This article on Long Covid is not data yet. Not good data, anyway. But there's some data in it, and that data is bad.

Not on continuing cases. We'll find out shortly if we're going to augur down like so many other places, and I think we will, and big surges will be basically over by March, barring a more substantially new variant that genuinely ( Read more... )

The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. The Gods are free - largely - to do as they will.

But the Great Game never ends, not even with victorious Gods - it merely changes. And as the dust settles, old ( Read more... )

New paper in The Lancet. Read it.

My takeaway of interest: detection rate is down to 5% of cases worldwide. That's an absolutely dramatic decline. You get slightly higher with semi-aggressive testing, but to get legitimately higher, you really have to work at it. A few places are, most places aren't, but let's put speculation to the side as one ( Read more... )

I've been writing on and off for a long time about how we need to start talking less about COVID deaths and talk more about the long-term effects of COVID on survivors. I'm not alone in that, but I was fairly early out the gate.

The reason I've been talking about this is because neither fascists nor fundamentalists give a fuck about theoretical ( Read more... )

hooooooooly fuck EXTREMELY GOOD COVID NEWS holy fuck
Chise - @sailorrooscout · 11:55 AM · Jan 17, 2022
Does COVID-19 vaccination have a protective effect against Long COVID? Answer: YES.

“Vaccination with at least two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was associated with a substantial decrease in reporting the most common post-acute COVID-19 symptoms, ( Read more... )

Mehdi Hasan - @mehdirhasan · 1:39 PM · Jan 14, 2022
It begins...

New Virginia Governor Youngkin to Lift School Mask Mandate, Change COVID Policies
Virginia’s next governor, Glenn Youngkin, said he will lift the state’s school mask mandate and change other COVID-19 policies after taking office Jan. 15.
If you vote for the @GOP, you are voting to make ( Read more... )

So last week we had a fairly complete run of laundry using the simple heat reclamation/humidity gain prototype.

It wasn't a true full week, because one of our housemates wasn't able to use the laundry during that time, but it was still eight typical loads, which is a reasonable number for a first run.

Temperature:

During these runs, we reclaimed about ( Read more... )

This is California, not Washington State, but in the context of yesterday's post on r0<<1, I give you:

California hospitals predict COVID crisis will last until the end of February
Also posted to ソ-ラ-バ-ド-のおん;
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This is an insurance statistics type of calculation, not an epidemiologist type of calculation. All my original science has been genetics and computer science, not virology or epidemiology, and I'm not a source for either here. This is accounting maths, not biology. But given that... it's still a path to r0<<1.

All data Washington State. All ( Read more... )

We got a visit, finally, from a technician bringing a new modem.

He verified everything I'd reported, started pinging our modem from the corporate side, and when it powered off... he kept getting responses.

Another modem had our modem's fixed IP address.

They hadn't reset it before redeploying it last Thursday.


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