| Brainstorm | New from Reddit (test): nCoV: If you're packing for a hot European summer, be prepared for COVID | 30JUL22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/wc9z0v/if_youre_packing_for_a_hot_european_summer_be/ | 01:05 |
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| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Michael Lin, MD PhD (@michaelzlin): Wherein I predicted @POTUS @JoeBiden would suffer rebound COVID-19 because he started Paxlovid before his immune system fully kicked in to produce Omicron antibodiestwitter.com/michaelzlin/st… → https://twitter.com/michaelzlin/status/1553527363438366720 | 01:52 |
| Brainstorm | Updates for Slovakia: +1596 cases since 23 hours ago — Saint Lucia: +123 cases since a day ago | 03:00 |
| bn_mobile | LjL: it looks like in general most of Italy has pretty clean air for the most part. I wonder if Polistena (& I guess that region up north) are just an exception. | 03:28 |
| bn_mobile | Re. temp: I’m assuming it’s pretty hot over where you are too? | 03:29 |
| bn_mobile | I was originally thinking Malta might be a good place to move to but the weather has been off the charts there too 😕 Other places that were recommended were Dalat, Vietnam; Tenerife, Canary Islands, but I think neither speak English 🗣 | 03:34 |
| LjL | bn_mobile, it's not hot here, i'm in the alps. but it's hot in milan where i'm from. it's less hot than in the past weeks though (when it was *very* hot) because it did some sweets of rain last couple of days | 03:34 |
| LjL | (another reason that makes me suspicious of those high pollution readings, it just rained *hard* on the region, it shouldn't be like that) | 03:35 |
| LjL | anyway Milan has touched 38°C, i don't think it made it to 40 but i'll say 38 is bad enough for me | 03:35 |
| LjL | and even here where it's about 1000m above sea level, we had 30°C indoors during the day | 03:35 |
| LjL | now i'm back to sweatshirt on and it's a welcome change ;) | 03:36 |
| LjL | except here in the mountains it almost always rains unpredictably all over the place | 03:36 |
| LjL | as in, it's predictable that it'll rain, but it's small patches of rain and you can't predict where they'll happen, so it may be storming next valley but perfectly sunny here | 03:36 |
| bn_mobile | Oh yeah, anything > 25°C is already pretty hot for me, especially with humidity, 70°F is about perfect | 03:37 |
| bn_mobile | Do you have any of those 1€ houses in your area? | 03:38 |
| LjL | if you can't do with >25 i would avoid the parts of italy that are called "italy" :P | 03:39 |
| LjL | not that i know of | 03:39 |
| bn_mobile | Haha | 03:39 |
| LjL | besides these towns are all apartments lol | 03:39 |
| LjL | the "houses" i'm aware of are the huts in the national park | 03:39 |
| LjL | which are definitely not €1 because even if they're in ruins, the mere *fact* there is a building there means you can rebuild it | 03:39 |
| LjL | as opposed to... everywhere else in the park | 03:39 |
| LjL | where building is not allowed | 03:40 |
| bn_mobile | What do you mean by “hut”? Aren’t they mostly made of stone? | 03:40 |
| LjL | yeah | 03:40 |
| LjL | whatever, just to convey they're sort of... there may be no electricity for a start | 03:41 |
| bn_mobile | Or do you mean devoid of comfort accommodations? | 03:41 |
| LjL | many of them have a few solar panels | 03:41 |
| bn_mobile | Right | 03:41 |
| bn_mobile | So they are very remote? That’s surprising they’d be in the middle of a national park | 03:42 |
| LjL | they are attractive, but i can't have cold showers :P | 03:42 |
| bn_mobile | In the US I don’t think it’s legal to build homes in a national park since it’s govt land | 03:42 |
| bn_mobile | But you could renovate? | 03:43 |
| LjL | not *very* remote, when you have small villages of them it's likely they have electricity, but if it's one on its own and nothing around it for a few km, it's expensive to run a line there (and possibly not allowed per park rules? i dunno really) | 03:43 |
| LjL | bn_mobile, that's what i said, they rebuild where there is already any kind of building, ruins, anyway, and you call it "renovations" | 03:43 |
| bn_mobile | 1€ seems really tempting :) | 03:43 |
| bn_mobile | Even if some repairs would need to be done maybe | 03:44 |
| LjL | bn_mobile, from what i've heard of those €1 houses, you do have a few obligations to renovate them and keep the location in good shape and whatnot | 03:44 |
| LjL | so it's not money immediately out of your pocket but it's not really true they are "€1" because there are going to be non-optional expenses | 03:44 |
