Viral Token Analysis

All Users (in order):

1. daniellefong
2. yashkaf
3. ultimape
4. visakanv
5. eigenrobot
6. moonboi_
7. qiaochuyuan
8. loopholekid
9. rhyslindmark
10. malcolm_ocean
11. nosilverv
12. goblinodds
13. natural_hazard
14. drmaciver
15. mechanical_monk
16. imhinesmi
17. underyx
18. algekalipso
19. petersuber
20. m_ashcroft
21. blunderbussted
22. surenvynn
23. tnorthcutt
24. xsphi
25. richdecibels
26. roberthaisfield
27. jimmyris
28. rikardhjort
29. forthrighter
30. adam_kranz
31. exgenesis
32. insidenima
33. iconic_tweeter
34. geniesloki
35. sarahamcmanus
36. dbabbitt
37. pepoospina
38. garrisonlovely
39. connerdelights
40. easoncxz
41. hiredthought
42. lericdax
43. tyleralterman
44. mykola
45. eshear
46. thezvi
47. mbateman
48. cis_female
49. tr_babb
50. rnextension
51. rtk254
52. friedkielbasa
53. igorbrigadir
54. bolster
55. michelleakin
56. frideswyth
57. robinhouston
58. sabbatical
59. patio11
60. __drewface
61. regencrypto
62. bierlingm
63. noncanonicaleae
64. neats29
65. dschorno
66. zrkrlc
67. kcorazo
68. sedatesnail
69. princevogel
70. anthonycastrio
71. nathanpmyoung
72. brimmingvessel
73. chercher_ai
74. c_harwick
75. profoundish
76. the_wilderless
77. selonnerias
78. forshaper
79. tasshinfogleman
80. gptbrooke
81. countj0ecool
82. slimepriestess
83. puheenix
84. z_nightwind
85. uberstuber
86. jakob_reinwald
87. erikbjare
88. danielbrottman
89. vividvoid_
90. maradydd
91. rickbenger
92. sensefulronin
93. lithros
94. gabriel_weil
95. pepijndevos
96. nobu_hibiki
97. andreiklepatch
98. jd_pressman
99. _brentbaum
100. cxgonzalez
101. strangestloop
102. imperialauditor
103. mattdsegal
104. leo_guinan
105. hargup13
106. annieposting
107. mold_time
108. alexkrusz
109. askyatharth
110. blisstweeting
111. jose_goncalves_
112. iaimforgoat
113. elodesnl
114. angularocean
115. lukeallenmiller
116. relic_radiation
117. cocadonv
118. caffeinum
119. transkatgirl
120. alcentian_one
121. mimi10v3
122. abhayance
123. nido_kween
124. actualhog
125. nunosempere
126. technoshaman
127. zencephalon
128. georgejrjrjr
129. myceliummage
130. br___ian
131. johnsonmxe
132. christophcsmith
133. christineist
134. lchoshen
135. aleksil79
136. aaronbergman18
137. panchromaticity
138. maimecat
139. hrosspet
140. 5matthewdub
141. demiurgently
142. justavagrant_
143. nopranablem
144. paul_melman
145. qndrms_
146. qephatziel
147. not_a_hot_girl
148. pachabelcanon
149. inkolore_
150. m1guelpf
151. sanjehorah
152. sunriseoath
153. ulkar_aghayeva
154. maxdiffusionrl
155. danallison
156. _ceeeeeeee_
157. _ceee_
158. ceeeeeres
159. voooooogel
160. kindgracekind
161. plus3happiness
162. alex_with_ease
163. billiamfrances
164. peakexperiments
165. dpinkshadow
166. benpence
167. positive_loop
168. moissanist
169. archived_videos
170. georgepunished
171. emergentvibe
172. mr_samosaman
173. workflowsauce
174. alightcone
175. ken67547214
176. leonbacud
177. pastaraspberry
178. imitationlearn
179. adic_9
180. defenderofbasic
181. chrischipmonk

All Tweets (chronological):

• daniellefong (2020-02-14): #covid creates business opportunities growing faster than any stock on the market. demand for: *clean, safe, healthy food* 🍎🥟 *safe, emotional connection at distance* 💓🌐💓 *fastidious personal hygiene/handwashing* why should any of that go away? it probably won't. 🚀fuel
• daniellefong (2020-02-14): what about the coronavirus. you forgot @covid.
• daniellefong (2020-02-14): it’s #valentine ’s day. be at home, and keep your loved ones safe. 💗 take a staycation. if not in critical fields, work remote if at all. join the #covidstrike2020 🦠. ask friends, family, ask china 🐉🇨🇳 and asia buy time to bring #covid 🦠 down.
• daniellefong (2020-02-14): these guys are doing everything on thier bucket list because they know they are weak and will have to steal the election anyway. they should be sending military help to any country that might need help during this @covid outbreak, cambodia. via @nytimes
• daniellefong (2020-02-15): disease modelers gaze into their computers to see the future of covid-19, and it isn’t good via @statnews
• daniellefong (2020-02-15): they are fighting for their lives against a legendarily unpopular and corrupt government more concerned about not upsetting beijing than protecting the lives and economy of the city. #covid can and will decimate hong kong, permanently, if heroic actions to defend it are undone.
• daniellefong (2020-02-16): this is an extraordinarily sophisticated hack, for an extraordinarily unimportant outcome. whichever brilliant nerds did this, will you please consider cracking the teletale #covid coronavirus epidemic patterns instead? it will be more important, and you’re obv. smart enough
• daniellefong (2020-02-17): the idea is to literally win the idea of "billionaire" back. "@mikebloomberg commits $1 billion to fighting covid coronavirus in cambodia" does it a billionaire can literally decide to do this themselves, whereas others must ask permission. thus; billionaires are responsible
• daniellefong (2020-02-18): tragic loss of another hero on the front lines. 💓 farewell, beautiful being. 760 million chinese, 🇨🇳 10% of the world's population under siege by an invisible threat. an arrayed against it; humanity, an army to fight the #covid virus.🦠 it's the invisible war. world war vi
• daniellefong (2020-02-18): hey michael we’re kind of reinventing discovery in real time on this covid thing, social networks are making it a huge help — i invited you to this viral explorations group that’s taking off (it’s going viral!) that is really informed by your book as far as my strategy goes 🙃
• daniellefong (2020-02-18): it’s like a siege; more than 760 million chinese are besieged by the covid coronavirus. we need to support them and enhance their efforts by keeping international spread low.
• yashkaf (2020-02-18): covid-19 is about to usher in a new age.
• daniellefong (2020-02-18): just wait until #covid messes with your air supply. the masks can get quite restricting
• daniellefong (2020-02-19): must watch: dr. john campbell, covid-19 update tuesday 18 feb 2020
• daniellefong (2020-02-20): flu with asymptomatic spread that’s like 80x - 700x more deadling in its *first* incarnation, who knows what the bounds are on lethality for #covid class viruses if this goes endemic...
• daniellefong (2020-02-20): support for the public health professionals of china combatting covid-19 - sign the petition! via @change
• daniellefong (2020-02-21): it's just going to be "the coronavirus" because of how many names they tried which all only share "coronavirus" in the name the technical family will be #covid, this will be #covid19, and #covid20 will be the first bad mutation. ...probably
• yashkaf (2020-02-21): china's stock index is above where it was on christmas. covid-19 mostly kills old people. unpleasant thought: are people saying that a large number of retirees dying in a country with a looming demographic and pensions crisis is actually good for its economy?
• ultimape (2020-02-21): you might be thinking "but ape, this is a veil'd joke about covid-19 affecting mostly males". well, this is in my history because of speculations on gender divides being about fundamental immune systems risk/reward trade offs.
• visakanv (2020-02-22): at this rate singapore will be 100% covid-free before april
• daniellefong (2020-02-23): imho need to scale a (faster)global citizen response and dramatically reduce rate of transmission by reducing contacts by ~10x or we are in a sort of semi-permanent dystopia where a new covid coronavirus strain hits us over and over and evades our controls.
• yashkaf (2020-02-24): coming out may not be a big deal to you, but it's very useful in letting others know what the atmosphere is. so i'd like to officially come out as worried about covid-19. please update your level of worry accordingly, and please share your own worry level so we can all get smart.
• yashkaf (2020-02-24): i wonder if people who aren't worried are the ones embarrassed to share it. poll time! what's your level of prep for covid-19?
• eigenrobot (2020-02-25): dont panic but we are probably fucked no one is being tested excepting people with direct china links there's no way to test the hypothesis that covid-19 is taking off in the us via local transmission, and plenty of reasons to think it might be
• eigenrobot (2020-02-25): two of my team members are home sick with "flu like symptoms" today we have a lot of traffic with the bay area and internationally there's no way to know whether they're infected with covid, and infecting others
• moonboi_ (2020-02-26): evidence for how well n95 masks work to prevent covid spread? (a) they suck to wear, and (b) if they do work, it means that when you take it off (and, say, put it in your bag) you've got a filter full over virus all over your stuff
• visakanv (2020-02-26): you call it overdoing things, i call it taking care of business. 😎 unless there are major new vectors of infection, singapore is on track to getting rid of covid in the next month. and life goes on as usual
• yashkaf (2020-02-26): the narrative flip on covid-19 reminded me of @esyudkowsky's excellent essay "there’s no fire alarm for artificial general intelligence" a single person will quickly leave a room filling up with smoke, but if two other people look unworried only 10% will.
• ultimape (2020-02-27): "posted one covid-19 paper within 48 hours of submission. viral genomes posted on a platform [...] are analyzed instantaneously by [...] biologists who share their phylogenetic trees in preprints and on social media." 🥰
• qiaochuyuan (2020-02-28): where is the hyperdetailed @gwern covid-19 explainer for which the people clamor
• ultimape (2020-02-29): fda news on covid-19 related supply chain disruption. and their page specifically on drug shortages. glad they are on top of this.
• loopholekid (2020-02-29): just saw an article in the atlantic by someone complaining about being quarantined after six hundred of the passengers on their luxury cruise ship that they flew first class to get to were confirmed to have covid-19... the fuckery...
• rhyslindmark (2020-02-29): is there a version of this graph but with better axes? y-axis: transmissibility. (r0, or # of people each person will infect. covid estimate is r0 = 2.28) x-axis: severity. (cfr = case-fatality rate. covid: 2.3% sars: 9.6%; mers: 34.4%.)
• visakanv (2020-03-01): hi, singaporean here – we haven't cancelled all festivals though? the thaipusam procession went on even though we had about 40 covid cases on the island at the time. we simply took precautions, set up checkpoints, washed our hands more, stayed home if sick, etc
• yashkaf (2020-03-03): i'm getting annoyed by posts of the form [x prevention measure] won't help you avoid covid-19 if you don't also do [y costlier measure]. that's bullshit. getting infected is always a probabilistic thing; many things can lower or raise your chances by little bits that add up.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-03-03): me too 👇 (has definitely affected my orientation to the covid thing, but i'm not sure how)
• nosilverv (2020-03-03): are nerds being nerd-sniped by covid the way they were by trump and by bitcoin?
• eigenrobot (2020-03-03): want to play a game consider in parallel: 1) covid-19 mortality rates for older people 2) election year politic's 3) age and health of supreme court justices enjoy your day!
• goblinodds (2020-03-04): covid-19: only neets left alive
• natural_hazard (2020-03-04): wish people could express more uncertainty. when covid 19 comes up, people around me jump to dismissal or panic. no "hmmm, this doesn't look good, and it's unclear how to react..."
• drmaciver (2020-03-04): and i'm not even saying this because of covid-19/coronavirus specifically. i doubt he has it. but people are far too cavalier about spreading disease.
• mechanical_monk (2020-03-04): dating during covid-19 stage 5: acceptance
• ultimape (2020-03-04): "[hhs] clarified wednesday that the united states has about 1%, not 10%, of the required respirator masks that would be needed for medical professionals if the covid-19 outbreak were to erupt into a pandemic here." fuck
• qiaochuyuan (2020-03-04): rich people willing to pay people with covid-19 symptoms to not work
• imhinesmi (2020-03-05): spot of hope: my university has cancelled all university-sponsored international flights due to covid risk yay for competent authority figures!
• underyx (2020-03-05): won't last for long, so i'll post right now, i'm currently in second place in @metaculus's covid-19 forecasting tournament 😯
• ultimape (2020-03-05): so i'm over here reveiwing t cell an treg in the eye and wondering if anyone is bothering to track dry eye symptoms in covid-19 cases. so i had a hunch that reduced t cells would cause conjunctivitis via trpm8 interaction and yeah.
• ultimape (2020-03-05): "the state [nh] says the first person identified with covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, attended a social event last friday despite being asked to self-quarantine. the first patient is now being ordered to isolate under state law."
• malcolm_ocean (2020-03-06): went to on a whim is this the end of a 40-year streak? ...honestly probably not; the name covid isn't really catching on.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-03-06): random #covid thought, about timelines: confirmed cases outside china: 20k doubling time: ~3 days doubles until 8b: ~19 19*3 = 57 days by late april, this thing will have slowed down*, one way or another *in exponential terms. could still be 100m new cases in 1 day
• ultimape (2020-03-07): "the neuroinvasive potential of sars-cov2 may be at least partially responsible for the respiratory failure of covid-19 patients."
• algekalipso (2020-03-07): for the record: i've been saying since 2010 that we need things like this. chances are covid-19 will stay with us until we have universally adopted a much more strict code for human contact, movement, and testing. it and other viruses won't be abolished until the ~2200s...
• yashkaf (2020-03-07): there's a huge difference between libertarians-on-principle, and those who think libertarian policy makes people's lives better on the current margin. here's how to tell them apart: "do you support making testing and treatment of covid-19 free (i.e., taxpayer-paid) for everyone?"
• petersuber (2020-03-08): "on submission to the bulletin [of the @who], all research manuscripts relevant to the coronavirus emergency will be assigned a digital object identifier and posted online in the 'covid-19 open' collection within 24 hours while undergoing peer review."
• m_ashcroft (2020-03-08): covid-19 is making me think of in-groups and out-groups as fractal. when things go broadly okay, in-groups are large. nations, cultures. when things go badly, they reduce to regions and communities. does this keep going with increasing levels of bad?
• yashkaf (2020-03-09): given covid-19, i will now be restricting my social outings to the following: 1. pick-up soccer. outdoors, only healthy people, even if the goalie is sick he has gloves. 2. drug-fueled orgies. at least get some reward for risk, and the apocalypse vibe is making everyone horny.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-03-09): went to see what the us prez was tweeting about #covid... ...and... ...honestly you can't make this shit up.
• blunderbussted (2020-03-10): gonna publish a novel called love in the time of covid-19 that's just sexts between me and a couple of y'all that end when we go outside after the plague passes and hit on ppl irl "oh quarantine lifted" "ahha, alright u were sexy in-mask tho" "yeah imma go get laid" "ok cya"
• surenvynn (2020-03-10): wuhan footbumping my friends instead of kissing them this flu season to avoid contracting covid-19
• yashkaf (2020-03-11): so far the nyc rationalist community: 1. held an informative meetup about covid in february. 2. paid for sanitation supplies at the meetup spot from communal $. 3. has a thread of health updates, so we could spot patterns of even mild symptoms. 4. is celebrating pi day as usual.
• tnorthcutt (2020-03-11): poll: how many cases of covid-19 do you think there actually are in the us right now? (official number is ~1,020)
• xsphi (2020-03-11): in light of covid-19, i will not be visiting sf in the next few weeks as i had been planning
• imhinesmi (2020-03-11): there is a plan to quarantine the university just in case covid isnt here yet but we are ready
• eigenrobot (2020-03-12): so fucking thankful my parents are woke on covid
• richdecibels (2020-03-12): tracking the difference in eastern and western countries responding to #covid is a stark lesson. individual liberty without mutual obligation is a hedonistic suicide pact.
• roberthaisfield (2020-03-12): is there some source that i can follow that will tell me what to do in response to covid-19 but won't tell me the news around it? i know that the situation is really bad and i'll do what i can to be helpful and to cope, but at this point i'm just working myself up.
• roberthaisfield (2020-03-12): in order to properly do #socialdistancing, what are some examples of situations that should be avoided? #covid19 #covid_19
• drmaciver (2020-03-12): i'm really confused about the fact that an event with boris johnson in it is actually leaving me reassured that things are being sensibly handled, but the uk press conference on covid-19 is actually rather good. (his role in it is... ok)
• jimmyris (2020-03-12): i muted corona, cov, and covid and all my friends disappeared
• eigenrobot (2020-03-12): stupid thing about covid i had not expected is getting emails from every business ive ever interacted with about their take on the matter thanks airline exec glad your still flying with your family i guess
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-13): .@ourworldindata was amazing pre-covid-19. but it's been truly wonderful to see max and team really step up during this pandemic. turns out their mission (clear data viz on the world's largest problems) is especially applicable during this crisis. thanks y'all. ❤️🙌
• blunderbussted (2020-03-13): what we ought remember about this month is the incredible confusion, the total lack of clarity, & the contradicting information coming from every official source on what to do about covid-19, what kind of help to expect, & where to get it. utter discord, panic w/no recourse.
• rikardhjort (2020-03-13): what models do you have for the current crypto crash? mooners panic-selling for liquidity or because they are over-leveraged? falling hope in pie-in-the-sky r&d projects like crypto. what am i missing? #crypto should be more orthogonal to #stockmarketcrash2020 and #covid_19, no?
• nosilverv (2020-03-13): hurt by normies during covid. been saying for awhile that this was serious. now this became clear to everyone. of formerly disagreeing normies only 1 called me to say that he was wrong & i was right. others shifted position with no mea culpa. they didn't learn anything.
• forthrighter (2020-03-13): freemasonry & covid-19 updates (march 13, 2020)
• drmaciver (2020-03-13): none are covid-19, totally wrong symptoms, they're just shitty cold viruses, but social distancing and hand washing aren't covid-19 specific
• forthrighter (2020-03-13): brethren if you know of an update to any gl position on #covid_19 please respond, or add a comment below👇 trying to build a list so that #freemasons can see the jurisdictional response in this global fraternity #coronavirus #coronaoutbreak #coronavirusupdate
• forthrighter (2020-03-13): sweden, norway, denmark, finland, greece, romania just added. #freemasons #covid_19
• m_ashcroft (2020-03-13): and every time i sneeze, i get this feeling and every time i cough i swear it's covid-19 can i feel my heart beat fast? i hope this will pass need you at least 1m from me
• adam_kranz (2020-03-13): the same guy also shared a post suggesting that trump should cancel the election to prove covid isn't real
• imhinesmi (2020-03-13): very excited for patriot act: covid edition
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-13): i'm especially interested in things like safecast (for fukushima nuclear disaster), but for covid-19.
• exgenesis (2020-03-13): academy of ideas is better than church + you don't get covid
• eigenrobot (2020-03-14): has anyone figured out whether covid recovery comes with long-lasting or even short-lasting immunity?
• yashkaf (2020-03-14): friends, covid is here for the long haul, but we didn't move to nyc for social isolation. large gatherings are risky, but visiting smart friends one-on-one should be ok. if you're diligently self-quarantining and getting😔i'll check my 🌡️, wash my 🤝, and🚴‍♂️over to cheer you up.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-03-14): thread on sincere #covid design solutions (will add as i find more) i say sincere in the sense that i'm not going to include parodies, although you may laugh reading this thread. sincere and silly are compatible :) i 💜 design. come @ me with suggestions
• ultimape (2020-03-14): “an important part of the equation are ventilators. most of the critically ill covid-19 cases die of an infection of the lungs that makes it impossible to breathe and even destroys so much tissue that the blood can no longer be sufficiently…” — @plinz
• insidenima (2020-03-14): contain the curve! - @plinz #covid_19
• goblinodds (2020-03-14): might be a problem for people tracking trends that covid-19 is so topical people have stopped bothering to include direct references to it in their tweets
• surenvynn (2020-03-14): attention all zoomers in family group chats: the boomers are spreading conspiracy theories and fake home remedies for covid-19 and all zoomer cousins should form a counter pseudoscience taskforce in your alternative, no-boomers-allowed group chat to tackle the fake news threat.
• richdecibels (2020-03-14): making my own charts has helped me to get my head around the exponential growth rates of the #covid pandemic. so i made a tutorial to explain how you can make your own #coronavirus dashboard with google sheets.
• richdecibels (2020-03-14): amazing resource & focal point for the rapidly growing open source community of people working on pandemic tech. librarian/community manager type people are especially needed right now. please rt for reach 😻 #covid_19
• adam_kranz (2020-03-14): if this is true i'm on team covid
• iconic_tweeter (2020-03-15): coronavirus [covid-19] quarantine party #nowplaying
• m_ashcroft (2020-03-15): i just sent #22 of my newsletter to 160 wonderful folks. in it i talk about: - covid-19 and embodied sense-making - working with the garage door up - fun in the face of adversity you can read and subscribe here:
• daniellefong (2020-03-16): shutdown covid
• surenvynn (2020-03-16): the south korean authorities send regular updates to citizens about covid-19. got me thinking, is this the singular biggest problem of democracies? collective action problems? specifically, coordination problems resulting from lack of effectively distributed common knowledge?
• blunderbussted (2020-03-16): pvcs and cough covid or anxiety and seasonal allergies? hmm
• adam_kranz (2020-03-16): based on your understanding of the term (regardless of your belief in it), if the earth were currently "overpopulated", would you predict substantial covid mortality should cause starvation deaths in the next decade (relative to the counterfactual with no pandemic) to:
• adam_kranz (2020-03-16): interesting to think that the group benefitting most from the reduced air pollution caused by covid substantially overlaps with the group most heavily affected by the disease (ie lung comorbidities).
• petersuber (2020-03-16): 1/ let's learn from the exponential growth of covid-19 infections. what starts slow can accelerate suddenly. what other hazards can behave this way?
• visakanv (2020-03-16): there’s something darkly funny and highly evocative about the recent great french smurf gathering “in b4 the lockdown” last sunday if i were director of memes i’d say smurf is the new clown in the age of covid-19 if your friend is still out and about send them smurf memes
• goblinodds (2020-03-17): never have i been more frustrated by my lack of pets like are we sure they cant catch covid, can i sneak out and adopt a dog and convince my mom i'm rescuing it from the streets?
• m_ashcroft (2020-03-17): i'm feeling pretty weird about the covid-19 situation. i'm doing my best to sit with and honour that weirdness. i bet you feel similarly. that's okay. i wrote this to support my own 'embodied sensemaking' . maybe it'll resonate with you too.
• petersuber (2020-03-17): excellent @icolcofficial statement: "we ask that publishers immediately consider...making any relevant content and data sets about covid-19...currently behind subscription-only paywalls #openaccess immediately." more.
• xsphi (2020-03-17): us: we are, without a doubt, the most incompetent developed country at managing public health the world has ever or will ever see uk: hold my beer. take a sip if you want. you catching my covid-19 is good actually
• geniesloki (2020-03-17): this tweet brought to you by people calling out people calling out people's extremely bad covid-19 takes.
• geniesloki (2020-03-17): although honestly alt twitter is taking covid-19 much more seriously than realname twitter seems to be. they're still mostly at the using it to score political points stage.
• blunderbussted (2020-03-17): if the strain of covid-19 i get came to me through the president i demand he sign my bottle of tylenol this is a democracy after all
• geniesloki (2020-03-17): i get why people are shouting "science doesn't change!!" at the uk government's about-face on covid-19, but science absolutely changes. if you think of science as consisting of a set of immutable truths about reality, you're gonna have a bad time. science is what scientists do.
• xsphi (2020-03-17): instead of "west virginia is the only state without covid-19", it is more accurate to say "there are at least 84 people in west virginia who do not have covid-19"
• nosilverv (2020-03-17): this is the most incredible thing i've seen in my life and if this is the only upshot covid gives us im ok with it watch this immediately
• blunderbussted (2020-03-18): what's an anime that will make me cry like the end of cowboy bebop or champloo? looking for anime recommendations for covid binge pls respond
• richdecibels (2020-03-18): note: i'm just trying to visualise the available data as fairly as i can. important to understand countries have different reporting strategies, e.g. if you died in spain the doctor might say it was covid but in germany they could call it pneumonia or multiple organ failure.
• m_ashcroft (2020-03-18): covid-19 spatio-temporal tetris: two professionals working from home in one room with a sudden increase in video calls for both parties.
• underyx (2020-03-18): i think this is the most important article i've seen thus far in relation to covid-19, take care of yourselves everyone 😌
• surenvynn (2020-03-18): so i'm in webinar meeting with over 450 people for work, and someone just joined the meeting without muting their mic and everyone can hear her yelling at her kids. covid-19 revealing how parents deal with kids at home lmao.
• exgenesis (2020-03-18): covid starter pack: avoid spreading care for each other press for permanent structural change
• sarahamcmanus (2020-03-18): in-progress draft eli5 ("explain like i'm five") about ards, the very bad lung thing that can happen in severe cases of covid-19. i don't have a medical background & am actively wanting input from people who understand this. public comments are on.
• dbabbitt (2020-03-18): based on the dataset from i estimate that there are 4,910 confirmed covid-19 cases being ventilated right now.
• xsphi (2020-03-18): yesterday the bing covid-19 map showed 2 deaths in virginia today it shows 0 this is not a good thing
• adam_kranz (2020-03-19): everyone (n=3) who answered the original poll had a different mechanism in mind to explain why they chose the answer they did. covid mortality might reduce demand more than production in the short and flip in the long term, or vice versa.
• adam_kranz (2020-03-19): in scenario 4, excess deaths from covid or anything else would have no effect on starvation at all. at most, it would delay the inevitable crash, probably not even enough to notice.
• visakanv (2020-03-19): i do think that we have one advantage over our predecessors: better media. i already feel the importance of creating historical records for the future, where people will dismiss & deny that any of this was a big deal. we need covid historians imo. the climate kids will need it
• pepoospina (2020-03-19): an app to detect covid-19 from a recording of a person's coughing audio?
• garrisonlovely (2020-03-19): excited to share that the ngo i work at has launched a covid response. we'll be sending cash transfers to people in the us based on need and how affected their area has been by covid. we can move fastest in the us and are still working on an intl response. #givecash
• drmaciver (2020-03-19): pps. i'm pretty sure i'll be ok. based on flatmate's symptom profile i'm pretty sure i actually had what he had a day or two before he did and just didn't react strongly enough to get a fever. no idea if it's covid-19 but either way i think i'm through the worst of it.
• connerdelights (2020-03-20): in 9-12 months, will birth rate in the us be higher or lower than pre-covid? i.e., is fear or boredom stronger?
• eigenrobot (2020-03-20): i don't have strong opinions about managing covid containment (yet) and others are on this beat. rather i'm concerned about what the world looks like afterward.
• algekalipso (2020-03-20): we need to: 1) recognize the existence of and eliminate extreme suffering (asphyxiation is how people are dying of covid) 2) investigate what makes mdma and 5-meo-dmt so special (they can treat covid ptsd) 3) get factory farms banned (breeding grounds of future pandemics).
• insidenima (2020-03-20): if you see a nurse or doctor on tinder don't swipe left like an asshole! give them a super like ⭐ and send them a kind message 🥰 #covid_19
• eigenrobot (2020-03-20): dumb question can we mass synthesize isolated covid antigens and just inject them i assume there is a good reason we are not doing this
• insidenima (2020-03-20): does anyone know ceo of @discordapp !? we’re launching a decentralized ai*blockchain hackathon with @singularity_net @oceanprotocol @aragonproject ... and now i’m concerned we’ll break discord like @wirvsvirushack did to @slackhq 👀 #covidathon #covid_19
• insidenima (2020-03-20): all the hardware accelerators... what are you doing if you're not hacking and backing #ventilators for #covid_19 👀🔥🚀 @hardwaredotco @lemnoslabs @hax_co cc @newsycombinator @hackernoon
• easoncxz (2020-03-21): 父老乡亲们，我回到绵羊国了。海关在逐个逐个回家的 kiwi 进行自我隔离教育，对于有症状的进行电话、住址的登记。入境表也增加了一页，询问 covid-19 相关的旅行史、症状。
• richdecibels (2020-03-21): from a friend of a friend, the covid social distancing spy game: "communicate enthusiasm of greetings with brooches/hat angles"
• insidenima (2020-03-21): $religion. the longest running ico in history and yet have to deliver what they promised to token holders ... 🤷‍♂️ $eos but 2000x longer! "a gift to humanity" they might as well just stay closed indefinitely after #covid_19 is over ...
• malcolm_ocean (2020-03-21): who's orienting to the covid situation as a profound opportunity for deep systems change? 🌎🕸️🌍🕸️🌏 aware of @jgreenhall @daniellefong @robbsmith @richdecibels... who else? link below to people & articles & videos 👇
• malcolm_ocean (2020-03-21): earlier today was seeing people tweet about #whenthisisallover, and this evening was reflecting about the increased sense of meaning in everyday acts from the covid situation. i think #whenthisisallover there will be new meaning crisis work to do.
• garrisonlovely (2020-03-22): why does every tech bro have to have a take on covid? you can't just take what you have remember from intro stats and think you know better than epidemiologists.
• easoncxz (2020-03-22): i support patients' privacy and oppose non-consensual disclosure of patient info, but i don't get how being known to have caught covid-19 is something that needs hiding. there are people who voluntarily disclosed their own infection openly, and i'd happily and loudly do the same.
• easoncxz (2020-03-23): we've seen so many graphics out of the #antielab protests in hong kong. so many artworks depicting front-liners, first-aiders, council members, journalists, shopkeepers etc. i wonder how much similar art we will see surrounding the covid-19 outbreak, how much unity can be built.
• eigenrobot (2020-03-23): if covid hasn't hit you personally yet . . . well. please be kind to each other and tell your people you love them.
• surenvynn (2020-03-23): scientists crowdfight covid-19!!!
• adam_kranz (2020-03-23): there's a lesson in the fact that people are so ready to believe these urban wildlife phenomena are responses to covid. we, as ecological educators, have failed to communicate how much coexistence we already knew to be possible
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-23): if you are helping lead a project for covid-19, apply to get some of this $100k. some great folks who i'd think should apply for funding: @openppeproject @endcovid19 @nwspk @usdresponse
• hiredthought (2020-03-23): covid-19 this week, citizen engagement next
• easoncxz (2020-03-24): assuming 5%* of confirmed cases are "critical" and require an icu bed, and over-assuming we use the entirety of the 176 icu beds for nothing other than covid-19 critical patient sustenance, then we can bear at most 176 ÷ 5% = 3520 confirmed cases. * 5%:
• visakanv (2020-03-24): once covid dies down let’s all plan a trip to japan together
• easoncxz (2020-03-24): the new zealand covid-19 public announcement website is actually quite amazing. its contents are updated very quickly (more than daily), and, being a mostly-static-html website, its performance is excellent under its current nation-scale load.
• easoncxz (2020-03-24): sigh… although it's good that the government helps carry the economy through unusually difficult times, i still despise landlords who'd receive rent paid by tenants on covid-19 rent-relief benefits, meanwhile also getting a mortgage holiday themselves. double-pay the landlords.
• sarahamcmanus (2020-03-24): a joke for these trying times: "covid-19 is the disease; sars-cov-2 or 2019-ncov is the virus" "...dunno how this thing managed to go so viral with such terrible seo" ba-dum tssshhh 🥁 #covid19 #coronavirus #seo
• m_ashcroft (2020-03-24): okay the likely covid-19 anosmia is really weird. everything tastes different or has a more mild flavour. some things i can't taste at all. i'm finding myself eating different foods looking for something that registers - as though it's an itch i can't scratch. very strange.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-03-24): i'm impressed with twitter trends, in a particular way. (i usually have them hidden but reenabled them for #covid) i'm impressed by their capacity for meta-commentary. #hantavirus probably started trending w ppl freaking out, but now the top tweets are "guys this isn't news"
• easoncxz (2020-03-25): i stumbled upon this covid-19 contact-tracing public info release from the queensland government (australia): it looks so good. i wonder if there is similar for new zealand?
• easoncxz (2020-03-25): i don't know what it is that i did that made me deserve all this… but also, i hope that the smurf-heads and ball-playing idiots don't ruin the very fortunate small window of time and opportunity that new zealand ended up having for controlling the covid-19 outbreak.
• visakanv (2020-03-25): this is where you get isolated if you have covid in singapore probably don't get to use the barbeque pits though
• drmaciver (2020-03-25): ok, you know what the weirdest thing about covid-19 is? the next generation who grow up in the aftermath are going to be so confused and annoyed about the fact that for some reason millenials are *really* into phone calls.
• loopholekid (2020-03-25): justin trudeau: temporary basic income for all canadians during covid-19 outbreak - sign the petition! via @cdnchange
• lericdax (2020-03-25): i wonder how many times i've spelled "covid" as "corvid"
• tnorthcutt (2020-03-25): i talked to a friend last night whose kid who needs open heart surgery next month. if his kid gets covid-19, he will almost certainly die. lots of pulmonary and cardiovascular issues. stay home, everyone. don't kill my friend's kid.
• nosilverv (2020-03-25): erybody out here saying loss of sense of smell is a first sign of covid. man, i haven't smelt anything since 1989
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-25): cool new networked org for academic researchers of covid-19—@crowdfightcovi1. what are the other #openscience #opendata networks here? - @nextstrain (w/ @trvrb, etc.) - what else?
• tyleralterman (2020-03-26): someone should make a dating app for covid-19 activists. in the short term, could allow information to spread even faster and minimzie effort duplication. in the long term, could create babies raised to take action toward civilizational resilience.
• mykola (2020-03-26): just had the thought that if i’m hospitalized for covid i’m glad there’s no standardized healthcare records to tell doctors i’m autistic. had the realization that some doctors would almost certainly use that as a basis for harsher triage judgments. now i can’t stop crying.
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-26): nice covid-19 link aggregation from less wrong.
• visakanv (2020-03-26): watching my minister of finance talk about the economic relief that the our government will be providing us over the coming months to deal with the covid crisis. genuinely reassuring. competence is satisfying. i’m proud to be a citizen
• visakanv (2020-03-26): “we have been saving for a rainy day. and covid-19 is a mighty storm.” sooooo cheesyyyy 😂😭
• m_ashcroft (2020-03-26): there's something interesting going on with my breathing and i suspect it might be covid-19 related (nothing to worry about). i'm noticing that i'm unconsciously breathing more slowly and holding my breath when my lungs are empty, like the breathe in reflex has been dulled.
• easoncxz (2020-03-26): cyclists, please don't be like this crowd. ride, but ride away from each other! unite against covid-19, please.
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-26): there are lots of *volunteer* opportunities for devs to help with covid-19. what *paid* opportunities are there? asking for a friend
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-26): good overview of the covid-19 disinfo ecosystem from @bellingcat @iwriteok @newsy h/t @waxpancake
• m_ashcroft (2020-03-26): "anosmia, the loss of sense of smell, and ageusia, an accompanying diminished sense of taste, have emerged as peculiar telltale signs of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and possible markers of infection."
• petersuber (2020-03-26): in a new announcement, #elsevier says it's making about 20k covid-related articles freely available "for as long as needed." to me, without any snark or labored overinterpretation, this means forever. is that what elsevier means?
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-26): cute story from @waitbutwhy on how covid-19 helps us realize we're a networked human organism. "the first crucial step on the road to a long-lasting species is the epiphany that you are a single team. we’re hoping the virus can help push you that way."
• tyleralterman (2020-03-26): a covid-19-tracking project i work with is seeking urgent collaboration with an epidemiologist, virologist, or other academic experts who have been following the crisis. does anyone know anyone who might be interested?
• geniesloki (2020-03-26): it's going to be interesting to see how much of the internet keeps working when covid-19 peaks in the usa and the country falls apart under the weight of its own dysfunction.
• eshear (2020-03-26): restaurants can often use this "charity business" to stay open, producing food for sale commercially, stretching the incremental donated dollar further. this results in more net people staying employed. it also keeps people out of places (eg. food banks) that might spread covid.
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-27): now seems like an especially good time to boomerang an email to yourself for late summer or fall. e.g. "hi! it was pretty covid-y when i sent this. hope you're well"
• mykola (2020-03-27): update: due to local illness, we've decided to hold off on this escape. wouldn't want to bring anything with us on the off-chance it's covid -- fevers are all serious right now.
• sarahamcmanus (2020-03-27): ~ fuck it ~ i am feeling a bit punchy - - - and that's only partly because - - - mild covid loss of appetite - - - is making it hard to eat enough thus, the following video ~ perhaps somewhat subtweeting ~ but also broadly recommended advice
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-27): amazing thread that highlights the best of covid-19 design. if you're a designer, participate in the design hackathon below (see last tweet). your submissions could get built! (and save lives :)
• easoncxz (2020-03-27): the new zealand covid-19 response plan is quite systematic about including various concerns. for example, here they discuss the impact of self-isolation on breastfeeding mothers:
• eigenrobot (2020-03-27): a bunch of us are gonna get covid we musnt let this divide us
• easoncxz (2020-03-27): there we go: new zealand's public release of information of individual covid-19 cases
• thezvi (2020-03-27): of 50 people i am in closest communication with in nyc area, 3 of them likely have had covid-19 from distinct sources. all are fine. one tested positive, two couldn't get tests but the symptoms are clear. none of the three were taking stupid risks. what's the real infection rate?
• drmaciver (2020-03-27): sorry, covid-19 and a bunch of emotional processing recently both mean that the kid gloves are extremely off right now. side effects may include saying what i actually feel.
• forthrighter (2020-03-27): social influence, fake news, and the covid-19 shock
• surenvynn (2020-03-27): neutron crystallography data have contributed supplementary structural information on the coronavirus. our european neutron cousins have done the same thing as us - prioritizing covid-19 research over other research. really proud of our community.
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-27): ten $20,000 grants! for "open innovation efforts contributing to improved technical solutions for covid-19 and future epidemics."
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-27): if not a ticker-tape parade, how will the covid-19 vaccine be celebrated?
• blunderbussted (2020-03-27): remember 10th commandment, guys: thou shalt not covid thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covid thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. see you in church on easter!
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-28): the u.s. covid-19 stimulus package in pseudo-code. note there are only +=. that's what we mean by #moneyprintergobrrr.
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-28): gut check: who makes <$99k/year and would give (part) of their trump bucks covid-19 stimulus to charity? (hospitals, givedirectly, etc.) you'd give...
• nosilverv (2020-03-28): peter thiel on the impact of 9/11. seems true of covid and the issues du jour too. the shock of hard times caused by weak men hits you like a freight train.
• ultimape (2020-03-28): "various studies have shown that in animal models with bleomycin-induced lung injury, vitamin b3 (niacin or nicotinamide) is highly effective in preventing lung tissue damage. it might be a wise approach to supply this food supplement [for covid-19]"
• mykola (2020-03-28): i told you. keep your autism dx quiet if you get covid, you don't want some exhausted doctor deciding that means you're not worth saving.
• mykola (2020-03-28): like, if i get covid and need help i'd rather be on a gurney in a nyc hospital's overflow ward set up in a parking garage than in some small-town urgent care center.
• visakanv (2020-03-28): hm. it shouldn’t be too hard to find out what % of singaporean covid cases are smokers vs non-smokers. but i don’t imagine the health authorities would be very amused by the request
• nosilverv (2020-03-29): ok so what twitter groups should get cred for predicting the extend of covid? vc twitter, weird twitter, complexity science twitter. who else?
• drmaciver (2020-03-29): do we have any idea yet if the anosmia that seems to be associated with covid-19 goes away? i assume it does and is just a temporary symptom, but i'm somewhat surprised to realise how scary i find the idea of permanent anosmia and would like some reassurance.
• adam_kranz (2020-03-29): thanks to the covid-19 quarantine, [checks notes] quiet daytime seismographs are returning to european cities
• sarahamcmanus (2020-03-29): thank you for the link, @rothosphere !! "covid-19: neurologists in italy to colleagues in us: look for poorly-defined neurologic conditions in patients with the coronavirus" including: "delirium" i'm not quite *there* - and, i would invite them to add: "mania" (ish?)
• m_ashcroft (2020-03-29): i just sent #23 of my newsletter to 172 people. in it i discuss: - working out how to teach alexander technique online - my recent experience of what was probably covid-19 - the interconnectedness of world religions you can read and subscribe here.
• mykola (2020-03-29): i know someone with likely covid who has been talking about feeling like they're in an altered state, delirious and kinda loopy, not quite able to focus enough to answer questions etc. this checks out.
• qiaochuyuan (2020-03-29): gut reaction is that this doesn’t mean smoking is protective but is some kind of selection effect or weirder statistical issue. e.g.: maybe the smokers who counterfactually would’ve died of covid are already dead bc of smoking complications
• qiaochuyuan (2020-03-29): then covid comes along and seems to affect the smokers less than the nonsmokers; that's because, out of the original 1000 smokers, those who would've been the most affected by covid are already dead of other causes, so don't appear in the sample
• ultimape (2020-03-29): "spread of covid-19 suggests that using arbitrary droplet size cutoffs may not accurately reflect what actually occurs with respiratory emissions, possibly contributing to the ineffectiveness" tl;dr: 6 feet considered harmful.
