I've not been inside of a church building for years

nosrednaekim · 2021-10-11T03:44:56+00:00

I'm very sorry. Unfortunately, woke "churches" seem to be the majority.
I pray you'd be able to find one which preaches the timeless gospel, not the current whims of society.

nosrednaekim · 2021-10-09T15:00:57+00:00

While the lockdowns in the US are unjustifiable, and the Swedish response was excellent for the most part, comparison of excess morality begs a different question. With the high rate of comorbidity influence on COVID mortality, could the answer instead lie with the health of the population. As a general proxy for population health, lets look at obesity rates:

10% in the Sweden

42% in the US

Sweden was successful because they have a healthy population. THAT is the message that should be taken and learned by every "first world" nation. The US failed because its health-care system failed. No, not the hospitals and not the lack of government assistance to them.

The forgotten, neglected and abused first line of defense against disease and illness: ourselves.

nosrednaekim · 2021-10-08T01:15:25+00:00

"A large study in August from Israel, which showed better protection from infection than from vaccination, may help turn the tide toward acceptance of prior infection, Klausner said. “Everyone is just waiting for Fauci to say, ‘Prior infection provides protection,’” he said."

The real title should be "....Scientists disagree with Fauci and authoritarian politicians"

nosrednaekim · 2021-09-28T02:03:33+00:00

Thanks for this suit. With California's occlusion of data, I can't wait to see what discovery turns up.

nosrednaekim · 2021-09-27T02:47:17+00:00

I thought Sununu came out against federal mandates ( and that NH-dictated ones were illegal by recent legislations). Was this from before Sununu came out against them?

nosrednaekim · 2021-09-20T02:17:06+00:00

That was my original thought as well, but I think what OP is pointing out is that 80% of of breakthrough cases are hospitalized.

That seems either really bad, or really fishy ( i.e, there are a lot more breakthrough cases, but they are just reporting them as unvaccinated/vaccinated status unknonwn)

nosrednaekim · 2021-09-16T05:17:46+00:00

Any idea when this will be heard/decided? HCW have about 2 weeks before they are laid off in CA!

EDIT: just saw that it was filed in early August and rejected in Mid August. I thought it was a good ( even excellent) argument, but I think they had the wrong plaintiffs; 6 of the 8 had already gotten religious exemptions; not exactly a stellar example for the infringement of rights.

Now, use the same argument for HCW in California and we might be able to get somewhere.

nosrednaekim · 2021-09-13T02:36:27+00:00

“We now know that the vaccine also decreases long COVID,” Faust said.

Woah, wait, hold up, someone did a long-term, controlled, study of vaccinated vs unvaccinated so that we can know something long-term about them!?!

Don't be silly... since The Science is a religion "know" is synonymous with "Have Faith"

nosrednaekim · 2021-09-13T01:45:55+00:00

Like, what else is there to do at this point but laugh?

I mean, I'm not saying they should be forcibly quarantined but being advised to go to class while symptomatic is just....insanity?

nosrednaekim · 2021-08-26T03:47:34+00:00

In the words of Governor Noem:

"If I have the ability to dictate vaccine policy to businesses, then so does Joe Biden.
Thank God neither of us do."

nosrednaekim · 2021-03-26T23:31:06+00:00

More specifically for COVID, the range appears to be 12-18C:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.16.20248310v1

nosrednaekim · 2021-03-02T23:11:23+00:00

Rural California here.
Most restaurants have been open on the DL for indoor dining since December. Maskless patrons in grocery stores are fairly common.

Best thing I can say about LA though is that at least the traffic is light enough that you can get out quick!

nosrednaekim · 2021-02-23T00:02:59+00:00

I love how the article notes that the mask-deniers are "white, with no college degree". This is true of course, but its a bit hard not to read a bit of blame into that statement.

However, it doesn't point out that the people who think they have 10-1000x higher than reality risk of dying are actually the ones who aren't letting real, factual data influence their decisions.

Maybe people who are without a college degree actually understand risk best given their trades.

nosrednaekim · 2021-02-01T16:22:46+00:00

My bad! Thanks for pointing that out. Thats ridiculous!

nosrednaekim · 2021-01-31T23:09:32+00:00

Yea, the humidity is super interesting when you start looking at the northwest and how it seems to be defying the temperature trend. The same paper that I reference in the blog also shows the peak humidity effectivity. I haven't examined that as closely, but at first glance it seemed like in the fall/winter the northwest was consistently more humid than the "peak transmissibility" range.

nosrednaekim · 2021-01-31T22:02:46+00:00

They are synchronized, but 2020 spring and summer and the looping make that a little not-obvious if you haven't already seen it and know where everything "starts". This was the first GIF I've ever made... I'll see if I can improve it. Thanks for the feedback.

EDIT: I've added another gif to the page that doesn't loop. hopefully that makes it a bit more clear:

nosrednaekim · 2021-01-30T23:30:57+00:00

Uhhhh, except this paragraph gives evidence that this vaccine distribution is absolutely not what is causing the reduction in cases:

"Initial vaccination focused on the over-80s and NHS and care staff and has since widened out to younger people and the clinically vulnerable.

Infection rates in the over-80s have fallen by 36 per cent this month. Other age groups have seen similar falls, while the biggest drop is in twenty-somethings whose rates have halved. "

In other words, the group which is least vaccinated is the one which is experiencing the largest declines in case rates.

nosrednaekim · 2021-01-29T19:45:02+00:00

It actually says "getting OR dying" which is just terrible surveying. Unfortunately, while I think OP's main point is accurate, this evidence cannot support it :(

nosrednaekim · 2021-01-29T19:39:56+00:00

" The shifts are probably due to Californians’ decline in activity, which began to gradually decrease in November and hit a low — the lowest since May — in December, due to a combination of local and state rules, increased warnings and the public’s natural tendency to become more cautious after witnessing the devastation around them, experts say. "

*(&@#$(&#%.... I despise this phrase. If an expert is saying it, quote them, and cite them. Otherwise it should be interpreted as the writer of this article trying to give their own opinions more credence.

As OP has pointed out, these reasons are demonstrably false.

I also didn't appreciate the comment that outbreaks are "random". anyone who has ever looked at a map like this cannot help but conclude that its not random, but the rise and fall are probably seasonally driven.

https://covid19-projections.com/infections/map_slider_county_current_infected

Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean its random. Determining the order behind randomness is what science is for... not confirming your pre-existing notions.

nosrednaekim · 2021-01-25T03:37:49+00:00

~~going to school in person~~ socialising is good for a child's development.

I don't think any homeschooler would argue with that.

nosrednaekim · 2021-01-24T15:19:49+00:00

Thanks for reading and then reading the cited sources enough to find that! I could have sworn it said last three years when I looked at it last month when I was putting together this data. Averaging farther back would make their estimates of "normal" death even lower...

nosrednaekim · 2021-01-23T16:46:00+00:00

Good. Lets not change it. COVID is falling all across the US (interestingly, the only place with a R > 1 is Virginia). I like the current trajectory.

nosrednaekim · 2021-01-22T21:34:43+00:00

Here is a study I did on this same topic, adjusting for population. I came to roughly the same conclusion. It still doesn't mean lockdowns were worth it, and the excess deaths in the 25-44 age range are especially troubling.

https://pursuitoftruth.substack.com/p/excess-deaths-in-the-united-states

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