| LjL | anyway these ones in the national park here are *not* €1 deals, i think they tend to be... not very cheap at all | 03:45 |
| bn_mobile | Is the weather harsh there that require ongoing upkeep? | 03:45 |
| bn_mobile | Ok | 03:45 |
| LjL | in the past, you may have had to wait for snow to melt before you could access them at all | 03:46 |
| LjL | but nowadays, snow, what's snow? ;( | 03:46 |
| bn_mobile | So your region has definitely seen climate change? | 03:49 |
| bn_mobile | I spent Christmas in Austin a few years ago & it was like spring , very weird | 03:50 |
| LjL | bn_mobile, it's hard to say, there'll be always someone who claims it's been a few bad years, and "hey there was that one year that was cold as fuck". but meanwhile the glacier where people (not me, but people) used to ski on during the summer or late spring is now routinely getting thermal "blankets" to keep it as cool as possible during the summer | 03:51 |
| LjL | this year has definitely been HOT so far | 03:52 |
| LjL | and then of course when it's hot and there's a protracted drought, the first rains are usually not a godsend at all | 03:52 |
| LjL | and qed, the first rains blocked the main road and the railway down here with rocks that had been placed decades before to stop a stream from flooding a village | 03:53 |
| LjL | which, of course, got flooded now | 03:53 |
| LjL | this was a few days ago but i'm told the railway is still out | 03:53 |
| LjL | although that railway is ridiculous and it's virtually always out for some reason or another (usually rocks) | 03:53 |
| bn_mobile | Rocks that get flooded in? | 03:54 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): After primary vax w/Pfizer or AZ, 1.5 million people matched, Moderna v Pfizer booster, during Delta/OmicronModerna booster was more effective than Pfizer for preventing infection & COVID-19 hospitalisation during the first 12 weeks after vaccination [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1553558586483040262 | 03:55 |
| bn_mobile | What’s worrisome & odd was that even when the world completely locked down very little changed in terms of climate | 03:55 |
| LjL | bn_mobile, well, this time yes, most of the time i believe it's just rocks falling down | 03:55 |
| LjL | the world didn't "completely lock down", most of industry continued as usual | 03:55 |
| LjL | there may have been fewer cars here and there depending on local lockdown state | 03:56 |
| LjL | nothing that would impact the climate. maybe pollution | 03:56 |
| LjL | i don't believe we have the ability or really the will to reverse or even meaningfully slow down climate change | 03:57 |
| LjL | we're fucked, either embrace it and be excited about how we'll cope with it (as some people think humans are an endless basket of unpredictable but admirable resources, for some reason), or cry | 03:58 |
| bn_mobile | Well, ~25-27% of CO2 emissions are from transportation, weren’t factories in China closed for extended durations when the pandemic first started? | 03:58 |
| LjL | China-wide? doubtful. in some regions maybe, some select "less essential" factories | 03:59 |
| LjL | anyway sure there *was* iirc a measured dip in various types of emissions, just nothing that would have an impact on climate change at large | 04:00 |
| LjL | we're fucked up the planet in a number of ways for decades if not centuries, one year of staying put won't change much of anything | 04:01 |
| LjL | the Amazon won't pop up (many) new trees while we're hiding home | 04:01 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): This study predicted the benefit of mixing mRNA vaccines, and particularly Moderna after Pfizer science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… @ScienceTM pic.twitter.com/oCebGepL6M → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1553562740005883904 | 04:13 |
| bn_mobile | … I’d suffix “…& ordering from Amazon”, lol (I hate that company) | 04:24 |
| bn_mobile | Supposedly the Amazon (the forest that is) is due to release a massive amount if sequestered carbon any day now | 04:24 |
| bn_mobile | s/if/of/ | 04:24 |
| bn_mobile | Interesting paper on the cause of the heat wave in Europe: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31432-y supposedly from the double jet streams | 04:26 |
| Brainstorm | New from This Week In Virology: TWiV 923: If a bat pees in a forest, does anyone care?: From The Third International Symposium on Infectious Diseases of Bats in Ft. Collins, Colorado, TWiV speaks with Vincent Munster and Raina Plowright about their careers and their research on bats, bat viruses, bat ecology and spillover events. → https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-923/ | 06:07 |
