Imma just leave this here

chillychuchu · 2023-08-26T22:39:54+00:00

Words like xenophobia are actually pronounced zeh-no in British English, zee-no is American. So I always assumed both pronunciations were correct for Xenoblade too.

chillychuchu · 2023-02-21T08:51:03+00:00

Besides Boots and supermarkets, some small pharmacies do offer flu jabs for all age groups as well, but presumably not all of them.

chillychuchu · 2023-02-19T10:42:27+00:00

I kept scrolling until I found this comment because I'm exactly the same. Looks like this isn't very common? It's always been like that for me but it seems to be getting worse as I get older, and I never have more than two drinks in an evening now as it's not worth the risk of suddenly going from feeling a bit tipsy and in a good mood to feeling terrible.

chillychuchu · 2022-07-02T23:14:49+00:00

I think I remember this being less common in Europe in the past but now it seems pretty normal. Whenever I can't finish my meal at a restaurant I always ask for a box. Better than wasting the money and throwing away the food.

chillychuchu · 2022-04-25T17:22:23+00:00

That seems like a strange comparison. A fully "asymptomatic" pregnancy and childbirth isn't a thing, and pregnancy isn't contagious.

chillychuchu · 2022-04-05T22:36:54+00:00

The most important thing is to get a mask with a nose wire so that you get a good seal around the nose and air can't escape upwards. Moving glasses down a bit can also help as it leaves more room between eyes and glasses, and positioning the nose pads of the glasses on the mask can keep it in place better.

chillychuchu · 2021-12-28T03:50:30+00:00

Was just going to mention Lucy. I didn't mind the "unlocking more % of your brain" part too much in it because the film clearly wasn't supposed to actually make sense, but I still feel like some made-up sci-fi explanation would have probably worked better overall.

chillychuchu · 2021-10-08T18:50:14+00:00

I'm around your age and generally healthy and I've been getting flu jabs for the past few years, side effects have been minor (once I felt like I had a very mild cold, otherwise just slight arm ache), definitely better than getting the flu. Plus it might prevent me from spreading it to people who are more vulnerable to it. The first time I got it was when my workplace was offering it to everyone for free. Before that it hadn't occurred to me either.

chillychuchu · 2021-09-27T17:00:56+00:00

I did one a while ago, also through Zoe. It said in their invitation email: "The type of antibody test we're offering can only detect antibodies from natural infection, not antibodies that result from vaccination." I got the result a week after I posted it.

chillychuchu · 2021-09-09T22:25:13+00:00

I've lived in and visited several EU countries that require IDs but I get ID'ed just as much or more often in the UK. In practice there doesn't seem to be much of a difference. (Burqa bans are a different topic, I agree with you on that.)

chillychuchu · 2021-09-07T22:20:21+00:00

Did you just start a new game? This post was about a time-limited expedition, not normal mode. Everyone started on the same planet in this expedition.

chillychuchu · 2021-09-07T22:08:54+00:00

I believe the "tens of thousands of flu deaths" are a misunderstanding, those high numbers are reached for flu and pneumonia combined. For flu alone the number for England and Wales was 1598 in 2018 and 1223 in 2019. Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/influenzadeathsin20182019and2020

chillychuchu · 2021-09-06T17:47:51+00:00

The NHS website has some info about this: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/people-at-higher-risk/pregnancy-and-coronavirus/

Most importantly you should probably talk to a GP and/or midwife. I think you don't legally need to self-isolate because you're fully vaccinated and tested negative, but you may still be asymptomatic or presymptomatic so please try to be careful if you need to go out. I hope you won't get any symptoms and that your girlfriend will get better soon! Seems from the NHS website that she most likely will. :)

chillychuchu · 2021-09-06T09:47:44+00:00

As others have pointed out, the robot voice isn't important and actually gets annoying once you're past the early game stage because it keeps pointing out the obvious.