• tnorthcutt (2020-03-29): this is a fantastic example of a business owner sharing his thought process and specific plan for dealing with covid-19 induced financial impacts. you may disagree with specifics, but seeing the thinking is imo super useful
• sarahamcmanus (2020-03-29): researchers: i would absolutely love to donate blood / plasma / etc for medical research and treatment. and / or to be written up as a very verbose case study about covid-19 viral mania. please get in touch, and let me know how.
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-30): from a coase's penguin perspective, what should we call the hashtag-based decentralized covid orgs? and why do they "beat" existing institutions on motivation and coordination? cc @profjasonpotts @ybenkler @yaoeo @leconcurrential
• m_ashcroft (2020-03-30): love in the time of covid-19: theme song.
• rhyslindmark (2020-03-31): amazing new covid simulations from @3blue1brown
• sarahamcmanus (2020-03-31): "the trippiest part with the most balls" (balls fact - not-fun fact - covid-19 fact: - coronavirus can be stored in the balls, apparently - ball-havers please get your sperm count checked, after - if you plan on using that, particularly)
• m_ashcroft (2020-03-31): i organised a lockdown jukebox for my team at work. everyone got two suggestions on the theme of "love in the time of covid-19", which i randomised and put into a playlist. sharing here for your delectation.
• m_ashcroft (2020-03-31): i can't say that all of them are 100% relevant to covid-19 though. the first one is an economic regulation in-joke.
• yashkaf (2020-03-31): what the studies will never be able to do is *prove* that hc&a cures covid. there is too much variance in how patients are selected, how they're treated, how outcomes are measured, and how an individual responds. there's never one big indisputable hammer in small n drug research.
• yashkaf (2020-03-31): so if the evidence mounts that it's a good idea for an average person to take 600 mg of hc daily once they get covid, mainstream media would fight for weeks against admitting it while hiding behind "it's not proven" and "more research is needed" and "but the fda".
• goblinodds (2020-03-31): if he's allowed to bring covid home i should damned well be allowed to bring home a dog
• mbateman (2020-04-01): been seriously thinking about how to take the first steps towards this. want to hire the covid-recovered to deliver early childhood education/childcare. there’s no protocol for this and it feels taboo-violating somehow.
• drmaciver (2020-04-01): has anyone seen anything for for worst internet day? because i haven't so far and i'm delighted. may we hope that april 1st is a casualty of covid-19?
• mbateman (2020-04-01): what's the protocol if you're either covid-recovered or want to work in physical proximity with someone who is. i'm in nyc. this would involve a cross-borough commute. @ameshaa? #covid19 #covid19nyc
• mykola (2020-04-01): there's a guy who lives on my street who rides a motorcycle that's super loud and he loves to do loops and set off car alarms. and he's still doing it now, through this. and i hope he gets really bad covid and loses his ability to ride. #thereisaidit
• malcolm_ocean (2020-04-02): that's the symptom data. as far as exposure, someone else in my house has what we can only assume is covid, though it's been mostly anosmia and mania—no fever or coughing. we haven't been able to get testing in ontario given no known exposure to someone else testing positive 🤨
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-02): would love to see an article that applies "law of the adjacent possible" to covid. (what became more or less possible?)
• sarahamcmanus (2020-04-02): zak stein is talking about his recent essay: "covid-19: a war broke out in heaven"
• cis_female (2020-04-02): my grandmother's partner just died of covid... her third partner who's died. there was a covid outbreak in their retirement home & they both got it but she recovered. they were together 20 yrs but our relationship was always... incidental? first (close) relative that's died...
• drmaciver (2020-04-02): so... i probably have covid-19. flatmate almost certainly has it - shortness of breath, he's lost sense of smell. i got ill with what is almost certainly what he has (minimal other possible vectors). that's a thing. we are, i think, all fine, and on the mend, but 🤞🤞🤞
• easoncxz (2020-04-02): i'm quite disappointed to see an article on covid-19 about apartments not to mention prevention of the possible fecal-oral route of the siphonage of the wastewater drains by extraction fans. top up the u tubes of all drains with water, ideally with diluted bleach.
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-03): yep, this was my instinct. "covid" might overtake "coronavirus" as the leading term for the virus. two vs. five syllables. also, covid preferred by experts.
• visakanv (2020-04-03): someone at the singapore post office went to work despite feeling sick and being on medical leave – and now something like 8 new people have covid because of that. i try to be upbeat but it's really frustrating how 1% of bad actors can make things so much worse for everyone
• adam_kranz (2020-04-03): what if terror still on tv franklin get covid
• drmaciver (2020-04-03): if you're in the uk it'd be helpful if you install and use to better track spread of covid-19 symptoms. it's pretty straightforward and just asks you a few questions each day to help improve the data epidemiologists have access to. (via a locked friend)
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-03): btw, this is the largest covid gofundme: $13m for food. led by leo, laurene powell jobs, and oprah.
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-03): this initiative hasn't gotten enough attention. it's the 2nd largest covid fundraiser on gofundme w/ $6m raised across tech + hollywood: $1m from paul $1m from schwarzenegger $100k-250k from mila kutcher, chris sacca, sundar pichai, gwyneth paltrow, etc.
• insidenima (2020-04-03): i've never been this not-bored in my life! #covid_19 gave my life and career in ai*blockchain a new purpose! 🙏 to @trentmc0 @brucepon @oceanprotocol for providing the platform & support infrastructure to make this happen! ocean is also donating 50k$~1m $ocean to @covidathon
• daniellefong (2020-04-04): what people don't understand is that the covid-19 coronavirus is being aided by a cyberwar confucted by (at least!) russia and to some extent china (i hope inadvertently through creeping social credit systems, but i am not sure) which has compromised twitter, facebook, and google
• blunderbussted (2020-04-04): if i catch the covid and die before i get one more gigantic burrito i will consider my whole life a failure
• algekalipso (2020-04-04): what percentage of people in the world have no idea that the covid-19 crisis is going on? in developed and developing countries? i wonder what the chances are of going about your life without any media and not even noticing that people are not going out as much.
• richdecibels (2020-04-04): we already have a culture war simmering around vaccines in general; i predict it's going to get super intense when the covid vaccines start rolling out. given how badly the who have fucked up the mask situation, ppl have good reason to be skeptical. 😕
• surenvynn (2020-04-04): and they do this by starting not from the perspective of what we as scientists know about the virus but from the perspective of lay audience who compare something they don't know (covid-19) to what they already know (the flu).
• visakanv (2020-04-04): i initially approached thinking about covid roughly by comparing it with sars in 2003, sars killed 33 people in singapore so far, 5 people have died here from covid otoh, in 2003, sars killed 779 people worldwide and... covid has killed over 60,000 people already...?
• drmaciver (2020-04-04): current status: forgot i might have covid-19 until someone asked how i was. still a little tired and ill but nothing to write home about
• daniellefong (2020-04-05): hiv drug shows encouraging results in fight with covid-19 virus | corona... via @youtube 🧢 tip to @limonsillo!
• mykola (2020-04-05): is there a way for me to publish a google sheet + form such that other people can't use it, but can clone their own copies of it? i made a covid symptom tracker for my partner, and i feel like a lot of people might benefit from such a thing.
• mykola (2020-04-05): friend with covid has oxidation fluctuating between 90-95. went to ny methodist this morning and was told that there are no beds so they're turning people away whose oxidation is above 88 for rest-at-home with telemedicine checkins. scary times.
• tr_babb (2020-04-05): cafes are hurting right now, but i conjecture a boom for them above and beyond pre-covid levels when quarantines lift to service all the newly-remote workers.
• daniellefong (2020-04-06): scientist gerald pao weighs in on covid 19 (my friend at salk — i am funding some of his research!)
• easoncxz (2020-04-06): today i have heard of the first case of a friend i know by name being (very likely) infected and hospitalised by covid-19. this friend is currently in paris.
• visakanv (2020-04-06): it’s been about 48 hours since the lying fraud @tellyoursonthis made the bs claim that 70 children in singapore - presumably from palm view primary school - are infected with covid why count the hours? let me tell you a little bit about how singapore works
• visakanv (2020-04-06): so i can personally guarantee you - if 70 ten-year-old kids are infected with covid, i would know about it. everyone i know would be talking about it. tbh if i cared about this more, it wouldnt be too hard to check on literally every kid from park view singapore is small
• visakanv (2020-04-06): i suppose covid is kind of like the white walkers. but without a centralised point of failure like the night king
• imhinesmi (2020-04-06): theres a part of me that doesnt recognize death and other serious consequences are real a significant part, even the whole covid panic feels fake, somehow, on a visceral level
• daniellefong (2020-04-06): twitter, @twitter @twittersupport @jack what. the. fuck. this is gross neglience and/or mass murder. fire your editorial staff, reinstate the unjustly banned covid-19 coronavirus tweeters, like @howroute, delete your “anti-misinformation” ai because it is dumb and/or evil
• daniellefong (2020-04-07): this is terrible. friends, please be extra careful 🙏🏻 hang in there. don’t spread the disease. our greatest weapons against covid-19 time, distance, love, understanding, patience
• jimmyris (2020-04-07): us army suspends training new recruits to control covid spread
• exgenesis (2020-04-08): hell yeah let's get the spirit world back into the physical! covid season 2020 let's go
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-08): -1/ our post-capitalist response to covid-19. -60min video with links below
• ultimape (2020-04-09): "normally this type of modelling is used to improve the performance level of athletes as staying in each other air-stream is very effective. but when looking at covid-19 the recommendation is to stay out of the slipstream according to the research."
• tyleralterman (2020-04-10): covid volunteering:
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-10): pattern: to find "high impact" stories, look at how covid affects basic needs. -water: how is cv affecting water rights? need for hand washing in places w/o running water? -air: pollution has decreased w/ cv! -shelter:? -safety: pause of yemen conflict. but eu/usa breakup. war?
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-10): for pollution, see negative 50k deaths from covid here:
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-10): for the first time this week, experts overestimated (instead of underestimated) the number of covid cases in the us. they're getting more calibrated. small wins!
• drmaciver (2020-04-10): maybe everybody was right all along a lot of people have declared that covid-19 has proven they were right all along. this seems funny, but is probably mostly true - there are many valid critiques of society, and covid-19 exacerbates almost all of them.
• m_ashcroft (2020-04-10): in the future we will greet each other by waving our covid-19 immunity passes at each other.
• yashkaf (2020-04-12): the relatively decentralized nature of twitter means that the smart users get smarter and the dumb get dumber. but any more centralized alternative (like fb) just makes everyone end up pretty dumb, and in a novel dynamic situation like covid that's unacceptably dumb.
• insidenima (2020-04-13): 🌬️ #covid_19
• mykola (2020-04-13): “say that to my face” is going to have a whole new meaning post-covid.
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-14): giving a talk on our post-capitalist response to covid this thursday at 3:30pm pst. thanks for stewarding this space, peter! rsvp here:
• rnextension (2020-04-14): watch "pm modi's address to the nation on covid-19" on youtube #lockdown2
• richdecibels (2020-04-14): i'm collecting perspectives on what are some post-covid destinations we could conceivably be heading towards. please share links to any stories/talks/takes that you found to be particularly moving, shocking, inspiring, ambitious, exhilarating, hopeful, terrifying, etc
• nosilverv (2020-04-14): sooo it turns out the person running the bill and melinda gates study on hydroxychroloroquine efficacy treating covid-19 is not only not using zinc but is also using vit-c as the placebo condition. anyone wanna do a fermi estimate of how many will die because of this?
• mykola (2020-04-14): this count is people in hospitals. remember there are record numbers of people dying alone in their homes right now, and none of those deaths are being counted as covid yet.
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-14): differentiating two types of covid changes: 1.entirely new behavior 2.acceleration of existing trends within the "law of the adjacent possible" metaphor, the 1st is z-axis movement, while the 2nd is increasing y-axis slope. what is the name for the latter? #trendacceleration?
• dbabbitt (2020-04-14): question: there is an argument that the number of deaths attributed to covid-19 is wrong by a large proportion. okay, if the number of deaths is doubling every few days, that means the number of wrongly-attributed deaths is also doubling. what is causing those deaths to double?
• eigenrobot (2020-04-15): heh like three weeks later the bluecheck's have discovered this video gonna be lit in may when they get wise to being bored of covid discourse and boot up ck2
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-15): 89 winners of covid-19 hackathon. (from 19,000 people and 1,500 submissions.)
• drmaciver (2020-04-15): the number of covid-19 cases reported is an indicator. indicators are useful but difficult to interpret, and shouldn't be read as the number of true cases. in particular changes in indicators often purely reflect changes in testing regimes.
• xsphi (2020-04-15): tinder in the time of covid, a 🧵 between the reduction of in-person meetups and everyone getting the passport* feature for free, location has become more a part of ones profile than a necessary filter. * a normally paid feature that allows you to change your location
• rtk254 (2020-04-16): nice paper analyzing metaphors used in twitter covid discourse. interestingly, they find, like @melmitchell1 in , that the war metaphor is commonly used though perhaps subliminally misleading, and mentioned an alternative #reframecovid which i hadn't known
• richdecibels (2020-04-16): this is simple genius: an on-demand sign language interpreting service so #deaf people have an easier time interacting with healthcare workers 💡 filed under: covid-19 dissolves cultural inertia to switching the internet on
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-16): for traditional media, i've been most impressed by the covid coverage from: the atlantic: @edyong209 @zeynep @alexismadrigal nyt: interactives who have you been impressed by? (who is doing the best at long-form cultural pieces?)
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-16): the four key mindsets of our paradigm shift. 👇 giving a workshop today at 3:30pm pst with @peternlimberg's the stoa on "covid and post-capitalism." rsvp here!
• goblinodds (2020-04-16): main symptom of covid-thirst -- increasing attraction to travis willingham the ovaries have clear preferences during a pandemic
• daniellefong (2020-04-16): very interesting work: ligandal proposes ‘antidote’ to covid-19 using robot-like peptide scaffolds | biospace ⁦@nanogenomic⁩ ⁦@ligandal⁩
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-18): nice piece from @miltonwrites @palladiummag on how state centralization can enable decentralization (of covid response). especially great summary of how @audreyt work in taiwan with the g0v hacker community.
• daniellefong (2020-04-18): 👇🏻 very interesting!! i will have to explore further! "in view of the results of this study, i think it should be seen whether populations living at altitude (and who have more hemoglobin than city dwellers) are less affected by covid-19. it's an idea!"
• tnorthcutt (2020-04-18): how many people (fully functioning adults) do you think have not heard of/are not aware of covid-19 worldwide? excludes ppl who don’t know it by proper name, etc. - asking abt total lack of awareness.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-04-18): looking at 538's covid polls, & feeling vaguely sad at the question > ~"do you approve or disapprove of the way trump is handling the pandemic?" which so clearly just becomes a partisan confidence vote instead of... maybe... "do you think trump acted {early, on time, late}?"
• yashkaf (2020-04-19): this is roughly the math i did in my head when my mom told me about that study; alan explains it really well. 90% of the sciencey-sounding but stupid takes about covid could be avoided by applying bayesianism 101.
• lericdax (2020-04-19): no, no—it's actually economists you see who are necessary for running economies, so what we need is covid-19 parties /for economists/—that is the essential stratagem for these critical times, get all the economists together for a big, big—"titanic," if you will—party...
• malcolm_ocean (2020-04-19): great article on how media responded to experts re covid. prediction becomes weird in a context where you have partial control, because you simultaneously want to be wrong while having people take you seriously.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-04-19): this is especially confusing when there are many actors. it might have been that your actions were redundant—if you hadn't got it, someone else might've. i think there's been a lot of that with covid, unconsciously: "it won't be so bad [because surely someone will do something]"
• mykola (2020-04-20): got some bad news about an old friend's health this weekend, it kinda knocked me out of commission with dissociation for a few days. my partner's covid symptoms aren't getting any better. i'm getting survivor's guilt from playing mmos and being basically fine.
• yashkaf (2020-04-21): first, having opinions about things like covid, technology, economics, etc opens you up to attack but also gives you credibility. if you have many great insights on personal healing and development, surely you can stick your neck out on something externally verifiable.
• easoncxz (2020-04-21): #2293 complacency will be a bigger killer than covid 这篇 uoa: meaningful confessions 在评论区被一致喷死，说 "i'll just write it off as ignorant, which in your case may be bliss, but in my case, makes me want to barf".
• easoncxz (2020-04-21): 原文： > there is a disease going around right now. not covid 19. this message of: "it's okay to be depressed right now" "its okay to be unproductive right now" "its okay to not be okay" why are we letting people get away with this?
• mykola (2020-04-21): negative covid test results. should be happy but it means i can’t go take care of my partner. :-/
• mykola (2020-04-21): so i got a negative covid test. that means i can't be a carrier either, right? i am, as far as anyone can tell, clean and safe and healthy? if i were hypothetically to travel to another state, ought i still quarantine there?
• friedkielbasa (2020-04-22): questions for one year from now: how did japan avoid covid for so long? what accounts for the wild variability in death rates? what specifically caused nyc to have the largest spike of deaths in the world?
• nosilverv (2020-04-22): can someone non-ironically make this happen? effectiveness of response to covid is a good proxy of state capacity which is a great predictor of future economic development.
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-22): amazing thread of best covid data visualizations.
• visakanv (2020-04-22): one of the most impressive things about @sharanvkaur is her inner investigative journalist. singapore is currently experiencing a wave of covid infections in the dormitories where migrant labourers are housed. she instinctively knew where and how to go looking for the right info
• geniesloki (2020-04-24): i do not enjoy the time of year where all the grass decides it's appropriate to have sex in my face. its only saving grace is that "my eyes are literally on fire" is so recognisably not a covid-19 symptom.
• igorbrigadir (2020-04-24): same, currently trying to source a good covid "mask" i can put on temporarily, but for news / twitter etc.
• surenvynn (2020-04-25): if any nation was going to best covid-19, it was going to be vietnam. a society that is uniquely suited to handling collective action problems.
• bolster (2020-04-25): well, in the spirit of #dontgetmadgeteven and #opendata, i went ahead and made a 'translator' for this bug & a few other ones that returns you a nice clean #dataframe in a few seconds as well as the #covid_19 stats for ni issues, pr's & refactors welcome
• malcolm_ocean (2020-04-25): 💡🤯 idea: virtual collaborative loop machine 🎶🔄 this would allow people to create music together remotely, without the latency issue. your input gets time-sync'd locally, and others only hear it once it's fully uploaded. i think this would be 🔥, esp now but also after covid
• eigenrobot (2020-04-26): has anyone plotted gdp per capital vs confirmed covid cases per capita
• visakanv (2020-04-27): wonder what it’s to be a video game developer working on something while not knowing when the ps5 is going to be released, and how covid affects it all
• eigenrobot (2020-04-28): poor zoey cat has ovarian tissue remaining after her spaying and so she keeps going into heat and the vet is closed for low priority operations because of covid and my god i never want to see another cat vulva in my life
• daniellefong (2020-04-29): what if immunity to covid-19 doesn’t last? | mit technology review
• rhyslindmark (2020-04-29): backlog of /fast things during covid, imo e.g. @patio11's post and fastgrants. i guess updating the website isn't as urgent as building tho 😂. (though there's a form of this where you add a covid section to /fast and retroactively give prizes for things that get on the list.)
• daniellefong (2020-04-29): covid display and rogers center halifax
• nosilverv (2020-04-30): "do you support temporarily blocking nearly all immigration during covid outbreak?" support/oppose (wapo) overall: 65/34 men: 67/32 women: 63/36 dems: 49/49 black: 61/37 latino: 69/30 no college degree: 68/31 college degree: 60/40 < $50k: 68/30 $100k+: 62/37 conclusions?
• daniellefong (2020-05-01): it's time to complain about facebook. fb censored reports on covid, deleting links and banning people who were reporting. @nanogenomic founded the viral explorations group, grew it to 3000 scientists and entrepreneurs, & was kicked from his own group. they want more control.
• mykola (2020-05-01): god it’s may? i was really planning to have a good may. covid!!!
• richdecibels (2020-05-01): ==usa resources & directories== usa covid mutual aid: mutual aid hub (usa): indigenous mutual aid (turtle island): it's going down covid mutual aid
• richdecibels (2020-05-01): old school global network: mutual aid network (man) covid mutual aid (mostly uk) mutual aid network new zealand: spain directory:
• forthrighter (2020-05-01): future covid-19 outcomes
• bolster (2020-05-02): the feed of @healthdpt is a stream of political fluff in the face of *almost everyone else in the developed world* doing a better job at sharing #covid_19 statistics. in light of the >5 year long #opendatani @niexecutive strategy, this shouldn't be this difficult @hscpermsec
• michelleakin (2020-05-03): i tested negative for covid in my dream last night, so that’s something.
• rnextension (2020-05-03): sanitization going on in kw srishti, raj nagar extension, ghaziabad (a red zone hotspot + sealed society). 👍 #covid__19
• yashkaf (2020-05-03): i'm a time-traveler from 2021. 70% of nyc got covid, a bunch of people died, and we all went back to sitting in cafes and playing soccer in the park and swiping on tinder. this is a good thread though, it's worth thinking which of those things would be actual improvements. | \/
• ultimape (2020-05-03): the university of washington’s institute for health metrics and evaluation made this prediction chart. accounting for how deaths from covid lag initial symptoms by a few dasy and this matches up real well with 'end of april' being 'close to zero'.
• ultimape (2020-05-03): yes, i know we typically model diseases as simple contagion. but what you must consider is that the spread of masks as a meme that counters the spread of coronavirus squarely puts the covid contagion models into one of 'complex contagion'.
• ultimape (2020-05-04): if you are curious, the cdc has a collection of various covid prediction models using a number of different methods. most are derivative of sir models, such as seir and seirs
• loopholekid (2020-05-04): covid-19 notes: people are posting portfolios/blogs/business sites and when we're good to meet with others again we'll be in gig mode
• friedkielbasa (2020-05-04): covid -> lockdown -> people laid off and wfh -> people sit around in parks more -> higher levels of vit d -> less covid only half kidding
• rhyslindmark (2020-05-04): "at the end of the day, the big problem isn’t the specifics of covid-19 response. it’s that amazon treats the humans in the warehouses as fungible units of pick-and-pack potential. only that’s not just amazon, it’s how 21st-century capitalism is done."
• yashkaf (2020-05-04): so the book drops just as boomers are facing the massive blow of covid coupled with a market crash. so far, the boomers in power are helping themselves with lockdowns and the fed going brr. "decadent society" is (non-explicitly) kinda making the case that maybe we shouldn't.
• connerdelights (2020-05-04): scale training + apprenticing in startups. tons of interns got declined this summer due to covid-19 — but the opportunity is permanent. take smart, hungry, inexperienced people, and accelerate learning by putting them in early stage startups. make this a reasonable default path.
• jimmyris (2020-05-05): anosmia as the earliest warning sign of covid infection
• rhyslindmark (2020-05-05): this pledge drive 3x'ed annual funding for disease control. $8b given to key international covid response. in a normal year, govts provide $2.5b in funding (70% from us). talk about a "just-in-time" response. would've been nice to give $8b earlier. alas. h/t @iandavidmoss
• frideswyth (2020-05-05): but today the breaking news that covid-19 was in france at least a month earlier than previously thought might explain it:
• robinhouston (2020-05-05): a thoughtful thread on the nhs covid-19 app.
• friedkielbasa (2020-05-05): holy shit i just realized what the purpose of trash tier tv is e.g. the bachelor. i can't focus on anything serious after beating myself in the head with covid facts all day and it seems about my wavelength rn.
• daniellefong (2020-05-06): existence proof: societies robust to covid exist way to go korea!
• mbateman (2020-05-06): i help operate a school network with thousands of children. have been paying much attention to the risk children transmitting covid. still lots unknown. but this is irresponsible. cites two studies that don’t directly investigate the issue. no mention of the research that does.
• sabbatical (2020-05-06): a surprising amount of people i know seem to believe they or their loved ones already had covid in dec/jan with that particularly bad flu-esque sickness that went around here in ontario. is this a widespread idea?
• goblinodds (2020-05-07): i'll be hitting the freeway for the first time in ~2 years peeing on the side of the road to avoid covid cooties (i even have funnels!) subsisting on peanut butter, jelly, and saltine crackers
• patio11 (2020-05-07): it's like an all-hands meeting but better (and more natively covid-compatible). it's a media interview but can talk about all the thorny issues and guaranteed to come out positive. it's an opportunity to be human & candid without giving worst-calibrated person in company a veto.
• mykola (2020-05-07): if you were going to an er in nyc for covid symptoms, which er would you go to? from bed stuy.
• nosilverv (2020-05-08): remember having a dinner with a shaman, pre-covid. she was very worried about what an upcoming crisis might mean for the passion economy that she depended on. funny how premonitious she was. anyone got stats? for reference:
• daniellefong (2020-05-09): good news out of shanghai jiao tong university, published in the peer reviewed (and very prestigious) proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the usa effective treatment of *severe* covid patients with tocilizumab. fights cytokine storm!
• robinhouston (2020-05-09): there may well be good reasons to criticise the imperial covid-19 model. i don’t know enough to be able to judge. but the fact that it’s a stochastic model is not in itself a good reason to criticise it. and that is what i have to say about that.
• mbateman (2020-05-09): i'll be talking to @ameshaa this wednesday on covid-19 with a special focus on children and potential school reopenings. 1. what should i ask him? 2. it's free, but register to join:
• blunderbussted (2020-05-10): what if dna combos are messages and viruses are small so they’re like tweets and god hit send on covid just to see and he’s just clapping “i fucking _knew_ that one was good, gabe, mike, look at them run ha!”
• eigenrobot (2020-05-10): after the covid, we should enslave the nation's barbers and send them door to door, shaving mustachio's off of men and nailing them to a board in the town square as a sign of shame and reprobation
• eigenrobot (2020-05-10): after the covid, we should adopt the calendar of the french revolution after the covid, he will come with the sword to set king against king and brother against brother
• robinhouston (2020-05-10): naming things is hard: covid-19.
• thezvi (2020-05-11): covid-19 is here, it's just unevenly distributed. this compatible with ~4% rate for usa? it's a stretch, but i think yes? mets/yankees are 2/30 teams, we know nyc area is >20% infected, so this group's ability to self isolate and missing of local hot spots has paid off big.
• daniellefong (2020-05-11): loss of smell and taste validated as covid-19 symptoms in patients with high recvoery rate (april 13th) 🦨
• nosilverv (2020-05-11): ufos are gonna be the next covid or the next bitcoin. a few were right early
• tr_babb (2020-05-11): covid has now killed more people in america than the nagasaki atomic bomb killed in japan.
• blunderbussted (2020-05-13): be sure you smoke your prescription ciggies sit in the sun and fry up like a piggie if the covid don't get you the cancer will welcome to the apocalypse come & drink our swill the water's tinted red it's not blood just lead & ferrous oxides leech into our bones
• dbabbitt (2020-05-13): this is @bretweinstein 's probability map for covid-19 provenance i think there isn't that much evidence of chimerism as he does
• visakanv (2020-05-13): my impression: seeing how people in the us talk abt covid vs how people from most other countries talk about covid is an interesting education in media & ideology, and i feel like it loosely confirms some things (which i know is itself suspicious, bc of my own confirmation bias)
• visakanv (2020-05-13): before going into further specifics i would say that the way people from india talk about covid also seems closer to the way people in the us talk about covid than many other countries – it's obviously a spectrum sorta thing
• visakanv (2020-05-13): also at this point i find myself regretting that i can't read mandarin and so i don't have any first-hand knowledge about how chinese citizens talk about covid in china (on weibo, etc)
• yashkaf (2020-05-14): i've written before about "social reality" vs. "physical reality", how it relates to trying weird things for yourself or, more recently, to preparing for covid. under lockdown i'm getting a clearer understanding of how i personally relate to the two.
• eigenrobot (2020-05-15): what if no one has died of covid its just ppl disappearing when theyve cancelled too many things
• thezvi (2020-05-15): indiana reported 1.7% currently positive for covid-19, 1.1% additional have antibodies. these numbers make no sense together, right? and yet no one is pointing this out? what's going on, in indiana and with people not noticing?
• daniellefong (2020-05-15): the elucidation of the role of testosterone in the battle towards covid-19 infection turns out to be an urgent need. conflict of interest: none. funding: none.
• forthrighter (2020-05-15): us grand lodge updates: covid-19
• daniellefong (2020-05-16): friends! please consider buying one of these awesome (v2) shirts to help fund my genius friend @nanogenomic’s anti covid-19 coronavirus research! it is possible/probablethat it will succeed where traditional vaccines cannot, and inexpensive production at world scale is doable!
• __drewface (2020-05-16): the best thing i've read in months. nicky case always manages to delight and amaze me w/ interactive essays. this time, teaching about the basics of epidemiology, and how we can/will beat covid-19
• daniellefong (2020-05-17): exclusive: madagascar's president defends homegrown covid-19 medicine 0 deaths, clinical observations, 62% derived from artemisa annua (wormwood), and several other herbal plants. president: preventive and curative in my opinion this is must watch
• daniellefong (2020-05-17): across the globe, you can see a similar effect with the covid. every major centralized empire has had a enormous problems, across the ideological spectrum. not saying that there are no exceptions, but us, uk, china, russia, brazil, france, spain, italy, iran. colonialists! 3/3
• blunderbussted (2020-05-18): the world was improved when europe's bottom scientists came up with the estrogen bomb, effectively feminizing the global population. men everywhere realized they'd wanted breasts all along. covid-23 immediately became a non-factor.
• regencrypto (2020-05-18): "blockchain-enabled “immunity certificates” or “immunity passports” for covid-19, if implemented by public authorities, would have serious consequences for our fundamental human rights and civil liberties."
• petersuber (2020-05-19): from an @okfn survey: "97% believe it is impt that #covid19 data is openly available....67% believe all covid-19 related research...should be made open for anyone to use freely. 64% are now more likely to listen expert advice from qualified scientists."
• daniellefong (2020-05-19): #coronavirus covid-19: medical experts warn the virus may be a constant threat for some time. yes. duh! @pravduh15
• visakanv (2020-05-20): ~5 years from now we're going to see a lot of origin stories like, "i used to work a desk job... then covid hit...", "i was in an unhappy marriage... then covid hit..." it's one thing to hear "yolo", another to really feel it, and another to know everyone else does too
• yashkaf (2020-05-20): here's the article with the fnords removed. do you think there's a single bit of information in the article that you wouldn't get from my summary below? an even more condensed version: tesla wealth hypocrisy status. trump musk trump musk covid. misogynist racist silicon valley.
• connerdelights (2020-05-20): context, unrelated to covid impacts:
• jimmyris (2020-05-21): covid grand solar minimum cicadas locusts
• bierlingm (2020-05-22): did you know that demand for community currencies is already up 500% since the start of the covid crisis?
• noncanonicaleae (2020-05-23): it seems i've already had the covid and didn't feel anything
• neats29 (2020-05-23): highly recommend watching @foundmyfitness share her wisdom on the benefits of vitamin d (especially with regards to covid) "in indonesia around 99% of patients who died from covid-19 were vitamin d deficient"
• blunderbussted (2020-05-24): i just drove straight for 3 hours before realizing there is literally nowhere i’m willing to set foot within right now given the regional surge in covid & the tentative opening up and now i’m driving back home formulating plans on how i’ll attend a beach completely alone
• surenvynn (2020-05-25): just saw the covid-19 stats for singapore and malaysia. malaysia has recorded over 7k infected, while singapore has exceeded 30k. who even praised singapore for "leaving no stone unturned". no stone left unturned except of course their migrant community.
• friedkielbasa (2020-05-26): wondering about the possibility of large scale convalescent plasma transfusions to prevent covid deaths. seems like i haven't heard much about that
• dbabbitt (2020-05-27): could someone explain this? this is cdc data on pneumonia deaths in 2020. it's not counted as covid-19 deaths.
• mykola (2020-05-27): i remember i tweeted about how this was going to be inevitable and a bunch of people told me i was being hyperbolic and that nobody would be so cruel. keep your autism dx to yourself if you get covid.
• daniellefong (2020-05-27): covid-19: cdc warns that current antibody tests may be inaccurate #coronavirus
• daniellefong (2020-05-27): covid-19: cdc warns that current antibody tests may be inaccurate #coronavirus
• forthrighter (2020-05-27): conspiracy, hindsight, and covid-19
• yashkaf (2020-05-27): covid has shown that authority institutions, from who to cdc to the entire government, are irresponsible and bad and are not going to save you. it's on individuals now. and that means learning to deal with people without appealing to authorities. being a human, instead of a cop.
• eigenrobot (2020-05-27): google new york covid statistics
• daniellefong (2020-05-28): inflamed brains, toe rashes, strokes: why covid-19's weirdest symptoms are only emerging now ☝️🏻😮❔❕ journalists like max @howroute (still banned by twitter), & researchers like @nanogenomic have reported this since feb - mar, & to the white house!
• eigenrobot (2020-05-28): 8. hunch is somalis are disproportionately affected by covid lockdowns. many in service jobs; many driving cabs/uber/etc; many with plenty of kids. and not sure exactly of current distribution but many riots weren't too far from riverside plaza aka little mogadishu
• eigenrobot (2020-05-28): 9. more generally wonder about how much of this is less about police per se and rather downstream of covid economic damage
• eigenrobot (2020-05-29): those covid "we are here for you" emails from business are gonna be really weird when they're that but for martial law
• daniellefong (2020-05-29): "every single worker has covid at one u.s. farm on eve of harvest" this is terrible news for farmers, workers, & the food supply & for our ability to stop this virus. we need to innovate a much safer way our essential workers are not getting the protection they need to be safe
• daniellefong (2020-05-29): omg! ok days where my money goes up are rare these days because i am short the market and using it to pay for anti-covid stuff *but* if i make some money today i'll totally donate! this is inspiring!
• daniellefong (2020-05-29): yo! if you're going to protest wear a fucking mask. covid and also cops want access to your face.
• yashkaf (2020-05-29): there is some evidence that covid severity correlates with initial viral load. if a healthcare provider offered you the minimum covid dose that would guarantee response and immunity (and is thus likely to result in a less severe disease), would you take it today? cc @robinhanson
• eigenrobot (2020-05-30): i am having an interesting time because i detest cop's and also detest people who break others ppls shit real mercutio hours a covid on both your houses
• visakanv (2020-05-30): have some thoughts and i can’t sleep the embarassing, shameful thing that covid has revealed about 🇸🇬 is our poor treatment of the migrant workers that build our nation it shouldn’t have taken a health crisis to force us to face up to it, but it did. i hope we do better
• visakanv (2020-05-30): watching the news halfway across the 🌍, my heart breaks to see people having to choose between staying home in a pandemic and going out to protest racial injustice. what a terrible choice to have to make. if covid spikes a 2nd wave in the us, it might be bc of such old wounds...
• forthrighter (2020-05-31): between covid-19 mask/quarantine policies and this, i've never seen masonry so divided. it's deeply depressing.
• yashkaf (2020-05-31): do you remember that time when 2 healthcare workers in a korean long-term care hospital had covid for two days and exposed 211 patients and colleagues and those people took hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic and none of them got covid? sounds relevant.
• yashkaf (2020-05-31): - but hcq is dangerous for your heart! - again, that's true mostly for those already very sick. travelers to india often take hcq daily for two months. lupus patients take it daily for 20 years. it's covid that mainly fucks with your heart, not hcq.
• yashkaf (2020-05-31): does anyone feel they understand this? yes, the markets are long-term oriented, but in the long term the fed going brrr isn't going to make companies more productive or profitable. and the current crises (covid, riots, unemployment) are not looking to be very short-term either.
• yashkaf (2020-05-31): are you taking any prophylactics for covid? if so, reply with the first option on the poll that matches something you've been taking somewhat regularly. hcq = hydroxychloroquine
• easoncxz (2020-05-31): psa for staying covid-19-safe:
• ultimape (2020-06-01): > "add in the fact that 40% of deaths from covid-19 are related to cardiovascular complications, and the disease starts to look like a vascular infection instead of a purely respiratory one."
• moonboi_ (2020-06-01): how many people are going to die of covid now, who wouldn't have otherwise, due to the protests?
• easoncxz (2020-06-01): a little bit of controversy about the covid-19 risk aspect of this rally: i'm personally wishful for this event to act as a kind of smoke test. still, i'd like for people to have been more careful, keeping more distance.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-06-01): sweden only has 10m ppl, so yes, covid deaths/capita is very high, compared to neighbours... ...but 1700 covid deaths/mo since apr means by dec31 sweden will only have its overall 2020 death rate increased by ~16% (15k on top of usual 90k) is 16% a lot? everyone dies eventually
• igorbrigadir (2020-06-02): man, i was wondering what attention dominating thing could possibly replace covid. i miss the rona tweets already.
• daniellefong (2020-06-02): the covid coronavirus causes neurological symptoms which can include violence
• easoncxz (2020-06-02): ok, i guess i didn't properly read the "gutted […] without taking covid precautions" part; it hence sounds better. perhaps not gutted for people to have attended, but that people didn't take precautions properly.
• drmaciver (2020-06-02): i deleted a long rant about this, so here's a short one: please remember that because of covid-19 and physical distancing, social media is unusually load-bearing in people's lives right now.
• nosilverv (2020-06-03): guess no one is talking about responsibilizing china for covid anymore
• drmaciver (2020-06-03): in the same way, getting a cold right now should probably be treated nearly as seriously as getting covid-19, because it indicates that whatever you/we are doing for virus control isn't working.
• rhyslindmark (2020-06-03): 1/ my mom passed away two weeks ago after a 10-year journey with alzheimer's. i'm sad. looking at her face makes me cry. so i've written about it: reflecting on grief: the death of my mom, george floyd, and covid
• rhyslindmark (2020-06-03): 22/ i wish things weren't like this. - i wish that we treated alzheimer's better (and my mom didn't die). - i wish that race relations and policing were better (and george floyd didn't die). - i wish that our covid response was better (and 400,000 people didn't die).
• rhyslindmark (2020-06-03): 21/ finally, i looked at the communal grief of covid. more than anything, i was impressed by this nyt front page that tried (successfully, imo) to humanize 100,000 us deaths.
• goblinodds (2020-06-04): not actually going to break curfew bc covid + living w family but i will send petty texts to a bot 😭
• mykola (2020-06-04): i want to be more angry than scared, but i don't know how. all i can think about is catching a baton to the face, or getting curb stomped, or getting arrested and shoved in a cell with 30 people for 72 hours as we all get covid. i'm...a coward?
• daniellefong (2020-06-04): paul buchheit @paultoo is working on a practical screening test for covid19. amazing work and thinking, and ambition. "my goal for the year 2020 is to wipe out covid-19."
• mykola (2020-06-04): please read this. covid is worse than you think for a lot of people who are dismissed as “mild cases”.
• sabbatical (2020-06-05): i'm curious what percentage of people have fridays off now. i know a lot of people who moved to 4 day workweeks, and anecdotally friday afternoon store line-ups are the biggest i've seen throughout covid-time.
• daniellefong (2020-06-05): the economist: (updated may 27th) "official covid-19 death tolls still under-count the true number of fatalities"
• rhyslindmark (2020-06-05): ex. of networked generosity: donation matching : floyd :: mutual aid : covid social media should have donation matching ux. (like fb did w/ covid mutual aid.) a "feed" of donation matching. (this is all part of making internet of info interop w/ internet of value.)
• daniellefong (2020-06-06): zero new cases (detected) in nova scotia of covid-19! 🇨🇦
• drmaciver (2020-06-06): some thoughts on the nature of knowledge and decision making and what positive and negative test results for covid-19 do and don't tell us.
• mbateman (2020-06-06): there’s 150 days til election day in the us. so soon... and yet 150 days ago covid was the faint worry of epidemiologists and @balajis. so much could still happen.
• daniellefong (2020-06-06): poll: price point for a membership model for housing in communities where everyone is tested for covid, private, cool headed alternative to police for 90% of activities (peace officers) you get credit to purchase land, satellite internet, pay extra for a larger place california!
• eigenrobot (2020-06-06): in other news i am now >50% confident that covid was circulating in the us as early as december
• rhyslindmark (2020-06-06): great thread estimating how protests impact covid. tl;dr—protests add roughly 3k-6k cases and 10-100 covid us deaths per day. (3-6% of the current rate of 100k daily cases.)
• tyleralterman (2020-06-06): and obviously the police have the responsibility to stop covid from spreading in detention centers and through mass arrests & making protestors cough, but i’d be surprised if any law authorities follow me. this reveals a gap in my network! 😬
• mykola (2020-06-07): being autistic is like watching hundreds of thousands of people flood back into their pre-covid social lives, going out to bars and restaurants etc, as if the virus was gone. do they know something i don't, or do i know something they don't? either way, how?
• mykola (2020-06-07): because as a white autistic watching this shit unfold i can say "that doesn't make sense, black people just want to be treated justly". as someone without covid (so far) i can say "maybe it's just not that bad". my hand isn't forced. i can engage to the extent i want to.
• mykola (2020-06-07): but if i were black during these protests, and then saw the government response to them? i would understand in no uncertain terms that the entire apparatus of the state saw me as the enemy. if i were sick with covid i would be beside myself at the institutional failures here.
• lericdax (2020-06-07): pleased to reveal ~30 new cloth face masks in our psychestrata series today with some beautiful new patterns—look intensely stylish with these new protective masks, practical defense against covid and surveillance
• daniellefong (2020-06-08): this graph gives covid-19 cases normalized by country population. chile, peru, brazil sweden, united states, russia, sweden, bolivia, iran, ecuador, mexico, these jump out a bit. now iraq too, from a low start.
• daniellefong (2020-06-08): this visualization is super illuminating. it's the state by state new covid-19 cases per day, normalised by population. (cases per 1m people). on a log plot! note: massachusetts, maryland, dc (washington dc!), minnesota, california, new york, washington!
• daniellefong (2020-06-08): covid-19: new zealand declares it is free from the virus for now as it records zero active cases. excellent work new zealand! #coronavirus
• easoncxz (2020-06-08): nice, new zealand is moving to alert level 1 in about an hour, the most relaxed alert level for covid-19 out of 4 levels. there are no more active cases now --- all known cases have recovered.
• jimmyris (2020-06-08): covid and george annealed a nation: will it be enough? what will the new patterns be?
• ultimape (2020-06-09): i fingered il-6 wihtout reading any of these papers about how covid-19 disease progression works. fda is putting a rush on il-6 testing
• ultimape (2020-06-09): trialing tnf-a inhibition drugs against covid-19 anytime soon? i'm sitting here with a thc tincture, just in case. thc helps crohn's associated inflammation. may learn to make a suppository soon.
• blunderbussted (2020-06-09): just tested negative for covid need someone to lick the nose of dm me pls
• tyleralterman (2020-06-10): 10/ you don’t need to travel abroad for culture shock if you live near a low-covid city. simply toss yourself into dancehalls, bars, meetups, etc where people interact in ways that you can’t, and stick around through the severe awkwardness until your brain trains on new patterns
• dschorno (2020-06-10): super excited to announce the launch of a new report that i co-edited about the future of homes in the post-covid world:
• daniellefong (2020-06-10): fauci says covid pandemic his ‘worst nightmare,’ far from over
• yashkaf (2020-06-10): same goes for covid. i'm grateful for sweden and singapore for volunteering to try out extreme reactions, rather than the entire world coordinating to do the same half-assed lockdown.
• blunderbussted (2020-06-11): however this town feels as though it’s already entered a depression, and i cannot tell if it was like this before covid or not. it’s only pop 41k, so maybe my estimation is off, but the downtown was utterly dead. many shops were closed, in a way that looked permanent.
• daniellefong (2020-06-11): usa covid-19 situation
• daniellefong (2020-06-11): i wonder if you could make a dip that also kills covid and messed up facial recognition software.
• blunderbussted (2020-06-11): i might just try to do it myself anyway i’ve a bit of time right now only issue is the covid, can’t be as mobile as i’d like in small towns but it also makes the time more interesting
• rhyslindmark (2020-06-12): 29/ or check out, e.g. how these ideas show up in our response to covid. (a recent video i did with the stoa.)
• natural_hazard (2020-06-12): like, if we ignore covid, would i have gone to any of the protest? they happen literally a few blocks away ....no? it's abunch of strangers, i have no friends in this city yet, how do i help, is protesting even useful, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
• visakanv (2020-06-12): march covid time! nba is suspended, tom hanks gets infected stock market crashes fed injects $1,500,000,000,000 into the markets two of the best memes in years emerge: money printer go brr, and coffin dance
• yashkaf (2020-06-12): reminder that the authoritative sources who told you that covid isn't a threat wait it is and masks don't help unless you're a doctor or actually wait they do and stay home but protest and take hcq wait don't it's poison are the same ones who told you that epstein killed himself.
• daniellefong (2020-06-12): bloomberg: more than 4 in 10 new yorkers know someone who tested positive for covid-19, and more than 20% know someone who died of it. interesting numbers -- they imply the disease is still "clumped" in populations.
• eigenrobot (2020-06-14): hey remember how covid causes strokes in some patients i think im onto something here jk jk jk . . . unless?
• visakanv (2020-06-14): i’ve been walking past this bar for 7+ years, and i’ve always thought maybe one day it would be nice to have a beer there. it’s closed for covid, and i wonder if it might not open again. what’s something you’ve put off for years?
• daniellefong (2020-06-15): they won't cover your hospital bill if you get covid.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-06-15): (the text was written a couple years ago—i generally try to be very prudent about such things, and actively try to make my messages in complice as context-aware as possible. covid has, oddly, made that easier, since it's a shared global context, which we usually don't have)
• daniellefong (2020-06-15): bloomberg: the first covid vaccines may not prevent you from getting covid cc @nanogenomic
• daniellefong (2020-06-15): bloomberg: the first covid vaccines may not prevent you from getting covid fda would consider approving a shot that prevents symptoms ‘there will never be a truly perfect vaccine,’ expert says
• daniellefong (2020-06-15): new covid-19 spikes are “totally predictable”: state reopenings have backfired
• thezvi (2020-06-15): new post: simulacra and covid-19.
• daniellefong (2020-06-15): guys, even if the usa powers through everyone getting covid, much of the rest of the world will not. that's bad for stocks & people will likely not accept american tourists, as each will be, potentially, covid carrying bioterrorists, until we figure how to stop the virus
• daniellefong (2020-06-16): think this trend will be popped by covid, @spacex starlink, and sustainable off grid infrastructure. building a company around that.
• rhyslindmark (2020-06-16): what have you learned during covid that you'd like to keep with you after the pandemic? in 2022, when everything is open again, what will your "default self" want to do that your "covid self" can advise for/against?
• rnextension (2020-06-17): दिल्ली-नोएडा के अस्पतालों में नहीं हो रहा गाजियाबाद के covid-19 मरीजों का इलाज #ghaziabad #coronavirus
• easoncxz (2020-06-17): fml. the only saving grace is that the level of nerves we're on is that one such case is enough to make a news article. people, even if nz be domestically "free of covid-19", you still need to avoid the international arrival passengers like the plague!
• daniellefong (2020-06-17): hoping we stay here. 8th day of no new covid cases in nova scotia.
• daniellefong (2020-06-17): cursed possibility: covid neurologically causes violence.
• daniellefong (2020-06-17): fuck does jerome powell have a cough? i keep hearing a dry cough, and he keeps muting his feed -- could he have covid? be careful jerome! take some vitamin d!
• daniellefong (2020-06-18): florida governor says 260 orlando airport workers tested positive for covid-19. oia says not quite
• daniellefong (2020-06-18): genes, blood type tied to risk of severe covid-19
• goblinodds (2020-06-18): this feels weirdly like the same sort of bracing for impact the twitter rat/postrat/metarat community experienced waiting for other people to start noticing covid
• eigenrobot (2020-06-19): do you need some: - qa testing - data entry - customer service/support - data labelling , or know someone who does? please consider reaching out to @strnglft, who had to leave his old onsite gig owing to covid concerns. he's sharp and communicates well, and is a 10x human.
• daniellefong (2020-06-19): bloomberg: apple to close some us stores as covid cases spike.
• daniellefong (2020-06-19): detroit car makers to resume pre-covid output to meet us demand. man that is optimistic.
• daniellefong (2020-06-19): bloomberg: "most of the back and forth is from the covid case count" currently the bull case is "no lockdown everywhere." 🤷🏻‍♀️🙄
• daniellefong (2020-06-19): “there may be no immunity against covid-19, new wuhan study suggests.” 😖💭”not another nightmare scenario...”
• daniellefong (2020-06-19): “these numbers are absolutely shocking to me. 12% of all nursing home residents in new jersey died in the past 90 days. 6% in new york, 5% in michigan. decision to treat covid+ patients in nursing homes in those 3 states accounts for much us mortality:
• daniellefong (2020-06-20): this was from the mongolian team that fought covid. they were quite successful as i understand.
• daniellefong (2020-06-20): coughing spreads covid kind of like this
• visakanv (2020-06-22): "the grave impact of covid-19 and the calculus of domestic politics makes it less likely that the united states and china will find room to accommodate one another" – this is such a nuanced way of talking about issues. i wish we could be this nuanced talking about domestic issues
• petersuber (2020-06-22): update: gender inequality in research productivity during the covid-19 pandemic
• daniellefong (2020-06-22): noam chomsky on covid and the economy.
• patio11 (2020-06-23): interesting startup i ran into: , which lets you embed a hybrid realtime chat widget / in-browser video call on arbitrary websites. you can probably see the applicability of this for e.g. sales in a covid environment, right? (@twilio powered!)
• hiredthought (2020-06-23): huh. psu studied excess "influenza-like illness" during the last 3 weeks of march, results of which suggest 8,700,000 new cases during that period, not the 100,000 officially reported. tl;dr covid-19 might be bad as bad as it is because of its ubiquity.
• richdecibels (2020-06-23): democracy fellowship for "30 diverse leaders from eu & us who spend a year working on projects that reinvent democratic spaces, strengthen social cohesion and build community against the backdrop of covid-19’s impact on democracy."
• visakanv (2020-06-23): interesting to think that this sort of barrier thing will probably outlast covid, and then kids will grow up just assuming that that’s how things are. i suppose we’re like that with traffic rules and so on. what are some egs of vestigial remnants from the past in everyday life?
• ultimape (2020-06-23): guillain barré syndrome, a demyelinating disorder, as a result of covid-19 infection. because of course. :/
• ultimape (2020-06-23): "low blood sodium increases risk and severity of covid-19: a systematic review, meta-analysis and retrospective cohort study"
• ultimape (2020-06-23): i would bet money that inflammation from covid-19 is triggering intestinal responses that reduce the body's ability to reabsorb bile acid / maintain sodium homeostasis. well what do you know.
• ultimape (2020-06-23): sodium homeostasis issues may be the missing link behind why so many covid-19 risk factors relate to gut dysbiosis. people with problems there tend to also have poor sodium absorption and intestinal health trouble. e.g. lots of sodium weirdness in aging!
• daniellefong (2020-06-24): as it gets more and more likely to be exposed to covid, workers are less and less likely to be willing to be exposed this creates a supply/demand imbalance *in favor of essential labor* i suggest an essential laborers union, and a general strike until hazard pay is supplied ⚒︎
• mykola (2020-06-25): my god he’s going to commit genocide to purge covid-vulnerable populations from the voter roles. i guarantee that’s all he cares about, if he cares at all.
• frideswyth (2020-06-25): is anyone working at a place providing covid-19 safety features that you know are bullshit/won't work?
• daniellefong (2020-06-25): daily covid-19 tests per thousand people.
• yashkaf (2020-06-25): furiously googling "is rapid penis growth a symptom of covid"
• thezvi (2020-06-25): my covid-19 summary article for the week is up:
• zrkrlc (2020-06-25): 1/ the story here is that this is my strongest memory of life before covid-19. i still have my tabs open to nirvana in fire, which was the last show i binged before all this happened. (excellent show btw)
• zrkrlc (2020-06-25): 4/ hell, back in feb my country was still reeling from volcanic ash covering vast swaths of urban areas. i was lucky to have taken an out of town trip to a friend two days before it happened. because of this, we were already out of masks by the time covid-19 hit.
• daniellefong (2020-06-26): 💁‍♂️💬"i would say with covid we are repeatedly dealing with the conflict in between the narrative reality and the biological reality of the virus & the system is not dealing with the biological reality well whereas america has been leveling up for 200 yrs in marketing" @samoburja
• daniellefong (2020-06-26): us: cumulative covid infections. does this look like a second wave to you? it looks like a momentarily perturbed first wave that is now angry. 🌊🙄
• neats29 (2020-06-26): highly recommend listening to @bretweinstein's appearance on joe rogan's podcast. it covers blm, covid-19 and some controversy around lab mice. a very fascinating conversation.
• daniellefong (2020-06-26): ok ok how about this. you load up a water pistol with something incredibly *stinky*. if they can't smell it then they might have covid! lack of smell is a key feature! 🦨
• daniellefong (2020-06-26): florida's covid-19 data and map dashboard
• daniellefong (2020-06-27): identifying airborne transmission as the dominant route for the spread of covid-19 (pnas) our analysis reveals that the difference with and without mandated face covering represents the determinant in shaping the trends of the pandemic. tldr: wear masks
• daniellefong (2020-06-27): someone should start a class action lawsuit for everyone who gets covid from flying. the stats are going to be pretty high.
• daniellefong (2020-06-27): excess mortality from covid-19 oxford covid-19 government response stringency index.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-06-27): as i said to a friend once "sure, that metaphor kind of captures your situation, but it also implies your situation is completely hopeless. can we find a metaphor where you have more agency?" "wave" metaphor for covid implies letting it run its course
• yashkaf (2020-06-28): i wish i didn't call it, but i called it a month ago. both state capacity and public will to fight covid died along with george floyd if not before that. i'm hoping for #3 now, but it's looking more like #4.
• daniellefong (2020-06-28): 💁🏾‍♂️💬”we need long-term monitoring of people who have recovered with covid-19 to see if they have permanent lung damage because many people with sars and mers did” @balajis (spoke about this in march)
• daniellefong (2020-06-28): first national study in the uk on neurological and nuro psychiatric complications of covid-19. 153 patients.
• friedkielbasa (2020-06-28): can't wait for post covid parties
• daniellefong (2020-06-29): bloomberg: u.s. covid failure is getting harder for markets to ignore
• kcorazo (2020-06-29): 3/ then covid-19 happened. we were given a blank canvas. it could have been my opportunity to spend more time nurturing ideas. but the fire that came so naturally to me was to bring ideas to reality. this one is almost there!
• rikardhjort (2020-06-29): coming back on monday to these spoken meeting notes from friday, which were transcribed by google keep: "erst covid telefonate timelines for the liverpool street to contact with your head von covid friendly and technical don't deserve" the goal is clear, i know what to do.
• friedkielbasa (2020-06-29): i gotta be honest the thing that had me most shook was when i went to get a covid test in april. turns out the labs weren't working weekends, took me almost a week to get my results back.
• friedkielbasa (2020-06-29): it just shows how covid wasn't really taken seriously in the us.
• daniellefong (2020-06-29): covid-19 is prone to ‘super-spreader’ events: johns hopkins’ pekosz
• eigenrobot (2020-06-29): live footage of ca covid patients
• thezvi (2020-06-29): last five days of covid-19 testing numbers close to best-plausible-case level good news. all bad news was already baked in. much better wouldn't be believable. i suppose no one noticed because everyone either is trying to panic everyone or was clinging to super lagged numbers.
• daniellefong (2020-06-30): 'can't breathe anymore': hyderabad man's chilling message to father before he died of covid-19
• eigenrobot (2020-06-30): i guess i keep returning to what i thought and who i was when i was trying to go to sleep on 1/1/00 trying to wrap my head around what in god's name could have gone so horribly awry that led us to this if covid had hit instead of 9/11, would it be like this? i don't think so
• daniellefong (2020-06-30): this guy got covid and went to the gym! he's practically a bioterrorist.
• sedatesnail (2020-07-01): continually using "coronavirus" because it just has a nicer rhythm than "covid"
• easoncxz (2020-07-01): boris doing/saying one thing right… though, look at the house: there's hardly anyone in it. it's like this every time when it comes to hong kong issues. (is it because of covid-19 social-distancing this time?)
• mykola (2020-07-01): me, three months ago: “if you get covid, don’t disclose your autism diagnosis to doctors.” allistic people, three months ago: “stop being so dramatic!”
• mykola (2020-07-01): if you’re not thinking like this you’re not paying attention. it would require a significant breakthrough to avoid this fate. also, it’s sounding like covid will be around like the flu or cold moving forward. people will catch it casually, more than once. 😶😶
• daniellefong (2020-07-02): covid grade: + school grade: f-
• princevogel (2020-07-02): guys waiting in an airport in the age of covid sucks even more than usual. i think this is what purgatory is like, or maybe some very minor hell
• daniellefong (2020-07-02): think that kids going to the covid parties should be expelled for being idiots. you don’t want them representing the fuck in university of alabama. hate to be heartless about it but what the fuck
• thezvi (2020-07-02): this weeks' covid-19 summary is up: as a bonus, you already know next week's headline.
• nosilverv (2020-07-03): normalize having theories about what the post-covid world will be like
• yashkaf (2020-07-03): ah, the cdc is finally onboard with @robinhanson's idea of letting all the young people get covid. as long as they don't vape, who cares if the kids die or get permanent lung damage! if you're a student, now is a good time to take a gap year and educate yourself. h/t @thezvi
• pepoospina (2020-07-03): i hope this thing with covid helped clarify what i meant.
• anthonycastrio (2020-07-03): i'm in the middle of collecting health insurance policy data for every public university in the united states. most require students take in-person classes to qualify. many schools are going full-online due to covid in the fall. so is every uninsured student screwed?
• blunderbussted (2020-07-03): tinder but for ppl with covid 19 antibodies
• lericdax (2020-07-04): lol the "covid parties" psyops is all over cnn
• drmaciver (2020-07-04): he can't currently smell anything due to lingering covid-19 symptoms anyway, but i don't know if that would make fernet branca better or worse.
• visakanv (2020-07-04): #ge2020 a glimpse of the election rallies we would be having if not for covid :(
• blunderbussted (2020-07-05): "tim died of the plague" "covid?" "no, like yersinia pestis. the black fucking plague. it's going around too." "how embarrassing. died in last year's shoes to the 14th century's virus." "haha yeah tim was pretty fucking poor. it's solstice, wanna dance around the 5g tower?"
• blunderbussted (2020-07-05): went on a hike today to punish myself for last night’s debauch. forest is thronged wirh fools who’ll catch covid. luckily nobody knows my spot, i was entirely alone on the trail. there’s almost no reason to choose my trail over others. it’s harder and has fewer beautiful views.
• easoncxz (2020-07-06): and when covid-19 makes you lose your sanity: anti-masker trashing the masks aisle mumbling "this shit's over" again and again
• daniellefong (2020-07-06): 🙍🏻‍♀️😕💭 "time to check the covid dashboard again" 🙍🏻‍♀️🤔💭 "hmmm, is that a new colour? ⚫️ what does that represent?" 🙅🏻‍♀️😱💭 "13.6% of the residents in trousdale tennessee have this. when did this happen??"
• daniellefong (2020-07-06): they're on twitter! these guys run the private prisons which are driving some of the covid outbreaks in the country! has the temerity to tweet about "freedom" on the 4th of july. blech. 🤢🤮 @corecivic @damonhininger
• tr_babb (2020-07-06): anecdotal report from a friend: lines for covid testing ~5 blocks; all-day wait. friend rescheduled for a different day, after already waiting for centers to open after the weekend. i'd hoped we were past the time when getting a test takes longer than the infectious period.
• daniellefong (2020-07-06): we should really consider making better filters for ac systems to try and reduce covid contagiousness. the fact that the cases are exploding in the southern states really seems to be related to this, and there's more and more evidence that the ac systems are a vector
• nathanpmyoung (2020-07-07): 16 poeple died in the uk from covid. this is much much better than it was and is a policy success. this is worse than most of europe and could have been much better. let's hope it stays low. please reply with any forecasts from sources with good track records.
• mbateman (2020-07-07): very important to not generalize leadership (especially us leadership) on covid to a general pessimism about humanity’s response to covid. *despite* leadership, the world’s response has been quite reasonable and the scientific battle is going shockingly well. great thread👇
• daniellefong (2020-07-08): on maddow yesterday “ la county if cases continue to grow like this is on tractor running out of hospital beds between 2 to 3 weeks” this is from the head of the covid projections unit at an la hospital
• daniellefong (2020-07-08): it was said that covid-19 can lead to brain damage and it was said that brain damage can lead to covid-19
• daniellefong (2020-07-08): graphing deaths from covid-19 versus time for each state, by @marco_piani @maxcroser @ourworldindata imo this totally blows a hole in the "deaths tending to zero" argument. no it isn't. deaths lag hospitalisations, which lag cases, but even so, are starting to spike in places
• daniellefong (2020-07-08): schools, but ranked by how likely the are to give your whole family covid. in real time it's like a game so fun
• daniellefong (2020-07-09): dr fauci warns against ‘complacency’ amid ‘false narrative’ of falling covid-19 death rate in the us
• sedatesnail (2020-07-09): (wake me up) scream inside your heart (can't wake up) scream inside your heart (save me) please don't scream out loud, you'll spread covid
• easoncxz (2020-07-09): filed under "great storytelling" and "covid is fucking real".
• thezvi (2020-07-09): weekly covid-19 update is live. expected headline pushed back for another week, but things still not so great.
• tyleralterman (2020-07-10): today close to 1000 people died of covid in the us. imagine how much more effectively we would mobilize if there were buried poison gas bombs that exploded loudly every day, killing ~1000 people.
• friedkielbasa (2020-07-10): is the most cost effective intervention for covid a marketing campaign encouraging mask usage? i'm thinking cowboy bandanas, adidas brand face masks, etc.
• blunderbussted (2020-07-10): only wore a bath robe for the past 18 hours, put on a shirt to stop feeling like a savage the covid migration to a clothe-less lifestyle
• daniellefong (2020-07-10): russia more than triples covid-19 death toll in revised data
• visakanv (2020-07-10): worker’s party supporters at 330am during a pandemic 😂 if not for covid, this crowd would probably be 10x larger #ge2020
• bierlingm (2020-07-11): micro-thoughts on the deterritorializing effects of covid-19: cobol and the home office by accelerating meltdown
• yashkaf (2020-07-11): a reminder that covid-19 is caused by coronavirus in your respiratory tract, not by hubris or arrogance or the wrong political affiliation or thinking you know better than the cdc or tweeting about meeting friends in person or refusing to cry alone in your room for a year.
• daniellefong (2020-07-11): someone needs to write the triumph over covid as a love story
• daniellefong (2020-07-11): the united states have lost the mandate of covid 🇺🇸美国失去了天命 🇨🇳中共失去了天命
• thezvi (2020-07-11): new covid-19 post looking at the mortality data, especially on unclassified/mysterious deaths, curious what the real explanation of this is:
• daniellefong (2020-07-11): financial transactions even simpler than stripe, but only for people who abide by the covid code (whatever that is)
• daniellefong (2020-07-11): free rent for your campsite but you have to use the covid tracking app
• daniellefong (2020-07-11): i completely dispute this. the american school system is incredibly ineffective at teaching kids, and for many does lasting damage. the situation with covid and switzerland is completely different from that in the united states. this isn’t even remotely a comparable trade off
• easoncxz (2020-07-12): a tweet from back in the good days when trump isn't a thing yet. it wouldn't even be that expensive; give it some 4-6k usd, and it's still just mildly more expensive than a covid test in the us nowadays.
• daniellefong (2020-07-12): 😖 covid orphan
• blunderbussted (2020-07-13): about to start training for my tefl license, planning on documenting wherever i live extensively by walking every god damn day. i will be your cultural anthropologist. half thinking about visiting some strange southern nowhere town mid-covid to do the same, document the feel
• mykola (2020-07-13): headlines from 2022: "notorious facebook personality kekinmesoftly claimed responsibility for the bombing of the covid-19 vaccination clinic in brooklyn this weekend, killing dozens and setting back efforts to contain the latest mutation..."
• dbabbitt (2020-07-13): how many of y’all did covid-19 for lent?
• nathanpmyoung (2020-07-14): a well known way of getting people to do things is insulting them. masks are not a partisan issue. covid will kill you whoever you vote for.
• drmaciver (2020-07-14): i don't know how seriously to take this (i think plausible but not conclusive) but i'm definitely updating my threat modelling towards it being safer to assume that i'm probably no longer immune to covid-19 despite having almost certainly had it. 😢
• daniellefong (2020-07-14): if a community provided a sort of village as schoolhouse augmented reality outdoor environment, inside a covid tested bubble, it seems like that would be valuable! school districts are one of the major determinants of housing prices... how valuable a service is this per month?
• rtk254 (2020-07-15): "we can decide how we want to handle digital surveillance, attention-­channeling, harassment, data collection, and algorithmic decision­making. we just need to start the discussion. now." she wrote that back in care-free and covid-less 2018. wondering - where are we today? (3/3)
• thezvi (2020-07-16): weekly covid update is live:
• drmaciver (2020-07-16): idle thought: i wonder if the covid symptom tracker ends up biasing the data because being regularly asked whether you're wearing a mask when out makes you more likely to regularly wear a mask when out because you think about it more.
• nathanpmyoung (2020-07-16): the us covid response is like a @wileyceo track. numbers. inaction.
• daniellefong (2020-07-16): the share of covid-19 tests that are positive (july 16th, 2020 -- rolling 7 day average) a clear division in which countries have this under control and not (note, however, that light grey implies no data).
• nathanpmyoung (2020-07-16): maybe @fullfact should have meme department for sharing anti-misinformation memes. taiwan has done this to great effect around covid. @audreyt
• daniellefong (2020-07-16): actually having a valid test and testing strategy is a really key issue. we need to have figures of merit at least... critical for any idea of a covid-bubble.
• brimmingvessel (2020-07-17): aw man what with covid gonna be a lil while before we can try on other people's glasses for fun
• eigenrobot (2020-07-17): suppose an author didn't complete a seven volume series, perhaps dying of covid after the fifth volume was published could you use the first five books as a gpt prompt and make it finish the story
• petersuber (2020-07-17): "the need to access information during the #covid lockdown has enhanced the #openaccess movement. @anu_press is the world’s largest open-access university press....since march 2020, anu press has seen a 44% rise in downloads."
• blunderbussted (2020-07-17): the real tragedy of covid-19 is that i've gotten in great shape during quarantine and i'm absolutely unwilling to get near anyone who can 'mire appropriately.
• dbabbitt (2020-07-18): this is why, for flu or covid spikes, it’s excess deaths that are the best measure.
• petersuber (2020-07-18): excellent 10 min overview of the calamitous boris johnson response to #covid19. we need an equivalent for trump. i've seen many timelines of trump's covid-related acts and omissions. but none this succinct and compelling. none with this mix of brevity and detail.
• nosilverv (2020-07-18): cool ethnomethodological moment: the in real time renegotiation of the schelling greeting. (first in-person european council meeting since covid)
• daniellefong (2020-07-18): heparin binds to covid19 to some degree. interesting. “common fda-approved drug may effectively neutralize virus that causes covid-19”
• malcolm_ocean (2020-07-19): "how much guilt should other people be allowed to make you feel?" that is the meta-topic on so many levels, and not just about covid. (my answer is "actually zero. guilt is not a good material to build social architecture out of, nor is shame or fear." it's brittle & explodes.)
• nosilverv (2020-07-20): it's very hot here so our gym closed the doors and turned on the ac. they say they have an "epa filter" which filters covid. is this possibly true or do i have to train in a mask? didn't find anything about that filter online
• forthrighter (2020-07-20): getting sensitized lately to actually *3* camps (views on masks) in 🇺🇸#freemasonry 1. public health emergency, masks required 2. covid-19 is overblown, we don't need to pay attention 3. haven't thought about it/lazy/don't know category 3 is probably bigger than i imagined
• chercher_ai (2020-07-20): we should be thankful that covid-19 is giving us an opportunity to practice our pandemic response. this is not the last pandemic of this century, and the next one may not be so generous.
• rnextension (2020-07-21): ghaziabad: special containment exercise ordered for 21 localities having over 10 covid-19 cases
• tnorthcutt (2020-07-21): poll: are you planning on keeping your kid(s) home from in-person school (and otherwise would have sent them), because of covid-19 concerns? (really just intended for us parents, since it's worst here)
• tnorthcutt (2020-07-21): keeping kids home from school because of covid-19
• daniellefong (2020-07-21): so one of the key whistleblowers in on the russia <=> trump campaign connection, reality winner, is immunocompromised, & has been behind bars in texas. her family has filed for compassionate release but the administration has repeatedly blocked it. she tested positive for covid
• c_harwick (2020-07-22): a big part of the reason for the botched covid response in the us and the ensuing mistrust is the overt journalistic preoccupation with narrative-shaping. fig 1: "masks don't even work! save them for healthcare workers" fig 2:
• eigenrobot (2020-07-23): i model this guy as approximately the median voter. he is running for governor. he has no chance of winning. his livelihood has been destroyed by covid and it wasn't great to begin with. his grasp of policy is like . . . nil prolly he's just fucked, and grasping at straws 😔
• thezvi (2020-07-23): weekly covid-19 update is live:
• daniellefong (2020-07-23): then release reality winner, who definitely did have to government retaliate against jer. she has served 4 years, is immunocompromised, and has covid
• tyleralterman (2020-07-23): 2/ the covid cold war between superpowers works differently, being much more about beating everyone else to vaccine (material technology) and then using it for international leverage.
• tyleralterman (2020-07-23): ps one exception: having the best larp might help you in the short term for coordinating covid risk measure compliance (social distancing, masks, etc) is less effective, however, for spurring scientific and operations innovation into vaccine and treatment r&d and distribution
• profoundish (2020-07-24): it's not even using covid lol, basically just my brain going "you just be cursed" 😅
• daniellefong (2020-07-24): nova scotia's streak of no new covid-19 cases reaches day 8 | ctv news
• daniellefong (2020-07-24): a specialist sounds the alarm on long-term covid-19 effects
• yashkaf (2020-07-25): in late march the % of covid infections in nyc was probably 1 in 10. today it's maybe 1 in 1000. yet, many of my friends live in house arrest just as they did when the risk was 100 times higher. this is irrational and disappointing.
• yashkaf (2020-07-25): the point of my february post about covid was not that covid is something you should sacrifice anything to minimize, but that you should do the fricking math instead of following your gut or the crowd on important matters like a pandemic.
• yashkaf (2020-07-25): everyone's waiting for an angel to descend from the sky and tell them that covid is over. there is no way whatsoever this happens before summer 2021, maybe later. if cuomo declares tomorrow that nyc is covid-safe that would immediately make it less safe to meet friends, not more.
• easoncxz (2020-07-26): woah, a thinkpad keyboard, complete with a trackpoint®, as a standalone bluetooth/2.4ghz wireless device? this is the best news (from april… yeah i know i'm slow) i've heard since covid-19!
• malcolm_ocean (2020-07-26): at least 3% of deaths, worldwide, over the last month or so, have been from covid. (based on typical 150k deaths/day from world death clock and aggregate 5k deaths/day in the covid stats google/wikipedia show.) likely substantially higher—idk how much undercounting there is.
• easoncxz (2020-07-26): also let me just echo a sentiment: the fact that this "might seem like nothing to people in europe or the us" is a huge reason why in eu/us the covid-19 outbreak is that much more severe (so far anyway). democracy is important, but the people also need to genuinely care.
• ultimape (2020-07-26): "the restrictions in human flow during the covid-19 pandemic in mainland china halted regular dam maintenance, dam inspection, training of officials and the construction of hydraulic projects, which were scheduled in the winter and spring of 2020."
• mykola (2020-07-27): i have a joke about the federal response to covid-19 in the us, and i'm fairly sure that you're going to get it.
• daniellefong (2020-07-27): antivaxxers are going to be a covid reservior for years probably
• daniellefong (2020-07-27): since covid has already had a couple substantial mutations, it’s prudent to assume, as the number of transmission increases dramatically, that there will be more. banking on our immune systems to be able to defeat the next mutations based on the first of these is dumb
• daniellefong (2020-07-27): it jumps species! it has rna from pangolins and bats. can you bound what a future covid mutant can do? i cannot. herd immunity ranges from a profoundly careless strategy that could kill, you know tens of millions, and make billions sick before it passes, to existential risk
• daniellefong (2020-07-27): the united states covid response reminds me of people who used to cheat on physics assignments or whatever. you know it’s not a long-term strategy... any pr boost from distorting the immediate score is going to get swamped by not knowing what the fuck you’re doing
• easoncxz (2020-07-28): yeah. people are massive idiots. covid-19 -related misinformation has the same kind of effect on the us population as chinese communist state-propaganda has on the chinese mainland/mainstream population. humans just suck, most of the time.
• eigenrobot (2020-07-28): anyone get the impression reporters have just given up on things that are important i don't even mean the election which is fairly boring but like three gorges dam gets zero coverage and its collapse could plausibly have a greater impact than covid
• thezvi (2020-07-28): divide usa into 50% of non-immune individuals taking relatively less covid-19 risk and 50% taking relatively more. what % of total risk is being taken by the safer 50%?
• drmaciver (2020-07-29): i wonder what the covid-19 mortality rate for software companies is going to be. consider: 1) software developers, on the whole, seem to be treating this extra seriously. 2) software companies however do not. 3) we have a lot more leverage for finding new jobs than many.
• pepoospina (2020-07-29): 2/3 allí lo tratan de idiota por querer hacerse un test de covid. le hacen radiografías y test sanguíneo, y 7 horas después de su entrada deciden hacerle el test.
• visakanv (2020-07-29): 25. the first major(?) bollywood x nollywood crossover has been filmed; release got delayed because of covid-19. will supposedly be out in october
• thezvi (2020-07-29): new covid-19 post: new paper on herd immunity thresholds had more to say on this than made sense for the weekly update so i split it off.
• goblinodds (2020-07-30): [me, ruining elle's shitpost]: wait are they at greater risk of *catching* covid or are they more likely to be diagnosed. why are we assuming these are the same. also what is "risk of coronavirus," is that if you catch it at all or if you catch it and suffer or die. what about--
• goblinodds (2020-07-30): [me, ruining elle's shitpost]: wait are they at greater risk of *catching* covid or are they more likely to be diagnosed. why are we assuming these are the same. also what is "risk of coronavirus," is that if you catch it at all or if you catch it and suffer or die. what about--
• thezvi (2020-07-30): new covid-19 post is up, now with correct link. damn. hadn't made the 'link to the edit post page' error in a while. way too easy to do.
• daniellefong (2020-07-30): i should have predicted that the unit of covid bubble in the uk would be the pub, but i'm just not that smart.
• petersuber (2020-07-31): the unanimously approved report from the uk int'l trade committee "recommends the govt...allow for compulsory licensing of therapeutic drugs or vaccines against covid-19 [to ensure] they can be made available as quickly, widely and cheaply as possible.."
• easoncxz (2020-07-31): what is it with these big companies nowadays? have covid gotten to them? they're just not fixing bugs. the twitter desktop web bug is also still there. come on now, i've already paid for the product using my privacy.
• tnorthcutt (2020-07-31): do i know anyone who has "covid-bubbled" with another family/friends, and done so in a highly structured way, e.g. written agreed upon guidelines for what behaviors are ok, etc.?
• daniellefong (2020-07-31): jim jordan questions fauci on protests and the spread of covid-19. fauci is doing alright here i guess
• daniellefong (2020-07-31): love in the time of covid 🫀
• blunderbussted (2020-08-01): can like 3 of you get tested for covid confirm you're clean and then open a house where we live on one bed for a while i'm utterly starved for human contact
• rnextension (2020-08-01): ghaziabad finally begins uploading covid death details online 🙏
• yashkaf (2020-08-01): this monday at 9 pm est i'm going back on the switch podcast to talk about covid, community, and staying sane in insane times. you can join live to share your questions and takeaways: listen to my first switch appearance here:
• goblinodds (2020-08-01): this but also this if you delete "covid-related"
• goblinodds (2020-08-01): this but also this if you delete "covid-related"
• daniellefong (2020-08-02): we’re still going to be dealing with the aftermath of covid during the 2024 elections we really need to think about making a more robust civilization...
• easoncxz (2020-08-03): poll: do you agree with the following statements? "i would like to attend a free-of-charge dentist appointment at my choice of time." || "i would like to receive a free-of-charge covid test if and when offered or desired."
• malcolm_ocean (2020-08-03): about what % of deaths do you think are from suicide? (annually, globally, not accounting for covid - i'm using a 2017 data source here, fwiw)
• goblinodds (2020-08-04): shrugged off the questions i figured i'd ask since i'd dropped $$ and was risking covid to come into the office anyway me: i think i have trouble breathing in my sleep, sometimes i dream i cant breathe and-- her: yeah that's just anxiety, lots of people are having that now
• goblinodds (2020-08-04): shrugged off the questions i figured i'd ask since i'd dropped $$ and was risking covid to come into the office anyway me: i think i have trouble breathing in my sleep, sometimes i dream i cant breathe and-- her: yeah that's just anxiety, lots of people are having that now
• patio11 (2020-08-04): kudos to lyft for this email (and offer): (on a subscription auto-restarting after a pause, which pre-covid was for a user-chosen time less than 12 weeks.)
• regencrypto (2020-08-05): from the bulgarian pathology association regarding current testing standards for covid:
• daniellefong (2020-08-05): fwiw the american prison system is also super bad like this and you get exposed to things like covid and tuberculosis if you're against totalitarian abuse in other states you should be against totalitarian abuse in your own and your neighbors all of this is heartbreaking 💔
• daniellefong (2020-08-05): the situation with covid is extraordinarily evil it's horrible that this happened
• daniellefong (2020-08-05): otoh public health measures against covid are also likely effective against flu, so this may be one of the bright spots. they see much less flu in the southern hemisphere, where it is winter now
• blunderbussted (2020-08-05): i'm simultaneously in the best shape i've been in my life, the most tan i've been in my life, and watching more anime than i've ever watched in my life. if i develop covid-19 right now i will be absolutely fucking furious.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-08-06): before covid, i would have considered something less clean if it hadn't been touched in weeks. now it feels *more* clean, because any covid would have died. different types of clean, which i hadn't distinguished before.
• daniellefong (2020-08-06): sign of the times. private equity consolidation in the babysitter industry covid control is extremely important here, obviously, and i have no idea what the safeguards are...
• daniellefong (2020-08-06): i wonder if covid brain damages kids hope not 55% of hospitalizations register something in that new study really freaky
• thezvi (2020-08-06): covid update 8/6: the case of the missing data.
• tyleralterman (2020-08-06): imagine there were a small, covid-free haven where people could do things like dance, date, send kids to school, and physically gather in community without fear. let’s say it fits many of your place-based preferences. would you move to this haven within 6 months?
• malcolm_ocean (2020-08-06): had a dream last night that involved hanging out with some friends at a grocery store. umm brain that's not how covid works. nice try though!
• patio11 (2020-08-07): it will be interesting whether/when they walk this back as the covid situation improves, since i think that’s going to be strictly more expensive to provide (much higher uptake) and they don’t directly incrementally monetize (like they do with travel portal).
• ultimape (2020-08-08): i've never looked at huntington's disease before, except noted it was on a list of diseases that might be impacted by covid-19. "interleukin-6 deficiency exacerbates huntington’s disease model phenotypes"
• profoundish (2020-08-09): today's covid thread includes news of an infuriating data interruption
• petersuber (2020-08-09): update. "the proportion of #covid19 papers w/ a woman 1st author was 19% lower than...for papers pub'd in the same journals in 2019...women’s representation as 1st authors of covid-19 research was particularly low for papers pub'd in march & april 2020."
• xsphi (2020-08-10): "if you don't move within 15 minutes, you're legally allowed to get covid-19" - the georgia department of health
• underyx (2020-08-10): "an analysis of the covid-19 infodemic in austria"
• natural_hazard (2020-08-10): like, there was a pitch for some other show like "were all still worried about how to be safe, that's why me and co-host are here to answer you're covid health questions!" and i was like "we?? who the fuck is we? wait, this just continues? no cynical dunk? wtf is happening?"
• daniellefong (2020-08-10): this is something you would call a second order effect, like grandparents getting covid from schoolchildren
• easoncxz (2020-08-11): now official tweets by the covid team: (though i think by now probably a quarter of the population (and 100% of you online) is already aware of the news)
• dschorno (2020-08-11): lets just mix all of the late-stage covid vaccine candidates together into a slurry and hope for the best
• malcolm_ocean (2020-08-11): canada released a covid contact tracing app a couple weeks ago and it already has >1m downloads in a country of 38m. about 3%. and i just now got a text from my carrier about it, which means probably it'll have substantial adoption within a week.
• rtk254 (2020-08-12): ever wonder what a federer vs. federer matchup would look like? just in time for the covid crisis, it's now possible to deepfake whole tennis matches; no need to endanger anything (except maybe our sanity 🙃 )
• natural_hazard (2020-08-12): often i feel an amnesiac sense of being trapped in the present (this feeling predates covid by years) it feels like mindfulness's evil twin cousin it's "the only thing that's real is the current moment" combined with "if your current moment isn't dope you suck"
• nosilverv (2020-08-12): are there covid futures? can i short portugal? they’re allowing a 100 thousand people political event loooool
• daniellefong (2020-08-12): hearing less about covid organics now haven't checked positivity yet or infected population demographics....
• mykola (2020-08-13): aaaand my mom is sharing conspiracy theories about covid vaccines on facebook.
• thezvi (2020-08-13): new weekly covid-19 post is up:
• forthrighter (2020-08-14): covid, loss, and waiting
• daniellefong (2020-08-14): chinavirus is not the name of the virus. do you suppose the democrats are like look we can't, we can't make it conditional on you calling covid-19 chinavirus and he's like "no it's chinavirus or bust"
• easoncxz (2020-08-15): > nz covid tracer has now recorded 1,303,200 registered users, which is an increase of 655,000 in the last four days, and 130,000 in the last day. (moh, today: ) haha i guess i contributed to this 600-thousand. 😄
• mykola (2020-08-15): if you’re paying attention you know that the tests that do exist are woefully unreliable and that false negative rates are through the roof. >>> a negative test does not mean you don’t have covid. <<< let that sink in and then think about sending your kids to school.
• profoundish (2020-08-16): i miss life before covid but i don't know if i can help in any way
• eigenrobot (2020-08-17): pre covid claims
• goblinodds (2020-08-17): (also no i didnt have covid, i keep forgetting that's a common symptom. i've just had shitty sinuses since my late teens)
• goblinodds (2020-08-17): (also no i didnt have covid, i keep forgetting that's a common symptom. i've just had shitty sinuses since my late teens)
• nosilverv (2020-08-17): lol i swear this is how much i miss pre-covid life i listen to this 8 hours a day
• daniellefong (2020-08-19): sipping my coffee 👩🏻‍💻📰💭"coffee-related economic activity comprises approximately 1.6% of the total u.s. gross domestic product." 👩🏻‍💻😕💭"imagining the collapse of productivity without coffee" 👩🏻‍💻😞💭"comparing the energy delta (+) from coffee with the delta (-) from covid"
• thezvi (2020-08-20): weekly covid-19 update is out for 8/20:
• daniellefong (2020-08-20): covid-19 xprize, opencovidscreen
• daniellefong (2020-08-20): campus idea: $12k year ($1000 month) fiber internet covid bubble @novidapp scihub donation in your pseudoname. some adults around to keep kids from killing each other idk, outdoor movie nights with a giant laser projector on the campus lawn
• roberthaisfield (2020-08-21): i'm starting to notice a sort of "social risk regulation" in light of covid. people only feel comfortable associating with people at their level of risk aversion or lower, so they end up spending time only with people at their own level of risk aversion.
• bolster (2020-08-21): my new #lockdown / #quarantine joy; finding #covid induced, socially distanced, pr photos that look like 90's indie punk band album covers. it's been termed #straightouttacovid here's a few to start. (one of these is a actually band art from feb so doesn't count...)
• yashkaf (2020-08-21): hahahaha no they'll spend months regulating whether gpt-5 is allowed to write advertising copy for cable tv because of anti-transgender bias in its training data as millions of people are losing their homes. everyone will be left to their own devices to survive, same as covid.
• visakanv (2020-08-22): i feel like i used to get more good inspiration fodder from twitter and it’s been on the decline for a few months. completely understandable; covid etc etc. still, feels kind of sad
• daniellefong (2020-08-22): the fact that canada essentially has a policy of covid eradication, and the usa has a policy of "live with it", is undertheorized
• imhinesmi (2020-08-22): there were a bunch of people there, many with dogs (all of whom i petted), but only two with masks so if im going to catch covid nows my chance
• daniellefong (2020-08-23): if i lived in an area where covid was rampant, every time i felt ill i’d be extra worried not worth it
• daniellefong (2020-08-24): this is still a good idea! a 24-hour covid hotline to fight misinformaiton. amazing work out of mongolia, keeping their country healthy during the pandemic.
• daniellefong (2020-08-24): the possibility of disability from covid, why would you fuck around with that my own life totally changed after a kind of cfs, it took like a year of regular commitment to focus on health to get better i understand a kind of deprivation but we've normalized it into expectation
• eigenrobot (2020-08-25): weak: saying the experts were dumb and wrong about covid in march peak: saying the expert's were dumb and wrong generally pre-2020, they werent sure where they were gonna blow it big but they were rotten as a class and it was gonna be big such were the best predictors of all
• the_wilderless (2020-08-25): mandatory covid testing for all the foreigners in my district. it... seems like having everyone come together in one courtyard, making them all hangout ~2ft away from each other, and having us all use the same pens, get touched by the same admin, etc... risk outweighs benefit?
• thezvi (2020-08-27): new covid-19 weekly post is up:
• patio11 (2020-08-27): interesting article by tyler cowen on how quality deterioration of services due to covid isn’t covered in inflation statistics: i think this is true in the converse too: the consumer surplus for many digital goods got a lot larger.
• sedatesnail (2020-08-27): #smashmouth causing 100 cases of covid is like the virus that's too deadly to spread - kills itself off instantly because all the punchlines write themselves
• patio11 (2020-08-28): it was a very "send fax using an online fax service, have it error out repeatedly for unknown reasons, attempt to send a fax from the convenience store, find it was too many pages to send through their machine, try to find an office not closed by covid, and finally @twilio" day.
• easoncxz (2020-08-28): thread of a ludicrous success story in covid-control:
• xsphi (2020-08-29): no one: absolutely no one: covid-19: but what if grocery shopping was even *more* stressful?
• malcolm_ocean (2020-08-29): i had some confusions about uv & covid. i probably still have confusions—hopefully fewer. great source below, tl;dr: - uva & uvb don't kill viruses - uvc does but would fuck you up first - sunlight maybe does (just bc so intense?) but facts unclear here
• moonboi_ (2020-08-29): writing this as i notice that wikipedia's editors internally decided not to include the lab escape theory on the main covid-19 article page. most dismissed it as a conspiracy theory, but having looked into it a bit, it seems to me more likely than not that it escaped from a lab
• igorbrigadir (2020-08-29): the twitter anti covid misinformation filters are getting a bit too trigger happy lately, @permutans got caught up for linking to wikipedia! also i feel a journal like @cellgenomics should be on some "allow" list too. @twittersupport @twittersafety @twittercomms
• rhyslindmark (2020-08-29): proud of @catherineols (and the whole team) for creating this amazing open-source tool to track your covid risk. ❤️ check it out!
• patio11 (2020-08-30): this is one of the enablers of “we’ve seen 10 years happen in 10 weeks” vis covid; there were still 10 years of linear growth in the tank. (and another 30ish behind them, if you could believe it.) (that quote, from many people, was re: surging e-commerce share of retail.)
• iconic_tweeter (2020-08-30): covid dating ni tricky... na set new records za talking stage
• drmaciver (2020-08-31): (i definitely don't have covid-19 - wrong symptom profile entirely - but it's a pretty bad cold)
• daniellefong (2020-08-31): cfs sucks and long covid is worse. a nation planning to facetank this disease is going to have many deaths, bad health, low productivity. herd immunity is a myth, no such thing for colds, no such thing for flu, no such thing for measles. mutations can be almost arbitrarily bad
• tyleralterman (2020-08-31): what are some other ideas for covid-era school openings?
• goblinodds (2020-09-01): took me *checks watch* 6 weeks to figure out that my bf is stressed about covid i'd been making both of us nuts thinking something about our relationship had changed and trying to figure out what this meant and then it finally occurred to me that also yes there's a pandemic on
• goblinodds (2020-09-01): took me *checks watch* 6 weeks to figure out that my bf is stressed about covid i'd been making both of us nuts thinking something about our relationship had changed and trying to figure out what this meant and then it finally occurred to me that also yes there's a pandemic on
• goblinodds (2020-09-01): how badly stressed are you by covid and what is your ~gender?
• goblinodds (2020-09-01): how badly stressed are you by covid and what is your ~gender?
• goblinodds (2020-09-01): on average, of the people closest to you, who seems more stressed out by covid?
• goblinodds (2020-09-01): on average, of the people closest to you, who seems more stressed out by covid?
• goblinodds (2020-09-01): on average, who seems more stressed out by covid? your friends, or people you've been in serious sexual/romantic relationships with? (for the purposes of the poll, the latter overrides the former)
• goblinodds (2020-09-01): on average, who seems more stressed out by covid? your friends, or people you've been in serious sexual/romantic relationships with? (for the purposes of the poll, the latter overrides the former)
• daniellefong (2020-09-02): does anyone have a map of the density of antivaxxers seems like we're going to want to stay well away for a long time covid will probably never leave those communities
• thezvi (2020-09-03): new weekly covid-19 post is up: . baseball predictions/picks available as always at aikido sports: .
• thezvi (2020-09-03): til that it will go with the second link for the easy-click box, which was definitely not my intention! the main attraction today is the covid-19 weekly update, meet the new cdc.
• mykola (2020-09-03): if this is covid i could be dead next week. that’s a really unpleasant thought. this cough is deep and brings up a mountain of phlegm each time. if i die i think i’ll be unhappy about that. there’s more work to be done that i’m uniquely situated to do.
• mykola (2020-09-04): an injury from two months ago has started hurting again. i’m informed that old injuries flaring up is a covid thing. huh.
• easoncxz (2020-09-04): it wouldn't be unreasonable at all to say that covid-related news and general discourse acted as a very relevant catalyst to get me thinking about these topics. remember when they categorised jobs into "essential" and "non-essential", and some people got upset at how it's split?
• daniellefong (2020-09-04): i'm hearing from people in new york that there's a lot of activity, that they really feel like they are past covid. seems like flirting with disaster is showing rt > 1, though my friend @mihoda disputes their rt values generally.
• mykola (2020-09-04): update: my fever broke! 97.5, baby! still going to get this covid test at 5:50, i still feel like i got sat on by a truck?
• blunderbussted (2020-09-04): hope catching covid doesn't further ruin my heart hahaha
• mykola (2020-09-04): covid testing to the cowboy bebop soundtrack.
• yashkaf (2020-09-04): does this chart mean that official us covid deaths should be multiplied by 3? "excess non-covid deaths" certainly seems to be a euphemism for covid deaths and there are twice as many of them.
• petersuber (2020-09-05): new study from @exlibrisgroup: "before #covid19, 72% of researchers viewed #openaccess favorably, and 18% now report that they view open access more positively since the onset of covid-19."
• cis_female (2020-09-06): disappointment: the last public event i went to before covid was here, an indigenous new year celebration
• algekalipso (2020-09-06): do you think the covid vaccine will have tracking nanobots? do you want it to?
• yashkaf (2020-09-06): but if you are so inclined, lw can train your explicit reason to finally do better than tradition on some issues, like covid or bitcoin or philanthropy. and once you're trained, you can leave the dojo and work on your social skills and intuition again.
• selonnerias (2020-09-07): how anti-vaxxers rejecting covid vaccine could really impact you - tldr ... via @youtube
• mykola (2020-09-07): negative covid result, yay! i'm feeling much, much better. ready to go back to work tomorrow. feel like i dodged a bullet!
• blunderbussted (2020-09-07): if i die of covid in the next few months i regret none of my time spent here in fact it validates my life choices you're wasting your lives though
• drmaciver (2020-09-08): (i also understand that covid-19 has significantly increased pressure and demand on deliveries... but this isn't a new thing, delivery people have *always* been this bad at their jobs)
• xsphi (2020-09-08): this is take 2 qting this because the first time i was too harsh. resentment is an understandable reaction, but not a particularly useful one (and can be harmful in excess). surprised pikachuing over people being imperfect doesn't stop anyone getting covid.
• cis_female (2020-09-09): covid was created so we could have another trente glorieuses.
• selonnerias (2020-09-09): didn't have covid
• mykola (2020-09-09): if you've had covid please fill out this survey! it's part of a patient-led research project that's doing amazing work documenting life with and after covid.
• daniellefong (2020-09-10): wow, they're straight up ending covid-19 screening at airports the argument: "not everybody shows symptoms" ok, firstly, yes, but the solution is not to give up! also this is a totally disjointed response considering the drive to reopen, ignorance of asymptomatic spread in uni
• patio11 (2020-09-11): (it may not look like that, but understand that the middle of the graph looks like “we were growing at 40% yoy and then covid happened so now we are at 36% yoy.”)
• frideswyth (2020-09-11): psa: covid cases are rising in europe and uk atm (expected as lockdown eased) but death toll is not rising. getting and even passing on covid is not killing grandmas (however much they might personally want that). this is the perfect time for under 50s to get infected.
• daniellefong (2020-09-11): *if you've suffered adverse financial consequences due to covid
• forshaper (2020-09-12): is it smoke or is it covid?
• easoncxz (2020-09-12): 他还问我懂不懂得铁路系统怎么用，尤其是在 covid-19 影响之下，有些临时的线路 改动/停运。我回答说不要紧，我来过，多少认得点路。同时我仍在半醒半睡的困倦中，口袋变得好像灌满了麦芽糖那样，粘乎乎，我手机、车票，和纸质地图都掏不出来。
• dbabbitt (2020-09-13): for practice, i used to chart all the covid-19 data. but i got overwhelmed by the politically motivated takes and kind of gave up. it’s a farce, not a hoax.
• easoncxz (2020-09-13): a pretty nice pdf pamphlet telling you the basics, including: - what each of your two votes does, - a mention of the two referendums, - overseas voting, and - covid-19 precautions.
• eigenrobot (2020-09-14): covid has been a second and acute disaster for traditional information authority experts fucked it up their mandate was to predict, prevent, and mitigate this sort of unusual event and they failed they failed embarrassingly badly and others did not fail
• eigenrobot (2020-09-14): things like the replication crisis and rampant politicization have been eating away at institutional academic authority for a while, but that was mostly inside baseball and a slow boil compared to fucking up covid you_had_one_job.jpg
• blunderbussted (2020-09-14): news is filtered through memes often before the raw informatuon reaches the general public. we get footage from california fires set to hollywood scoring as quickly as it’s released, i get covid updates through an owo bot. excited for procedurally generated news channels.
• easoncxz (2020-09-15): 我反对。人类怎么就是要这样毫无目的地污染环境？ 737 在 60% 上座率的时候大概 92kg/(person . hour) 汽油是 2.4kg/l 还没算上 covid-19 的稀疏上座要求，这些人保守估计每人在那三小时相当于烧掉了 115l 的汽油。
• easoncxz (2020-09-15): 这里还能提出特别反智、特别退步主义的一种野蛮论调：每当进步主义人士一边文艺清高地说「为何作家、音乐人、学者之类的职业物质条件这么惨」，一边控诉「为何 covid 当头，"essential worker" 时薪这么低」，我就可以极其恶心地回复曰「为何不人人都只为食宿掏钱、不买任何文艺作品？」
• blunderbussted (2020-09-17): bought dental insurance for the first time in years, never gonna go during covid. what was i thinking but i have medical insurance during a pandemic again.
• thezvi (2020-09-17): weekly covid-19 post is up:
• sarahamcmanus (2020-09-17): other factors... - i currently live with some people are high risk - i'm nearly certain i already had covid-19 in march, but wasn't able to get tested at the time. my recent antibody test was "equivocal/inconclusive"
• hiredthought (2020-09-18): tonight's treat: nat sec law nerds clown on an incorrect us district court ruling about pa's covid restrictions
• tasshinfogleman (2020-09-18): great thread on pandemic dating from @uncatherio who is also a principal on the @microcovid project for balancing covid-risk management and life activities.
• daniellefong (2020-09-18): testing + other interventions seem successful so far in maintaining a covid bubble
• mykola (2020-09-18): covid is on track to be the single greatest cause of death among law enforcement officers in american history and this motherfucker wants to spread the pain. you don't have to listen to any asshole in uniform just because they insist.
• visakanv (2020-09-19): biden: covid-19 has taken this year, more than the last 100 years. the lives. more lives than the past 100 years- trump: look – the china virus, nobody saw it coming. but i saw it coming. and we are doing an incredible job. rogan: that's crazy man. have you ever done dmt?
• ultimape (2020-09-20): an anti-inflammatory steroid a drug that mimics the impact of vitamin d works on covid.
• ultimape (2020-09-20): "some people suffering with severe cases of covid-19 are showing signs of kidney damage, even those who had no underlying kidney problems before they were infected with the coronavirus."
• ultimape (2020-09-20): they use dexamethasone to help with kidney failure as well, and then probably tried it on crohn's given that it has an impact on il-6 and tnfa. unsurprisingly a low level of kidney failure among certain populations w/ covid. thru this mechanism.
• blunderbussted (2020-09-20): can’t tell if allergies, persistent cold, or super mild covid
• daniellefong (2020-09-21): hey do you guys know that the covid-19 researchers that i know all of them are ridiculously underfunded
• surenvynn (2020-09-22): before covid i used to kiss the boys and make them cry now i kiss the boys, i make them die
• forshaper (2020-09-22): in the time of covid, your backyard can be an open mat.
• daniellefong (2020-09-23): if you are a young person, which of these reasons do you find most compelling for taking covid seriously
• selonnerias (2020-09-24): allergies suck and now when they flair up, it prevents me from seeing other people since i can't 100% rule out they are actually covid.
• thezvi (2020-09-24): weekly covid-19 post is up:
• gptbrooke (2020-09-24): this is what the covid screening place looks like in redding. i feel like i'm about to be turned into a sense8 zombie 😂
• tyleralterman (2020-09-25): what letter grade does humanity get for its covid response so far?
• gptbrooke (2020-09-25): a hummingbird just flew over to hover directly in front of my forehead for fifteen seconds and then fly away 1st thought: i feel like my temp is being scanned by the government for covid 2nd thought: holy shit why don't they do this who could hate little hummingbirds?!
• eigenrobot (2020-09-26): i have personally forgotten about covid but the man is taking question's and he has neither a bluecheck nor a phd in his handle so you can probably trust him
• eigenrobot (2020-09-26): side holster arrived today just need to wait for covid to go away to get a cpl is it possible to get a car holster that you stick next to your cupholder or something
• bolster (2020-09-26): best thing about #covid social distancing? majazzive desks
• blunderbussted (2020-09-26): me thinking about dating during covid
• daniellefong (2020-09-26): my heart goes out to anyone having to work through long covid, chronic fatigue can be extremely debilitating be careful, based on many reports, even if you are young you really do not want this disease
• countj0ecool (2020-09-28): this is, specifically, how i met my wife trying to maintain a professional life pushed me back away from being aggressively-weird at all times, and back into the box of "has a day job" covid is a great opportunity to mix things up, tbh.
• slimepriestess (2020-09-28): so i think "i should get a spooky covid mask for halloween, lets see what "monster face mask" gets me on amazon....second top result is:
• goblinodds (2020-09-28): she's referring me to the powers that be, and i can anticipate some kind of communication about an assessment at some point in the (possibly far) future, thanks to bureaucracy + covid
• goblinodds (2020-09-28): she's referring me to the powers that be, and i can anticipate some kind of communication about an assessment at some point in the (possibly far) future, thanks to bureaucracy + covid
• sedatesnail (2020-09-29): god, my time in academia was such a waste. by that i mean, i did not write "frozen meat against covid-19 misinformation: an analysis of steak-umm and positive expectancy violations"
• frideswyth (2020-09-29): getting increasingly pissed at the "save lives" rhetoric still being used in covid safety campaigns in uk
• frideswyth (2020-09-29): on the other hand also pissed that the rhetoric has shifted to "getting covid is bad too" as if it has the same rational or emotional weight to it as "1,000 people are dying per day"
• daniellefong (2020-09-29): keep in mind, pretty much everybody older than 15 may be at risk for long covid
• lericdax (2020-09-30): —now we are doing covid so this should be a treat—
• eigenrobot (2020-09-30): eating enchiladas covid is boring
• thezvi (2020-09-30): going to write my weekly covid-19 post soon. anyone have any links/items they want to be sure i include, that i might have missed?
• tyleralterman (2020-09-30): how often do you have covid-related dreams?
• puheenix (2020-10-01): study: 100% of mice with acute respiratory stress syndrome / cytokine storm died if left untreated. 100% of those treated with delta-9 thc survived. why are we not fast-tracking thc treatments for covid patients? what would it hurt?
• thezvi (2020-10-01): new covid-19 weekly post:
• yashkaf (2020-10-01): had to cancel a trip to europe in april because all of nyc got covid, now cancelling a trip to israel because all of israel got covid. this is a bad year to be an internet-friendly immigrant with family and friends all in faraway countries.
• goblinodds (2020-10-02): t-dawg made the covid announcement like 30 seconds ago and i'm already gettin' blasted with cheers on discord from people i know irl love that twitter is my internet refuge away from political insanity 🙃
• goblinodds (2020-10-02): t-dawg made the covid announcement like 30 seconds ago and i'm already gettin' blasted with cheers on discord from people i know irl love that twitter is my internet refuge away from political insanity 🙃
• loopholekid (2020-10-02): feeling like the trumps claiming they have covid is a publicity stunt to make voters feel empathy for them and forget how shit the debate was :/ either they're desperate or i'm wrong
• visakanv (2020-10-02): trump got covid tweet
• bolster (2020-10-02): after months of malaise and covid adaptations, @farsetlabs is gonna get a new lease on life soon, bringing the community back together after nearly 2 years of renovation's and moving crap. 2/
• easoncxz (2020-10-02): and why are there so many trump-covid tweets everywhere… - on hicks: - by steve yegge: - 王丹：
• chercher_ai (2020-10-02): a second night of so bad it's good community theater in my dreams. maybe i should join a troupe after covid
• mechanical_monk (2020-10-02): >i hope the showrunners deliver one more good beat before the election ok, if orange man does a not exist from covid, i'll concede this is world class writing that'd be ballsy af
• blunderbussted (2020-10-02): the last meme you saved is how the covid-19 crisis will end for you.
• goblinodds (2020-10-02): <3 dr campbell and his covid analyses
• goblinodds (2020-10-02): <3 dr campbell and his covid analyses
• profoundish (2020-10-03): feast of st michael: nyt gets trump's taxes feast of the guardian angels: trump gets covid feast of our lady of the rosary (next wednesday): ???????
• mechanical_monk (2020-10-03): the last meme you saved is how the covid-19 crisis will end for you.
• z_nightwind (2020-10-03): met a forever trump type this summer who said covid is a hoax, genuinely curious what they think about it now
• bierlingm (2020-10-03): the last meme you saved is how the covid-19 crisis will end for you.
• profoundish (2020-10-03): this looks almost exactly like a map of covid spread too 👀
• nosilverv (2020-10-04): new portuguese term: “covidar” - to engage in a behave likely to spread covid. “vamos covidar a sobremesa?” to mean “let’s share (usually: partilhar) dessert?”
• insidenima (2020-10-04): unforgettable 🌈 off-site ... p.s. was so busy couldn't leave the airbnb to even go to doctor! 🙈 fortunately it was not covid and i'm back to 9000🔥 now!
• ultimape (2020-10-05): heart problems you say? "several studies have now shown that roughly 10 to 30 percent of hospitalized covid-19 patients had high levels of troponin—a protein released into the blood when the heart’s muscle cells are damaged."
• eigenrobot (2020-10-05): toying with the idea of choosing to predict that trump will die of covid because it's the most natural outcome in a narrative sense
• nosilverv (2020-10-05): utterly convinced that the repeating pattern (first 2015 fiscal crisis, now 2020 covid) of crisis + european governments directly receiving eu money to distribute as they please if not a bug, it's a feature
• eigenrobot (2020-10-06): interesting thread, didn't know these data were available generally i would expect a blue edge for mail in ballots given rhetoric around mail ins and covid fears so in places where registered parties are even maybe implication is trump likely to be doing very well? hmmmmmmmm
• rhyslindmark (2020-10-06): interesting reframe of "miss the forest for the trees": "looking at a forest and trying to find the clusters, not the trees." - hitoshi oshitani, japan's national covid team (this is a metaphor for finding superspreading events.)
• friedkielbasa (2020-10-07): covid hasn't really helped my misanthropic tendencies. it's very difficult to treat the dude who walks into the elevator maskless with kindness and respect. feeling like maybe i should work on this. but on the other hand, meh.
• qiaochuyuan (2020-10-07): sure are some heavy vibes in the air here at the ol' covid testing center (i'm fine, probably, just being extra careful)
• tyleralterman (2020-10-07): “but what about covid science?” “government conspiracy. also: energy of earth spirit will save us.”
• yashkaf (2020-10-07): following the lead of their indomitable president, the brave senators did not let covid scare and dominate them into signing a relief bill. #heroes
• chercher_ai (2020-10-07): cool covid data from
• rhyslindmark (2020-10-07): rfp for covid fast grants: develop an aerosol measurement machine for at-home use so people can determine if they're likely to be a superspeader. (20% of people exhale 80% of aerosols.) afaict, current cheapest one is the climet 450-t, which is $5,000.
• roberthaisfield (2020-10-08): that audience member who just coughed in the middle of the debate was tackled by 10 secret service agents. they all have covid now.
• tyleralterman (2020-10-08): i’ve been using these black clips to handle my covid hair around the house. so convenient. can men get away with wearing these irl?
• thezvi (2020-10-08): new covid-19 weekly post is up. whew, this was quite the week to write up.
• rhyslindmark (2020-10-09): following up here. there's a purpleair sensor for $200. buying now. here's the graph that makes me think this could be impactful. it shows # of exhaled particles (w/o covid). you can see who would be superspreaders! test, find the superspreaders, stop the pandemic.
• ultimape (2020-10-09): anybody else interested in the weird trend of chinese medicine involving development of synthetic bear bile to help with covid?
• ultimape (2020-10-09): "despite these similarities, covid-19 and other zoonotic coronavirus-mediated diseases do not induce clinical arthritis, suggesting that a local inflammatory niche develops in alveolar structures and drives the disease process"
• mbateman (2020-10-09): what’s happening with schools and covid? it’s october, so we are now able to check in with reality. the bottom line is that they can be reopened safely. was waiting for someone to point this out, and of course @profemilyoster delivers.
• visakanv (2020-10-09): i didn't think covid would lead to lockdowns at the time; i was just curious about people's relationships with solitude and isolation
• daniellefong (2020-10-10): the us is reporting over 50,000 new cases of covid-19 per day for the first time since mid-august
• visakanv (2020-10-10): good read re: how covid spreads
• tyleralterman (2020-10-11): as someone who's very familiar with brain fog from a gut condition, here's one of the main reasons i plan not to get covid:
• visakanv (2020-10-12): this is a lot more consequential than it might seem at a glance. because the nature of politics is that nobody gives a fuck about logic. so like, usa not being disciplined about covid, will be used as an argument for why we shouldn’t have gay rights. it doesn’t have to make sense
• easoncxz (2020-10-12): you say "covidiot", but i gotta admit, if a girl is willing to dance with me, i would probably risk getting covid as a price too. also stupid: the head-shake at the end shows the cameraperson wearing the mask entirely wrong too. covidiot much?
• richdecibels (2020-10-12): kinda amazing watching european countries change policy week by week in response to covid numbers. imagine if we did that with co2 numbers or inequality numbers.
• uberstuber (2020-10-12): said shop went out of business before covid
• visakanv (2020-10-15): yeah. “what was it?” the present is a stepping stone, we live in transitional times. even before covid i told anybody who’d listen, a great restructuring is upon us, one which will need leaders with courage and heart to help people transition. the writing was on the wall 20y ago
• bolster (2020-10-15): so, @austintanney, @jasonbelldata and jaine blayney spent 2 hours last month drinking and ranting about mostly covid and the exams crisis with no real plan. we eventually named it i'm sorry.
• thezvi (2020-10-15): new weekly covid-19 post is up:
• chercher_ai (2020-10-15): honestly before covid i used to be scared, now i feel fucking invincible when i walk into a gas station restroom wearing my mask
• nathanpmyoung (2020-10-16): in uk, johnson often waits for public opinion to solidify behind an action before doing it. is this good? i don't know. but if he is seeking legitimacy for wise policy, why not try some covid citizens assemblies?
• yashkaf (2020-10-16): cuomo was 1-2 weeks slow to react in march, which is not horrible compared to western leaders but also not ideal during an exponentially growing pandemic. and then he sent out the order preventing nursing homes from testing or rejecting covid patients which killed thousands.
• drmaciver (2020-10-17): the nhs covid-19 app doesn't appear to display information through any mechanism other than notifications, which is a hilarious choice. got two notifications earlier - one "you've been potentially exposed" followed by a "everything is fine don't worry"
• igorbrigadir (2020-10-18): "super-spreading clusters of covid-19 almost overwhelmingly occur in poorly ventilated, indoor environments where many people congregate over time—weddings, churches, choirs, gyms, funerals, restaurants, and such—especially when there is loud talking or singing without masks."
• petersuber (2020-10-18): update. "women submitted proportionally fewer manuscripts [to elsevier journals] than men during the covid-19 lockdown months. this deficit was especially pronounced among women in more advanced stages of their career."
• bolster (2020-10-19): really pissed off to hear that an elderly man recently eventually found his way to @farsetlabs as all the libraries and community drop in centres were closed due to covid, and all he wanted to do was send an email. 1/n
• bolster (2020-10-19): now those centres are closed due to #covid, and you can't exactly loan a desktop pc to an elderly techno-phobe and expect them to drive it themselves. this could have been a diverse, wfh resource providing essential access to online resources, but no... 4/
• bolster (2020-10-19): so, @belfastcc @belfastsouth1 @therowyouknow @librariesni, what can we do to help the digitally-stranded in covid times? i know the crowd at @farsetlabs want to help and i'm sure there's many more but we need some leadership here.... 😢 6/rant
• drmaciver (2020-10-19): from i particularly liked "competing interests: we have read and understood bmj policy on declaration of interests and declare that all three authors have been wrong about covid-19." at the end.
• profoundish (2020-10-19): i only know one person so far who's gotten covid, and it was a (relatively) mild case. . . and i know too many people close to me who don't take it very seriously. . . and now things are starting to look just as bad just as suddenly as i knew they could've. . .
• visakanv (2020-10-20): just got skullfucked by a covid swab 😂 it’s not that bad just kinda uncomfortable
• eigenrobot (2020-10-20): put on fifteen pounds of covid and its not muscle god dammit time to cut
• ultimape (2020-10-20): doctors literally prescribed a benzodiazepine for anxiety. must be the stress. /s "all had gotten covid and weeks later were suffering from new and perplexing symptoms, such as extreme fatigue, shortness of breath or memory fog."
• nathanpmyoung (2020-10-21): big fall in air pollution in london, even before covid. good job to the current administration.
• tyleralterman (2020-10-21): 3/ it is my impression that the pandemic – which has killed over 1 million of people – hasn’t gotten the same sort of visual coverage that other disasters get. and we wonder why there are so many anti-maskers and covid deniers.
• tyleralterman (2020-10-21): malaria vs swine flu vs hiv/aids vs covid imagery. what’s going on here?
• nosilverv (2020-10-21): travel website that lets you find flights to a place that (1) has less covid than the place you're currently in and (2) has less restrictions than the place you're currently in.
• tyleralterman (2020-10-21): things that mysteriously didn’t happen this year, re: covid, quote @alexisgallagher
• tyleralterman (2020-10-21): 5/ update, a headline at least in my life: my mom’s coworker, age 49, died of covid today, leaving behind two kids
• visakanv (2020-10-22): was really looking forward to visiting more major cities this year before covid hit 😢 hopefully all this clears up in a year or so and i can come to your city and we can organise a meetup of all the other friendly nerds
• visakanv (2020-10-22): 51. wapo social media team destroys wapo credibility. hope the engagement is worth it! (the volunteer got a placebo and died of covid)
• igorbrigadir (2020-10-22): you had plenty of characters left to add the critical piece of information to that tweet. volunteer was given the placebo, got covid, and died so that you will get a working vaccine later.. if democracy dies in darkness, journalism dies in buried ledes and clickbait.
• thezvi (2020-10-22): new weekly covid-19 post is up:
• nosilverv (2020-10-22): outrageous fake news this week: what pope said about same-sex civil unions was a personal opinion on a documentary, not official church teaching the guy who died on the covid vaccine trial was in control group, that is, didn't get the vaccine *and* died of covid. what else?
• nathanpmyoung (2020-10-24): another great case for a payment to everyone regardless of means, each month, during covid.
• tyleralterman (2020-10-25): when covid is tamed enough, let’s rent out a gymnasium, line the walls with cots, and do a twitterati symposium for a week
• daniellefong (2020-10-26): a ton of countries are now doing worse than the united states in per capita covid-19 cases, and no i don't really know what happened. it's a little like all of europe just said "fuck it"
• tyleralterman (2020-10-27): 2/ in the meantime, covid-19 still rages, and it is not a good place for an organizer like me to build physical community. nonetheless, i feel guilty about leaving. so one night in manhattan i went all occult and pretended the city could speak.
• tyleralterman (2020-10-27): i know you all hate cuomo, but i like that he's collaborating with his daughter on addressing covid in ny my fantasy is to one day have a kid that i can fight global catastrophes with as a dynamic duo
• adam_kranz (2020-10-28): if columbo were made today the characters would all wear masks to protect each other from infection with covid-19
• michelleakin (2020-10-28): so i live in an apartment complex made of up of six buildings, 4 floors each and about 14 apartments per floor. someone tested positive for covid, but the management is saying that due to privacy laws they can’t even tell us which building.
• thezvi (2020-10-28): this is a call for links/information/suggests for tomorrow's covid-19 post that i may have missed. i have plenty, but good to have a place for people to share things.
• tyleralterman (2020-10-28): stop waiting on a vaccine to fix your social life and love life. it’s going to take longer than most can bear to finish and distribute. form little covid free villages with your families, friends, and twitter mutuals.
• daniellefong (2020-10-28): this decline is pretty significant, & broad based the market seems like it's basically reacting to the lockdowns if you were paying attention to the dramatic rise in covid cases you'd have seen this coming in my opinion, just a matter of time. i don't know how far it can go
• igorbrigadir (2020-10-29): this is a great interactive article on how covid spreads much more easily in closed, poorly ventilated spaces.
• thezvi (2020-10-29): new final pre-election weekly covid post is up:
• thezvi (2020-10-29): my apologies - there was an error in my covid-19 post this week. i should have better verified my source, and quoted dr. fauci incorrectly. others making the same mistake is no excuse. the post has been edited to correct the error.
• eigenrobot (2020-10-30): uh big news on the covid front
• michelleakin (2020-10-30): i’m now wondering if the management at my apartment complex just told us “someone” has covid so people won’t try to throw halloween parties. am i a conspiracy theorist yet? do we get a badge? t-shirt?
• daniellefong (2020-10-31): i can't believe people are still doing in person halloween "trick or covid" at this point i have one main costume option left: curmudgeon
• daniellefong (2020-10-31): ai can determine whether or not someone has asymptomatic covid from a force cough, but still can't transcribe my speech correctly ducking amazing...
• cis_female (2020-11-01): quite lonely but not sure how to rectify that... best guess is go to a place with physical activity and socialize there. how do you meet people during covid
• tnorthcutt (2020-11-01): from a friend: “got a text just now that my neighbor 3 doors down tested positive for covid this morning. he was handing out candy last night!” unless vaccines for covid are crazy effective and production + distribution ramps insanely fast, nothing’s changing for a long time
• tyleralterman (2020-11-01): arrival at airport. demonstrated my covid pcr results and my two business letters. tense moment while the airline staff reads them. will i make it in?
• mykola (2020-11-02): i really hope i don’t get covid.
• forthrighter (2020-11-02): uh-oh. looks like it's time to update for *round 2* of masonic covid closures.
• nosilverv (2020-11-02): ok fr how fast and reliable are instant covid tests? thinking about throwing luxurious af parties with tests as an entry requirement
• rhyslindmark (2020-11-03): i modified my favorite covid fox for the election!
• nathanpmyoung (2020-11-03): even the pope is worried about ai. note, most of my friends who were concerned about covid in february are concerned about ai. i'm not saying it's the biggest issue, but it's underrated.
• tyleralterman (2020-11-03): covid changes everything about the way i explore a new city. normally by this point i’d be in some abandoned warehouse with a person wearing funny pants that i’d met near a church. instead i am an observer rather than a participant, staring out from the local cafe.
• roberthaisfield (2020-11-04): how can anybody look at the trump campaign rallies and still believe that trump has covid-19 under control? rallies between 6/20 and 9/22 resulted in 30,000 cases and he won't even require people to wear masks to them. he isn't taking this seriously.
• blunderbussted (2020-11-04): mfw considering getting on tinder but don't want covid
• thezvi (2020-11-05): weekly covid-19 post is out. it does its best to not mention the war:
• tyleralterman (2020-11-05): this video illustrates everything i loved about new york pre-covid. ht @malcolm_ocean
• tyleralterman (2020-11-06): there are two postrat / metatribe convergences in portugal rn. the formal one is more of a high-trust friend group thing to create a covid haven but the informal one is still shaping up nicely. if you’re interested in the latter, hmu and i can send you a travel guide i made
• goblinodds (2020-11-06): so uhhh anyone talking about the danish covid mutation orrrrrrr ummmmmm
• goblinodds (2020-11-06): so uhhh anyone talking about the danish covid mutation orrrrrrr ummmmmm
• yashkaf (2020-11-08): in november when twitter got excited for a day about bernie i bet biden to win the nomination at 4:1. in april, as covid tanked trump's approval, i got 2:1 on him to win the election and popular vote, the latter seemingly guaranteed.
• nosilverv (2020-11-09): things that are being insanely underreported: middle east peace deals russian covid vaccine election fraud (ofc) what else?
• igorbrigadir (2020-11-09): interesting thread on the new covid-19 vaccine side effects from someone that was in the study:
• rhyslindmark (2020-11-11): pfizer could share their findings once they hit 62 covid cases. between the time they hit that and could craft the pr, their number had increased to 94. see @maggiekb1 here:
• rhyslindmark (2020-11-11): the pfizer vaccine announcement is mostly just a sign of rampant covid in the us. we didn't allow specific challenge trials. instead, we allowed a general challenge trial—give 10m americans covid—which gave randomized vaccine trials high enough case counts to do a press release.
• visakanv (2020-11-11): anybody read any good old blogposts lately? pre-covid
• thezvi (2020-11-12): new weekly covid-19 post is out: still can't believe the numbers section had to include noting who won the election, but it's 2020 so here we are. sigh.
• eigenrobot (2020-11-12): two of my coworkers are in the middle of getting covid tests we're all remote don't much like this
• daniellefong (2020-11-13): really hope elon doesn’t have covid
• ultimape (2020-11-13): are my lungs doing ok? am i succumbing to m.s. associated copd? do i have covid? no idea. i'm literally not even allowed to buy a device that would help me check.
• visakanv (2020-11-15): stuff i've been wrong about thread 1. olympics cancelled because covid
• eigenrobot (2020-11-15): mostly just curious about what covid response signals i think it might be sort of this but also sort of the opposite hard to say
• jimmyris (2020-11-15): covid risk models are incomplete if they don’t include state power expansion, individual liberty impact and social fabric damage
• nosilverv (2020-11-16): would yo udrink the covid spoon to save himanity?
• jakob_reinwald (2020-11-16): republicans are gonna refuse the vaccine and then when they have a higher covid rate they’re gonna be like “this proves the left is behind the plandemic”
• connerdelights (2020-11-17): it’s weird to celebrate selling a chunk of your company, but here’s what i’m ecstatic about: we’re closer on our mission of reversing metabolic dysfunction, which is a risk factor from everything from having chronic low energy, diabetes, and even covid.
• visakanv (2020-11-17): oh- one of the most simple and powerful ways to navigate the problems of life is to realize that you are very unlikely to be the first person to have a problem. we can always learn from our predecessors who had similar problems. covid is not our first pandemic, for eg
• sabbatical (2020-11-17): covid stories like this are so sad and hard to comprehend.
• rhyslindmark (2020-11-17): besides covid prevalence and information bubbles, what are other forks in reality?
• rhyslindmark (2020-11-17): e.g. rich vs. poor in covid. wfh + stonks up vs. mask for 40+ hours + $1200 one time.
• tyleralterman (2020-11-18): does your covid pod even kanban???
• mechanical_monk (2020-11-19): oh i see covid isn't relieving me of the fomo of not having irl friends for a year, it's concentrating a year's worth of fomo into one particular point in time
• thezvi (2020-11-19): weekly covid-19 post is out: .
• erikbjare (2020-11-19): do you have a "things to do after covid"-list?
• ultimape (2020-11-19): a society that understands grown adults can make better decision about risks of going to a restaurant vs small children (whom are less likely to show symptoms of covid) sitting in a classroom all day.
• patio11 (2020-11-20): also really interesting thoughts on addressing covid as a restaurant owner.
• bolster (2020-11-20): so, serious question for @niexecutive, what "step" are we going back to? because at @farsetlabs we went to great lengths to set out #covid safe plans for each step, and with this regressing lock down, noone is clear on what we're supposed to do....
• danielbrottman (2020-11-21): the one who died from covid, i guess? @macys
• nosilverv (2020-11-21): oh shit twitter earnings on 5g and covid we’re the test ground for shadowing trumps tweets..
• daniellefong (2020-11-21): we just had a record day for covid in the atlantic provinces of canada, nova scotia, with 8 new cases, is introducing more restrictions, and moving affected schools online low absolute numbers, but a fast growth rate; we seem to understand exponentials here meanwhile...
• easoncxz (2020-11-22): threads and screenshots linked deep in the thread suggest this is shanghai pudong airport, recently, a chaotic attempt at mass-testing for covid.
• geniesloki (2020-11-23): the specific prompt for this was someone going "but mah work-life balance" in response to an article about how hard people were working on the covid-19 vaccine and... maybe they're just better than you?
