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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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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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Changing Emails is Hard
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Linux Nautilus Trash Folder Stopped Working
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Set Up an HP P1102w Printer on Ubuntu Linux
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
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Taking Over “Public School”
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IP Address Change, DNS, Icecast2, Ezstream
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Workstyles and Productivity
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Claude-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Correction 7
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Libertarians on Immigration
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Meta-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 5
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Fruit Updates
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1959
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Turn Audio Links into inline audio players
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Async PHP Libraries and Frameworks
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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DALL-E as Cheese Hegemon and Destroyer of Words: Hamburgers and Pizzas with Mandatory Cheese, and Erasure of Pigs in Blankets
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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Downshiftism
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Machine Learning Notes 2
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton