#cdcsays
If you've been hit by cars twice and survived, it means you’ve acquired immunity to car fatality and can safely ignore “don’t walk” signals at crosswalks.
@lauren Been living in them for decades. Our high rise condo allows cats (we have three of them) and they and we all enjoy the view. 24/7 door person, package pickup, good maintenance staff (and cable, HVAC, electric and gas all rolled into our monthly fee). Oh, and we don't need to bother with snow shoveling, and have decent mass transit from 1-3 blocks away depending on where we want to go.
The US hasn't had a week with less than 1,000 #COVID19 deaths in four months. I really don't understand people's blasé attitude about COVID. If I were to tell you that 5 to 10 airliners would fall from the sky every week, half of the US wouldn't set foot in a plane. Yet tell people COVID remains a leading cause of death and that it is RIGHT NOW approaching the second-highest levels of the entire pandemic, and it's nothing but shrugs.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: you can't analyze human behavior as though it makes logical sense and is rational. We're are fundamentally not rational.
That's why you have strikes that are resolved by very little money. Because it's not about the money. It's about emotion and feelings. Lke everything, including even science, law, engineering.
Did you know judges have just a little bit over a coin toss chance of detecting a liar by their demeanor on the stand? Now you do.
@jmcrookston
"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.”
— Max Planck, Scientific autobiography, 1950, p. 33, 97
I've heard so many of these types of comments over the past 3 years, I thought it was time to write a bit about how one big aspect of infection is a numbers game. /1
I wonder if there were “weirdos” in John Snows time who boiled their drinking water after the discovery of water borne disease and everyone else was all “are you going to drink clean water for the rest of your life?”
I've taken my Twitter account private and won't be posting there. Sorry to leave my many followers but I'm all in here. Let it rot in the decaying cesspool of Nazi, climate-denying, right-wing xhit it's become.
(Am I bitter? Do I sound bitter? I'm actually quite happy to be here.🍷)
“Prolonged exposure in close proximity to someone with #COVID19 puts people at high risk of catching the disease, even if they’ve had both the disease and vaccinations against it, a study1 shows.
The study, reveals that the greater a person’s exposure to #SARSCoV2, the more vulnerable they are to infection, regardless of their vaccination status. This relationship has long been suspected, but the study is one of the first to document it.” @novid https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02715-1
Wait until the Generative AI systems start to say things even MORE bizarre than they are already, and it turns out they've been training on #Mastodon posts. Extinction level crazy.
@lauren Or how about when the different AI systems each start to prompt each other to extend their training?
I recall a 1960's #MADMagazine cartoon at the dawn of TV classes, of a TV lecturer “speaking” to a class of a room full of tape recorders. Would love to track that one down again.
“Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment of Contracting COVID-19 Derived from Measured and Simulated Aerosol Particle Transmission in #Aircraft Cabins” #QMRA#COVID19#IAQ