Note(I repeated a factoid from another YouTuber (CoffeeTalk) “bird flu has 98% or so survival rate) I was unable to confirm this via Google. All I got was survival rate of the virus strains in Korea not of people. I did find a sixty percent mortality rate. That being said I don’t think he’s entirely off the mark because the CDC said the following:
While the risk from Asian H5N1 is low to most people, CDC recommends general precautions.
Sporadic human infections with Asian H5N1 virus have occurred in other countries, primarily in Asia and Africa. Most human infections with Asian H5N1 viruses in other countries have occurred after prolonged and close contact with infected sick or dead birds.
No animal or human infections with Asian H5N1 virus have occurred in the United States.
Video is about Coronavirus news, media coverage, Kvass and beer, Russian memories, and the economy.
(I’m aware the audio doesn’t match. Sorry, I had no time to fix it.)
I discuss recent developments in the spread of the Coronavirus via a critique of alt-media commentary. The commentator in question is a Romanian citizen who goes by the internet name “Vee.”
Background Info:
(Note: Italy is mentioned because it is experiencing an outbreak and many Romanians travel between Italy and Romania.)
Recent Developments in Coronavirus News:
Italy has only a moderate level of air traffic with China – approximately comparable to Russia and France, lower than Germany and the UK, fivefold lower than the US.
Italy was the only country in Europe to ban all direct flights from China on January 31. (This appears to have actually no less hard a response than Russia’s ban on Chinese citizens on February 20, which however excluded transit and business visitors).
Belying stereotypes, the Italian epidemiological response has been highly competent (if by unexacting global standards), with most or all people displaying flu-like symptoms apparently being tested.
Most cases are asymptomatic; in cases where symptoms do appear, which can happen as much as 2 weeks after infection, they are easily confounded with the flu. From the earlier days, it has been estimated – and repeatedly confirmed – that COVID-19 has only a 10% detection rate (BTW, Davide Piffer estimates it at 18%). Meanwhile, carriers need not be symptomatic to transmit. At such early stages, you are only going to identify these clusters by intensive testing, which as I understand nobody apart from Italy and South Korea is really doing yet. One might make a comparison to a tsunami. Undetectable when it’s out in the deep ocean, unless you’re specifically looking for it… until it comes to shore and crashes down on local healthcare systems.
Wired Magazine Sees Russians In Its Cornflakes
My 2014 or so experience at a Navy Recruiting Office
Garbage Language at Trendy Pseudowork Companies
I Love This Molly Broad
The Eloi are soCal and spreading
The Future of Work
i have no idea if shes sixty or if molly might also be a man’s name but by God I will marry him/her/it/zir faster than yups touch base with their holistic roadmap to debt\
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My Two Cents:you can’t own the mixolydian scale. you can’t own a persons understanding of music. you can’t own a person’s performance of music. by this logic cover bands, and musicians playing covers in bars, are criminals. i.e. every musician is a criminal who owes somebody money going all the way back to the caveman who smacked a coupla rocks together.
Mr. Beato’s Rant
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I think I gave intimations earlier last week about my scheduling aspirations.
Here they are in writing:
Daily: I’ll be doing a Vlog which I hope to also turn into a podcast called TFS (The Fractal Standard) in which I’ll ramble about current events and pretty much anything that comes to mind. This is basically a way for me to have consistent output that not only allows me to develop ideas and my riffing skills, but to keep a steady rhytm. Something simple enough to draw me to my workstations with promises of feasible completability.
Frida – Monday: I’ll be doing background work, like researching, writing, editing, doing web design stuff, trying to arrange interviews or coordinate travel plans if the subject matter demands it.
The writing publications like essays, stories, and poems will be set to autopublish on various days of the weeks. This will keep the content stream fat, fresh, and tasty.
Tuesday – Thursday: Topical vlogs published alongside whatever work was scheduled from the weekend and TFS.
Tuesday: Historical Oddities and Little Known Truths
Wednsday: Health Science News
Thursday: The Creative Lifestyle
Clearly, this is fairly ambitious. Especially for a procrastinating shit like myself with familial and domestic duties. So it will take some time to perfect. But it is a target that I intend to aim for in earnest.
Thanks for stopping by over the years and sticking with me through my dryspells, various sudden story deaths, and general shtibaggery.
I appreciate all of my readers old or new.
Sincerely.
Alex V. Weir – WordPresser, YouTuber, Story Slayer
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Environmental factors do indeed play a significant role in cognitive performance. At least according to the studies listed in this “The Correspondent” article.
Wanna avoid getting intellectualy tongue-tied by your empty pockets. Shop at Aldi’s!
Wooh! Had to change that from Coffee and Shifting Diet Advice to Volatile Diet Advice so the damned title would fit. This makes me feel accomplished. Most likely because I’m an idiot.
Here’s my “show” (pfft) notes cause I’m too shattered to write a synopsis: Coffee
I’m having my fourth cup of coffee.
Just read an article from NYT via Pocket Recoomendations on Coffee. (Yes, Racoomendations I like to think Racoons scour the net for fun facts)
(Yes, Racoomendations I like to think Racoons scour the net for fun facts)
This is why all dietary advice, especially older dietary advice, should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
They found that coffee was heatlhy AFTER they took people out of the data set that also smoked. If I read this correctly this wasn’t done till 2015!
Philosophy’s Contribution to Science
“We illustrate our point with three examples taken from various fields of the contemporary life sciences. Each bears on cutting-edge scientific research, and each has been explicitly acknowledged by practicing researchers as a useful contribution to science. These and other examples show that philosophy’s contribution can take at least four forms: the clarification of scientific concepts, the critical assessment of scientific assumptions or methods, the formulation of new concepts and theories, and the fostering of dialogue between different sciences, as well as between science and society.
– PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States)
My Two Cents: So in essence this boils down philosophy being integral in the understanding and communication of science. Which makes sense since science sprang from philosophy and continued to develop both parallel and in tandem.
How Much Attention Should We Pay to Campaign Theater?
Discuss the conversation you had Wednesday night and extrapolate:
I mentioned to an acquintance at my grandfather’s church that I had given up on elections and instead decided to try to educate myself and others about various issues so as to drive change at the grassroots level.
Is this an effective strategy.
Clearly at least some attention must be paid to elections.
However, I cannot help but conclude that a lot of the election process, and the debates, are highly charged emotional theater that polarizes people, and detracts from the issues by only giving a surface level analysis in order to classify ourselves into respective positions.
Just look at all the issues that have all the juice squeezed out of them till nothing but the dry core remains leaving us with broadbrush arguments for or against socialism, populism, welfare, bootstrapping, environmentalism, business etc.
It’s basically an antrhoporphization of issues into people we would like to be.
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