my birthday party was cancelled, two other Christmas parties we had to bail out on, Mrs couldn’t attend either of her work functions last week and my work party was cancelled. We haven’t seen anyone this year just from isolating ourselves.
Went out for a couple beers and pho with a buddy last night just because I needed to get out of the house.
Had to laugh - meeting a group of friends for pre-Christmas beers tonight. Of seven, two have cancelled this morning because they have covid. Business as usual.
edit: Make that three…
Big wave here in NZ. I know half a dozen people (typically those who have never caught it before) coming down with it.
In the news here the government has been advising public to get boosters and avoided crowded areas. This is just very soft messaging though. Unless you watched the 6pm news you would not be aware.
Probably afraid of setting off the loons.
What a fantastic way to run a country.
“Let’s not save lives, in case a few rightwing crackpots kick up a stink!”
Bravo.
Not unique in that
The only worthwhile reply to anything these days …
I’m surprised that we haven’t heard more of it in professional sports at the moment.
I’m thankfully over my little bout with it. Tested negative 5 days after first symptoms. That was followed by some other cold virus straight after though. That one is lingering.
We haven’t tested positive for Covid at all but we seem to have one respiratory illness or another on rotation for over a month. My wife feels like she is getting better but I’m going down again- currently wrapped in a blanket with a hot lemon drink watching some old German music show from the 1970s.
Sounds ominously familiar. Little one had it and struggled with energy and has a bit of a cough. It won’t clear but thankfully no signs of infection according to the Doctor. I’m a bit the same. Going on a week now, post COVID.
This has been touched on a bit earlier in the conversation but we continue to see consistency in the data - the pandemic in general, and more specifically school lock downs, is actually associated with a decrease in teen suicides. For all the fears of the impact the lock downs would have on this outcome, the data, now fairly consistently and robustly, show the exact opposite of what was loudly predicted
https://x.com/tylerblack32/status/1742606764053262836?s=20
Of course suicide is not by any means the only measure of mental health so we shouldn’t be flippant about other issues kids and teens might have experienced from the lock downs, but it is considered a key outcome in mental health discussions and so these data are intriguing.
10 of us went out on Dec 23rd and everyone has had covid. The wife and daughter been unwell since boxing day and are on the mend now and I caught it on NYE so am in the middle of it. Felt like shit last few days.
Mrs and I had to postpone my birthday party as my family was sick in early Dec. fast-forward to Christmas and Covid ran through my extended family. somehow my brother and his Mrs missed it, but all of their kids got it, and my parents are still sidelined.
i get the trend this is showing, but…what are the three dotted lines representing and why are the blue dots scattered above it and below it at various times.
(i assume the middle line is the expected trend?)
The blue squares are what was measured. You can see those data points fluctuate up and down year to year. That wobbliness can make it difficult to understand what the measurement you get next year means in terms of the historical trend…is a change of 0.1 part of the wobbliness or something more? To help with that they apply statistical magic and calculate an estimate of what the value is expected to be on any year based on the historical trend (the middle black dotted line). More importantly this allows them to create confidence limits (the two outer block dotted lines) that say "we expect the actual measured value to fall between these two values).
So essentially they expect the data to wobble up and down between the limits of the two outer black lines, and only when they see a value fall outside range does it seem statistically noteworthy that something different has happened. So the main way to interpret this is not that the 2020 number is lower than the 2019 number, but that it is below the lower bounds of the confidence interval, indicating it is meaningly different from the previous trend.
Its my birthday on 17th and ive arranged a night out on 13th. Just hoping i feel better. The wifes still not right 10 days later.
Ive got permanent fuzzy head, feel sick and now im bunged up.
At least the aches, shakes and sweating has stopped.
“But it is a nobel prize winning treatment (for a completely different disease) so what harm can it do?”
Anti vaxxers are such retards. Can’t believe you wouldn’t be vaccinated when you have the opportunity. Wife and I and my three boys have all had our latest xbb1.5 - why snowflakes are too scared to get immunised is beyond me - then again none of us have ever contracted COVID so “perhaps it’s just a media beatup and no worse than the flu, with absolutely no risks of long COVID and long term physiological and mental impairment”
I am pretty sure this paper and it’s problems we’re discussed here at the time, but has now been officially retracted.
Most note worthy is this is the 28th retraction from the senior author. I don’t understand what is happening there because retractions are a proper black mark on your career as a publishing scientist. One, for good reason, is ok. But two is normally a career ended. I don’t understand how a person can have 20+ and someone read his next fabrication and thinks “looks legit”
Disturbing but i’m encouraged to read that the scientific community kicked back against this paper.
Personally I believe this is something scientists should do more of and very publically. Misinformation rightly needs to be shot down.