group indicates that Covid-19 reached the UK by mid-January at the latest. Like many emerging infections, it spread invisibly for more than a month before the first transmissions within the UK were officially recorded at the end of February.

The research presents a very different view of the epidemic to the modelling at Imperial College London, which has strongly influenced government policy. “I am surprised that there has been such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial model,” said Prof Gupta.

However, she was reluctant to criticise the government for shutting down the country to suppress viral spread, because the accuracy of the Oxford model has not yet been confirmed and, even if it is correct, social distancing will reduce the number of people becoming seriously ill and relieve severe pressure on the NHS during the peak of the epidemic.

The Oxford study is based on a what is known as a “susceptibility-infected-recovered model” of Covid-19, built up from case and death reports from the UK and Italy. The researchers made what they regard as the most plausible assumptions about the behaviour of the virus.

The modelling brings back into focus “herd immunity”, the idea that the virus will stop spreading when enough people have become resistant to it because they have already been infected. The government abandoned its unofficial herd immunity strategy — allowing controlled spread of infection — after its scientific advisers said this would swamp the National Health Service with critically ill patients.

But the Oxford results would mean the country had already acquired substantial herd immunity through the unrecognised spread of Covid-19 over more than two months. If the findings are confirmed by testing, then the current restrictions could be removed much sooner than ministers have indicated.

Although some experts have shed doubt on the strength and length of the human immune response to the virus, Prof Gupta said the emerging evidence made her confident that humanity would build up herd immunity against Covid-19.

To provide the necessary evidence, the Oxford group is working with colleagues at the Universities of Cambridge and Kent to start antibody testing on the general population as soon as possible, using specialised “neutralisation assays which provide reliable readout of protective immunity,” Prof Gupta said. They hope to start testing later this week and obtain preliminary results within a few days.
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That piece goes to show what a load of bollocks science is they literally just say any old shit and then draw a graph
 
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Supercomputing in U.S. - White House Announces New Partnership to Unleash U.S. Supercomputing Resources to Fight COVID-19

This unique public-private consortium, spearheaded by The White House, the U.S. Department of Energy, and IBM, includes government, industry, and academic leaders who have volunteered free compute time and resources on their machines:

Industry

IBM
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud
Microsoft
Hewlett Packard Enterprise


Academia

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories

Argonne National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories


Federal Agencies

National Science Foundation
NASA
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constant escape

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Not much fiction lately. I did listen to an audiobook of Isaac Asimov's "Hallucination" a couple weeks back. Ulysses I finished up maybe four months ago, and that was a half-year commitment.

Any recommendations?
 
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