Current dilemma:

My brother is, as always, making a yummy Thanksgiving dinner. Unlike other years, he's invited a few other folks to join us, after checking that I was OK with that.

But my brother and sister-in-law have both backed off on their Covid precautions, and I don't know anything about what these other folks are doing. My brother has agreed they could all take Covid tests before we get together.

Now: Do I take off my mask, or do I leave it on and take my meal outside to their patio? It'll be warm enough that I could certainly do that, but it's likely to upset folks a bit.

But I've had Covid zero times, and I'd really like to keep it that way, if possible. And yes, I’m fully vaxxed.

#Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #Thanksgiving

'Slechts drie Kamerleden willen parlementaire enquête corona doen'

"Naast voorzitter Daan de Kort (VVD) hebben Songül Mutluer (GroenLinks-PvdA) en Henk-Jan Oosterhuis (D66) zich gemeld"

"Voor de verkiezingen bestond de commissie nog uit vijf mensen, onder meer van PVV, NSC en BBB. Behalve VVD’er De Kort zijn zij allemaal uit de Kamer weggegaan."

"Het is mogelijk dat Kamerleden van andere fracties zich alsnog melden."

https://www.skipr.nl/nieuws/slechts-drie-kamerleden-willen-parlementaire-enquete-corona-doen/

#corona #Covid #ParlementaireEnquete #politiek

@simonzerafa @JeffGrigg @GossiTheDog

With #CoVID being spread'n'caught obliviously, there's going to be more stupidity, #BrainFog & Co. all around:
https://www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-does-covid-19-harm-the-brain (collection of medical 60 research studies)

That's IMHO a major crutch that keeps the #aiBubble hobbling along: Knowledge workers losing their mental facilities, but having enough disposable income for a #GenAI subscription to keep up appearances.

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @Scienceisnotopinions Very fair. The people who use that phrase generally have no idea about lhow ng #covid

Oh you HAVE to be kidding. Headline:

Why are so many kids calling in sick for school? [1]

summary says "CBC's Tara Carman breaks down what the data reveals"

interview:

of those that track illness, our analysis shows that compared to five years ago, absences for reported illness went up

So what does CBC investigate?

They ... ask one talking head about anxiety and don't considre any other options. Well maybe they'll quantify? Naw they'll literally say only:

anxiety definitely is a contributor to attendance

no kidding but where's the data that you promised to break down?

Look, I'm not saying that kids aren't avoiding school because of bullying.

But MAYBE CHECK SOME ACTUAL NUMBERS. Because there's a new disease, in the last five years, and now Long COVID is more prevalent than asthma in kids[2] and ignoring that in a piece on calling in sick seems, bluntly, stupid?

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6988481
[2] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2834486

#BadJournalism #CBC #CDNPoli #Canada #COVID #COVID19 #LongCOVID

So much to know.
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"University of Alberta researchers studied 445,646 adults and found that of those who had taken antibiotics in the three months prior to COVID infection, at least 50% were to experience poor outcomes, including emergency room visits, hospitalization, or death, within 30 days of COVID infection.

"The increased risks persisted even after adjusting for comorbidities, suggesting that the disruption of the gut microbiome caused by recent antibiotic use may negatively impact the body’s immune response to a subsequent COVID infection."

#Covid #Health #Antibiotics
https://drruth.substack.com/p/covid-and-health-news-112325

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Dusted off and worked on the #frameworkLaptop yesterday, up and running. The kiddos both game on the weekends, so I had some use for it again. Almost took this puppy for donation when I was dealing with #covid last year; my brain and sausage fingers really couldn't work on keeping it going (it has many quirks; it's the 13-inch Tigerlake one, lol). I'll probably use it out and about too; it's super lightweight.

New NVME drive, and started out with #cachyos, unlike my bigger laptop and desktop that use Arch with repos from Cachy 😄 I'll bump up the monitor and solder the new RTC controller (one of the quirks) when they arrive in the coming weeks.

So you may have seen that the commentariat has decided that one key issue coming out of the Covid Inquiry is its cost (at around £200mn) with all sorts of opining that this really is not not a good use of scarce money...

Well, I'll tell you wasn't a good use of scarce money: the nearly £1.5bn that was lost on contracts for faulty/unusable PPE & the associated fraud(s).

It makes £200mn for something actually (potentially) useful look like pretty good value to me!

#Covid #PPE #politics