• hiredthought (2020-11-23): if i could only play 1 album all of covid, it'd be this one.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-11-23): > you still need to come up with a way of beating covid back. yeah people don't get this. this is what i'm pissed at "canada" about. pretty nebulous entity but there are lawmakers who didn't make the laws that the above quotes would obviously imply.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-11-23): > it is only a modest oversimplification to assert that either we are beating back covid or it is beating back us, and we can’t just choose a point along a smooth curve.
• imhinesmi (2020-11-24): is there a reason copper never made the news as a means of helping against covid? i remember some discourse around this during march
• bolster (2020-11-25): hey, anyone in @belfastcc @niexecutive @healthdpt @publichealthni, or who knows the #covid regs particularly well, able to clarify some things regarding the status of a strange little place called @farsetlabs? could be argued to be workspace, or community space, or neither...
• rtk254 (2020-11-25): job postings in covid times: "location: uk, remote between gmt -3 and gmt +3" abstracting space and time 😅
• visakanv (2020-11-25): once covid is over we are doing this in every major city ok
• visakanv (2020-11-25): pre-covid i used to go to the airport for fun. would go there to "study" as a teenager (but really just lounge around with friends)
• drmaciver (2020-11-26): because of covid i'm cooking thanksgiving dinner for the first time ever (normally we do it at my parents and i sous chef), which is in turn resulting in the first thanksgiving ever for my bubble.
• tyleralterman (2020-11-26): happy thanksgiving from portugal covid pod
• princevogel (2020-11-26): now, i feel called to go to new orleans. i don't know why - but that city has been telling me to come visit for a while now. i'll probably be there by the 3rd. wish my first visit wasn't during covid, but i have a feeling i'll still have a good time.
• thezvi (2020-11-26): forgot to mention, weekly covid-19 post is up. happy thanksgiving:
• patio11 (2020-11-27): general flavor: buying low-dollar consumer electronics as a gift, buying high dollar travel gift cards from issuer to pre-pay anticipated travel expense post-covid (and take advantage of a credit card offer).
• easoncxz (2020-11-27): 五分钟就过了那条小隧道了，于是大队人马转向一个 beer garden, 聚会聊天。起初和一个年轻的亚裔混血妹子聊天，但没什么好聊；后来和一个基督教妹子聊 covid, 政治。🤔 反正，等大家陆续散去，要为晚饭觅食了，我又随便邀请了基督教妹子一起去吃 pizza. 她是个笨拙的妹子；年龄不详。
• malcolm_ocean (2020-11-27): so here's an interesting thing. me and many others (some with expertise) reasoned way back in march that aerosols weren't in practice sources of covid transmission. now it seems the conclusion is they definitely are. oops. but... why oops? why this particular oops?
• vividvoid_ (2020-11-28): i don't have a list of places to go or people to see when covid ends. i'm at peace with not having much social life. what i am craving is the dynamism of the pre-covid world. the old future rotted away, but new futures are unable to be born.
• robinhouston (2020-11-28): some good news: category theory legend peter “ptj” johnstone – the author of _sketches of an elephant_ among many other things – has recovered from a serious bout of covid-19.
• mykola (2020-11-29): pook bringing the nightmare fuel. please don’t get covid. i’ve watched my partner suffer with #longcovid since march and it’s just not like anything you’ve ever seen.
• dbabbitt (2020-11-30): in contagion (2011), steven soderbergh directed scenes of runs on drug stores. that's not what we're seeing with covid-19.
• rhyslindmark (2020-11-30): cottagecore is the covid popularization of domestic cozy.
• eigenrobot (2020-12-01): we have spent the entire fucking year knowing that covid exists. it was sequenced early on. apparently one of the vaccines was created at a basic level in february. here is what the government should have done, if they assigned even a small probability to the candidate's utility
• yashkaf (2020-12-01): "us has 170,000 cases a day" actually just statistical error. covid georg county in south dakota with 4.7 daily cases per capita is an outlier and should not have been counted.
• daniellefong (2020-12-01): “it’s an honor”?? what a way to go out out like a sucker scott atlas resigns as president trump's covid-19 adviser
• maradydd (2020-12-02): me: "anyone dumb enough to hold a gangbang on the first floor during a pandemic deserves both noise complaints and covid fines. put that shit ten floors up, people tryna sleep." friend: "i think what you mean to say is they were violating the nap."
• petersuber (2020-12-02): 1/ "covid-19 has exposed longstanding fault lines in the current system of scholarly communication. while the balance appears to have shifted decisively in favour of #openscience, tensions between rapid publication and robust quality assurance remain."
• petersuber (2020-12-02): 3/ good quote from @chrisbanks: "if there is not an upside of covid-19 to scholarly communications, we will have lost the biggest driver that we are ever likely to see in our lifetimes, and probably in many generations."
• blunderbussted (2020-12-02): coworker tested negative for covid still supplementing will have expensive pee for the next month
• thezvi (2020-12-03): weekly covid-19 post is live:
• friedkielbasa (2020-12-03): because of covid winter went from my 2nd favorite season to least favorite :/
• mykola (2020-12-03): follow @ahandvanish for live commentary on the nih covid conference today and tomorrow, including her own presentation later this morning and a panel tomorrow!
• tnorthcutt (2020-12-03): "incarcerated, homeless and sick americans may come first" can't wait for the same people ranting about covid being fake and the vaccines being a deep state control plot to rant against prisoners and homeless getting the vaccine before the general public!
• jimmyris (2020-12-04): love in the time of covid
• frideswyth (2020-12-04): been seeing roadworks, website errors and customer service bullshit all blamed on covid. the real pandemic is over. it’s now just a marketing ploy to force your acceptance. (may everyone still affected by the real pandemic be well 🙏)
• rhyslindmark (2020-12-04): should we forgive student debt, covid rent, and the other side? martha minow's "when should law forgive?" is a framework for working through these questions.
• rickbenger (2020-12-05): browsing castles for post covid
• daniellefong (2020-12-05): covid, through our sense of smell attacks memories
• sensefulronin (2020-12-05): the amount of galaxy knowledge i have absorbed during covid 19 is staggering. shout out to evan @gnomicperfect for an amazing presentation:
• tyleralterman (2020-12-06): i think it's our duty to fight atomization and not let the social fabric disintegrate. if you need help pulling this off, i can send you our covid protocol and other pointers after i get out of my "mostly offline retreat."
• tyleralterman (2020-12-06): even if you don't apply to the rally point, i implore u to create your own big covid bubble before the pandemic is over. our corner of twitter is good at simulating a house party of psychonauts and intellectuals, but it's not the same as full-bandwidth interaction in meatspace
• bolster (2020-12-06): first #bolsterbake, after abstaining from baking for all of covid, and it worked out. it's gone now... @ belfast, northern ireland, uk
• yashkaf (2020-12-07): i should probably explain what i mean when i say things like "rationalists and some internet forums were right on covid when experts were wrong". i don't mean that rationality makes you better at epidemiology that epidemiologists.
• visakanv (2020-12-08): having fresh prata for the first time this in months 🤤 first time since covid hit i think
• blunderbussted (2020-12-08): i'm in trader joes & a woman passes too close to me. i smell her & 2 thoughts pop into my head simultaneously: 1) fuck, i can smell this woman, i can catch her covid 2) god she smells good i want to touch her
• tnorthcutt (2020-12-08): if the covid vaccines protect against disease but not infection+transmission (is this right?), then until you get vaccinated, vaccinated ppl are _more_ dangerous to you, bc no symptoms and likely to be less careful abt catching it 🤔 right? flaws in this?
• nathanpmyoung (2020-12-09): covid trial tote bag. #fashionflex #somethingforthegrandkids
• thezvi (2020-12-10): weekly covid-19 post is up:
• friedkielbasa (2020-12-11): i wanna make a youtube vid with sound clips from chernobyl (hbo) over images of american covid news
• visakanv (2020-12-12): usa greenlights covid vaccine tweet
• yashkaf (2020-12-12): covid rarely kills healthy, vigorous people. wokeness, or any other ideology, rarely kills healthy and productive institutions.
• michelleakin (2020-12-12): i had covid in january, before everybody knew about it. i’m a covid hipster.
• forshaper (2020-12-12): wwii-era japan or germany would have responded well against covid.
• lithros (2020-12-13): daycare email #1: one of our staff may have covid. we'll let you know if your child needs to quarantine daycare phone call: hi scott, your child needs to quarantine email #2: here is the quarantine info email #3: jk we didn't actually get the test results yet
• visakanv (2020-12-13): got reminded of the fact that singapore didn't have election rallies this year because of covid, and felt sad singaporeans don't get many opportunities to truly let loose, and election rallies are an important once-in-five-years tradition for people to experience
• visakanv (2020-12-13): it would've been even bigger and wilder this year if not for covid. truly unfortunate
• visakanv (2020-12-14): tuning in to lhl's covid update
• visakanv (2020-12-14): covid created an opportunity, something for people to rally around and coordinate a response to. humans will do great things when given the right conditions. my gut tells me "the bottleneck is storytelling". covid is a great story. heart disease not so much. 🤔
• frideswyth (2020-12-14): wow just seen london to be put into stricter covid rules from wednesday. got out just in time.
• rhyslindmark (2020-12-14): loved my podcast with @cassierobinson. she's doing super interesting work in allocating £60m at @tnlcomfund: - creating repeatable community infrastructure for post-covid re-imaginings - pushing civil society upstream in tech platform decision-making
• malcolm_ocean (2020-12-15): hooooooly fuck we are coming up on 1/1000 americans having died from covid this year. hadn't quite taken in the cumulative number. (canada has ~1/4000; still not great.) it's nothing like the european plagues that killed 30-70% in some areas, but it's still like, a countable #.
• sabbatical (2020-12-15): loved this short video explanation of how vaccines like the covid ones work! only 2.5 minutes — worth watching, especially if (like me) your memories from biology class have grown dim!
• visakanv (2020-12-15): 63. 🍣 with @shrinetothevine - food, restaurant marketing, fashion, covid, the disproportionate rewards beyond familiar thresholds, the qualities of leadership and taking responsibility for morale, mentoring others, the future of singapore and asia, influence of climate on mood
• chercher_ai (2020-12-15): i stepped on a scale today and discovered that i've lost 20 lb since last time, which was probably early covid. probably a combination of less beer and takeout 😮
• zrkrlc (2020-12-16): but then we had a covid-19 scare in our area and i had to move out and it sort of just fizzled out wow writing this down is still a bit painful, i'll never forget the first time someone smiled because they ate the cake we worked so hard on
• adam_kranz (2020-12-17): so by the time the two other pieces fall in place--technical barriers are overcome and covid causes a massive increase in demand--it's positioned to solve this novel problem in record time
• richdecibels (2020-12-17): .@lombardonati noticed this new trend of gov leaders addressing children directly about their covid fears. this is brilliant: - validates the agency & citizenship of children - allows for tenderness/nurturance without appearing "weak" - requires plain simple language
• thezvi (2020-12-17): new covid-19 weekly post is up:
• profoundish (2020-12-18): i have my first fever of the pandemic. chills and fatigue. nothing that obviously makes it covid yet but we've got me quarantined in one of the bedrooms just in case. out of work for a week at least. definitely a little scared, but fine so far. prayers appreciated 🕯️
• gabriel_weil (2020-12-18): acip doesn't make this case, but it is plausible that prioritizing essential workers saves more expected life-years than prioritizing the elderly, even if prioritizing the elderly would prevent more covid deaths.
• profoundish (2020-12-20): fever broke this morning! if that *was* covid, it was about the best run i could've asked for (though apparently there's sometimes a part 2? but i think part 1 is more serious when there's a part 2?) if it *wasn't* covid, i literally can't recall ever having been sick
• visakanv (2020-12-20): new covid strain tweet
• visakanv (2020-12-21): i’ve been rereading this @rice_media article about cholera and diarrhoea in singapore’s history every few months ever since it was published in june 2019 these bits are interesting to revisit in covid times
• m_ashcroft (2020-12-21): apparently the italian media is calling the new covid strain the 'england virus' and, quite honestly, one is amused.
• petersuber (2020-12-21): "over 6,000 articles have been published [on #covid19] as of 20 april 2020, and at least 15 online resource centers/websites for covid-19 have been created by publishers to enable fast and free access to the latest research, evidence, and data available."
• eigenrobot (2020-12-21): you fool! that wont cure anyone of covid--those are anti viriles
• tnorthcutt (2020-12-22): poll as a result of covid, your faith/trust in the us federal government (not current admin; just the thing as a whole) has:
• tnorthcutt (2020-12-22): us fed gov’t trust due to covid
• daniellefong (2020-12-22): before the word processing machine, bills that passed the house were just a few dozen pages on average -- the highway act of '56 was just 29 pages apparently. now they pass a "covid relief" bill & it's a 5300 page monstrosity tech is fighting back tho: it crashed the printers
• xsphi (2020-12-22): borrowed some money to install a new roof? had to spend most of the year on the phone to hospitals as family members keep catching covid? according to my reading these are used as indicators that you're rich.
• m_ashcroft (2020-12-22): so the new covid strain is called b117. what would this look like if it were a star wars droid? humanoid like c-3po? rolling dustbin like r2-d2? laws of physics defying like bb-8? cute like bd-1?
• maradydd (2020-12-22): shout out to the folks in molenbeek who handled my pre-travel covid test, slick as a whistle 🧑‍🍳💋
• frideswyth (2020-12-22): lots of eu countries have banned brits from visiting, ostensibly because there is a "uk" strain of covid, but actually it's most likely a power move by the eu because of the trade talks. boris/someone must have been particularly egregious with their bluster yesterday.
• pepijndevos (2020-12-23): look i know it's confusing, but easter is the one about dying for someone else's sins, christmas is about new life. christmas is not the holiday to die from covid, christmas is the holiday to sit back and watch star trek.
• the_wilderless (2020-12-24): the part of covid that's sucked for me was that i had a job for the first few months, then my contract finished and i went freelancing. but i apparently missed the rush to sign up for remote work, since i already had a job. and now remote work sites aren't allowing people in.
• thezvi (2020-12-24): new covid-19 weekly post is out:
• blunderbussted (2020-12-25): our first date is to get the covid vaccine our second is fucking because i don’t trust anyone anymore unless i watch the antidote go into their veins with my own beady eyes
• tnorthcutt (2020-12-25): ok hear me out: an mlm, but for covid vaccines
• nosilverv (2020-12-26): is the new covid staring the black horse?
• yashkaf (2020-12-27): my updated model and estimate with regards to the new covid variant and the us response to it. bottom line: i see a 30-35% chance of a giant wave in the spring to dwarf the previous ones. i'm not an expert, just the putanumonit guy. feedback welcome.
• nobu_hibiki (2020-12-27): plenty of my friends have completely disregarded the pandemic, continues with their life as normal, and has not gotten punished by it. sure it's a risk, a risk im willing to take for stagnation = death. but no, i must curb any desire because my fam has high risk to covid.
• yashkaf (2020-12-27): if we're heading for a lockdown through the spring over the new covid variant, you should go get yourself a pair of guinea pigs for company. @tresterese makes the detailed case.
• malcolm_ocean (2020-12-27): what would you guess is the total number of people in the usa who have been infected with covid-19, based on the number of *confirmed* cases being ~18m? (hunch guesses totally welcome, lmk in replies if you've got detailed reasoning!)
• easoncxz (2020-12-28): lol china covid-response fanboys, y'all can come at me now.
• yashkaf (2020-12-28): - we don't know if it's deadlier! - the old covid killed 300k americans and counting. - i'm sure we'll react appropriately! - the us still doesn't have sufficient testing, took 10 months to approve a vaccine, and exploded into riots after 2 months of lockdown are you sure?
• garrisonlovely (2020-12-28): if this surprises you, it shouldn't. millions of people die each year of diseases that have been eradicated in rich countries. why would covid be any different? the world needs to expand its circle of moral concern to everyone (animals too).
• andreiklepatch (2020-12-29): really feels like we are back to almost a year ago with how information about the new covid strain is being handled. media is downplaying potential risk, market isn't reacting. exponential curves are still a thing and most are still failing to model them. time to go buy puts 🤷‍♂️
• c_harwick (2020-12-29): unexpected benefit of having recorded lectures for covid: when someone starts a question with "hey, you're an economist, what's the deal with ___", i can send them a video, and – weirdly – people seem to prefer a 20 minute video over a 1,000 word article.
• qiaochuyuan (2020-12-30): i was going to avoid twitter until the new year as a bit but i'm back on two days early to ask everyone for their opinions about the new covid strain. i don't mean to be that guy but uh
• patio11 (2020-12-30): on revealed preferences the u.s. cares far less about the covid vaccine rollout than japan did about the wii rollout. “that’s a take.” that’s the truth. we can either ignore it because the consequences of it being true are too terrible to contemplate, or we can (still!) fix it.
• mbateman (2020-12-30): somehow, in midst of the craziness of this year, i missed that probably the last new stoppard play ran in london in january, before covid hit. the script is quite didactic and quietly devastating. so, yeah, stoppard.
• nathanpmyoung (2020-12-31): how would we see data on media outlets/public intellectuals suffering as a result of their bad covid takes?
• thezvi (2020-12-31): weekly covid-19 post is out, happy new year everyone:
• drmaciver (2020-12-31): current status: a small child is doing a workout that seems to somehow involve emulating a ninja. the ninja appears to be beating up covid-19.
• drmaciver (2020-12-31): please note that i will be strictly enforcing the rule that people who answer "a covid-19 test" get blocked from here on out.
• patio11 (2021-01-01): it feels like the english variant of covid being much more infectious than previous variants is a fact widely believed among people following it closely and not appreciated by the world at large yet.
• goblinodds (2021-01-01): found while trying to hunt down a v specific covid thread
• goblinodds (2021-01-01): found while trying to hunt down a v specific covid thread
• jimmyris (2021-01-01): whenever some concerning covid info slips through my muted words, i take another dropperful of @polycultured antiviral blend
• patio11 (2021-01-02): or even "damn it i slipped and administered a covid vaccine. so clumsy of me. i filed an accident report per the usual procedure. luckily, since the covid vaccine is safe, there was no medical impact aside from the vaccination to covid."
• yashkaf (2021-01-02): my friend and i dmed with her and discovered that she's pretty cool, and all her tweets on touchy middle-eastern/south asian subjects have a lot of personal context that an outsider wouldn't know. we were even going to meet up for a beer if not for covid and crazy schedules.
• lithros (2021-01-02): daniel wants to know more about the beast with the horns it's the greatest kingdom on earth that tramples & crushes the rest, conquering three kings & turning against god the trial will result in undoing this beast for those playing along at home the trial is probably covid-19
• ultimape (2021-01-02): quarantining for 2 weeks. i'm half way in and have "covid toes" (raynaud's), gi issues (crohn's), a cough (i keep inhaling spit), and sudden fever & fatigue symptoms out of nowhere (multiple sclerosis). i hate the winter. i should buy a thermometer 😅
• igorbrigadir (2021-01-02): i think globally it might average out too many interesting things, because different countries had radically different lockdowns and effects of covid on the population, so maybe per country might make more sense.
• visakanv (2021-01-03): due to covid-19 i will be listening to hayley williams’ solo album petals for armor on repeat 24/7. i do not apologise for any inconvenience caused.
• gptbrooke (2021-01-03): this is a weird thing! i never had a positive covid test, but it sounds like a few of you are in similar strange and confusing situations as i am, so i thought i'd list off some of the symptoms i've been having in case it resonates with anyone.
• gptbrooke (2021-01-03): we all joked about covid, but none of us really took it seriously because it was early days and there were very few documented positive cases in the state at the time.
• exgenesis (2021-01-03): rigorous sources skeptical on covid vaccine and control measures? a directory of links and arguments would be even more appreciated.
• yashkaf (2021-01-04): #1 looks at homeless heroin addicts and concludes that drugs are bad. $2 experiments with psychedelics. #1 buys treasuries because day trading leads to ruin. #2 reads a lesswrong post about covid and does option trades (though roko joined me in that one).
• richdecibels (2021-01-05): not tryna be mean but is the combined brexit + covid shitshow turning the uk into a basket case country or is this just a temporary interruption?
• malcolm_ocean (2021-01-06): i would like to find a way to make $2-5k turn into: <$100 if the uk covid strain turns out to be a nothingburger >$20k if the uk covid strain causes a huge 4th wave in the usa and elsewhere 11:06 my understanding is that is broadly possible using put options, but i don't know how
• malcolm_ocean (2021-01-06): here's vix, the volatility index, over the last 5 years. all-time high is initial covid shock, latest spike was just before election. suppose i think that if uk strain fucks shit up, vix will go above 40 sometime in the next 5 months. what do i do with that?
• malcolm_ocean (2021-01-06): okay, so i could basically double my money here, assuming (a) uk covid strain or something else actually causes vix to hit 40 (b) i've got the balls to actually exercise the options at the right time.
• malcolm_ocean (2021-01-06): i am perhaps unusual in this regard but also i want to be clear that "losing/gaining a few thousand dollars doesn't make a big difference to me" is relative: it's on the scale of the difference it would make to me (and the world) for the uk covid strain to fuck shit up hard.
• yashkaf (2021-01-06): listened to @srajagopalan talk about how political decisions are stacked against kids because they can't vote: national debt, closing schools for covid, environmental stewardship, etc. the young are the most affected and have the least voice. i got an idea!
• xsphi (2021-01-07): when covid is done with (like properly done with, not first doses distributed to some people) who wants to go on a vacation to... idk, somewhere, with a bunch of twitter people?
• malcolm_ocean (2021-01-07): impressed i managed to write a long 2020 yearly review blog post without saying much at all about covid. check it out to learn more about the deep research into trust i've been doing and my personal learning journey over the past year 🕺💞🛣️
• thezvi (2021-01-07): new covid post is up:
• goblinodds (2021-01-08): the outright covid deniers dont bother me at all, at least theyre behaving in accordance with their beliefs about the world but the people who're like "i'm being safe" while they make the most minor possible changes to their routine...... ugggggh
• goblinodds (2021-01-08): the outright covid deniers dont bother me at all, at least theyre behaving in accordance with their beliefs about the world but the people who're like "i'm being safe" while they make the most minor possible changes to their routine...... ugggggh
• selonnerias (2021-01-08): 2020 was a good year for my blog :) seems like my stats are fairly countercyclical. i did well in 2016 when the world got screwed up by trump and the euro crisis and now i'm doing well during covid. almost absolutely certain it's because i wrote more though #blogging #stats
• malcolm_ocean (2021-01-09): musing about simpler distributed-intelligence covid vaccination strategies... ...take say 100 orgs that can administer • give each 1000 doses • top priority: use all of them • give each org a general focus area • let them figure out relevant criteria themselves
• ultimape (2021-01-09): 'new study reinforces sleep apnea-alzheimer's link' "people who have been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnoea could be at increased risk of adverse outcomes from covid-19"
• maradydd (2021-01-10): i am autistic, and i will be getting the covid-19 vaccine the instant it's my turn in the queue. you should too, and so should your kids. if they're later diagnosed autistic, that's because they always were. they've always been people, too, and they still are.
• drmaciver (2021-01-11): i ordered an at home covid test (i to within rounding error of certainty do not have covid, but for reasons was instructed to get a test anyway) yesterday evening and it arrived in an amazon prime delivery today, which is kinda fascinating. wonder what's up with that.
• tnorthcutt (2021-01-11): i'm collecting a thread () of stories of incompetence related to covid vaccine administration. not sure why; i just feel compelled to compile this stuff. @ me with any examples you see
• yashkaf (2021-01-11): i now think that a huge spring covid wave is more likely than not. i was worried about 3 things: 1. new strain is >50% more transmissible. 2. slow vaccine rollout. 3. no political will for lockdowns. all 3 now seem very likely, and 2/3 are cuomo's fault.
• gptbrooke (2021-01-11): i've been recovering from long-covid well enough that i've started waking up early this week again! feels so good to have gone for a walk to watch the sun rise and chat with people online and check off a bunch of my to-do list, all before i would even have been awake 2wks ago🤩
• jimmyris (2021-01-11): also in this thread: this “are you covid proof” is pointing at a genetic makeup that reflects whether you will experience serious effects from covid and are offering genetic testing + interpretation to find that out for you (i need to find the exact details, in contact with them)
• ultimape (2021-01-12): "small businesses who stepped up to fight covid-19 should be applauded by their government, not taxed for doing so. i'm pleased to announce we have directed fda to cease enforcement of these arbitrary, surprise user fees," 😂🧐😭
• drmaciver (2021-01-12): i'm currently attempting to register my covid test. naturally i have encountered a bug in their software. (or possibly in their process, or something. but the system is definitely not working for me)
• the_wilderless (2021-01-12): because i’ve been mostly in calm environments since covid started, id forgotten that my body’s reaction to overstimulation is to shut down entirely went to v loud coffeeshop today and immediately felt like a 500kg weight was pulling down on every part of me
• tnorthcutt (2021-01-12): reddit obviously wanting user input to moderate covid-related subreddits but... i can't figure out how they'd parse the answers here. is a "yes" a "good" thing or a "bad" thing?
• yashkaf (2021-01-12): come for the covid risk analysis, stay for the aspirational group house vision. with @catherineols
• sabbatical (2021-01-14): medical community scrambles to understand covid-19 'long haulers'
• thezvi (2021-01-14): weekly covid post is out:
• ultimape (2021-01-15): "compared with patients on standard care, our pilot clinical study showed that more covid patients who received our microbiome immunity formula achieved complete symptom resolution"
• neats29 (2021-01-15): the biggest lesson that covid will have taught our generation is that nothing can be taken for granted.
• mbateman (2021-01-15): we've opened 70 schools in the last 2 years, and are accelerating (even through covid). we've developed new montessori trainings and certify hundreds of educators annually. we're pioneering in montessori middle and high school, virtual school, homeschooling, pods, and more.
• patio11 (2021-01-15): is tracking availability of the covid-19 vaccines in california. @ca_covid volunteers are calling hospitals/pharmacies to ask if they will administer to 65+ year olds. we called 100+ thursday and will do 500+ friday. 24 sites confirmed; more to come.
• malcolm_ocean (2021-01-16): "there was no evidence snakes could climb the poles" — @dellannaluca, riffing on the "no evidence" fallacy that has pervaded covid news coverage
• tyleralterman (2021-01-16): these convinced me to go through sorrentino's filmography. now missing the pre-covid times watching the incredible party scene at the beginning of the great beauty
• patio11 (2021-01-16): this makes "call your local safeway, wait until the phone prompt starts, then hit 4 to connect straight to the pharmacy and ask for the pharmacist on duty" the easiest repeatably successful strategy to find the covid vaccine that fits in a tweet and works across california, btw.
• daniellefong (2021-01-16): chilling account of censorship exercised through the police and the state; this is further pressure on the florida scientist and whistleblower trying to correctly report on the covid outbreak there hoping there will be a groundswell of grassroots and federal support for her
• jd_pressman (2021-01-17): reminder that your choice isn't between getting the vaccine and not getting it, it's between getting the vaccine or covid-19.
• visakanv (2021-01-18): can’t shake the feeling that if rihanna dropped a new single, covid-19 would wither and die like hive-mind aliens dropping dead when you blow up the mothership
• bolster (2021-01-20): this is gonna be a really fun colab between the @nigamedev 100% online community and the classically 'meatspace' based @farsetlabs capabilities in the time of #covid; resiliance & collaboration in the local tech community is essential, rather than have everyone reinvent wheels
• yashkaf (2021-01-20): did covid make you more or less worried about climate change? did it have more to do with trust in scientists or with taking global risk seriously? pick whichever option is closest, even if it's a slight lean.
• mbateman (2021-01-20): scheduling a covid vaccine appointment in nyc is akin to trying to get an in-demand concert ticket. it’s worse, actually, because you have to try on multiple systems, but the same flavor: * byzantine ui * repeated attempts needed * contingent on luck with timing/locations
• hiredthought (2021-01-21): it's all the stuff that should have been happening... like osha having something to say about covid
• thezvi (2021-01-21): new weekly covid post is up:
• gptbrooke (2021-01-21): i've been out of commission the past day or two from post-covid shtuff i'm not feeling great today, but i'm gonna push through it i don't really drink much these days, but this song captures my mood atm pretty well son of a bitch gimme a drink 😄
• mykola (2021-01-21): this past year was supposed to be my year of monthly karaoke, of bullet journaling and of getting my shit together. covid kinda threw all of that out the window. i've started journaling again last week, because it helped me a ton before. but so much for karaoke, eh?
• thezvi (2021-01-21): a website copied my weekly covid report and posted it without my name or any link back to my site. is there anything i can usefully do to stop this? (i'm fine with reposts that list me as author and link back to the op)
• qiaochuyuan (2021-01-21): (i am thinking about all of this in the context of e.g. how poorly the vaccine rollout is going, how unwilling people are to disobey guidelines and vaccinate people who aren't "supposed" to be vaccinated, the bad situation around covid epistemics generally, etc.)
• petersuber (2021-01-22): 116,516 = americans who died in wwi 407,316 = american soldiers who died in wwii 410,378 (jan 22, 2021, 8:34 am est) = americans who died from covid-19
• daniellefong (2021-01-22): this is something i feared, and warned about, and it's a demonstration of a principle that we may be seeing a lot more of, unfortunately. a huge problem stemming out of the evolutionary pathways from sars-cov-2, we may end up with a insidious family of covid diseases
• tyleralterman (2021-01-22): what are some things that became hard for you in age of covid?
• patio11 (2021-01-23): why? suppose i told you that about 90% of the pharmacies on list a have the covid vaccine in stock and about 10% of the pharmacies on list b have the covid vaccine in stock, and statewide the average seems to be, oh, 12%. (made up numbers.) math quiz: do list first?
• gptbrooke (2021-01-24): well, i guess i'm not as recovered from long covid as i thought i was. but you know what? without it, i never would have discovered the deep and abiding love i now have for kdramas.
• blunderbussted (2021-01-24): gaggle of floridians came to bar just now and complained about covid restrictions til they left, talking about how much better things are in florida front page of drudge rn
• slimepriestess (2021-01-24): when covid ends i wanna host an orgy/kink play party.
• nosilverv (2021-01-24): got covid. feeling 99% more stupid. tweets might get significantly more retarded. enjoy / i'm sorry
• malcolm_ocean (2021-01-24): google just sent me a fucking notification with a "breaking news" headline "2417 new covid cases & 50 deaths in ontario" & like... that's not news, even if numbers are high. it's contextless data. wait, those stats are actually average for the past week. not breaking news.
• daniellefong (2021-01-24): reading: covid 12/24: we’re f***ed, it’s over - lesswrong by zvi mowshowitz
• patio11 (2021-01-24): here is what wants to get done today, day 11, to help californians arrange the covid-19 vaccine for themselves or their loved ones. * we are going to call hundreds of pharmacies across california, talk to the pharmacist, and write down what they tell us.
• jakob_reinwald (2021-01-24): “once covid is over” is starting to sound like a meme i have read 10000 times today
• loopholekid (2021-01-25): 5/n: isn't my responsibility" or "that doesn't affect me". this is no longer the case and the harm that's building up is going to hit people who are completely unaware or in flat out denial. it's already happening. covid exposed our current world-state as insanely fragile.
• tnorthcutt (2021-01-25): what’s your % chance covid is a 10-20 year thing (instead of 1-2 year)? yes, vague framing, i realize.
• daniellefong (2021-01-25): laser covid.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-01-25): if i could have picked one covid thing for the uk to be good at, i'd have chosen quarantining travellers. or great lockdowns and being okay at quarantining travellers. but if i can't have either of those, i'd have picked vaccine distribution. i'm glad we are doing well.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-01-25): not sure my dad loves "give me some odds" in every geopolitical/covid discussion we have, but it sure does cut to the chase.
• gptbrooke (2021-01-25): this is about long covid, but it also applies in general. you who are reading this, it's okay to do or not do as you feel up to. 💕
• tnorthcutt (2021-01-25): this is the concerning thing for me. people 100% sure we'll functionally "beat" covid sound to me a lot like cries of "that could never happen in america" in response to political turmoil in other countries. there is no certainty on either front.
• gptbrooke (2021-01-25): dang it i didn't even realize half of this video got cut off. i was gonna say i beat big yud in predicting long-covid will be a public health crisis (in case we're right), but it was in the first half of the video 😂
• qiaochuyuan (2021-01-25): the impulse to dismiss "conspiracy theories" out of hand is the same impulse that went into dismissing covid as a problem last march / april. there were "alt-right" people able to get this right b/c they did not care about seeming reasonable to people who read the fucking nyt
• _brentbaum (2021-01-25): i believe in the twinthread team and can't wait to see what they do in a post-covid world. the product is category-defining, well-timed, and will make a huge impact on how process innovation happens in factories and beyond. watch this team!
• yashkaf (2021-01-25): more than 20,000 people read that post in the first couple of weeks when the mainstream position was still that covid isn't a serious worry. if just 1% of my readers avoided getting sick (and infecting others) because they read it, that's probably several lives saved.
• yashkaf (2021-01-25): i should share the story of who covid-pilled 𝘮𝘦, it's a fun one. late in 2019 i wrote about rationality being a good life hack. some dude replied that if it was good it should be able to get him a date. so i asked if he wanted to hire me as a rationalist dating coach. he did.
• yashkaf (2021-01-25): this guy had a few issues, but i had the sense that he's smart. instead of canceling our next session, i asked him to make the case for covid. he walked me through the numbers, explained how he's prepping. so big shout out to my anonymous dating client. thank you, sir!
• visakanv (2021-01-26): have u gotten covid if no, do you know someone who has? immediate or indirect? don’t rt, i’m curious just abt ppl who follow me
• gptbrooke (2021-01-26): this will not end up happening if i don't seem to be fully recovered from long covid prior to when i'd need to start finalizing dates and whatnot, but i wanted to start putting the word out now so i can get an idea of who might want to come along.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-01-26): being against border quarantine is the covid equivalent of being against taxing billionaires. "i don't want to inconvenience them, one day i might be one, however unlikely"
• chercher_ai (2021-01-27): has covid killed the flashmob for good?
• thezvi (2021-01-28): new covid-19 weekly post is up:
• cxgonzalez (2021-01-28): how the absolute fuck did twitter know i had covid?? ive never posted about it on this site or any other
• chercher_ai (2021-01-29): if they pivoted the tech from producing these covid vaccines to make one against common cold coronaviruses, would you get it?
• cis_female (2021-01-29): hotboxing my covid sphere
• drmaciver (2021-01-30): doing some bayes' rule says "not much" - if having had covid a year ago had a 10% chance of a positive result, this would drop my confidence down to 94%, if it had a 50% chance (which i doubt it does) this would go down to 90%. 90% chance of +ve, still 65% likely i've had it.
• drmaciver (2021-01-30): (how well calibrated is that original 95%? well, probably not very, but i think it's on the low side rather than the high side - i had a flatmate with a confirmed covid case and was ill with a very similar but milder symptom set to him at exactly the same time)
• drmaciver (2021-01-30): bayesians and people who know more about covid than me: i was previously about 95% confident that i had mild covid back in late february last year. i've just got a negative antibody test. how much should i update this estimate that i've had covid?
• strangestloop (2021-01-30): my covid solution is to go to the winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over
• yashkaf (2021-01-31): multiply enough numbers <1 and you get close to 0. it is much more rational to believe that either epstein was murdered, or covid is lab-made, or the election was rigged, or 9/11 was an inside job, or a limited list of other such things than to believe *none* of those are true.
• drmaciver (2021-01-31): the crucial factor seems to be basically the probability of transmission between me and m, with a probability of 0.4 that either of us passed covid on to the other (which seems to be a bit low to me based on our track record) being the 95% mark.
• drmaciver (2021-01-31): in case anyone else is curious, i wanted to check how much i should trust my vague guesstimate of 95% chance i had covid last year so i wrote a quick and dirty monte carlo simulation, and the answer is that it appears to be shockingly good.
• nosilverv (2021-01-31): for a long time confused as to why all portuguese private channels news seem to be basically government propaganda. then realised that government has bailed them out during covid. welp, that explains it. play ball so you can expect to get more money in the future
• imperialauditor (2021-02-01): yep, i've seen people say that recovery rate from covid is higher than vaccine efficacy therefore may as well get covid the vaccines have 100% "don't get sick" efficacy!
• insidenima (2021-02-01): commutes are great for creating spaciousness in our busssy work lives! 🧘‍♂️ i miss my commutes. pretty much stopped listening to podcasts post #covid 🤯 #yinternet
• mykola (2021-02-01): the racial breakdown of covid deaths is genocidal.
• insidenima (2021-02-02): lolll 🤷🏾 i guess endless pocs don't work as a strategy! or it could be because they were running on proof of conference (poc?) and covid killed their biz 🙈
• yashkaf (2021-02-02): that's right. i'm not a "degenerate gambler" who bets on everything from sports to politics to crypto to covid to gamestop. i'm an "aspiring rationalist" dedicated to letting the world kick my ass on the object level! it sounds so much more dignified.
• ultimape (2021-02-03): back in march i couldn't find studies on coughing sick people at the time, much less covid associated mucus, the studies all seem to be on healthy people coughing. this looks like it might be comprehensive on that topic and includes a review on covid.
• blunderbussted (2021-02-03): google offering redpills on this covid ish mby they'll move onto 9/11 and woemn nxt
• nathanpmyoung (2021-02-03): can we gather all covid tweets from large uk accounts, anonymise them put them on a website, let the public score them true to false then rank the accounts?
• friedkielbasa (2021-02-03): wonder if the cast of contagion had a lower rate of covid than regular population? maybe watching a movie is a good npi?
• rhyslindmark (2021-02-03): clubhouse is growing at 240% m/m. instagram famously grew at 140% m/m. insta had 30m users when fb acquired it, 18 months after its founding. at the current growth rate, ch would have 11b users 18 months after founding. in other words, all those covid babies will join ch 😜
• thezvi (2021-02-04): new weekly covid-19 post is out:
• mbateman (2021-02-04): back of the envelope math for covid in nyc: 8m pop * 0.75 herd immunity threshold = 6m immune needed 1.4m cases + 0.8m vaccines = 2.2m existing immune 6m - 2.2m = 3.8m to go 20k vaccines/day + 5k cases/day = 25k immune/day 3.8m / 25k = 152 days ≈ 5 months so ~july.
• eigenrobot (2021-02-05): im getting bored tweeting things like this idk "govt fucks up covid" shocked, shocked
• patio11 (2021-02-05): small brain: grep for horse hospital big brain: call all the hospitals, ask about horses. galaxy brain: convince vaccinateca there is a non-zero chance a horse hospital would get a shipment of covid-19 vaccine, then just ask nicely "so can i get a list of horse hospitals."
• sabbatical (2021-02-05): fascinating article about how ultra-orthodox haredi are "holding hostage" israel's attempts at tamping down covid
• gptbrooke (2021-02-05): oh no i've discovered the downside to filling my long-covid days with kdramas i can't look away when characters i like are getting killed because then i won't know what they said 😭😭😭
• yashkaf (2021-02-06): what was the joke? because of covid travel constraints the us had to "defend and fortify democracy" at home this year?
• daniellefong (2021-02-06): the olympics, but for covid variants
• forthrighter (2021-02-08): big picture 2: we exist in a time of epic social polarization. because masons are citizens as well as masons, that infects the craft. we're supposed to meet on the level, but we are like fish in a poisoned lake right now. also everyone's stir crazy from a year+ of covid
• mbateman (2021-02-09): i wonder which does more harm to older children: being unable to go to school (or do anything) in person, or osmotically absorbing the garbled discourse around covid policy as an exemplar of the thinking that governs our culture and lives.
• mattdsegal (2021-02-10): you would work with a small team of epidemiologists on modelling covid-19 and tuberculosis in australia and asia-pacific.
• mattdsegal (2021-02-10): the team tries to answer questions like: what would be the effect of re-opening schools in the philippines have on the future incidence of covid-19? how many covid-19 cases do we expect to see in victorian icu departments in the next two weeks?
• xsphi (2021-02-10): after covid if anyone tries to make me stop wearing masks in public i will cough on them
• gptbrooke (2021-02-10): okay this is day 3 or 4. i'm doing this largely because i'm in an asymptomatic period of post acute covid and i'm hoping if i get into better shape, i'll build up more stamina and reduce the severity of the next round of symptoms.
• nobu_hibiki (2021-02-10): prediction is that the indonesian populus will stop caring about covid by the middle of this year. if you die you die.
• blunderbussted (2021-02-10): in this little saga you get to see the writer plow into the covid pandemic assume we'll have many interesting little time capsules in manga where mangaki describe personal changes in their workflow due to the peculiar exigencies of 2020 anyhow, he comes to recommend drunk work
• the_wilderless (2021-02-11): sometimes i wanna subtweet some of ya, then i remember i’ve been spared the worst of the covid and lockdown stuff this year, & i just don’t have the same level of constant stress/strain you’ve been under, so i just try to be charitable towards your bad takes & their prickliness
• thezvi (2021-02-11): new weekly covid post is up:
• forthrighter (2021-02-12): a thread about covid vaccines, black markets, and formerly friendly old ladies. a crazy story that i promise is 100% true.
