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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
I’m not a doctor or scientist, nor am I a right-winger conspiracy person or any of that noise. I’m just putting this out there to help people search for some info.
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
I’ve made two errors, and I see others making the same errors, and I suspect many are not noticing these errors (because I see few comments pointing them out), so I hope this helps people make better sense of the numbers we’re seeing. The errors I made were: Mixing up the case fatality rate (CFR)…
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About This Blog
In 2024 I decided to revive link pages to news on the home page. I did this years ago, and it was an abject failure, and unsustainable. I switched to posting links on social media, and that worked for a while to signal boost news. However, by 2024, the big sites were no longer giving…
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
Orange County decided to open up their beaches on April 25th, so, it’s a good time to take a look at the Orange County COVID-19 website, and start monitoring their stats. If many people were infected with SARS-CoV-2 from going to the beach, it could show up in the new cases they report every day.
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
This page collects links to stories of surveys and universal tests for SARS-CoV-2.
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
I took my friend to county general hospital because she had covid-19 symptoms. It looked like covid-19, but they would not give a test. She already had an appointment to get tested at a center tomorrow. They’re rationing tests, saving them for more serious cases. What the fuck? Imagine if someone walked in and was…
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
Gin and Tonic is a great drink, and if you look into the history, you can see hints of the current fascination with hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug (and also a lupus drug). The gin was used to make the tonic, quinine, more palatable. It was invented by the British East India Company, one of the…
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
In the next “normal”, we’ll have fewer plastic and steel surfaces. That’s my prediction. Coronavirus can live a long time, upwards of five days, on these smooth surfaces, but loses viability over one or two days when it’s landed on a cardboard or copper surface. It’s been shown that wooden cutting boards can kill bacteria.…
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
This paper has influenced me during this COVID-19 pandemic. It breaks past the idea of looking at epidemic policy narrowly, through the lens of science and government, but with a broader view that includes “natural, social and economic factors.” Smallpox and the Epidemiological Heritage of Modern Japan: Towards a Total History https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3143877/ The TL;DR: in…
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First COVID-19 Post
I’ve been obsessed with it for over a month. I’ll be copying things from my Facebook feed here, and going back in time to find early posts. This document shows some plots of the daily numbers coming out of Los Angeles County. (Comment on Sept 2024: When I wrote this in 2020, in the early…
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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Root Shell Called Web Shell by oRb
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The Mirror
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Lifehacks Here
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First COVID-19 Post
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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The Western Gender Binary
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Gone Missing from the Keyboard
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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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BBB System Configuration Testing Script
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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Turn Audio Links into inline audio players
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Protected: What a Year (Written August 27, 2019)
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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Adding Google OAuth Authentication to the Symfony HWI OAuth Bundle
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Claude-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Correction 7
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 2
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Creating Email Messages with Clickable Links that Add Events to Your Calendar