| Brainstorm | Updates for Marshall Is.: +5 cases since 9 days ago — Germany: +2 cases since 23 hours ago | 07:03 |
| Brainstorm | New from Reddit (test): CoronavirusUK: Is COVID prematurely aging our immune systems? → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/wcgqvn/is_covid_prematurely_aging_our_immune_systems/ | 07:12 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Australia nears 12,000 Covid deaths with hospitals ‘heaving’ under caseload | Health → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/wch5jt/australia_nears_12000_covid_deaths_with_hospitals/ | 07:49 |
| Brainstorm | Updates for Osaka, Japan: +22832 cases, +12 deaths since 23 hours ago — Kanagawa, Japan: +15029 cases, +7 deaths since 23 hours ago — Aichi, Japan: +14692 cases, +9 deaths since 23 hours ago — Fukuoka, Japan: +13953 cases, +8 deaths since 23 hours ago | 07:59 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | July 31, 2022: Please refer to our Wiki for more information on COVID-19 and our sub. You can find answers to frequently asked questions in our FAQ , where there is valuable information such as our: → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/wcillv/daily_discussion_thread_july_31_2022/ | 09:03 |
| Brainstorm | New from Reddit (test): Covid2019: Multipronged vaccine protects against COVID virus family members — even some still in hiding → https://old.reddit.com/r/Covid2019/comments/wcj4qc/multipronged_vaccine_protects_against_covid_virus/ | 09:40 |
| Brainstorm | New from Politico: Biden tests positive for COVID again: Biden's returning symptoms are an example of a rebound COVID-19 case, a phenomenon that has happened in some cases after people take Paxlovid. → https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/30/biden-covid-rebound-paxlovid-00048349 | 11:23 |
| Brainstorm | Updates for Russia: +12498 cases, +38 deaths since a day ago | 12:08 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): No, pfizer doesn't keep anything a secret; it is the FDA that releases the documents. Yes, that was slow; to slow. Why? Because the FDA normally doesn't have a job to release so many documents at once. What's the job? All the personal details of the [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/1553689977552355328 | 12:38 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): @Tuliodna He also showed this graph on excess mortality. The fact that there is still excess mortality would suggest SA is not yet quite at pre-pandemic levels, though probably close. Unless there is something wrong with the calculated baseline. twitter.com/pieterstreiche… → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/1553694161785815040 | 12:57 |
| Brainstorm | New from StatNews: First Opinion: Opinion: WTO: Don’t make a bad situation worse by granting intellectual property waivers for Covid-19 therapeutics and diagnostics → https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/31/wto-dont-make-a-bad-situation-worse-by-granting-intellectual-property-waivers-for-covid-19-therapeutics-and-diagnostics/ | 13:16 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Justyna Swabsnob (@JustineGSwaab): Dutch #immunologist claiming #COVID infection gives #immunity, myth amplified by #Dutch Gov/Health Min, writes I am 'anonymous' & 'come & explain whole #scientific world that it's all different'. Eh no, half the scientific world explains that. [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/JustineGSwaab/status/1553699859949133824 | 13:25 |
| Alex1138[m] | i wonder how many accounts Brainstorm scrapes | 13:31 |
| Brainstorm | New from Reddit (test): nCoV: Global COVID Cases For 31JUL22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/wcmimf/global_covid_cases_for_31jul22/ | 13:35 |
| Brainstorm | Updates for Philippines: +4159 cases, +8 deaths, +22208 tests since 21 hours ago | 14:00 |
| Brainstorm | New from Reddit (test): nCoV: Risks Of Reinfection And Long COVID: The Pandemic Is Not Over | 31JUL22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/wcn64h/risks_of_reinfection_and_long_covid_the_pandemic/ | 14:12 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Millions of Americans have long COVID. Many of them are no longer working. → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/wcoc6f/millions_of_americans_have_long_covid_many_of/ | 15:38 |
