(In the story, the Swedish health minister emphasizes that there were many changes in Swedish behavior in response to the disease, as well as reminding that they have an excellent universal health care system, all by way of trying not to feed American conservative covidiots.)
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On top of the healthcare system, WE DONâT PROTECT ANYONE. We go to crowded Trump rallies then go and visit Grandma. We have hundreds of thousands of kids packed into sweaty dorms that are going home on the weekends to kill their families. A coworker goes on vacation to Florida, and gets quarantined for a pathetic week. A week after he is back comes to work with a runny nose, tests positive, now everyone wonders if they will have it. Canât test without symptoms though!
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The condition, thought to be somehow linked to COVID-19, can emerge in kids even after very mild coronavirus infections. But a light case of coronavirus is no guarantee that a subsequent case of MIS-C wonât be very serious, and sometimes even fatal.
âChildren did not need to exhibit the classic upper respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 to develop MIS-C, which is frightening,â says neonatologist Alvaro Moreira from the University of Texas Health Science Centre at San Antonio.
âChildren might have no symptoms, no one knew they had the disease, and a few weeks later, they may develop this exaggerated inflammation in the body.â
What a perfect time for schools to be open!
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Yup. This mild-to-asymptomatic Covid case followed by debilitating-to-deadly aftereffects is a pattern becoming clearer with most of the âlong termâ (scare quotes because, well, there is no long term in a 9 month old disease) effects. Neurological, cardiac and pulmonary aftereffects seem to bear little relation to the severity of the initial illness, although pulmonary does seem to be more linked than the others. WDKS, but we are learning. And it is not all sunshine and roses. It would help if the political leadership did not view the fact-based community as an enemy to be eliminated, though.
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When you wish upon a COUGHCOUGHCOUGH WEEZE COUGH
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I hope a second third follows within a short time: that would be about the percentage which was estimated for an app to effectively contribute a great deal fighting SARS-CoV-2 by stopping clusters to spread, and keeping the new infections local. Which would allow Finnish people to just live a nearly normal life until a broader vaccination campaign is possible.
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The Norwegian app, which was rolled out in April and downloaded by a large fraction of the country, was discontinued in June over privacy concerns. It also ate phone batteries. The utility was questionable, as Norwegians socially distance by habit and choice. I would have assumed the same was true for Finland, if to a slightly lesser extent.
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COVID-19 may come from outer space⌠just the thought we need to brighten our morning⌠
Now (we need a âgrain of saltâ emoji 
) but one of the authors (Wickramasinghe) has a paper in the Lancet on the topic, and he makes a case, so I suppose Iâll file it under âto considerâ. (Edit: per objections below, to clarify, as in âover a second whisky while chewing on trivia with speculatively inclined colleaguesâ, not seriously nor with any view to consequence; this is extremely unlikely to be true.)
It doesnât really change the top action items: Wear a mask, keep your distance, wash your hands.
However the great exemplar of the emergence of a new pandemic disease of considerable virulence and pathogenicity was the Spanish Flu Pandemic 1918â1919. That pandemic has been analyzed in great detail by Hoyle and Wickramasinghe (1979), and the astute and engaged reader of all that evidence is left with only one conclusion âthe Spanish Flu disease came from Space on a massive scale, and killed tens of millions before the advent of air travel.
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Donât the aerial photos of hospital parking lots in and around Wuhan show widespread traffic spikes predating their Oct. 11th âhypothesisâ? I thought they pushed the date back to September or August.
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If he was a âlongtimeâ mayor, he must have been old. Old people die all the time. It was sad, but whoâs to say what he died of? COVID-19? FAKE NEWS!!! /s
(Coming: Republican governors order that coroners refuse to accept death certificates mentioning COVID-19. Massive uptick of deaths resulting from âcardipulmonary failure.â)
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ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOOOOOOTTBAAAAAAAAALLLL!!!
Thereâs also a bonus article within the article entitled âBREAKING: Wildcats Test Positive for a 33-6 Win.â May the writer of that headline slip in the shower and injure something important.
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âWar Of The Worlds 2 â The Martians Strike Backâ
Only now the distance may have to be measured in astronomical units. At least allow no probes less than two meters long.
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Well⌠todayâs reports (N=3, 2 families) from Ontarioâs 
schools (which are back today) are as follows:
- Queenâs University at Kingston students are 100% on-line for classes but hanging out and partying, masks a rare sight, as if nothing was happening.
- High school students are hit and miss: well behaved in class then dropping the masks and hugging outside of class (my eldest blames âthe dance majorsâ).
- The on-line school will now involve 3 1/2 hours of âsynchronous learningâ, which is exactly what my youngest enjoyed missing (the one who, in the spring, loved getting the school work done in an hour and a half per day on-line).
That suggests that universities like Queenâs will be shut down by October, regional specialty high school programs in some majors sooner than that, and that on-line schoolingâs new âexperience based synchronousâ format may alienate the ~50% of the students who do well out of the classroom.
After 4,500 years of recorded pedagogical reflection youâd think weâd have a better feel for what works for whom and what doesnâtâŚ
On a positive note, I suspect listening to podcasts on the drive to school (Stanford Grad Business School this morning on communication, buses not an option) is going to work for the oldest. Good daddy-sprog time as well on the way home (one thing much worse than a teenager talking non-stop is a teenager not talking at all).
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Houston, we have a problemâŚ
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Looks like fun, at least until the weather gets cold. And:
Teachers carry bear spray and walkie-talkies.
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Sounds like the Danish system of âforest kindergartensâ that has been going for years.
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