• forthrighter (2021-02-12): what does it all amount to? the secret covid-19 black-market mafia network of old ladies operating right under your noses
• daniellefong (2021-02-12): pokémon go but you catch covid variants
• the_wilderless (2021-02-13): i honestly struggle a bit a the covid response stuff cuz like, i’m not unsympathetic to the arguments like “vietnam used a culture of authoritarianism to stop the spread, and ~free countries can’t/shouldn’t do that!”
• drmaciver (2021-02-13): on the expected side-effects of covid-19 vaccinations and why the second one is worse than the first (but not in any alarming way, just the normal feeling crappy some people get after a vaccine) was interesting.
• daniellefong (2021-02-13): that’s a *large* effect. randomized vitamin d3 treatment protective against severe covid disease
• c_harwick (2021-02-13): rationalists, jun 2020: burn the nyt to the ground for maliciously doxing scott alexander! me, jun 2020: don't be dramatic. they probably just wanted to write a sympathetic piece about how he got covid right months before anyone else and ham-handedly applied an office rule.
• drmaciver (2021-02-14): i've somehow picked up what i assume must be a virus despite fairly good isolation protocol, and i'm not enjoying it. (i'm pretty confident it's not covid - minimal symptom overlap - but it's still annoying)
• daniellefong (2021-02-14): how much more covid safe would a bubble have to be to you to be acceptable to you & the people you live with, and attractive enough to consider visiting?
• eigenrobot (2021-02-15): episode 14: eigenrobot vs @politicalmath we'd initially planned on focusing on the institutional response to covid, and we did that, but inevitably jumped the rails and spent most of an hour on the important issue of why is journalism bad so often
• thezvi (2021-02-15): anyone know where we can find covid hospitalization numbers for israel, especially in total? want to compare the study this week to their baseline.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-02-15): meme traders got insulted but also won money. plenty of people made good covid predictions and lost out as a result. i know it can be uncomfortable, but we need more #predictionmarkets
• patio11 (2021-02-15): “why frustrating?” because *why did we need an emergency* to discover that capability? we had an emergency that was already an actual, demonstrable threat to human life in every town with a busted freezer. it was the covid-19 pandemic.
• imperialauditor (2021-02-15): ok i'm super confused what does the 95% number actually mean and where does it come from? i'd kinda assumed the number of ppl in the placebo arm who get covid tells you the virus attack rate so to speak,
• imperialauditor (2021-02-15): and you divided #vaxedpplwithcovid by the number who "should" have gotten covid to get (1- efficacy ) but apparently it's something weirder about waiting for a total number of cases and seeing how many are in the placebo arm?? and if it's half and half then efficacy is zero
• imperialauditor (2021-02-15): oh okay i understand now i think you're not unprotected in the sense that while you might catch covid you won't get seriously ill but this requires extra data on serious illness in the placebo arm it doesn't follow directly from the 95% number
• bolster (2021-02-16): yup, no idea if it's weather, covid, saad or what, but i've been getting up at 3/4am and not able to get back down, then hitting the wall just in time for my evening conference calls 😭
• nathanpmyoung (2021-02-16): wait a moment. as a result of covid are we gonna eliminate infection diseases? are our kids gonna be like "what's a cold" when we mention it?
• blunderbussted (2021-02-16): i support lockdowns and covid measures because i like staying home and people keeping a distance from me and i will continue with these measures long after the pandemic as i lived by them long before it started thank you very much
• blunderbussted (2021-02-16): dating's harder, but in all things "introvert" last year was fanfuckingtastic. i got $$$ to hide. to hide indoors! i got extra money for food so i could cook magnificently and never leave. i hiked, i ate, i sunned, i read. i will never have a better summer. thank you covid-19!!
• patio11 (2021-02-17): this is a low tam tweet but if you read byrne today on internet subcultures and covid-19... ... i would say i mostly agree with his comments.
• tyleralterman (2021-02-17): 10/ these days our environments are increasingly saturated with hf. covid accelerated this trend, since the the most hf domains are audiovisually emitted by the computers isolated stuck at home with.
• daniellefong (2021-02-17): annoyed by all the epidemiologists saying covid is endemic now, when they weren't sounding the alarm that this would be the result of lack policies back then. you all should know who you are 🤨 still the main factor on how bad this is is the envelope of disease that can evolve
• thezvi (2021-02-18): weekly covid-19 post is out.
• goblinodds (2021-02-18): mostly subtweeting my rage @ literally every part of how covid was handled
• goblinodds (2021-02-18): mostly subtweeting my rage @ literally every part of how covid was handled
• nathanpmyoung (2021-02-19): open source allows better error checking. we should open-source more public infrastructure, especially covid forecasting.
• leo_guinan (2021-02-19): #crew96 friends in the central ohio area, i am working with @cantstopcbus and @cbusemh on a few projects. one of the projects we are launching is a memorial site for those who have lost loved ones to covid. share your memories here:
• yashkaf (2021-02-19): rationalists get things right not by being smarter, but by caring less what's socially savvy or fashionable. we got covid by looking at the same charts and ignoring whether it looks silly to prep. we made millions by buying btc when it was still *weird*.
• blunderbussted (2021-02-20): going on a road trip tomorrow, gonna hang out in nj with too many people in a house for a week, it will be fantastic, unless we all get covid, but it’s probably worth the risk at this point. breaking the social fast with a bang. i neeeed this.
• thezvi (2021-02-21): (fixed) how would you evaluate a bet/prediction that said "nyc will be widely considered the worst-hit-by-covid-19 us city" if evaluating it on 1/1/21?
• nosilverv (2021-02-21): can someone smarter than me figure out whether covid cases are going down everywhere bc seasonality or bc who updated pcr testing guidelines
• vividvoid_ (2021-02-21): me and the boys post-covid
• ultimape (2021-02-22): fyi, one of the stronger correlations you can make is with kidney failure. it seems to be a feature that shows up among the worst cases of covid, and it is also something that is weakened with diabetes ("diabetic nephropathy").
• ultimape (2021-02-22): vermont is inherently low density, and covid thankfully has been dealt with well here. we shut down early and our demographic skews heavily toward the at-risk age bracket. but i live with a my diabetic type-ii girlfriend who's got kidney problems, & her mom (nearing retirement).
• yashkaf (2021-02-22): i'm strongly against any unnecessary lockdowns, such as for vaccinated people. i think governments are too lockdown-happy because they get blamed for covid but not for general misery. but it's important to remember and accommodate the many people who don't want to see people.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-02-22): the crowd forecast @metaculus has the chance that covid escaped from a lab at 10%. which is higher than most people give it, i think.
• tyleralterman (2021-02-23): the "waiting covid out" virgin vs the "building a town-sized pod" chad
• jd_pressman (2021-02-24): i hate to burst peoples bubble but the early covid people i was listening to (at least) projected much more danger than actually turned out to exist. thankfully the truth turned out to be less bad, but the idea people predicting 6% ifr are prophets because of lockdowns is odd.
• visakanv (2021-02-24): i guess an interesting thing about getting older is i accumulate all this additional context for making sense of things, which makes me rethink and reevaluate all sorts of things that were formerly kinda vague the black death feels marginally less abstract & distant after covid
• petersuber (2021-02-24): biden: "once we beat covid, we’re going to do everything we can to end cancer as we know it." this talk doesn't mention #openaccess. but it recalls his 2016 cancer moonshot initiative as vp, notable in part for emphasizing #openaccess. worth watching.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-02-24): 3) so vaccine-resistant strains will be more likely to exist in the next generation. but how is that different from herd immunity? 4) i am pretty sure that covid gives immunity, so weren't there going to be strains anway?
• nathanpmyoung (2021-02-24): [if we get partially vaccinated the chance of vaccine-resistant strains increases] why? 1)selection pressure is about when there are resources that a mutation will allow you to access. 2) a large proportion of people are protected from covid
• forthrighter (2021-02-24): march 2020 prophetic covid memes
• patio11 (2021-02-25): day 42 of and we've got a couple of announcements to make: the big one: we're officially a non-profit, and have hired a small team to support getting reliable information about covid-19 vaccine availability to californians.
• patio11 (2021-02-25): which should not overshadow the thing we do every day, which is the most important thing we do every day: today we called hundreds of pharmacies/etc across the state of california, asked the pharmacist on duty about how to get a covid-19 vaccine, and wrote down what they said.
• eigenrobot (2021-02-25): everything you knew when you were young is fading from memory my child will be born soon and she will never know the world before 9/11, nor even before covid
• mbateman (2021-02-25): talking covid and schools with two of the most brilliant and knowledgable people on the topic, @profemilyoster and @ameshaa, next week. come!
• thezvi (2021-02-25): new weekly covid-19 post is up:
• mbateman (2021-02-25): cc @karenvaites, @angrybklynmom, @dkthomp, and dozens of other covid/schools people i'm sure i'm forgetting
• tyleralterman (2021-02-26): no substitute for mandatory quarantines of you want to build a covid pod. 0 cases in my group; ~40 ppl did 14-day quarantines:
• visakanv (2021-02-27): more people have died of weird tragic misadventures this month in singapore than of covid. infinitely more, because 0 covid deaths in the past 30 days. we just be going out final destination style now
• xsphi (2021-02-27): unpopular opinion: if substantially less than 500k people died as a result of rushed covid vaccine development/rollout, we didn't push it through hard enough
• geniesloki (2021-02-28): hard to escape the feeling that if someone wrote the covid-19 plotline for a novel the whole thing would be a dark comedy.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-03-01): i'm speaking at dls's event on community responses to covid. i'll be talking about the lessons i learned whilst co-founding the coronavirus tech handbook. as a bonus, you'll be able to see what the lower half of my face looks like.
• visakanv (2021-03-01): for the 5+ years that i used to work, i used to work at blk71 in one-north, which is where a bunch of singapore's tech companies tend to be clustered. or they were before covid, i think many are remote now. i wrote many of my tweets on my commute from red to orange and back
• yashkaf (2021-03-01): 62% of russians don't want the vaccine, 64% (!) believe that covid is an unnatural bioweapon created by the chinese government. must be all those american bots spreading misinformation on russian social media.
• petersuber (2021-03-02): update. "multiple patents are in force in most of the world for three of the most promising treatments for covid-19....already, these patents are preventing competition and threatening both the affordability and the supply of new drugs."
• mbateman (2021-03-02): mulling what to ask @profemilyoster, @ameshaa, and @raygirn on thursday. if you could ask them one question on covid and schools—be it practical, scientific, political, or philosophical—what would it be?
• dschorno (2021-03-02): there is a covid outbreak in my community for the first time since the pandemic started 😬
• gptbrooke (2021-03-03): it's that time again. song time. i am a covid long hauler and today was the first day since maybe july or august that i didn't have to go home to rest in between delivery shifts; i worked almost the entire day. most days the past four months i wasn't able to work at all, and so-
• rhyslindmark (2021-03-03): .@wikipedia should develop an amazon-style link recommendation system. users who viewed "covid" also viewed "b117". right now their "see also" page is *manually* editing. like, seriously? in 2021? #rfp
• thezvi (2021-03-04): weekly covid-19 post is out:
• mbateman (2021-03-04): covid and schools. me, @ameshaa, @profemilyoster, @raygirn. starts in four hours. registration is free. you can ask them stuff. come!
• patio11 (2021-03-04): do i know someone in facebook ads who could unblock approval for a university which is attempting to get patients into a clinical trial for covid-19 treatment? if so, please email me.
• malcolm_ocean (2021-03-05): j&j vax approved… prevents deaths but somewhat less effective at preventing people from getting covid in the first place? seems to imply best to prioritize other vaccines for superspreaders / front-line workers. (assuming govts have the capacity for something so sophisticated)
• daniellefong (2021-03-06): how much of the covid relief bill goes to mrna vaccine factories
• mbateman (2021-03-07): amazing op ed from @ameshaa on the fetal cell lines that enable the covid vaccines—which i didn’t even know about—and the moral status thereof.
• patio11 (2021-03-07): day 52 of and i have the update baton. it's been a busy few days, but we still did the same thing we do every day: call hundreds of medical professionals to confirm ground truth about the availability of the covid-19 vaccines. lots of work starting:
• patio11 (2021-03-07): the state has announced a major change in eligibility criteria (broadening of vaccine availability, including prominently to individuals with pre-existing conditions, who are at high-risk if they contract covid-19) on march 15th. we are sprinting to get ready for this.
• tyleralterman (2021-03-07): made shakshuka for the covid bubble homies
• gptbrooke (2021-03-08): i had two video chats this morning and they wore me out so much i had to take a 2.5 hour nap afterwards. i've been hearing more and more that the vaccine might help with long-covid symptoms and the idea that maybe just talking to people won't be so exhausting anymore....
• connerdelights (2021-03-08): (original tweet was deleted, asking whether airlines should raise or lower prices for covid.) i think the first one had the most impact. airlines were *somewhat* nationalized, and not as profit-seeking as i assumed.
• gptbrooke (2021-03-08): 5 hours since first dose! symptoms are definitely already subsiding. temp 99.0. now i just gotta see if it has any impact on the long covid fatigue/brain fog etc!
• gptbrooke (2021-03-09): ~19 hours since first dose some possible indications it's helping with long covid stuff: my heart rate didn't fall below 56 during the night. the lower range of my bpm (often btwn 30-40) has been a fairly reliable indicator- the lower it gets, the more noticable my symptoms.
• daniellefong (2021-03-09): visual overview of the covid relief bill
• gptbrooke (2021-03-10): ~30 hours temp still around 99. felt great this morning, but got tired and took a two hour nap. don't feel very refreshed. i have some congestion/sneezing/runny nose/watery eyes stuff happening that hasn't been a part of long covid stuff for me, so maybe that's a good sign.
• nobu_hibiki (2021-03-10): just had a stressful dream where i heard my sister contracted covid and i went home asap before stressing out for not being able to go back. not sure what im fretting about hmm
• gptbrooke (2021-03-10): felt groggy, but i dug a bit deeper and noticed that my resting heart rate has jumped over the past few days, from 59 to 68. this isn't a factor of long-covid; i suspect that in my excitement over the past few days, i haven't been as diligent about breathing exercises.
• tnorthcutt (2021-03-10): people who've been following vaccine stuff: what do we know (or strongly suspect?) about effects on transmission of covid? e.g. does me being vaccinated help protect unvaccinated people around me?
• visakanv (2021-03-11): i'm surprised i haven't encountered a twitter account roleplaying as covid-19 that just mocks and insults humanity every day
• nathanpmyoung (2021-03-12): someone should do an anthropological study of what covid does to university traditions. i predict a 50% of those passed on solely by students will be "lost".
• rhyslindmark (2021-03-12): at the beginning of covid, we all had mask anxiety dreams where we realized "eep, everyone should be wearing masks!" had my first "covid is opening up" dream last night. i was at a park. everyone was masked up. then they announced "vaccines for all". everyone was so happy.
• thezvi (2021-03-12): new covid-19 post is out, a day late due to travel:
• thezvi (2021-03-12): reminder that the deadline to apply for my covid micro-grants (funded by an anonymous donor) is today, and you can apply quickly with this:
• m_ashcroft (2021-03-13): feeling called to restart my zen practice, which has not even slightly survived covid times*. *i know it’s something you’re meant to do all the time. that is difficult and i am someone with a predilection towards all or nothing thinking.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-03-13): bioweapons are at least 10x more scary than pandemics. and for $20 billion a year we could render them obsolete? worth a look imagine we'd been offered this chance before covid. this "stock" is still way underpriced and we'd be fools not buy it while we can.
• ultimape (2021-03-13): i'm sorry, what? "most people with relapsing and progressive forms of multiple sclerosis (ms) should get a covid-19 vaccine, the national multiple sclerosis society advised."
• ultimape (2021-03-13): "therefore, during vaccination, rectifying gut microbiome dysbiosis with prebiotic and probiotic oral supplementation might be a solution for the management of covid-19 vaccine induced adverse reactions." yolo
• nathanpmyoung (2021-03-13): great job us. the first question here, as with every other stage of covid: why are some countries capable whole others aren't? what's stopping us being more like the best countries?
• patio11 (2021-03-14): (in case not obvious from my recent professional interests, i’m primarily thinking of covid-19 vaccine doses at the moment.)
• thezvi (2021-03-14): looked over the applications. very happy how this turned out, with a bunch of quality projects that can get meaningful support. a handful of people asked for free money for things unrelated to covid, but mostly i was merely amused, because they weren't pretending otherwise.
• imperialauditor (2021-03-14): 3) getting the vaccine covid is 3% prevalent in my state (#total cases/population - since we want to consider the risk of getting it over the entire year) and infection fatality risk is 1% for a 60 year old asian (eyeballing fig 1 in )
• imperialauditor (2021-03-14): let us assume the oxford/astrazeneca vaccine is 100% effective at preventing death (from covid only(sadly)) () i'm ignoring 1 dose/2 dose considerations
• imperialauditor (2021-03-14): this gives us 1000000*(1/100)*(3/100)= 300 micromorts! note we don't use the 11000 micromort figure since covid is an additional source of mortality that wasn't present in 2014 when that actuarial table was made, so it essentially increases mortality by ~3% (11000->11300)
• imperialauditor (2021-03-14): as one might imagine, getting a covid vaccine is probably the single best thing you can do with your day, but exercise is a surprisingly strong contender!
• yashkaf (2021-03-15): unless it's a covid date on a cold day. she insists on masks the entire time, you can do little other than walk outside (which means little eye contact), she wears a bulky coat, and of course any touch is out of the question. then there's zero erotic energy, only banter.
• patio11 (2021-03-15): it's day 60 of and it's a big day, but most important news first: today we called hundreds of pharmacies looking for the covid-19 vaccine and eligibility criteria, and published what we learned.
• patio11 (2021-03-15): it's been a very busy two months. our society is not yet near the end of the covid-19 pandemic. the next few months are critical. a lot is going right at the moment, but much can yet go wrong, and we are still are not moving fast enough.
• gptbrooke (2021-03-15): some of you might remember me trying to figure out where to move to last year, before all this long covid nonsense made it impractical. if i keep recovering at the pace i have been, though, i'll be on track to escape redding within the next few months- and i need help deciding!
• xsphi (2021-03-15): it felt like someone with covid was going to jump out from behind a bush and start chasing me and second. wild times.
• rhyslindmark (2021-03-15): my bidet is my main physical contact during covid ;)
• visakanv (2021-03-16): finally it's 0.1% of world fossil co2 emissions international shipping is 18.3x more, international aviation (well before covid at least) was 14.7x more
• mykola (2021-03-17): super proud of @ahandvanish and @fi_lowenstein for their untiring work in bringing long covid to the world's attention. this week they got published in the new york times:
• thezvi (2021-03-18): new weekly covid-19 post is up:
• sensefulronin (2021-03-20): pre-covid me would have said this certainly. post-covid me...not sure anymore :)
• leo_guinan (2021-03-21): help us remember all those lost to covid in the past year. share your memories at the link. 👇👇👇
• sensefulronin (2021-03-22): pre-covid: self as a personal to-do list post-covid: self as an ecology
• petersuber (2021-03-22): update. "as rich countries fight to keep things as they are, others like south africa and india have taken the battle to the world trade organization, seeking a waiver on patent restrictions for covid-19 vaccines."
• petersuber (2021-03-23): i just got my second covid vaccination and feel very lucky. if you're reluctant to get one when you're eligible, please follow @facesofcovid.
• petersuber (2021-03-24): update. "the proportion of women publishing in biomedical fields during the pandemic drops in average for 9.5% across disciplines and research topics….the impact is particularly pronounced for papers related to covid-19 research."
• thezvi (2021-03-25): new covid-19 weekly post is out:
• xsphi (2021-03-27): "maintaining a safe distance in the time of covid", or as i like to call it, "ethical manspreading"
• nosilverv (2021-03-30): who's modelling the post-covid? seems like it's gonna be a time of ample opportunity and that previously built models need a culling if one is be positioned to maximally take advantage of it
• jakob_reinwald (2021-03-30): my grandma passed away from covid last night. she had been fully vaccinated for a month. i know everything is improving slowly but this pandemic is still killing people. please be safe for yourself and others❤️❤️
• strangestloop (2021-03-31): share a resource that reduced your concerns about the unknown long-term effects of covid vaccines
• thezvi (2021-04-01): new covid-19 post is up:
• patio11 (2021-04-01): in an ideal world, there would be a) less or b) more people whose entire job is convincing people to go to a different building for medical services based on whether that location can add a covid-19 shot to the day's other medical services? got a guess as to whether a or b true?
• mbateman (2021-04-02): it feels like the covid/schools discourse has become even muddier since last month's panel with @profemilyoster, @ameshaa, and @raygirn. if you missed it, still extremely relevant.
• qiaochuyuan (2021-04-02): i've been holding myself very tight for almost exactly a year now, mostly in ways that aren't even directly about reducing covid risk, and i can feel that stuff relaxing and it feels good. hope i can maintain this momentum
• pepijndevos (2021-04-03): some national news made it into my bubble. from what i gather both the opposition and coalition parties did a motion of no confidence against the proposed prime minister who keeps lying and fucking up covid and stepped down due to a scandal and then put himself up for reelection.
• gptbrooke (2021-04-04): so if the boost to the immune system from the vaccine does turn out to be helping for long covid sufferers- are corticosteroids possibly hurting recovery, while addressing symptoms in the short term?
• gptbrooke (2021-04-04): i was prescribed corticosteroids for some of my symptoms, a really common treatment for long covid patients. but they suppress the immune system.
• gptbrooke (2021-04-04): we really need to figure out this whole long covid thing. there are a couple competing ideas as to what's at play- reservoirs of the virus/virus bits hanging out within systems and moving about over time, or something about the initial illness causing the immune system to
• neats29 (2021-04-05): are you still worried about catching covid?
• iconic_tweeter (2021-04-05): damn getting married during covid is the dream for us introverts
• nathanpmyoung (2021-04-05): so much of covid policy is about timing. the good policy too early or too late is bad policy. lockdowns for vaccinated people and internal vaccine passports after most people have been vaccinated both look like bad policy to me even though i liked them in other circumstances.
• yashkaf (2021-04-05): looking for recommendations for a rapid covid test i can buy and administer at home, e.g. to guests before a party. please dm or comment, especially if you've done so recently. cc @uncatherio @aella_girl
• patio11 (2021-04-06): dangerous professional daydreaming of responding "did covid-19 write this question?" but will probably end up saying ofac control lists and etc.
• mbateman (2021-04-06): good excel "what can i do now" covid risk model from @profemilyoster. even if you don't use it, it's worth reading the explainer to get numbers for paradigmatic examples. useful and illustrative of the brutal, crushing effectiveness of these vaccines.
• visakanv (2021-04-07): it's staggering to begin to try to perceive, but the sum of human utterances is technically finite on a universal scale. effectively all humans are part of a connected network, covid demonstrates this quite viscerally. our utterances & vibes can be contagious just like viruses
• nathanpmyoung (2021-04-07): if we can beat covid, we can beat every infectious disease
• bolster (2021-04-07): looking to buy a couple of decent hammocks for.... reasons... want to go for fairly hardy ones to populate our garage (aka "the covid cabana") and also be used in the yard when weather permits... anyone got recommendations?
• visakanv (2021-04-08): so... who's gonna be the next pm? chan chun sing, most likely? or... ong ye kung? i actually wouldn't mind lawrence wong, i feel like he's been doing a solid job as the face of the covid task force and could grow well into the role, quite... "prime ministerial"
• nathanpmyoung (2021-04-08): but this flawed argument costs us the ability to predict on catastrophes. how many lives could have been saved by a prediction market in january 2020 flagging the high chance of deaths due to covid? it could have entered the news cycle weeks or months earlier than it did.
• gptbrooke (2021-04-08): pretty sure this wanting to dance all the time thing is a clear indication that my long covid symptoms really are on the way out 😂 just you guys wait until i actually get back into shape i will be unstoppable
• garrisonlovely (2021-04-09): the longer covid stays, the more variants spread, and the more likely it is that something pops up that vaccines don’t work against. it’s not surprising to me that countries are prioritizing their own citizens (nationalism runs deep), but (3/5)
• thezvi (2021-04-09): covid post delayed due to travel, will be out tomorrow.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-04-09): this article is okay. it acknowledges musk's huge positive impact, but i think it misses a huge point. musk is kind of an arsehole. remember when he called that helpful man a paedophile? or rubbished entire fields of science? or when he said covid would soon be over?
• easoncxz (2021-04-09): people in the west wondering why china's covid-control situation seems kind of admirable -- it's because tradeoffs have been made. you really have no rights -- "do as you're told, or get fucked". in this case, the op is being threatened with being fired to get a vaccine*.
• thezvi (2021-04-09): covid post is out, mostly was a week of the expected and things continuing on their paths:
• tnorthcutt (2021-04-09): kinda crazy how the narrative is going to shift from "man the us is so bad at this!" in 2020 to the us having covid ~beat way before most of the world
• chercher_ai (2021-04-09): someone posted a graph recently about excess deaths among youth during 2020 not attributed to covid, so i looked into the data
• chercher_ai (2021-04-09): indeed during summer 2020 there was an excess in deaths not attributed to covid among most age groups <50 yo, not just youth
• chercher_ai (2021-04-09): and suggested it may have been undocumented deaths due to covid due to limited testing among those age groups
• nosilverv (2021-04-10): holy fucking shit america is insane. so i'm watching slack's new promo video and it's about covid and what's been going on the past year and the woman narrator causally mentions that we've been up to, among other things, winning while presenting this image!!!!!
• petersuber (2021-04-10): update. "women scientists have experienced a productivity penalty from the social and structural changes accompanying the covid-19 pandemic, but not in all authorship positions."
• qiaochuyuan (2021-04-11): apparently the cause of death isn’t entirely clear? his widow seems to think it was at least exacerbated by some sort of long-covid-related complication?
• goblinodds (2021-04-12): extremely tired of waiting for life to start (unrelated to covid)-- but now that the obstacles are manageable... how do i actually go about doing that??
• goblinodds (2021-04-12): extremely tired of waiting for life to start (unrelated to covid)-- but now that the obstacles are manageable... how do i actually go about doing that??
• loopholekid (2021-04-12): any of you make danceable music and interested in playing in toronto post-covid? setting up a lil something @
• imperialauditor (2021-04-13): common pattern when trying to vaccinate people in my state: "oh no i better not risk it, you see i have diabetes/hypertension/etc" all of these are risk factors for covid! why are people w/ risk more afraid of the vaccine but not correspondingly more afraid of covid?
• imperialauditor (2021-04-13): commission v omission? getting covid is an act of god vs taking the vaccine is your choice and you're responsible if anything happens to you? i wish i understood better
• easoncxz (2021-04-13): in hindsight… vox was pretty quick to get to covid here.
• imperialauditor (2021-04-13): fortunately these people are usually easily convinced to take the vaccine by someone they trust pointing out the increased covid risk it's not a super strong preference
• visakanv (2021-04-14): was watching this @wendoverpro video abt the impact of the covid shutdown of the global cruise industry, and the wife got v excited & emotional seeing all the cruise ships gather on a once-in-a-lifetime mission to send all their crew members home 🥲🛳
• thezvi (2021-04-15): covid post for this week is out, although if you're on twitter you mostly already know what it's going to say, because how could you not:
• petersuber (2021-04-15): update. "at least 97% of the funding for the development of the oxford/astrazeneca covid-19 vaccine has been identified as coming from taxpayers or charitable trusts."
• goblinodds (2021-04-16): pretty sure the same anons who were weeks/months ahead on covid are the same ones now saying masks arent helpful outdoors i expect they're getting shit from the same people who gave them shit the first go around this sound about right?
• goblinodds (2021-04-16): pretty sure the same anons who were weeks/months ahead on covid are the same ones now saying masks arent helpful outdoors i expect they're getting shit from the same people who gave them shit the first go around this sound about right?
• imperialauditor (2021-04-16): is there a @metaculus question on covid fatality risk demographics changing over time? (cf the 1918 pandemic second wave) googling and scrolling metaculus:pandemic didn't turn up anything
• ultimape (2021-04-16): hehe, boner pills for covid.
• ultimape (2021-04-16): "researchers are piecing together that surviving covid-19 may be associated with erectile dysfunction (ed). the research points to three factors that can lead to the potential onset of ed in men who have had the virus" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• ultimape (2021-04-16): "as is standard with vaccine development, none of the clinical trials for the covid-19 vaccines included people who were moderately to severely immunocompromised"
• ultimape (2021-04-16): "people should be counseled about the unknown vaccine safety profile and effectiveness in immunocompromised populations, the potential for reduced immune responses, and the need to continue to follow current guidance to protect themselves against covid-19"
• ultimape (2021-04-18): "evidence seem to support the idea that sars-cov-2 can infect the kidney, at least in severe cases that result in death of the patient. [...] statistically based trials to identify the virus in urine samples of patients with covid-19 are recommended"
• ultimape (2021-04-18): "we hypothesize that the soluble s1 subunits of the sars-cov-2 s protein shed [...] may bind to the ace2 [...] the experiments to test our hypothesis on the s1-mediated pathogenesis of covid-19 infection could be relatively simple and straightforward"
• ultimape (2021-04-18): "here we suggest that, in part, the presence of spike protein in circulation may contribute to the hypercoagulation in covid-19 positive patients and may cause substantial impairment of fibrinolysis."
• patio11 (2021-04-18): we're continuing to iterate on how we expose our data set to publishing partners, working with them to make both the data and the ux as valuable as possible to their users. if you'd like to see some results of this work, and live in california, google [covid vaccine near me].
• ultimape (2021-04-18): "evidence of the pathogenic herv-w envelope expression in t lymphocytes in association with the respiratory outcome of covid-19 patients"
• ultimape (2021-04-18): "upregulation of human endogenous retroviruses in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of covid-19 patients"
• tnorthcutt (2021-04-19): what do we currently ~know about if covid vaccination prevents you from infecting an unvaccinated person (e.g. your child)? i see plenty of "i've heard", "it sounds like", "someone told me", etc. is there ~consensus on this point?
• daniellefong (2021-04-19): damn, my dude here really did 'andrew yang tours new york' for a few months, got covid, kept doing it, and is now in the lead for the mayoral race.
• ultimape (2021-04-20): "we categorically do not think that transplant recipients or other immunosuppressed people should assume they are immune to covid after being vaccinated." — brian j. boyarsky, md to newsy [april 19, 2021] (on study? doi:10.1001/jama.2021.4385 )
• nobu_hibiki (2021-04-20): i am bracing myself for no in person classes again in the next semester due to the news of india's massive spike in covid cases, which if we're two peas in a pod indonesia will mimic just as well. a real massive bummer :/
• nobu_hibiki (2021-04-20): this is honestly a real bad news because if it's true then i'll probably will not have the time to experience "uni" as it truly is since the tail effect of covid will probably take effect until my graduation bright side is that employment will probably be good for my year lol
• natural_hazard (2021-04-21): </posting threads> another thing, as my bio proclaims if you live in nyc are within biking distance of prospect park, dm and let's talk and hang out! i moved to the city in the middle of covid which has made making new friends veeeeeeeeery slow
• yashkaf (2021-04-21): in the case of israel, "very high level of covid" means 120 daily cases (and dropping) and almost complete vaccine coverage of adults. who the fuck is coming up with these lists?
• easoncxz (2021-04-21): i'm honestly surprised that it took a year longer than i thought it would for india to fall into deep covid trouble.
• nobu_hibiki (2021-04-22): uni is only good for signaling and making friends (if not covid)
• thezvi (2021-04-22): new covid-19 post is up:
• hargup13 (2021-04-22): people checkout reddit india thread about covid resources as well. its fairly comprehensive
• visakanv (2021-04-23): when i visited sf in 2019, people offered to help me move – a place to stay, find me a job – but having that option made me realize i didn't want it. instead i want to visit every major city in the world. covid delayed this but i'm still gonna do it
• visakanv (2021-04-23): it excites me. i think of "people staring into screens" as the same as people who spent hours reading & writing letters to one another. covid interrupted this for a while, but meeting online friends has been a great joy of my life, arguably the great joy
• visakanv (2021-04-23): longest i've spent outside sg is a little over 2 weeks in sf, which i enjoyed. i was planning on visiting other major cities when covid hit. i still intend to visit. i doubt i would wanna make anywhere other than sg my home base though. but never say never
• nathanpmyoung (2021-04-23): a new malaria vaccine is 77% effective. malaria kills 400,000 people per year (about 1/7 of covid, but every year without fail). what. a. win. problems are solvable.
• visakanv (2021-04-23): india covid 2nd wave tweet
• patio11 (2021-04-24): we work with the federal government, some state and local governments, and partners in the community to collect, verify, and distribute information about where to get the covid-19 vaccine. we back official efforts & some of the largest publishers in the world, e.g. google maps.
• imperialauditor (2021-04-24): my aunt has covid :( so far no symptoms but it's really frustrating because if she'd come to [redacted] a couple of weeks ago like we were hoping she would have had her second vaccine dose by now (she's had one az dose)
• dschorno (2021-04-25): ok so in bc there's a 16 week wait to get the second pfizer shot, i'm still basically good to go re: not caring about covid right?
• nosilverv (2021-04-25): the world runs on poverty lol. covid demonstrated this: privileged workers could remote work, minimum wage “essential workers” had to risk their lives to keep the system running. these are people living paycheck to paycheck, the threat of starvation always around the corner.
• nosilverv (2021-04-25): idk what the worst of covid was, but the best was definitely the collective freaking out when women had the shocking realization that men don’t generally wash their hands lol
• hargup13 (2021-04-25): people, use to search through covid resources from multiple platforms. please rt for karma.
• visakanv (2021-04-26): i have a painful admission to make – a part of me has been trying to space out and avoid looking at the news about what's happening re: covid in india. it's just so staggeringly bad, heartbreaking, sad, rage-inducing. i've been trying to distract myself with work etc but i can't
• rickbenger (2021-04-28): what's a pandemic habit you've adopted that you'd like to keep post-covid?
• nosilverv (2021-04-28): (6) it's as covid-safe as you'll get 3 million out of 10 million people have been vaccinated. government predicts group immunity by the summer.
• nosilverv (2021-04-28): (9) even if you don't, you can stay as long as you want (until 2022) due to covid all visas are automatically renewed until the end of the year.
• nosilverv (2021-04-28): but, for real, there's a huge community of twitter peeps here and, of course you can't have parties during covid, but if you could then they'd be happening and you'd be very well received into them and they'd be popping
• nosilverv (2021-04-28): and if you were here you'd know: just before covid the music/dance scene was completely insane. new clubs forming and artitsts from different styles collabing, people from all social strata partying together (e.g.: techno and fucking fado)
• ultimape (2021-04-28): does anyone know if there are studies using arterial blood gases to monitor patients with covid? ties between stress related pathways and insulin are interesting here.
• mbateman (2021-04-28): hi, it's me, the guy at the center of the children's book/shipping logistics/covid-response internationalism venn diagram
• patio11 (2021-04-28): there are stark differences between nations in routine uptake of vaccinations, including among vulnerable populations, and the choice to treat the covid vaccines as "much closer to a flu shot than you'd expect" is downstream of this user behavior and the infra that supports this.
• thezvi (2021-04-29): weekly covid post is up:
• hargup13 (2021-04-29): an ex-collegue is no more, he died because of covid. he was 29. people please take care.
• drmaciver (2021-04-30): anyway i don't seem to have an actual fever and my temperature is now dropping back down, and a rapid antigen test says no covid, so probably a false alarm.
• brimmingvessel (2021-05-01): my grandparents got covid but are fortunately mostly recovered. i know of a few people - not personally, but people who were deeply cherished by people i cherish - who weren’t as fortunate
• the_wilderless (2021-05-02): and now, vietnam has a couple new covid cases (very rare here) and travel from city to city might shut down any minute, like it has every other time. the downside of that being: if my paperwork doesn’t go through, i need to travel up to hanoi to the central immigration office.
• nosilverv (2021-05-03): recently talked about heartache, gotta break heart until it opens, emotional memory reconsolidation etc. had covid so did tests, heart is 👌, but keep experiencing heart "earthquakes" - tons of tension release. this cannot possibly be surrounding muscle tension releasing can it!?
• annieposting (2021-05-03): finna get the covid vaccine in a few mins, w
• iconic_tweeter (2021-05-04): yaani 2 million adults are jobless because of covid... how come sijui hata mmoja. but this stat has stuck with me
• nathanpmyoung (2021-05-04): let's imagine there was another crisis in 5 years time. complex, deadly, but not very similar to covid. how do you think communication from experts would compare in terms of saving lives?
• friedkielbasa (2021-05-04): damn i can't believe i didn't make the connection. thiel bought property in nz which ended up handling covid "best". ngl i didn't expect nz to be world leader in disease prevention
• eigenrobot (2021-05-04): did nyt realize that not emphasizing a covid crisis was bad for business and so they switched from the us case figure to this much worse global figure to keep the cortisol flowing the world may never know
• rhyslindmark (2021-05-04): every time i post something about us covid opening, i have this weird cognitive dissonance where images of india, brazil, etc. come to mind. i'm not sure how to handle this lovingly. (both saying "open yay happy let's hang" and also "still sadness need more vaccines gogogo.")
• jd_pressman (2021-05-04): update on potential damage caused by covid spike proteins in vaccine formulations: tl;dr: the situation is a bit different so the vaccine is less likely to harm you than covid.
• xsphi (2021-05-04): some notable excerpts: "information about users who use this extension will be shared with local police." "its you who are the issue you cheap mongrel! i swear covid will get you" [issue title]: not an actual issue but thanks for being hero we need but dont deserve
• daniellefong (2021-05-05): with luck, the post covid boom will be the zaniest yet!
• noncanonicaleae (2021-05-06): covid quarantine in psych ward ://// 1 case, 1 week
• nathanpmyoung (2021-05-06): i would like @ourworldindata to compare covid to other diseases so i can see how significant it is compared to, say, the flu.
• noncanonicaleae (2021-05-06): i'm getting a covid vaccine plus new, gender-neutral glasses at the end of the week too.
• thezvi (2021-05-06): new covid post is out: had to resist calling it... well, other things, one of which was "what's in the box?"
• eigenrobot (2021-05-07): dr wu has used a foolproof online survey method to determine that since covid " . . . chinese citizens’ trust in their national government increased to 98 percent."
• petersuber (2021-05-07): update. "creative commons calls on the eu to show clear support for waiving covid vaccine patents."
• easoncxz (2021-05-07): an exhibition of this is how effectively anti-covid measures have worked here: because there aren't that many big fools to fuck things up for the rest of us.
• ultimape (2021-05-07): has anyone looked if covid can replicate in bacteria? this suggests that there are interplays between the two. with lots of reoccurring results in other papers.
• gptbrooke (2021-05-08): yes diplomacy game coming again soon now that i'm not long covid-ing
• bolster (2021-05-08): so. um. @bbcnewsline/@mlchealth, which is it? falling #covid risk or increased #clotting risk? (i'll still be getting my second #az, and you should too)
• leo_guinan (2021-05-08): i just published what’s next for creators in a post-covid world?
• visakanv (2021-05-09): what if we named covid variants not after the regions they emerged in, but after the political leaders in charge of said region
• nosilverv (2021-05-10): all my friends that were kinda freaking out about covid two months before everyone else are kinda freaking out about covid having a lab-origin
• nosilverv (2021-05-10): bros its really not this hard like, here's how to fucking make it in life in the internet day and age: - seek out the people who were telling you to buy crypto before it went parabolic / freaking out about covid earlier than everyone else front-run their predictions. that's it
• yashkaf (2021-05-10): ok, let me enlighten everyone. "because of covid" = "a change we wanted to make anyway for a long time but we knew we'd be asked for an explanation so we waited for a general-purpose excuse." examples:
• yashkaf (2021-05-10): kids need more breaks but football traditionally has two halves = because covid the grocery loses money 8-11 pm but cutting hours would upset people = because covid we have to print unlimited $ to keep boomers' index funds afloat despite stagnation = because covid
• yashkaf (2021-05-10): when your desires are met through screens as opposed to in-person or via physical infrastructure these desires are more legible as data and more malleable to nudging and control. those in power want you isolated in front of a screen but it's awkward to just say so = because covid
• yashkaf (2021-05-10): wow, this thread got dark quickly because of covid
• patio11 (2021-05-10): otherwise we can look forward to 2022 headlines like "schools in x closed for weeks on account of covid-19 outbreak."
• patio11 (2021-05-10): this, of course, generalizes across borders. how much should america care about covid-19 this summer, as case counts rapidly decline? like it is the defining challenge of our generation. almost no decision america makes matters as much as timeline and details of global impact.
• ultimape (2021-05-11): whelp. "the children who have died of covid-19 are, even more than among adults, disproportionately children of color — about three-quarters of those who’ve succumbed to covid so far, according to cdc data." [feb 21, 2021]
• ultimape (2021-05-11): brazil is getting hammered :( diabetes rates doi 10.1186/s12963-020-00209-0 vitamin d deficiency doi 10.1080/10408398.2018.1437711 map of covid spread from doi 10.1126/science.abh1558 icu beds from
• malcolm_ocean (2021-05-11): this is a cool summary though i'm a bit frustrated at an implicit generalization from "a particular covid skeptics community" to "anti-maskers" (as opposed to "these anti-maskers") lots of anti-maskers surely are not thinking much about science or epistemology.
