Given the presence of SO MANY variables, I stopped paying attention to pandemic charts and graphs long ago. Still, this one makes scary sense to me.
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As @docosc already said, one doesnât exclude the other. I wonder if this could have had an impact on people staying inside almost constantly, such as people in care homes, specially if they were in lock down, or people living in apartments: poorer people that cannot afford single-family houses or people living in New York city, Milan, or Madrid. Taking vitamin D seems to be a lot more harmless and more based on solid science than taking bleach or chloriquine.
We need to fix racism, for sure, but if ensuring an appropriate intake of vitamin D could help in this situation, it may be something that vulnerable populations should be encouraged to do. Not as the only solution, but as one more tool to help fight the consequences of the socioeconomic status quo and the epidemic.
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I have a parliamentary question.
Whatâs the point of wearing a mask if you remove it to talk into the mic?
Live now
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Starting next week, SAS and Norwegian Air will require facemasks for passengers. That sounds great, except:
- This is being done instead of creating extra space for passengers, eg by blocking the middle seat;
- The airlines and airport will not be providing or selling the masks; and
- At least here in Norway, where masks are not required, they are also unobtainable; pharmacies are sold out.
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Thereâs idiots everywhere, but sometimes they get the blunt response they deserve:
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On the other, hand, youâll still die. So thereâs that.
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But it doesnât count, donât you see? Only definitely, conclusively proven Covid-19 cases count, and only if they happen to perfectly healthy people. Actually, now that I think about it, if you have Covid, you are not perfectly healthy, so no one can die of Covid! Pandemic solved!
(I hope this is unnecessary, but /s for any who doubt.)
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Thumbs up to you from the grave by Jonathan Swift!
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MmmmmmâŚbaby back ribs.
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Tricky little inverse sections of RNA linked to a fluorescent tag that only becomes available when the section of RNA has a perfect match. The way most of these fluorescent tags work, there is a section of RNA that has a series of nucleic acid bases that are a mirror to the ones for the virus.
Letâs use a series of 8 bases as an example (though these sensors are usually much longer, up to 100-ish bases): ACGUACGU. That would correspond to the virus RNA section with the code UGCAUGCA. Then the sensor also has a fluorophore, often Fluorescein, bonded to the RNA strand along with a fluorescence quenching protein close by. When the RNA section bonds to RNA from the virus, the sensorâs structure is designed to separate the fluorophore from the quenching protein, which allows the fluorophore to light up in response to a certain wavelength of light. In the case of Fluorescein, it responds to blue light by releasing green light.
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Read it. Read the whole thing. This is a common experience when seeing a doctor while non-white, or even (often) as not a cis-man. I have no doubt that if she didnât have all these people working to help her, sheâd be dead at the hands of this doctorâs arrogance (and yes, racism and sexism).
You want to know why POCs (especially Black and Indigenous) are dying in greater numbers? Look no further than this thread.
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Thatâs horrificâŚ
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thatâs not how this works. thatâs not how any of this works.
i guess then we shouldnât count traffic fatalities if the people were driving, because itâs well known if they hadnât been driving they wouldnât have died
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Like those apocryphal thousand Inuit words for snow, perhaps Scots has a thousand words for âidiotâ
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