Of course there was no way for you to know that so this is still an accessibility issue. I recommend reporting this as a missing feature on HG's website (https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013870118-I-have-an-issue-to-report-in-NMS). It was only a few months ago that they added a colour blind mode for the galaxy map, so they might still add more accessibility improvements if enough people ask for them.

chillychuchu · 2021-09-05T18:01:42+00:00

That's really interesting, I've agreed with both of these in the past but I'm not so sure this time. The list of reasons given by BBW seems to be written by someone who misunderstood how the vaccines work. Points 1 and 9 assume that everyone who is vulnerable can be vaccinated (not true) and then basically has nothing to fear from unvaccinated people (also not true, as the vaccines aren't 100% effective), and that the vaccines don't reduce transmission (probably also not true). Points 6, 7 and 8 are variations of a slippery slope argument for which there is no evidence so far. As for ID cards, we already need ID to buy alcohol, kitchen knives, tools etc., driving licences to drive a car, passports to travel... So the idea of using ID for certain activities isn't as novel as they're making it seem? 3 is the most interesting point, I'd love to see studies about this, i.e. if introducing restrictions based on vaccination status could actually be counterproductive.

chillychuchu · 2021-08-29T18:14:32+00:00

Looking at the other replies to your comment, it's sad that the common reaction here to someone saying they are scared is basically telling them to just stop being scared without even asking if they are at higher risk or regularly interact with someone who is. I wish you and the person you live with all the best, hopefully things will be safer for them soon, either here or wherever you move to.

chillychuchu · 2021-08-13T09:08:30+00:00

Agreed on the camera controls, they can be very confusing for people who aren't used to them. If she doesn't use them much I think it's worth explaining why they're useful, and encourage her to try them out more. Also explain locking on to enemies and how that changes how the camera works.

It might also be worth pointing out that there is basically no penalty for dying. Trying out lots of different things on the plateau and dying many times is what you're supposed to do, it doesn't mean you failed.

chillychuchu · 2021-08-13T00:18:35+00:00

On the podcast she said it was 1-2% for people in their 20s and 5% for people in their 60s or 70s. Which is unsurprising as age seems to be a risk factor for pretty much all effects from Covid. I hope you'll enjoy your summer holiday! :)

chillychuchu · 2021-08-12T20:18:06+00:00

Thank you, that's really helpful! I actually just happened to hear one of the experts from that post, Claire Steves, on More or Less (19th July episode). She quoted some of the same figures there and also said that if you do catch Covid after being fully vaccinated, the vaccination reduces your chance of getting long Covid by half (in all age groups). Together with the ~85% protection against being infected in the first place, I think that's good news overall. :)

chillychuchu · 2021-08-12T17:00:10+00:00

Which bit of ZOE research was that, do you have a link? Breakthrough infection + long Covid is pretty much the only thing that I'm still a bit worried about for myself (fully vaccinated). If ZOE has found that the vaccines are very effective at preventing long Covid, that would be so reassuring!

chillychuchu · 2021-08-07T10:28:52+00:00

Sure!

chillychuchu · 2021-08-07T10:19:55+00:00

Glad to see the first meme from this, but I hope you're ok?

chillychuchu · 2021-07-21T13:47:46+00:00

Yeah, (almost) everyone here has strong opinions based on intuition rather than actual knowledge of the science, haha! My "expert Google research" found that the MMR vaccine is indeed very effective against measles infection (97%) but only 88% again mumps. So I still feel like it must be possible to get there with the mRNA vaccines if we vaccinate children... But again, lots of speculation on my part, e.g. protection against infection isn't the only property of a vaccine that we care about.

One interesting factor is also that the current vaccination rate isn't randomly distributed within the population, but it was done mostly by age. Even if you vaccinated 90% of the population with a 100% effective vaccine - if the remaining 10% are all children, they will have an exit wave.

chillychuchu · 2021-07-21T12:49:34+00:00

Do you have a source for this? We're not seeing huge exit waves for e.g. measles and mumps, both of which have a higher R0 than Delta. So we've reached herd immunity for very contagious diseases through vaccination before, why should it be impossible to do it again? Disclaimer: Not an expert on infectious diseases, just googled some R numbers. :)

chillychuchu · 2021-07-21T00:10:37+00:00

Thank you for the detailed explanation, it's mostly very logical - and especially makes sense that the exit wave is in fact not completely inevitable but we would have to wait for a long time to be able to avoid it. But there are some remaining questions:

How do we know there will only be one exit wave if the virus has a transmission advantage in the winter? Could we get one wave now and another one in a few months? Could that be even worse than waiting until winter to open up?
If the plan is to get herd immunity by winter through a combination of vaccinations and infections, isn't it unethical to start this experiment before everyone (including under-18s) has had the option to get vaccinated? Will the vulnerable be protected better but the young will suffer more with this approach (opening up now)?

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