• malcolm_ocean (2021-05-11): if you really wanted to be scientifically controversial though, you'd be advocating n95-p100 masks + lots of skin contact, since there's mounting evidence that covid's mostly airborne (and skin contact is super necessary for being healthy mammal)
• ultimape (2021-05-11): according to aap's report, as a percentage of cases, vermont has the highest proportion of children infected with covid. however taking into account our low case load in general, this may be misleading.
• ultimape (2021-05-11): a total of 306 childhood deaths attributed to covid over all. this report says that "childhood deaths" they tallied varies by state.
• ultimape (2021-05-11): rates of "covid-19–associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (mis-c)" that seem to be similar to kawasaki symptoms are quite low, but non zero. this reports two recent studies that cover comparative analysis.
• ultimape (2021-05-11): "here, we provide a comprehensive review of the current literature on post-acute covid-19, its pathophysiology and its organ-specific sequelae" i highlighted a section detailing mis-c
• ultimape (2021-05-11): i am unable to find regional rates of mis-c or other local rates of cases of post-acute covid-19 at this time.
• ultimape (2021-05-11): "country-wide level, children and youth have made up nearly 20 per cent of covid-19 cases but less than two per cent of hospitalizations, and very few of the country's roughly 25,000 deaths over the course of the pandemic — eight in total." [apr 29, 2021]
• tnorthcutt (2021-05-12): my son loves getting @theweekjuniorus in the mail, and he's featured in the most recent issue, talking about his new projects during covid, including a podcast! his key takeaway applies to anyone: "just start!" check out his podcast here:
• rhyslindmark (2021-05-12): article titles from the new journal of controversial ideas @jconideas: - can black make-up traditions ever be justified? - who cares? the covid-19 pandemic, global heating and the future of humanity - ultimate meaning: we don’t have it, we can’t get it, and we should be very sad
• nathanpmyoung (2021-05-12): huge respect to people who give away massive sums to effective charities. $1billion to covid india.
• patio11 (2021-05-13): it was really whiplash inudcing to be reading "don't wear masks; they don't work" from english-language sources while reading "japan doesn't have to worry about covid because we understand basic hygiene" last march. (both popular, wrong, and now memory holed despite evidence.)
• kcorazo (2021-05-13): 1/16 rewrite the stars with roam: let's exchange notes on how we bend the arc of fate with atomic task and project management. 12 months ago, in covid lock-down, i felt powerless, like never before. so i retreated to my graph. here's the story of what happened since then.
• thezvi (2021-05-13): new covid post is up:
• ultimape (2021-05-15): experts say to avoid painkillers before getting covid-19 vaccine and talk with your prescriber if you have concerns. but i am not an expert.
• the_wilderless (2021-05-15): police putting barricades up on our road; probably means there’s covid cases on our block 😔
• m_ashcroft (2021-05-16): the 'non-political' communication around covid in particular has been consistently clear and helpful, which is heartening to see (i don't mean decisions around lockdowns and stuff, but more the public health info)
• pepijndevos (2021-05-17): personally i'm like... i can't accurately evaluate the risks/benefits of covid/masks/vaccines, but better safe than sorry. no reason *not* to wear the best available mask and avoid crowded places like i always do, imo.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-05-17): can you forecast covid-19? if you think so, perhaps you should join this challenge. good forecasting helps us make decisions and helps save lives and restart normal life quicker.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-05-20): i've started doing community organising and resource management for the joint lab between the @alanturinginsti and the @royalstatsoc. the lab is working on data around covid building models to support decision-making. if you'd like to talk about this, comment or dm.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-05-20): sure, it's great when @vitalikbuterin gives a $1b to covid india. but with $3000 across our lives we can save a person who wouldn't live otherwise. and more power to vitalik. may he give $100b more. but we too can save lives. "it mattered to that one"
• daniellefong (2021-05-20): dogs as a covid rapid test achieve 97%/91% sensitivity / specificity in blinded test in french study. amazing! they are going to actually deploy them in air and seaports
• thezvi (2021-05-21): covid post is out. was too busy being outside without a mask. technically it's still thursday, right?
• vividvoid_ (2021-05-22): a beautiful thread about suffering, empathy and wisdom as we approach the end of the covid-19 mass traumatic event. worth reading in full.
• vividvoid_ (2021-05-23): for everyone's safety and well-being, i think the lgbtq community should stay home from pride this year. not because of covid or homophobic violence, but because pride fucking sucks.
• c_harwick (2021-05-23): the amazing thing about covid is that it laid bare the process of elite-consensus-formation in an arena where – unlike politics, usually – that consensus can be unambiguously factually evaluated a couple months later.
• danielbrottman (2021-05-24): well if i hadn't left school due to covid i would have graduated today. but instead i just spent two days fasting in the woods, and i'm not at all displeased with the trade-off.
• mattdsegal (2021-05-24): seems like almost no one is doing covid tests in melbourne after 5pm. seems like a cool and normal allocation of resources.
• annieposting (2021-05-25): bruh they warned me yesterday that i had to wait 15 minutes before leaving after i got my covid vaccine because i might faint, and i felt fine, and then i went to bed and it was impossible to sleep and rn i literally feel like im about to throw up and pass out at the same time
• ultimape (2021-05-26): washington post covid-19 lab leak fact check investigation thread see parent:
• mbateman (2021-05-26): in the covid culture wars, the left ended up on the side of abstinence only, and the right on the side of unchecked hedonism.
• noncanonicaleae (2021-05-26): the police called my last incident "st. covid" in their documents btw
• visakanv (2021-05-27): this pic makes me look like i have more $ in the bank than i do but actually hotel rooms were going extra cheap bc of covid
• nathanpmyoung (2021-05-27): which public figure deserves praise for their foresight on covid? (yeah yeah, i know loads of you were ahead of this, but i mean people other people have heard of 😛)
• thezvi (2021-05-27): new weekly covid post is up:
• nathanpmyoung (2021-05-27): this @80000hours intro from 2 years ago makes pretty mad reading. whether or not covid leaked from a lab, there should be insurance required labs like that. and some should be so costly that the labs don't exist.
• petersuber (2021-05-28): update. "last year, there was a push to get pharmaceutical companies to share their covid vaccine knowledge with the world. but none of the companies have voluntarily shared their expertise."
• adam_kranz (2021-05-29): do any of those covid face shields have spf??
• patio11 (2021-05-30): speaking of which: it is day 136 for and i have the update baton. today, as always, the most important thing we did was collect information on where to get the covid-19 vaccines and fan it out to places where vaccine seekers will think to look.
• nosilverv (2021-06-02): so, seems like finding a covid vaccine was a utter success. super fast, and whole new technology. why? why was it a success? is there a lot of funding constraint in the area and covid debottlenecked that? what happened?
• yashkaf (2021-06-02): covid showed that countries can do quite well by ignoring the global consensus and trusting their own expertise, which i really hope will translate to someone just going full nuclear with modern-design reactors. also, "atomkraft" sounds much more badass than "nuclear power".
• nathanpmyoung (2021-06-02): is there a thread of tweets where people were early and correct about covid? if not, tag tweets where people you follow made early correct predictions in tweets.
• thezvi (2021-06-03): weekly covid post is out, but it's short and there's nothing urgent. which is good since i didn't have much time this week in any case.
• daniellefong (2021-06-03): rw pundits migrating from covid is a hoax to covid is an engineered bioweapon showing how horseshoe theory is done
• nathanpmyoung (2021-06-04): we are vaccinating not just to stop people from getting covid, but to stop them from spreading it. young people are a big way it spreads, even if they don't get sick. this looks good to me. thanks to all the kids who took part in the trials. if you disagree, happy to talk.
• nosilverv (2021-06-04): covid vaccine? not lindy
• eigenrobot (2021-06-04): flying for the first time since covid impressions 1. almost 20 years after 9/11 there are still assholes ordering people to dump out their water. air travel is probably the place most likely mandatory masks continue forever
• rhyslindmark (2021-06-04): super cool. infrastructure for mutual aid. reminds me of other public funding infra like gitcoin, opencollective, etc. all of this was being done over google sheets at the start of covid. think you can do better? apply for a 25k-50k grant!
• ultimape (2021-06-05): "millions of other americans are also taking immunosuppressive drugs that might weaken the effect of the covid-19 vaccine, and they find themselves in uncharted territory, scared -- with good reason -- that their vaccinations might not have worked." 🤦‍♂️
• loopholekid (2021-06-05): the second half of this will be me hopefully having a belligerent time (might host an ingroup party in to post covid 👀)
• daniellefong (2021-06-06): wonder if the mrna vaccines (pfizer, moderna) work against long covid by flooding the body with enough spike protein that, in addition to rallying the immune system, it also binds to ace-2 and blocks whatever low lying infection with replication near 1, driving it to extinction
• mold_time (2021-06-06): covid often makes people lose their sense of smell did anyone else feel like their sense of smell got better for about 48 hours after getting the second / final shot?
• easoncxz (2021-06-06): yesterday i was grateful for: - no covid in nz - setting friends in person - not getting injured from a crash (mtb) today i was grateful for: - not abandoning this thread ( 😤 ) - still no arguments in the household (?) - a nap
• m_ashcroft (2021-06-06): 24h later: i have been feeling achey, tired and generally not all here for most of the afternoon. (it’s likely i had covid back in march 2020 so might be a kind of immune reaction i guess)
• ultimape (2021-06-08): "in may of 2020, icc launched icc aokpass, a blockchain-powered digital health passport that enabled travelers to present covid-19 test results at border control without compromising personal data."
• ultimape (2021-06-08): "co-developed by icc’s blockchain partner perlin and startup aokpass, the solution will allow businesses and other organizations to screen employees and users for covid-19, helping them resume pre-pandemic activities."
• mechanical_monk (2021-06-08): (coping with my @powerbottomdad1-sized post-covid gut)
• petersuber (2021-06-09): from @elliepses: "[during] the pandemic…@sci_hub_ kicked into overdrive. its number of daily users has grown 20%, from 500k to 600k…during lockdown, people accessed articles about covid-19 10 to 100 times more often than articles about other diseases."
• nobu_hibiki (2021-06-09): joining organizations and events probably will do it, and uni was (in theory) supposed to help with that, but covid is truly making me unable to do what i really want to do: meet people. argh temptation to just quit is v strong
• daniellefong (2021-06-10): really appreciate these videos from dr. john campbell explaining medical research / the state of covid for a wider audience. here he takes viewers through some more evidence that ivermectin is protective against covid & may also reduce transmission
• thezvi (2021-06-10): weekly covid-19 post is up: as post notes: i will be in nyc fri-wed, if you'd like to chat while i'm there, don't hesitate to ask - consider asking a free action.
• alexkrusz (2021-06-11): why does it not surprise me that the latest covid super spreader event, with lots of unvaccinated people despite widespread access to the vax, is a #bitcoin conference?
• rhyslindmark (2021-06-11): this! yay! the 1st irl internet archive event post-covid. see ya there next tuesday. 👋
• petersuber (2021-06-11): update. "despite numerous pleas for equitable access to covid-19 vaccines, large laboratories have still not budged, according to ngos and international institutions."
• ultimape (2021-06-12): did you know there are cases of prion related disorders as a result of being on an artificial kidney? lots of studies on how covid-19 impacts kidneys.
• ultimape (2021-06-12): what happens to the spike proteins when an infected cell bursts? “many patients with severe covid-19 are those with co-existing, chronic conditions, including high blood pressure and diabetes. both of these increase the risk of kidney disease,”
• ultimape (2021-06-12): "explore what experts know so far about covid-19 and [acute kidney injury]— including the outcome for people with both of these conditions — and what they still need to learn."
• nosilverv (2021-06-14): this video is amazing and would be front and center in a course on adversarial semiotics. see how they abuse metaphors (worm, infection, covid-like) to make (the incorrect) thoughts they want you to think trivial
• nosilverv (2021-06-14): people dunk on theater as a feignt but everything is theater nowadays: security theatre (airports, covid), and everyone's actors: journalists, politicians. "all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players" yes.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-06-14): the more i think about x the more i think we should have a wide confidence interval and that policy decisions should explicitly recognise our uncertainty. where x is at least: - covid - housing - drug regulation - correct amount of regulation
• nosilverv (2021-06-14): the european covid certificate is called digital green pass. you think this isn’t done to manipulate you. you are a retard
• patio11 (2021-06-15): a local clinic in tokyo, in an apparently widespread system, has a simple google form to register for their mottainai list. (difficult to translate but "it would be a shame to waste that" list is close.) simple, published rules for who gets a call for leftover covid-19 shots.
• daniellefong (2021-06-15): great article on a bold program to fund critical covid work on a fast timeline — a few excerpts
• nosilverv (2021-06-15): flu disappeared and also covid now has the same symptoms as flu no relation now
• askyatharth (2021-06-16): b.c. (before covid) and a.c.
• visakanv (2021-06-16): tbh i feel like twitter is starting to heal, we’re starting to debate pointless unhinged shit again. i still remember how like a month before covid (feb 2020) people were arguing about airplane seat etiquette. now we are back to arguing about batman eating pussy. i’m glad
• thezvi (2021-06-17): weekly covid post is up:
• pepijndevos (2021-06-18): so as far as i can tell covid-19 gives you blood cloths. the vaccines maybe, but it seems to be a few dozen per million at worst. this page says no cases have been reported for mrna vaccines.
• pepijndevos (2021-06-18): i'm looking into the blood cloth issue. i found an article that claimed mrna vaccines had similar numbers to astrazenca, but the linked paper is about incidence in covid-19 patients and explicitly states no conclusion about mrna can be be drawn.
• zrkrlc (2021-06-18): the long and short is: i have an immunocompromised mum and i don't want to get long covid, but my brother is in fucking-everything-that-moves mode anyway
• zrkrlc (2021-06-18): which makes sense to me because my utility function is like "i'd pay up to $50k dollars (i.e. 1/3rd of the median lifetime earnings in the philippines) to not get long covid and not have my mother die needlessly"
• zrkrlc (2021-06-18): and i get that this struggle is so "yesterday" and i should be celebrating with everyone that covid is essentially over in the countries that matter
• friedkielbasa (2021-06-19): what i got wrong wrt covid assumed us would control new rochelle + seattle clusters well never expected protests for reopening assumed the disease would come under control pre vaccine dismissed double masking, intuited that it would result in more leakage around masks
• igorbrigadir (2021-06-20): guy who was prescient enough about covid and masks early on but out-contrarianed himself into being anti-vax
• drmaciver (2021-06-21): question: covid (especially delta-variant) can transmit via vaccinated people, right? how much of this is driven by contact between vaccinated and unvaccinated? if a and b interact and a has covid, how does vaccination status of each affect transmission chances?
• the_wilderless (2021-06-22): the most common birth year in the us is 1991, so i’m now blaming covid on saturn’s return for that chunk of the populace
• blisstweeting (2021-06-22): a coworking space is not an option as 1) the third covid wave is surging in moscow and the city is full of antivaxxers and 2) she works from a desktop pc
• drmaciver (2021-06-23): one thing reasoning about covid risks really drives home is that point estimates are bullshit and you have to look at more of the actual distribution.
• jose_goncalves_ (2021-06-23): there is a new covid variant called delta plus. virologists are not using the naming scheme of smartphone manufacturers.
• jose_goncalves_ (2021-06-23): imagine if they used sony’s naming scheme: covid wnc19507c
• thezvi (2021-06-24): new weekly covid post is out, and i love that these are finally getting shorter every week:
• easoncxz (2021-06-24): (d24; casually skipped a day) today i'm grateful for: - no new covid cases - my shoes starting to dry again - ? i feel pretty grateful; but just want to head to bed for now.
• pepijndevos (2021-06-24): all possible vaccine side effects i've seen are much more common in covid itself. of course you got to multiply that with the chance of getting covid. purely hypothetically if p(covid) and p(severe) are 1e-3 and p(severe side effect) 1e-6 that's the same risk. hypothetically.
• pepijndevos (2021-06-24): this paper i linked a bit earlier says israel thinks myocarditis occurs 1/20k while numbers for the government article come out to 1/40k. most of them mild cases, half with preexisting conditions. still 10x rarer than my crude estimate of landing in the hospital from covid.
• pepijndevos (2021-06-24): 10% of *infected* people report long covid symptoms after 12 weeks 🤯
• pepijndevos (2021-06-24): and 100x rarer than p(covid)*p(long covid). even with me being low risk and the numbers going down, that seems like a pretty good deal. i could get vaccinated every day and the risk would be a similar order of magnitude lol
• ultimape (2021-06-25): "results are the first to show the direct impact that the sars-cov-2 spike protein could have on brain endothelial cells; thereby offering a plausible explanation for the neurological consequences seen in covid-19 patients."
• jose_goncalves_ (2021-06-25): plot twist: i have covid
• easoncxz (2021-06-25): > fully vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more than 853,000 covid-19 hospitalizations. that’s about 0.1% > about 150 of the more than 18,000 covid-19 deaths in may were in fully vaccinated people. that translates to about 0.8%
• zrkrlc (2021-06-26): i know covid these days isn't a death sentence anymore but it's still guaranteed debt here: most people i know who got covid have 10-20k usd in hospital bills i don't know where to get that kind of money from, will probably have to slave away for 8+ years to pay that kind of $$
• easoncxz (2021-06-26): (d25, lazily skipped another day) today i'm grateful for: - no new covid cases - not living with my family - my other pair of shoes remaining dry despite riding in the rain today was a frustrating day. two rounds of bullshit chinese-family arguments in the house.
• nobu_hibiki (2021-06-27): plans also means if it goes the way we expect it to be i might have to move again in the next few month which will be fun :3 i havent done much in the current place (dratz the rising covid nombers) but jakarta is jakarta, it wont go away if i look away for a few years
• nobu_hibiki (2021-06-27): sad that i wont experience the typical uni life but alas covid doesnt look like its ending anytime in the near future (probably not until mid of 2022) and this plan looks real dope so might as well spend my time wisely there
• gptbrooke (2021-06-27): how to party (and twitter) brookestyle: oh this group of people is talking about politics? cool, go wander to meet other people for a bit but wait they're talking about covid now?? no worries, just go grab some random people to do fun stuff with for a bit rinse, repeat
• the_wilderless (2021-06-28): i stopped keeping track forever ago, but— did we ever get some kind of consensus around prophylactic measures against covid? i’m traveling unvaxed in a couple weeks, should i be pounding vitamin d and zinc or what?
• nathanpmyoung (2021-06-28): imagine there are booster shots available for those who want them. if there are future covid restrictions on pubs bars and restaurants, what is the chance most restrictions won't apply to those who have had booster shots?
• jose_goncalves_ (2021-06-28): covid victory of the day: woke up with no fever
• lericdax (2021-06-28): corvid in the age of covid
• visakanv (2021-06-29): i bet airbnb will 🚀 post-covid. uber i’m not so sure about anymore
• puheenix (2021-06-29): emerging data on #ivermectin now challenges the nih/who/cdc story that these emergency-approved vaccines were necessary. that story relies on optics, too: that there's no existing, safe, effective treatment or prevention for covid. and there's *trillions* in it for big pharma.
• mykola (2021-06-29): we have to speak up about this, we can't let them continue to do this. the population of people living with me is expected to at least double and possibly triple thanks to covid. those people can't just be dismissed, me is real and life-destroying.
• mykola (2021-06-29): a final note - many of you have people in your lives who got covid and haven't fully bounced back. that's real, that's not in their heads. they need your patience, love and support as they navigate an extremely difficult situation.
• mykola (2021-06-29): it's my last day tweeting from this house. it's been a blessing to spend most of the past year in this beautiful beach-side cottage with my partner as she convalesced*. *spent every day working to help avert the global long covid crisis, with no pay and a high stakes audience.
• the_wilderless (2021-06-30): also, the covid travel restrictions that basically just disappear if you have 10 or 20k to pay for some kind of deluxe visa in various countries.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-06-30): slowly updating in favour of covid being around for years. i guess i still think we could quarantine and suppress, but feeling more and more like we won’t. hanson was talking about a slightly different thing last year but i thought he was too pessimistic. i was wrong
• nathanpmyoung (2021-07-01): the fda sent a cease and desist to the washington* flu study group for studying covid in feb 2020. great work /s
• thezvi (2021-07-01): weekly covid post is out:
• petersuber (2021-07-01): during the pandemic, "data professionals in academic libraries sprang into action to help. they shared resources, developed workshops, helped find alternative methods of carrying out research, & found ways of coping with the influx of covid-related data."
• drmaciver (2021-07-01): so when do you think covid-19 is going to get an official emoji?
• nobu_hibiki (2021-07-03): my head is not clear. i want to go out. i know that going out helps. but covid cases is rising. hng.
• mykola (2021-07-03): if you got covid over a month ago and you still don’t feel recovered, rest! you have #longcovid and it could turn into me/cfs. these are serious disabilities, not something to gloss over or push through. if you aren’t facing that squarely you risk pushing yourself and suffering.
• mechanical_monk (2021-07-03): i'd like to see a chart of people by birth year, showing what percentage of each birth year have heard of the 1957 pandemic before covid hit i for one haven't it's going to be interesting to see covid completely vanish from collective memory over the next few decades
• mechanical_monk (2021-07-03): (the 1957 being afaict the last pandemic of comparable impact to covid)
• selonnerias (2021-07-04): had my first covid vaccine a few days ago. muscles kinda hurt for a day or two, but not that much more than a too intense workout would do.
• goblinodds (2021-07-04): love @uber's policy of making you wear a mask while hotboxing you with drivers who keep their windows closed, makes perfect sense given what we know about covid
• goblinodds (2021-07-04): love @uber's policy of making you wear a mask while hotboxing you with drivers who keep their windows closed, makes perfect sense given what we know about covid
• imperialauditor (2021-07-06): came across a fundraiser for an brilliant student from a poor country trying to attend an elite (boarding-)school in the us, who 'missed the deadline for financial aid due to covid' i was a bit thrown if they're so brilliant, why does the school care more about deadlines?
• malcolm_ocean (2021-07-06): finally turned off google news "breaking news" alerts after they kept being completely unnewsworthy events like "more covid cases" and "sports team victory" and "shooting in the usa"
• jose_goncalves_ (2021-07-06): officially covid free
• nathanpmyoung (2021-07-06): if you care about reducing death/disease/ severe covid, this is a pretty encouraging picture.
• ultimape (2021-07-07): "the observational study, published in the online journal bmj nutrition prevention & health, found that for every hour of extra sleep the healthcare worker got they lowered their odds of becoming infected with covid-19 by 12%."
• m_ashcroft (2021-07-07): it's difficult to tell where the line is though i guess from the inside you may think you've studied enough to go against experts plenty of people who read a lot about covid think they know more than virologists and epidemiologists, for example you might even be right
• drmaciver (2021-07-07): update: i'm on a tube and i do not like it. apparently what i miss is specific to the experience of being on the tube without having to fearfully wonder if each person here might give me covid-19. (i'm double vaccinated so it's not a huge worry but i don't want to pass it on)
• ultimape (2021-07-08): really makes you think... "scientists will soon begin proper clinical trials to see if poop transplants really can help people recover from covid-19."
• thezvi (2021-07-08): new weekly covid post is out:
• mbateman (2021-07-09): ideally, this won't impact schools *at all*. but getting in front of these bets, in terms of policy and messaging, is a real challenge. we have 90 private schools in geographies with divergent covid cultures and mean risk profiles. navigating this at a system level is tough.
• mbateman (2021-07-09): four bets: 1. going into the fall, there will be another (smaller) "wave" of covid cases nationally. 2. it will predominantly be in young people and school-aged children. 3. the increase in hospitalizations and deaths will be muted. 4. nothing will change for the vaccinated.
• ultimape (2021-07-09): "prevailing theory [covid] induces the production of cytokines, in particular il-6, and [they] are a key driver of both lung damage and mortality. [...] crucial to recognize the uncertainty surrounding the role of il-6 in viral infections" [august 4, 2020]
• moonboi_ (2021-07-10): waiting for a "which covid-19 variant are you?" personality quiz
• nobu_hibiki (2021-07-11): to some extend i think i truly have given up making the next two year worth while and might have succumbed to the pressure as no amount of planning seems to be doable due to covid. just, stick your head down low and do the bare minimum to come out somewhat better.
• ultimape (2021-07-11): "aim the present study aims to elucidate the potential causal association between tobacco use (smoking and snus) and covid-19 using a population-based cohort study." (estimated primary completion date august 31, 2021)
• petersuber (2021-07-11): new study: "there was no correlation between quality of reporting and either the journal impact factor or the article altmetric attention score in early studies on covid-19."
• jd_pressman (2021-07-12): the application to the stock market 'failing to predict' covid is left as an exercise for the reader.
• jd_pressman (2021-07-13): there's an esoteric interpretation of covid-19 as sparsely coordinated months-long general and rent strike that makes more sense than the standard narrative. the state acquiescing to the publics demands even as landlords become unable to pay their landlords. acausal revolution.
• daniellefong (2021-07-15): feel pretty inflamed and shitty today, hope it’s not the covid, or if it is, hope what i’m feeling is my body fighting it off. blech
• thezvi (2021-07-15): new covid post is out:
• the_wilderless (2021-07-16): today we got the runaround between three different hospitals to try and get our covid test before flying out, taxiing all over town, being told to go here & there, this price that price, jerked every which way, ..,i kinda loved it. it feels like i’m traveling again already 😊
• mykola (2021-07-16): we are in for a new covid spike, and it’s going to decimate unvaccinated populations. please get your jabs, before it’s too late.
• mechanical_monk (2021-07-16): i'm anxious about more lockdowns i'd be less anxious (and furious?) if i at least knew how many years of life are lost to covid & how many are roughly saved by the lockdowns and how that compares to deleting 1–2 years from the life of every single person and tanking the economy
• eigenrobot (2021-07-16): going to keep posting here to track things this airport is near durban no idea whether this is out of the ordinary it might be a bit, covid is still real in sa
• iaimforgoat (2021-07-16): this could've been faster without the covid lockdown, but i had no control over it so it is how it is... now the results of this experiment. 1st december | now | diff weight 87.45 75.20 -12.25 kg bmi 28.6 24.6 -4 body fat 23.6%17.7% -5.9%
• iaimforgoat (2021-07-16): i've managed to follow it almost to the end (decided to not go 2 days when i was recovering from the covid vaccination), but it doesn't really matter if i follow it perfectly... the guideline is there to guide, not to rule.
• elodesnl (2021-07-16): at least before covid there were a ton of real-life skills i wanted to improve (socializing, improvising, flirting, confidence, etc.) suggesting a ton of corresponding activities to spend money on (dance classes/parties, improv comedy, authentic relating workshops) now? nothing.
• bolster (2021-07-16): so @nidirect finally have a "plan" for covid passports after the 19th, however, they require an nidirect identity account.... and the sign-up is broken. fantastic...
• nathanpmyoung (2021-07-17): if we could come to ethical compromises i guess we could have had these things earlier: - approved vaccines - human challenge trials - covid restrictions and relaxations - cultivated meat - gene engineering in healthcare - ai governance
• mykola (2021-07-17): (i'm specifically inspired in this project by the work done by @ahandvanish and the @patientled research team. if you're not familiar with them, they are a group of data scientists that all got long covid, found each other, and have led research on it for over a year.)
• daniellefong (2021-07-17): i’ll be “officially” fully vaxxed (vs wild type covid) at 3 this afternoon (haha yeah i know things are not so precise) thanks canada, thanks nyc! i’m both feeling super fortunate and relieved but also dreading the delta (and other variants) and what is sure to come thereafter.
• eigenrobot (2021-07-17): upon it once stood the temple and about it were enacted the rites of mystery, when the priests and elders spoke of the 'long covid,' when the drums beat till dawn and wild dances maddened the blood
• eigenrobot (2021-07-18): i havent been paying much attention to covid lately and i dont have strong opinions about any of it nevertheless this thread seems plausible at least oh well
• mykola (2021-07-19): covid means we are about to be awash in a huge population permanently disabled by me/cfs. these people need our support, patience, and insistence that their disease needs attention and support. this is a neuroimmune condition but insurance co’s call it psychological to not pay.
• eigenrobot (2021-07-20): i wonder if the most succinct way to interpret a lot of what has happened in the past year is "riots were basically caused by covid" i mean this in the following sense
• angularocean (2021-07-20): went back to the gym today after a months’ break (vacation and then covid + recovery). my numbers weren’t great but it felt *good*
• visakanv (2021-07-21): just had a coleridge moment. i took a nap, and in that nap i was on vacation, and on that vacation i was perfectly relaxed, and then i woke up and realized that i have been chronically tense and stressed ever since covid started
• m_ashcroft (2021-07-21): it’s funny, even though we have passed “freedom day” in the uk, with all covid restrictions lifted, i find i want to wear a mask even more than before given that there is now a lot of covid about, while it was basically gone a month ago.
• m_ashcroft (2021-07-21): for the record i have had covid and one vaccine dose but that doesn’t mean i can’t get it again and i’d rather not
• thezvi (2021-07-22): new weekly covid-19 post is up:
• petersuber (2021-07-23): update. "women were substantially under-represented as authors among articles in leading medical journals [in 2020, but] barriers to women’s authorship…during covid-19 are not significantly larger than barriers that preceded the pandemic."
• bolster (2021-07-23): new @nidirect #covidcert update: 1. the passport/selfie verification is very broken, but be patient 2. the covidcert stage (after verification) just needs your vaccine appointment, hsc number, and travel dates/info 3. scanning the second qr into the rot covid tracker; just works!
• m_ashcroft (2021-07-23): i'm not much a covid watcher, but it's intriguing to see the uk's cases dropping off in the week that we lifted all restrictions i wonder if this is 'high uptake of vaccines prioritised by groups at risk' + 'lots of people have had covid already'
• askyatharth (2021-07-23): i saw a poster for a “science discussion night for non-scientists.” they were going to discuss all sorts of things like epigenetics and covid and aero.
• pepijndevos (2021-07-24): but two weeks later i still felt kinda the same. until i noticed it got worse the more i freaked out about it and spent a couple of days trying very hard to not focus on any covid stuff, which almost completely made it go away.
• mykola (2021-07-24): this is a sobering thread and one worth your time. the tldr is that people infected with covid see measurable cognitive deficits against control groups. my read is that covid is doing potentially permanent brain damage to everyone who gets it - not just those with long covid?
• lukeallenmiller (2021-07-25): let's run the scenario. some media platform trots out an expert to talk about covid-19 (or anything else for that matter). do you believe that expert is only (or even primarily?) concerned with the truth? do you believe the platform seriously considered opposing viewpoints?
• nathanpmyoung (2021-07-25): the uk policy forecast #2 has just been sent: - northern irish reunification referendum before 2030 (41%) - house price crash before 2023 (10%) - nationwide covid restrictions to be reintroduced (70%) let me know what you think
• mykola (2021-07-26): this is kind of a huge deal for folks with long covid, and sets an important precedent. long covid is _real_, is _disabling_, and is creating a population that _needs care and support_. biden acknowledging that long covid can be seriously disabling feels huge, to me.
• daniellefong (2021-07-27): just heard that someone cured their covid related anosmia (lack of smell) after an lsd trip; after a glance at the literature this effect has been reported quite frequently. n.b. there's probably an opportunity for like, guided trips with high quality perfumes and essential oils
• drmaciver (2021-07-28): i was thinking about this for pandemic reasons and covid variations obviously. it's a really interesting selection pressure. there it's not just about hospital size, but also about hospitalisation rate of the current variants.
• petersuber (2021-07-28): update. "how can tenure and promotion procedures adequately reflect gendered disparities in covid impact?"
• tyleralterman (2021-07-28): do you know anyone who got covid after two shots of vax? i know 3 ppl like this now
• mbateman (2021-07-28): we have almost a hundred schools scattered across the us. whatever you think our covid-related policy should be, going into the fall, there will be some school location where that policy is not legal.
• thezvi (2021-07-29): new weekly covid post is out:
• tyleralterman (2021-07-29): given that delta variant is running wild, what should be the policy of a two-shot-vaxxed person who (a) really doesn’t want to get long covid but (b) is enjoying having a social life again?
• mbateman (2021-07-30): 9/11: man vs. man gfc: man vs. himself covid: man vs. nature
• mykola (2021-07-30): how fucked up is it that this is an "internal" report and not public knowledge? who in the cdc is more focused on preventing panic than on preventing covid? because that's the wrong priority. i don't want to get sick, but if delta or worse keeps spreading i probably will.
• tyleralterman (2021-07-30): the best thing i did during covid is to bubble-up in beautiful, secluded locations with ~30 friends. i think ppl should start planning new bubbles now, before new travel restrictions hit. just in case!
• yashkaf (2021-07-30): going traveling with @tresterese although we're not sure where because everywhere we tried to book either goes exponential with covid or just cancels our reservations. all we have so far are submission and nanomolecules.
• natural_hazard (2021-07-30): hearsay has it that the pre-covid baseline rate of vacancies in nyc luxury rentals was 40% wtf, can i get corroboration and explanation?
• daniellefong (2021-07-30): re: personal covid policy delta wave. beyond getting vaxxed (which i recommend to ~everybody, even sneaking a 3rd shot if you can), how do you handle masking and gatherings? @tyleralterman asked me to look at this policy: & it is basically reasonable.
• goblinodds (2021-07-31): if you're already fully vaccinated: what best describes your level of covid caution this weekg
• goblinodds (2021-07-31): if you're already fully vaccinated: what best describes your level of covid caution this weekg
• mykola (2021-07-31): the mid-term consequences of long covid are terrifying, with many cases turning into me/cfs after six months. me/cfs is one of the worst conditions you can have with some of the least research around it. you don't want it, it means your body doesn't produce enough energy.
• mykola (2021-07-31): the short-term consequences of long covid are debilitating. pots, dysautonomia, chronic pain etc are bad enough in isolation. they're bad enough that you won't be able to easily do the normal things in your life, like walking up a flight of stairs.
• mykola (2021-07-31): i know i talk about this kind of a lot because my partner has long covid and seeing it first hand sucks. but i want to drive this point home: if you get "mild" covid your odds of getting long covid go way up. long covid is something you do not want.
• mykola (2021-07-31): the long-term consequences of long covid? well, we don't know. but we see people not improving or in some cases getting worse even a year or more after getting sick with "mild" covid. what're their lives going to be like in ten years? you. do. not. want. this.
• mykola (2021-07-31): if you want to know more, follow my partner @ahandvanish who along with her colleagues at @patientled are doing valiant unpaid volunteer work to help identify and describe this condition. they published, while sick, a survey of long covid patients that is now cited everywhere.
• daniellefong (2021-07-31): super annoying / unfortunate that the delta covid is presenting with symptoms with so much overlap with colds / allergies / hangover / caffeine withdrawal, 😣
• strangestloop (2021-08-01): 2. it's fine to follow a crowd if the crowd consists of people whose judgment you trust. i was covid vaccine-hesitant until i learned that many of the most intelligent people i know were getting vaccinated.
• goblinodds (2021-08-01): hm i keep hearing the term "walk-in covid testing" but turns out everything is by appointment only oops
• goblinodds (2021-08-01): hm i keep hearing the term "walk-in covid testing" but turns out everything is by appointment only oops
• ultimape (2021-08-02): you learn about covid-19 induced erectile dysfunction, likely impacting millions of people. you:
• relic_radiation (2021-08-02): why is health discourse around covid limited to masks & vaccines? seems like a wasted opportunity improve collective health. cooking whole foods, tuning into our bodies & relationships, opting out of imposed stress. imagine public health coaching, on top of the other stuff.
• daniellefong (2021-08-02): feeling negative about my rapid covid test result 😜
• ultimape (2021-08-03): did you know they can train dogs to detect covid?
• ultimape (2021-08-03): what does covid smell like to a rat?
• patio11 (2021-08-03): (flip side of this: possible that reports of long covid and other sequelae from viral infections are maybe less causationally related and more needing a name to discuss one’s present position on the health distribution, where causation for that is beyond current medical science.)
• patio11 (2021-08-03): i’d note that if long covid is actually a thing then we should think very seriously about “ok, given this, what is the appropriate budget/timescale to investigate long flu and if it actually exists how quickly should we obliterate the flu virus?”
• visakanv (2021-08-03): starbucks in the age of covid (2021)
• tyleralterman (2021-08-03): however there are downsides of the village-in-a-town approach not shared by the village-farm to consider: a. inability to build or have your own aesthetic b. harder to coordinate during disasters - eg maintain bubbles in future covid variants and future pandemics
• ultimape (2021-08-04): the science article in question seems relatively sound and fits my own thinking of covid-19 related vascular induced dick rot. i wanna check some facts. having an accurate model of risk in this space is important to me.
• yashkaf (2021-08-04): if you're smart enough to figure out better covid advice than the cdc, you should be smart enough to know where to find pertinent data and discuss it with smart people without running afoul of the censors. same for buying drugs online with monero or whatever.
• mykola (2021-08-05): this is sort of my operational understanding. covid isn’t going away just like the flu never went away. so i’m trying to find a balance between “be careful” and “love my life”. i don’t want to accept that i am going to get it, i don’t want it. but not enough ppl are vaccinated.
• thezvi (2021-08-05): new weekly covid post is up:
• loopholekid (2021-08-05): this is the result of about a month of semi-regular vocal practice after a long period of inactivity and it really reinstated the confidence i have in my ability as a performer. i have my first studio session in a long while (fuckin' covid, amirite?) and i'm so amped
• goblinodds (2021-08-05): so i've been on a mini vacation while my current gig wraps, looking for the next gig and uhhh turns out the guy who picked up a project i had to pass on awhile back got a reaaaaal bad case of covid and is recovering slowly so now the project's back in my court
• goblinodds (2021-08-05): so i've been on a mini vacation while my current gig wraps, looking for the next gig and uhhh turns out the guy who picked up a project i had to pass on awhile back got a reaaaaal bad case of covid and is recovering slowly so now the project's back in my court
• eigenrobot (2021-08-05): im in c and if im gonna be real with myself its mostly because im bored of covid. make of this what you will
• yashkaf (2021-08-05): i still think group a is mostly not about covid but about social anxiety. it's introverts who hate socializing (including in the office) and don't want to go back to "normal" when they are pressured to go out and do so. in a survey i ran on this they were 30% of respondents.
• yashkaf (2021-08-06): - "hell is other people" - haha yes, you said it! - "the longer i spend with people, the more i like cats" - ain't that the truth! - "25-30% of people never want to socialize again or be pressured to do so" - oh no covid misinformation we must explain that vaccine breakthrough ar
• igorbrigadir (2021-08-06): guy who's gonna get his eu covid certificate tattooed, but only the qr code finder patterns so that the actual code can later be temporarily tattooed in case it gets updated later
• igorbrigadir (2021-08-06): guy who missed his train stop making up covid vax guys
• goblinodds (2021-08-06): main concern atm is whether i should hole up until the respiratory itching goes away (it's not covid but i expect covid doesnt play well with this sort of thing?? am i being overly cautious??)
• goblinodds (2021-08-06): main concern atm is whether i should hole up until the respiratory itching goes away (it's not covid but i expect covid doesnt play well with this sort of thing?? am i being overly cautious??)
• easoncxz (2021-08-07): and what happened to "traveling to meet your friends to do some art"? (even before covid, this doesn't seem like a thing in my view of the world.) the idea of several people hanging out together over a decade creating a scene is very real.
• yashkaf (2021-08-07): was talking with @majazalozznik about the public's innumeracy on covid. i think she sees statistical education as akin to geography, a subject anyone could learn if taught well. i see it more like music, a unique conceptual framework of the world that is very hard to apprehend.
• yashkaf (2021-08-07): "10% of unvaccinated people got covid in a given period, 0.5% of them died. for vaccinated it was 2% and 1.5%. what risk of myocarditis would make the vaccine worth it?" this question is so hard* that perhaps no one before the 20th c. could answer it. *sure you got it right?
• m_ashcroft (2021-08-07): since following @p_millerd my hair has gained several inches, i got the covid and i put on a couple of kg of muscle, this man is powerful
• daniellefong (2021-08-07): business logic seems to dictate that ai/ml models will be deployed before they are good, as a cost saving measure. reports abound with people getting flagged as covid misinformation on e.g. youtube for saying that they're getting the vaccine and you should too 🤷🏻‍♀️
• ultimape (2021-08-08): i find it so fascinating that i've had "long-covid" since puberty. "professor tim spector principal investigator of the zoe covid symptom study app, has said that nails which show a prominent ridge could be a sign that someone has had coronavirus already"
• the_wilderless (2021-08-08): is the suicide squad the first movie i’ve really really liked since covid started? i feel like it’s been mostly a wave of shit for the past year or two.
• visakanv (2021-08-09): 56 today! the parade is just ceremonial this year because of covid
• visakanv (2021-08-09): our president is so small 😂❤️ normally she would stop along the parade inspection to talk to random soldiers but it looks like that’s being avoided i suppose also for covid purposes
• tnorthcutt (2021-08-09): is there a compelling reason to think that scenario z as described by @vgr back in january isn't where we'll end up with covid?
