Well at least they didn’t blame violent games this time around
Covid-era telecommuting behind 30% drop in heart attacks, chief doc says
It’s not clear if the study controlled for working from home with teenage kids on lockdown in the house with you. 
Not sure my stress levels are lower…
I see Dominic Cummings is preparing his Nürnburg defence.
“This is a time I wish I was wrong with my prediction, which I mention to anybody who will listen, that once COVID starts to lift, these cowardly shooters will come out exactly in tandem with the number of vaccinations,” the ex-cop declared.
“You can be sure they probably got vaccinated,” he added about the gunman who reportedly shot and killed himself.
Yeah, I am sure this asshole got vaccinated to make sure he would be safe to come out and kill his coworkers and himself. It only makes sense, right? (/s)
Fuck this dude and all his ilk. The stupid has always been ugly, but this shit will get people killed.
Cites these papers:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4
It is not the function of education to teach us that some things are true whereas others are false. It is the function of education to just spray a fire hose of diverse and contending perspectives at us and let us choose the ones we would like the best.
Poe’s law had me a little too long on that one.
possibly the wrong thread? but at any rate, when that new law says:
(1) a teacher may not be compelled to discuss current events or widely debated and currently controversial issues of public policy or social affairs;
fortunately most republican positions are not widely debated nor controversial because they are instead simply wrong.
Yeah, sometimes I put an “Alexandra Petri” warning on these.
Her column was not specifically a reaction to the Covid denial, but her science sarcasm seemed appropriate to the antivax stuff we’ve been discussing.
Its complicated.
Did someone already post this?
“Estimating infectiousness throughout SARS-CoV-2 infection course”
I heard an interesting proposal on the radio yesterday: a variation of this known as a “regret lottery.” Instead of selecting names only from the vaccinated population, they pull names of ALL state residents, and then if the randomly selected resident happens not to have been vaccinated then they’re told that they WOULD have won $1M if only they had made a different choice. Nobody wants to be in that position so it really spurs a a lot more people to go out and get vaccinated.
Fun stuff. I am as certain as I can be that, while some turned this offer down and went public, others accepted it and ran with it. There are those who would do so without being paid. We are so fucked…,