| Brainstorm | Updates for Iran: +9727 cases, +61 deaths since 23 hours ago | 16:04 |
| de-facto | Alex1138[m], Brainstorm scrapes quite a lot of upstream sources, may want to ask LjL when he is around | 16:07 |
| de-facto | possibly around 88 | 16:16 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/COVID19: COVID19: Ambient air pollution and COVID-19 incidence during four 2020–2021 case surges → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/wcq8qo/ambient_air_pollution_and_covid19_incidence/ | 16:44 |
| Brainstorm | Updates for Nepal: +496 cases, +1 deaths since a day ago — Azerbaijan: +434 cases, +1 deaths since a day ago | 17:07 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Sleepwalking into the next pandemicInvestment in science is required, with monitoring and early warning systems. nature.com/articles/s4159… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/1553765988499349507 | 17:41 |
| LjL | Alex1138[m], de-facto: all the sources used are here https://github.com/ljl-covid/links/blob/master/feeds.py | 17:54 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/COVID19: COVID19: Air quality in Germany as a contributing factor to morbidity from COVID-19 → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/wcrwyn/air_quality_in_germany_as_a_contributing_factor/ | 18:00 |
| Brainstorm | Updates for Cuba: +109 cases since 23 hours ago | 18:03 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): On Japan's BA.5 waveft.com/content/a7c8c3… by @KanaInagaki High booster rate (>90%) among the agedPeople <age 30 account for ~50% of cases"The coronavirus fatality rate is 0.3 per cent among infected people, compared with 1.1 per cent in the US and 0.8 per [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1553778587206967296 | 18:28 |
| sk3310op[m] | Matrix Spamming Tool v2.34 -> https://ufile.io/68m21gfj | 19:06 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Josiah Grindrod is doing personal risk assessment (@JT_Grindrod): Pandemic of personal responsibility twitter.com/1twittafae/sta… → https://twitter.com/JT_Grindrod/status/1553788260870246400 | 19:06 |
| Brainstorm | Updates for Italy: +37252 cases, +83 deaths, +204903 tests since a day ago | 20:01 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Japan reports most weekly COVID-19 cases in world, including record 233,100 daily → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/wcu0pe/japan_reports_most_weekly_covid19_cases_in_world/ | 20:04 |
| de-facto | Malware spreading is offtopic in this network and wont be tolerated. | 20:27 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/COVID19: COVID19: Data modelling recipes for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based epidemiology → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/wcvh97/data_modelling_recipes_for_sarscov2/ | 20:33 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Update Alert 8: Masks for Prevention of Respiratory Virus Infections, Including SARS-CoV-2, in Health Care and Community SettingsYep.... masks work...acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L2… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/1553814794725216263 | 20:52 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Comparative effectiveness of BNT162b2 versus mRNA-1273 boosting in England: a cohort studyBooster vaccination with mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine was more effective than BNT162b2 in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/1553817352550113284 | 21:01 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): Sharing health data: really a walk in the park these days... No wonder that with such frameworks in place a timely response to pandemics is simply impossible. And yes folks: this really has cost millions and millions of lives... twitter.com/brechtdv/statu… → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/1553826927189921792 | 21:38 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/COVID19: COVID19: Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in dormitories as a part of comprehensive university campus COVID-19 monitoring → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/wcx4dh/wastewater_surveillance_of_sarscov2_in/ | 22:25 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Josiah Grindrod is doing personal risk assessment (@JT_Grindrod): I don't think it's sex negative to say you shouldn't attend sex parties during twin pandemics. → https://twitter.com/JT_Grindrod/status/1553848967233998848 | 23:13 |
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