• goblinodds (2021-08-09): rn i seem to have a lingering chest cold-- idk if this increases or decreases my risk in the event of catching covid i dont want to stop going to the climbing gym (read: stop exercising entirely again) but maybe i should give it another week to see if it clears up a r g h
• goblinodds (2021-08-09): rn i seem to have a lingering chest cold-- idk if this increases or decreases my risk in the event of catching covid i dont want to stop going to the climbing gym (read: stop exercising entirely again) but maybe i should give it another week to see if it clears up a r g h
• goblinodds (2021-08-09): if you're already fully vaccinated: what best describes your level of covid caution this week
• goblinodds (2021-08-09): if you're already fully vaccinated: what best describes your level of covid caution this week
• bolster (2021-08-10): in the continuing adventures of an ulsterman-in-france-during-covid, the @healthdpt #covidcert isn't recognised as having a valid certificate by the #passsanitaire. no idea under the dcc spec if that's a french or a ni fuckup....
• tyleralterman (2021-08-10): is it really too much to ask, nyc, to have a place that: • is covid-safe outdoors • with wifi • and outdoor power outlets • that’s open until 10 • where i can stay for 5 hrs while i write my novel??? (probably yes)
• goblinodds (2021-08-11): i get that ~covid~ but the idea that it's cool and normal for doctors to be too busy for you is so sketch if i'm gonna let someone poke around at my body i want to feel like i can trust them
• goblinodds (2021-08-11): i get that ~covid~ but the idea that it's cool and normal for doctors to be too busy for you is so sketch if i'm gonna let someone poke around at my body i want to feel like i can trust them
• mykola (2021-08-11): disengaging with long covid denier twitter for the day, i don’t have the spoons for them.
• mykola (2021-08-11): do you get that every second the medical community wastes arguing about whether these symptoms are even real is another second where a few more people are disabled for life? we don't even know how bad the long-term effects of long covid are going to be.
• mykola (2021-08-11): so when someone says that long covid deniers are the aids deniers of our time, this is what they're saying. that these people are distractions from the real struggle, and that their opinions aren't worth our collective attention. history will show them to have been irrelevant.
• forshaper (2021-08-11): covid hit this area harder than anywhere i've been, but they appear to be on an upward recovery, as in the worst happened last year.
• forshaper (2021-08-11): the gym i'm training at appears to function like an extended family unit. as such, when covid hit them, it hit all of them. one person's mother died, everyone else appears fine.
• visakanv (2021-08-11): humanity needs you to contribute a like to the anti-covid spirit bomb
• thezvi (2021-08-12): new weekly covid post is up: (and by the worst, of course, i mean cuomo.)
• drmaciver (2021-08-12): btw, this is your reminder that: 1. if you are in the uk, at home covid testing is available freely from every pharmacy and you should get some. 2. an at home test and isolating if positive prior to risky behaviour probably cuts your risk of transmitting covid by 90%.
• gptbrooke (2021-08-12): okay finally saw a rheumatologist she wants to run a couple more tests just to be sure but she said she doesn't think it's lupus and does think it's long covid
• yashkaf (2021-08-13): if you need to comprehend what the ingroup believes on some actionable topic like covid you can't look it up on a wiki. you have to spend time actually getting to know everyone personally, understand when they're sarcastic and when they're sincere. this is a feature, not a bug.
• mykola (2021-08-13): so when you see people dismissing anyone’s long covid as psychosomatic, you can know they’re in the same historical company with people who have said the same about everything from diabetes to aids. that certainty is misplaced, and this suffering is very real.
• yashkaf (2021-08-13): yes. i'd guess most antivaxxers are motivated by something like "the threat of my outgroup (bureaucrats/"experts") overreaching into my personal life is more salient than the threat of covid" and not by any particular belief about antibodies or mrna.
• yashkaf (2021-08-15): israelis clapping when the plane lands in tel aviv never gets old. the big tent where everyone gets covid tested before they're allowed in the country... i hope that gets old soon.
• eigenrobot (2021-08-16): least everyone stopped tweeting about covid
• daniellefong (2021-08-17): helping a brilliant friend out with a "better and cheaper than regeneron" treatment for covid (vaccines are gret obviously but there are still breakthrough cases & people who won't vax, can be updated for variants) looking for ~angel cheques to fill out a round; dm if interested
• erikbjare (2021-08-17): had my second covid-19 shot (moderna) yesterday 💉 not feeling great 😬
• eigenrobot (2021-08-17): one way you can take this is, as permission to stop thinking about covid
• easoncxz (2021-08-18): surprisingly, i'm feeling a bit restless about the current covid lockdown. main reasons: - more people in the house, more arguments imminent. - queuing at the supermarket means unpredictable shopping times and that i have to plan meals ahead and shop less frequently.
• visakanv (2021-08-18): one day when covid is done, many of us will coordinate a trip to japan. it’ll happen, i can feel it. even the lesser weebs amongst us desire this
• ultimape (2021-08-18): all the symptoms of what i believe is rrms flair up (that includes losing my legs) exhibits all the ones we see in covid, even down to not being able to smell.
• ultimape (2021-08-18): "immunocompromised are more likely to transmit the virus that causes covid-19 to household contacts. also, small studies suggest that fully vaccinated immunocompromised people accounted for a large proportion (40–44%) of hospitalized breakthrough cases."
• ultimape (2021-08-18): "there is not enough data at this time to determine whether immunocompromised people who received the johnson & johnson’s janssen covid-19 vaccine also have an improved antibody response following an additional dose of the same vaccine."
• nosilverv (2021-08-18): twitter anons record vs “experts”: covid ✅ afghanistan ✅ inflation ⏳
• thezvi (2021-08-19): weekly covid post is up:
• daniellefong (2021-08-20): call option on endemic covid variants haunting us repeatedly
• eigenrobot (2021-08-20): synthesis: biden is fucking up everything because he has long covid
• visakanv (2021-08-21): this is what the irl version of my mentions looks like (to be continued post-covid)
• easoncxz (2021-08-21): that moment when you realise the news was misinformation. this is why people don't believe in masks or covid etc -- the papers aren't even actually reliable. thr media needs to do better. thread:
• pepijndevos (2021-08-22): can't imagine we eradicate it, cant imagine yoyoing restrictions forever. so how much will be accepting covid amongst major death causes, and how much will be permanent restrictions?
• easoncxz (2021-08-24): i'm just doing a bit of back-of-the-envelope math for nz's covid lockdown economic numbers… "$1.5 billion per week" lost in the economy averages out over 5 million people as ~$300/wk/pp. do you folks spend $300/wk on non-essential items? ???
• visakanv (2021-08-24): i *was* planning on doing like monthly dinner parties when covid hit
• nathanpmyoung (2021-08-24): someone dear to me got covid and was rushed to hospital. isn't vaccinated. i really hope he gets better. if you're older than 50, i really think you should get vaxxed it's your body, if you don't want to, fair. but if you are on the fence, don't put your loved ones through this
• vividvoid_ (2021-08-24): i have begun to accept that we, as a society, will fail to defeat covid, via vaccines or any other public health intervention. it seems pointless to fight about this any more, as fighting about it was one of the main reasons we failed. honest question: what's next?
• visakanv (2021-08-24): covid may have taken the wind out of my sails for a good year or two but as soon as it's sane to do so i am bringing this energy to several major cities and i will make thousands of more introductions between the loveliest people i can find
• nosilverv (2021-08-24): they're using the same tactic as with covid of just renaming 'variants' to keep it going looool
• nathanpmyoung (2021-08-25): "you're epistemically trespassing" "that's a bad sounding phrase, sure. but it suggests expertise is land that can be owned. do we want to ringfence current expertise, even though the expert class made some bad calls on covid and afghanistan. maybe some new blood is good"
• petersuber (2021-08-25): "we have seen the…value of open research in addressing the covid crisis. after researchers sequenced the viral genome & shared it freely…it ultimately led to the development of life-saving vaccines. the same approach to the covid emergency must apply to the climate emergency."
• thezvi (2021-08-26): new weekly covid post is up:
• eigenrobot (2021-08-27): thread about vaccines vs natural immunity wrt covid where i speculate and halvorz reports in with actual domain knowledge fun exercise
• nosilverv (2021-08-27): people obviously need a mass grieving ritual post-covid. the fact that the elites don’t arrange it means (1) they can’t (incompetence) or (2) they don’t want people developing mass solidarity (they see them as enemies). pick your poison.
• natural_hazard (2021-08-28): tiktok is fucking wild it's been 2 days and i've already found multiple accounts of that are people fishing out intense covid opinions as raps, and they've got mil followers
• strangestloop (2021-08-28): tcot stands for the covid —> online tpipeline
• eigenrobot (2021-08-28): i wonder about this, if true hmmm wonder if they'd be liable if someone gets covid at work what a nightmarish legal predicament
• imperialauditor (2021-08-28): read too much discourse, currently flipping back and forth on whether i give a crap about delays in approving covid vaccines for children on one hand they’re not at much risk otoh it’s another symptom of *gestures vaguely at everything*
• easoncxz (2021-08-29): and in march 2020, jesus gave us the first covid vaccines. may grace fall upon our biologists and medical teams, for they are the messengers of god. we shall all follow the guidance of god, by getting vaccinated and wearing masks whenever indoors. 🤡
• pepijndevos (2021-08-29): wow amazing! i met a guy who can read qr codes with his eyes!! i showed him my covid certificate, and without taking out his phone he could tell it was legit. truly an expert.
• mbateman (2021-08-30): is there a single serious take on the covid endgame that doesn’t amount to “we’re all going to get it; learn to live with/manage the risk of getting it”? seems like people either don’t have a clear vision for the endgame, or they do and it’s this.
• the_wilderless (2021-08-30): this’ll be a plus for some of you and a minus for others (i’m not a big fan), but there’s basically no covid restrictions here. we’re in the middle of one of the biggest spikes rn, and no one wears masks or avoids restaurants or anything. even a little bit.
• the_wilderless (2021-08-30): i wore a mask in a taxi last week and the driver told me it was okay to take it off, “there’s no covid in albania” which was basically true last month, but then delta arrived.
• mykola (2021-08-30): this is a huge deal, more than a third of people who get covid never make antibodies at all. that's a lot of people who are at risk for multiple infections. i wonder what this implies for vaccine efficacy?
• ultimape (2021-08-31): unexpected? "researchers don’t understand exactly how the disease might trigger type 1 or type 2 diabetes, or whether the cases are temporary or permanent. but 14 percent of those with severe covid-19 developed a form of the disorder, one analysis found."
• eigenrobot (2021-09-01): nft of sequences of novel covid strains (may not yet exist)
• cocadonv (2021-09-01): latest after the orgy really gave me "can you believe hitler could drive wedges between families and shit" yeah that's exactly what corporate media does. they tell you what you *should* find important especially with covid in the us apparently
• cocadonv (2021-09-01): lol they mentioned sweden. yes girls things are generally fine here pretty much back to normal i dont visit hospitals to see whether they're piling up w corpses lol but the point of narrative creating reality is strong given this countrys example: no1 cares abt covid anymore
• mykola (2021-09-01): this is real, it happens. i know someone who feels like their head is precariously balanced on their neck, and has felt that way for over a year thanks to covid. we're going to discover that connective tissue is way, way more interesting than we thought.
• drmaciver (2021-09-01): i find at home covid tests slightly stressful because as far as i can tell they fail silently - if you completely fuck up the test in ways that couldn't really detect covid even if you had it, they would still show a negative result.
• drmaciver (2021-09-01): i don't really have a solution to this, it's just something that's on my mind every time i take a covid test.
• nosilverv (2021-09-01): do i have long covid or am i just old? why do i need to sleep all the time? is it that inside the house i decay or that i had an insanely intense eeekend? we might never know… time@for a nap
• mykola (2021-09-01): ed yong has consistently put out some of the best science writing i've read, and the best reporting around covid and long covid. he was taking long covid seriously more than a year ago, back when everyone else was dismissing it. he's worth listening to.
• princevogel (2021-09-01): covid rules made me take my beer out of a bottle and drink it out of a cup, and i've never felt more patronized by the state in my life, including when i went to jail.
• mykola (2021-09-01): ahhh here in the middle of this piece on long covid is a random shoutout to the #actuallyautistic community! amazing, and on a day when i thought nobody cared. @edyong209 would you be interested in doing a piece about the autistic self advocacy movement?
• eigenrobot (2021-09-01): what is "covid denialism" actually i dont care. watch me i deny covid i abjure it i cast it out from my breast
• easoncxz (2021-09-02): i'm personally so looking forward to us being able to "do the impossible", and show the other countries how it's done. 😈 and then enjoy a nice covid-free summer coming up.
• thezvi (2021-09-02): new weekly covid post is up:
• thezvi (2021-09-02): i'm getting reports of imagine loading issues on the blog, so asking those who read the covid posts often: you're having issues loading the images properly...
• sedatesnail (2021-09-03): 🎵hey, ivermectin (and this is crazy) if you get covid eat horse paste maybe🎵
• annieposting (2021-09-03): theres a direct line from the french revolution to covid mutating to the point of neutralizing vaccinations
• sedatesnail (2021-09-03): useful feature of dr. fauci: anti crank signaling. rando starts telling me about some covid thing on some 3hr youtube (uh oh) but he name drops "yeah they had dr fauci and all of them on there" (phew)
• visakanv (2021-09-04): why was sri lanka's forex reserves in shortage anyway? they import their food, but their exports are down because of covid? 🤔
• mykola (2021-09-06): this. the covid response (even under fucking biden) is almost understandable as biological warfare against the american people. i can’t believe we are continuing to sacrifice students and teachers right now.
• annieposting (2021-09-06): if we banned all non-essential international travel and forced people to stay home with groceries delivered there would be no lockdown protests because covid wouldve ended within months
• connerdelights (2021-09-06): i bet a lot of people would happily do some low-downside, somewhat inconvenient, not-fully-proven lifestyle changes to plausibly move the risk needle. like, we know metabolic disease correlates to covid outcomes. no recommendation to cut out sugar? entirely guessing.
• patio11 (2021-09-07): a world where a plane lands for each that takes off, where the internet stays up, where you can eat fish brought out of the sea of japan *that day* in nyc, where we can develop a covid-19 vaccine in 2 days and deliver millions of shots a day, cannot be a world with no competence.
• drmaciver (2021-09-07): it's pretty astonishing how much better that at home covid testing infrastructure is in the uk than it seems to be almost everywhere else. there's a lot of supply, and they're free. i do worry that the supply thing might be because they're not getting used much though.
• drmaciver (2021-09-07): free at home covid testing seems like such a no brainer as a government intervention but it seems to be a relative anomaly.
• dschorno (2021-09-08): anyway people were saying that it helped with covid related brain fog and i have suspected for a long time that i got covid pretty early. i dont know if it helped that much, but i'm just reading now that the r/saturatedfat people think it's counterproductive to satiety so whoops
• elodesnl (2021-09-08): just danced for the first time since covid started 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 dancing is v v good and fun
• malcolm_ocean (2021-09-09): important caveat is that this was after 11mo of treatment at 150ug/kg per day ivm. so decent odds acute treatment of covid infection with five days of 300ug/kg per day would be safe, but i know a few smart people taking ivm prophylactically and uhhhh i'm gonna be forwarding this.
• malcolm_ocean (2021-09-09): important thing to know about this study: it's from 2011, well before "ivermectin bad" needed justifying by covid consensus machine. someone else shared it as "a new study" and that would be way less trustworthy. article doesn't mention date either 🤦‍♀️
• thezvi (2021-09-09): new weekly covid post is up:
• dbabbitt (2021-09-09): i scored 55 in @charlesmurray's "do you live in a bubble" quiz. (which makes sense, given that my father is a lawyer and i haven’t been to restaurants during covid-19.)
• jd_pressman (2021-09-10): ivermectin gets attention because it's the maximally controversial covid-19 prophylactic/treatment. the fake studies vs. plausible effectiveness make it lots of fun to argue about. meanwhile a reminder that vitamin d and fluvoxamine exist.
• xsphi (2021-09-10): vax mandate feels like sacrificing our morals for an object-level objective, but sometimes that's what the situation calls for. we are at war and loosing. between when all americans were able to be fully vaccinated and now, more of us have died of covid than in the vietnam war.
• xsphi (2021-09-10): i've always been against vaccine requirements in other things. i was against them for covid before. i still don't like them, but i know when its time to start pulling all available levers and this is it.
• ultimape (2021-09-10): meanwhile i keep seeing things like this: "because analyses of these vaccines in people with ms are not available, decisions regarding covid-19 vaccination and dmt choice should be informed by data and expert consensus" [june 1st, 2021]
• puheenix (2021-09-10): related: strongest case imo for mandate is the precedent for mmr shots. i’m not convinced by this argument. mm&r are far deadlier than covid, and mmr vax is lasting & effective. c19 vaccine efficacy is already well under target & seems to diminish w time and viral evolution.
• nosilverv (2021-09-11): if insane covid overreach is how crypto takes off and separation of money and state works out to end up happening i’ll be rofloling my way to the grave
• daniellefong (2021-09-11): hearing so much sneezing these days and thinking… it’s probably covid
• eigenrobot (2021-09-11): just occasionally remembering that epstein didnt kill himself and we still have no explanation for the vegas shooter and pfizer delayed its vaccine to help throw the election and the entire media-government spent march 2020 calling people worried about covid racists also helps
• petersuber (2021-09-12): "28.7% of #covid19 #preprints were featured in at least a single news article, compared to 1.0% of non-covid-19 preprints…within a set of 81 covid-19 policy documents…52 documents cited preprints."
• ultimape (2021-09-12): "a team of researchers picked through all hospital admissions and deaths reported for people younger than 18 in england. the studies found that covid-19 caused 25 deaths in that age group between march 2020 and february 2021."
• ultimape (2021-09-12): "black children were more likely than their white counterparts to require intensive care, both for covid-19 and for paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a rare syndrome associated with coronavirus infection. but overall, the need for intensive care was “incredibly rare”"
• forshaper (2021-09-12): it's january, 2020. you know about covid and think surgical and p100 masks will be useful. do you tell people? do you keep it to yourself and prepare accordingly? how do you show people in a way that they will believe you?
• ultimape (2021-09-13): can someone fact check this? > "for boys 12-15 without medical comorbidities receiving their second mrna vaccination dose, the rate of cae is 3.7 to 6.1 times higher than their 120-day covid-19 hospitalization risk as of august 21, 2021"
• ultimape (2021-09-13): "cdc and its partners are actively monitoring reports of myocarditis and pericarditis after covid-19 vaccination. active monitoring includes reviewing data and medical records and evaluating the relationship to covid-19 vaccination."
• mbateman (2021-09-13): manhattan is at 86% adult vaccination and covid deaths have been at ~1/day even through the delta wave.
• goblinodds (2021-09-13): different wording and sample sizes but the earlier poll was pre-covid !! interesting
• goblinodds (2021-09-13): different wording and sample sizes but the earlier poll was pre-covid !! interesting
• goblinodds (2021-09-14): not keeping up with covid news is wild like 2 weeks ago i was hearing about hospitals being overrun, my gp is booked for the foreseeable future, my climbing gym re-instituted its mask policy, and now a bunch of celebrities are having a party ??
• goblinodds (2021-09-14): not keeping up with covid news is wild like 2 weeks ago i was hearing about hospitals being overrun, my gp is booked for the foreseeable future, my climbing gym re-instituted its mask policy, and now a bunch of celebrities are having a party ??
• m_ashcroft (2021-09-14): british people have gone to portugal recently, were you able to use your nhs covid vaccine pass or was there an additional step required for portugal? seeing conflicting info around the web
• ultimape (2021-09-14): i hate this so much. "spinal cord demyelination should be added to the plethora of immune mediated neurologic complications associated with covid-19."
• lericdax (2021-09-15): oh my god all the gorillas in the atlanta zoo have covid-19
• patio11 (2021-09-15): wargame out what happens in the 24 hours and two weeks after the headline “the x administration’s covid policy is scientifically bankrupt and they have been put in the penalty box until our panel of actually competent professionals agrees to let them out.”
• eigenrobot (2021-09-16): ok weird thing covid has been like 9/11 and the financial crisis in that it is a massive failure of government but there has been afaict zero attempt to create new shitty bureaucracies in the wake. contrast with dhs and cfpb. whats up with that?
• goblinodds (2021-09-16): (side note i'm happy that people are more familiar w anosmia now that it's a common covid side effect)
• goblinodds (2021-09-16): (side note i'm happy that people are more familiar w anosmia now that it's a common covid side effect)
• goblinodds (2021-09-16): is there a reason people dont describe diseases as "natural vaccines" because,,,, i feel like it may be compelling to point out that most of us are getting a covid vax whether we want it or not, some of us are just getting it in a nice, man-made, controlled dose 🙃
• goblinodds (2021-09-16): is there a reason people dont describe diseases as "natural vaccines" because,,,, i feel like it may be compelling to point out that most of us are getting a covid vax whether we want it or not, some of us are just getting it in a nice, man-made, controlled dose 🙃
• drmaciver (2021-09-17): have you changed your behaviour around non-covid infectious diseases as a result of the pandemic?
• drmaciver (2021-09-17): but i'd probably have done that pre covid too.
• thezvi (2021-09-17): covid post is up, posting on friday due to yom kippur:
• nathanpmyoung (2021-09-17): i got covid. are there any actually good interventions i should take? currently i'm taking paracetamol and ibuprofen and drinking a lot. feel free to dm me.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-09-17): but if i get long covid i'll feel pretty dumb.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-09-17): whilst laid up for covid, i'm reading twilight and opening the free packs of "on a mission" cards you get with sainsbury's deliveries. ama
• goblinodds (2021-09-17): p sure my stomach problems have gotten worse, and it's the end of my migraine med cycle so that may be contributing but i've been getting chills on the reg (not a covid thing, these have been frequent for me for like 8 years, probably migraine-related)
• goblinodds (2021-09-17): p sure my stomach problems have gotten worse, and it's the end of my migraine med cycle so that may be contributing but i've been getting chills on the reg (not a covid thing, these have been frequent for me for like 8 years, probably migraine-related)
• nathanpmyoung (2021-09-18): i'm tempted to write a tweet about covid, but it's hard to say if i add anything to the conversation.
• hargup13 (2021-09-18): one roommate is a 44 year old iranian guy. he has been in dubai from 11 years. he had an apartment and a job, but lost it during covid. he was homeless for sometime, then got visa though some connection. now he sells second glasses online. (3/n)
• mbateman (2021-09-18): the take on covid that i didn’t know i needed, from @jehsmith.
• easoncxz (2021-09-19): not a problem, lunch on the road should continue. roads should be used for people, not cars. outdoor gatherings also have lower risk of spreading covid.
• drmaciver (2021-09-19): it's 50 years from now, you're consulting your history book of the early 21st century, where it talks about "the covid years". what's the last year in this period, what's the consensus marker for when they end, and what annoyingly petty academic debates occur about this?
• visakanv (2021-09-20): just as people failed to learn from vietnam, people will fail to learn from covid-19
• mbateman (2021-09-21): children get seriously ill so rarely from covid that it’s hard to test the efficacy of the vaccine in preventing that.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-09-21): for clarity, it's not worse than covid but that's not a mandatory part of the trial.
• thezvi (2021-09-23): new weekly covid post is up.
• patio11 (2021-09-23): "will you use it?" i don't have enough us-based credit card spend in the typical these difficult covid times year to justify my accountants' ire at me opening yet another account after i pinky sweared that this is the year i won't.
• askyatharth (2021-09-24): amazing to me that when it comes to infections, it doesn’t matter so much "if" you’ve been exposed to it (you could have covid particles in you), but rather viral load: two different exponential curves taking off, your immune system and the virus, competing to see who will win.
• nosilverv (2021-09-26): (take their covid advice accordingly)
• visakanv (2021-09-27): couple of more fun facts dante was exiled from florence, the city of his birth, and it seems that city officials only formally apologized in 2008, almost 700 years later oh, there was a symbolic re-trial this year! and they had to do it via zoom because of covid 😂😅
• patio11 (2021-09-27): i'll probably write more about it at some point, but have q&a to get back to. speaking of: can't wait to go back to business of software and other conferences as society recovers from covid-19. i miss being able to geek out in person about e.g. ops challenges in call centers.
• __drewface (2021-09-27): nobody: me: really smelly job companies should have advertised contract work positions to people who lost their sense of smell due to covid
• ultimape (2021-09-28): "these observations support the use of clinical trials to determine whether booster doses to prevent covid-19 in transplant patients can be incorporated into clinical practice, as they have been for hepatitis b and influenza vaccination" [sep 2021]
• petersuber (2021-09-28): update. "after the onset of the covid-19 pandemic in march 2020, the number of submissions [to renaissance quarterly from @rsaorg] by female scholars fell sharply….we look forward to rectifying this imbalance in our 2022 volume and beyond."
• nathanpmyoung (2021-09-29): my vaccine trial want to know all my covid infection which means i'm producing enough biohazard bags to run my own small weapons program. they are currently picking up about 2 per day.
• caffeinum (2021-09-29): so during covid, in bali even surfing wasn't allowed. good thing there still were people who did this. we at buildship are launching a collection of unique surfing photos . 100 unique photos will start selling today. actually, in 30 minutes.
• dschorno (2021-09-29): this is particularly bad for black people and may explain part of their worse health outcomes: the function of melanin in skin is basically natural sunscreen. low vitamin d levels have been linked to difficulty fighting off infections, including covid 19
• thezvi (2021-09-30): weekly covid post is up, everything going as expected (although not according to plan, but hey) so no new vital info this week:
• patio11 (2021-10-01): more and more effective treatments for covid is wonderful news, particularly because they're often less supply constrained than the vaccine is on a worldwide basis.
• mykola (2021-10-01): thread. there’s been an uptick in paid propaganda pieces masquerading as journalism lately, from the anti-long covid piece in the new yorker to these pro-cop messages in the new york times. our media is failing us badly.
• mykola (2021-10-02): this is a big deal! congrats to the long covid patient-researchers driving this.
• m_ashcroft (2021-10-02): how a london club venue is handling covid: no vaccines or tests compulsory, but an appeal to personal responsibility and common sense plus easy refunds. given the level of vaccination and immunity from past infection here i think i like this… seems a good way forward.
• m_ashcroft (2021-10-02): in my case, i have had covid, i am doubly vaccinated and had a negative lateral flow test this morning. i’ll avoid seeing vulnerable people after the event and will continue to test (free test centre nearby), but i am also excited to go dancing.
• transkatgirl (2021-10-04): welp i'm about to go get tested for covid, as i've been feeling sick recently hopefully this turns out to just be a bad cold
• blunderbussted (2021-10-05): the black market is an existential threat, unregulated labor practices can promote the growth of novel pathogens and the unmitigated spread of covid-27, the only solution is to eliminate cash & incorporate all economic activity into a singular regulated structure
• mykola (2021-10-06): thinking about how some of our activist circles around disability, autism, long covid etc are likely infiltrated by people paid to create internal controversy and minimize progress on anything that costs insurance companies money. we just are in a @greatdismal novel.
• forshaper (2021-10-06): did anyone predict this about covid?
• thezvi (2021-10-07): weekly covid post is up, for second week in a row no urgent developments:
• qiaochuyuan (2021-10-08): i heard a rumor that covid eradicated the flu or something but uh might as well get the flu shot just in case, this is not a flu season where i particularly want to take chances
• blunderbussted (2021-10-09): fever of 99.8f, had a moderate headache for going on 4 days, very mild cough, whole body aches and chills for the last 4 days (including today), no improvement, very mild worsening fellas, i think i made it i think i caught covid
• blunderbussted (2021-10-09): while i have covid it will only get worse unfollow me now or stay tuned
• alcentian_one (2021-10-09): moreover, “people overwhelmingly devoted their energies toward the good of the community rather than just themselves” (52) how can we make sense of the american response to covid with this context?
• blunderbussted (2021-10-10): last year i believe @qorprate caught covid and posted an interesting set of observations about waves of immune response. i'm noticing the exact same thing. fever spikes, followed by breaks. i've taken no analgesia or fever reducers today in an effort to let my body work.
• lukeallenmiller (2021-10-11): 1 storyline. 3 months. 12 writing genres and document types. unfortunately, the project was interrupted by covid-19 and the one month quarantine that came with it. but the kids loved it. they still talk about it to this day.
• blunderbussted (2021-10-11): yet genetic determinism drove me, and i find myself eating pickled herring with chopsticks out of a jar while combating covid. it is, get this, the only food that sounded appetizing at the present. i've made some ancestor smile tonight.
• mbateman (2021-10-11): manhattan is still getting a few hundred covid cases per day. but our 7-day average of covid deaths and hospitalizations are 0 and 4, respectively. as in, zero individuals and four individuals. good time to consider benchmarks for further loosening mandates and restrictions…
• yashkaf (2021-10-12): - but what happens if the us declares war on bitcoin? - the us just lost consecutive wars against poverty, drugs, covid, obesity, and the taliban - yeah, i'd bet on bitcoin too
• nosilverv (2021-10-12): talking to my contact in china. apparently you use a pass to spend money everywhere you go, pass associated with your info, if someone with covid has been where you were they'll pull you from your home to quarantine you in a hotel for 21 days (no windows, you pay)
• daniellefong (2021-10-13): currently suffering through some kind of non covid moderate illness, like in the beforetimes. ah, the memories — *hack* *cough* 🥵
• nobu_hibiki (2021-10-14): wow what an annoying dream i dreamt i woke up for last years midterm back when covid just started in march and i can only think "man how am i gonna explain me spiritual journey to my parents now"
• thezvi (2021-10-14): another quiet week, another covid post.:
• jd_pressman (2021-10-14): "there's no inflation" "there's only inflation in some assets" "the inflation is temporary" "the inflation could last a while" <- we are here "we devalued the dollar by 1/3 but we'll make it up on post covid growth" "you lost your money, suck it up" "holy shit a burger costs $20"
• mykola (2021-10-15): covid-19 bonzo wants to make friends, but refuses to wear a mask. so.
• c_harwick (2021-10-15): an optimistic look at the evidence on long-lasting cognitive impairment from covid. probably nothing to worry about unless you're old or go on a ventilator.
• nosilverv (2021-10-17): american tv shows coming to portugal now are of the time covid was just starting. cool to relive it somehow now that it’s over
• nosilverv (2021-10-17): portuguese health authorities think you only need one jab if you’ve already recovered from covid. others countries don’t and so if you ask you can get a second one so that you can travel (????????????????)
• rhyslindmark (2021-10-18): 2/ it's not really a function of covid unemployment. this went away in various southern states and outside the us, but didn't have any effect on job growth. (so it's not just people being "lazy.")
• rhyslindmark (2021-10-18): 3/ i like the frame of: huge job shift after wwii as women went into the workforce. huge job shift after covid as people searched for meaning and flexibility in work. again, mostly h/t @byheatherlong
• rhyslindmark (2021-10-18): 6/ as always, @stlouisfed is a national treasure. graph 1: 2019-2021. pre-covid employment at 152m. now 147m, so 5m short. graph 2: 2008-2021. but still higher than great recession. 138m to 129m then back up. graph 3: 1940-2021. up from 40m. women in workforce now.
• mykola (2021-10-18): please rt the linked tweet widely, hannah's goal is to get it outside of disability / long covid circles to get meaningful feedback from the broader twitter community.
• mbateman (2021-10-19): buried in this basically positive but curiously handwringing piece about covid in nyc schools is the raw data from which one can easily calculate the statistic that there is no borough where the cases per day is close to being above a single digit.
• mbateman (2021-10-19): nyc's covid trends through delta have been stellar, its schools are amongst its safest places, it is between 80% and 100% adult vaccinated depending on zip code, and somehow this is not being celebrated as an absolute triumph.
• tyleralterman (2021-10-19): what’s the next thing that will take everyone by surprise (like covid)?
• rhyslindmark (2021-10-20): 5/ just like selection pressure has driven transmissibility of covid, it drives transmissibility of memes.
• mykola (2021-10-20): this but for a whole country’s entire school system. i know we like to push responsibility down to people who can’t possibly handle it, but making teachers personally responsible for covid is a sick joke. these people need support themselves. they’re so scared and sad.
• daniellefong (2021-10-20): fda clears moderna, j&j covid boosters and backs vaccine mixing
• nathanpmyoung (2021-10-21): let's assume there needs to be change on covid rules. what's the minimum number of people whose minds need to to be changed a bit so i guess it's the pm, his key advisors, health sec, some scientists? or maybe all scientists? which other/smaller groups can you think of?
• thezvi (2021-10-21): weekly covid post is up:
• vividvoid_ (2021-10-21): since the pandemic began there has been endless leisure but very few opportunities for recreation. part of this is that the dynamism of life before covid was itself renewing - there was a constant stream of input and stimulus and challenge from the world.
• mykola (2021-10-21): one of the more sobering facts is that some of the only people currently trying to stem the long covid tide are long covid patients, working entirely out of pocket while sick and exhausted. these people keep watching funding go to others and they keep going, because they must.
• mimi10v3 (2021-10-22): this, but serious... covid was released by the superintelligence to virtualize human relationships, the better to understand and undermine them
• lericdax (2021-10-25): a vital piece reflecting on the work of mourning at large in the age of covid-19—give it a read:
• eigenrobot (2021-10-25): so yes things just start piling up afghanistan is a clusterfuck, the only response to the supply chain is "welp", covid response is a sad joke, we never even really got over 2008 in a lot of ways more and more and more
• daniellefong (2021-10-25): at some point i hope people recognise covid for what it was, a painful stress test for institutions, most of which failed, (some of which performed admirably) and reorganise accordingly was not nearly as bad as it could have been, & not nearly as bad as i've feared. tho not over!
• daniellefong (2021-10-25): honestly wonder if delta ended up wiping out some of the covid genetic diversity, net. it did crowd out so many other variants. it's still evolving, but the numbers are tapering. next next test is the winter
• surenvynn (2021-10-25): what's the covid protocol for entering into malaysia?
• eigenrobot (2021-10-26): i dont see any plan for anything its most striking for covid yes. there will never be enough vaccinations and boosters and etc etc for this to go to zero. forget globally even in the us. and thats before possible new strains but also for anything else
• eigenrobot (2021-10-26): we still have all the apparatuses from the drug and terror wars tho thats not going anywhere i dont expect it to be any different here. the real long covid is the institution's we made along the way
• lithros (2021-10-28): incidentally that comes out to almost exactly as much as the first cash payment portion of the federal covid stimulus
• patio11 (2021-10-28): one of the biggest bright spots in treatment of covid-19 has been fluvoxamine, an abundantly available extremely inexpensive anti-depressant which through unknown mechanisms just seems to decrease mortality and hospitalization by extremely large amounts.
• thezvi (2021-10-28): new weekly covid post is out: but real story this week was the port of la, which gets its own spinoff post: . we need to remember what happened, and work to make it happen again!
• blunderbussted (2021-10-29): btw i didn’t have covid, i had mono lol and i still have it
• abhayance (2021-10-30): how many covid-19 vaccination record cards old are you?
• gptbrooke (2021-10-31): i don't know if it's because of the long covid stuff, my age, or how much damn energy it requires to stay upbeat and in go mode all day but having my sleep that thoroughly wrecked just made me useless the rest of the day
• mykola (2021-11-01): this is the thing with so serious illness that nobody understands until they or someone in their life gets it. doctors are holding the line at best (if that, with long covid) and nobody is getting _better_ from chronic conditions.
• goblinodds (2021-11-01): also fun fact apparently these drugs are cgrp monoclonal antibodies?? arent monoclonal antibodies something they've been using to treat severe covid cases? (idk)
• goblinodds (2021-11-01): also fun fact apparently these drugs are cgrp monoclonal antibodies?? arent monoclonal antibodies something they've been using to treat severe covid cases? (idk)
• mykola (2021-11-01): (i should clarify, some people with long covid do eventually recover. some simply don’t.)
• visakanv (2021-11-01): fuck the pandemic! pandemics suck! boo to covid, boo to covid 1000 years
• adam_kranz (2021-11-03): kramer get covid
• eigenrobot (2021-11-03): curiously i havent seen anything about covid. maybe that goes out with a wimper? heh we should be so lucky. expect it just wasnt central to the va race i did notice a bunch of people hanging out without masks in the mcauliffe party, make of that what you will
• surenvynn (2021-11-03): i swear malaysian covid protocols are like an occult ritual which no one but the government knows how to get through. convinced that this is a deliberate minefield to toy with us. no one has found a safe way though yet.
• surenvynn (2021-11-03): life update: malaysian covid task force (lmao wtf would they call it that, calm down) have quarantined me at a bomba akademi for one week because i'm double vaccinated (instead of the 10 days for unvaccinated ppl). living conditions: meh wifi status: nonexistent & unacceptable
• easoncxz (2021-11-04): alleged: school in beijing refused parents to see their children because there's a case of covid in the classroom. kids are year 3 (~10yo) and all are held captive in unknown state. no details given about clothing, food, accommodation.
• easoncxz (2021-11-04): the moral of the story is that if you want to priase china's covid response in front of me, still to this day in late 2021, you can shut the fuck up and fuck right off.
• thezvi (2021-11-04): weekly covid post is out: . there's also a follow-up from earlier this week on the whole logistics situation:
• gptbrooke (2021-11-05): okay. brooke. it's time. time to really double down, get our shit in order. i have ideas for several threads i keep trying to write and i can go for a tweet or two and then...brain just crumbles. sure, there's a chance it's long covid brain fog.
• patio11 (2021-11-05): a quirky feeling i've had on our covid-19 response is that some institutions have difficulty doing things which are *clearly* within our capabilities while others are pushing boundaries in their respective fields. a happy example of the later:
• patio11 (2021-11-05): more effective covid-19 treatments is always good news, of course, but taking a teensy look at the actual specifics of this: this was identification of a new molecule, synthesization, testing, demonstrating of efficacy, and preparation for scaled manufacturing. in two years.
• patio11 (2021-11-05): my impression is "humanity very literally did not know it could do that on that timescale. not for covid. not for anything."
• patio11 (2021-11-05): and if you need another bit of good news, several covid antiviral trials have now been stopped midway because it was medically unethical to continue administering the placebo given the existence and demonstrated efficacy of the candidate drug.
• mbateman (2021-11-07): race. evolution. sexuality. patriotism. covid. for a century our schools have been loci of acrimonious civic controversy. why?
• mbateman (2021-11-07): the two most recent examples are crt (feel free to add scare quotes, doesn’t matter for my purposes) and covid. neither of these discourses would be as toxic if it wasn’t for how they played out in public schools.
• mbateman (2021-11-07): indeed, covid is by and large a solved issue in non-public schools.
• ultimape (2021-11-08): "coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) can therefore severely affect myocardium with life-threatening complications and even young people can be involved."
• ultimape (2021-11-08): "we found that g allele of rs4341 and rs4343 was associated with severe covid-19 in hypertensive patients, independently of gender (p<0.05)"
• ultimape (2021-11-08): do elite athletes seem to get hit with covid related heart problems harder? we'd expect this if ace mutations are more common.
• ultimape (2021-11-08): good, someone's looking into it. "now with covid and its potential impact on the heart, it’s more important than ever to understand whether athletes face unique risks or greater protections based on their cardiovascular features."
• ultimape (2021-11-08): two groups of people with higher rates of problems associated with heart complications from covid... autism and alzheimer's. the question is, how much of this is from living situation (group home), and how much is biological underpinning?
• mbateman (2021-11-09): gonna get my now-20mo vaxxed when it becomes legal. why? not because i'm worried that she'll get a bad case. incredibly rare that covid is serious in young kids without medical issues. i just don't want her to get sick, even mildly. why submit to avoidable illness?
• mbateman (2021-11-09): this seemingly obvious benefit is missing from the very detailed takes comparing two infinitesimal risks in young children (infinitesimal risk of serious vaccine side effect vs. infinitesimal risk of serious covid case). right okay, and also, getting sick sucks
• mykola (2021-11-09): public reminder that covid tests are (1) unreliable and (2) unevenly available, especially in the first wave. using these tests to rule out whether or not someone has had covid does not work reliably. you are guaranteed to tell some covid cases that they don't have it.
• mykola (2021-11-09): a big study just came out that aims to cast doubt on people who "believe" they had covid by comparing their claims to their blood test results. but we know that up to 30% of peoples' blood doesn't show traces of covid after they've had it. so: why the junk science? profit.
• mykola (2021-11-09): they are fighting for every penny and will do anything to avoid paying for long covid costs. keep that in mind every time you see a major publication being skeptical that long covid is real and that people are really sick.
• mykola (2021-11-09): whose profit? who is on the hook when millions of people around the world start claiming disability benefits from long covid? whose interest is served by casting as much doubt as possible on peoples' claims of covid and long covid? insurance companies and reinsurers.
• gptbrooke (2021-11-09): phone calls long covid clinic, reschedule breathing test and cardiology, student grant disbursement why do i feel like i'm still forgetting some....
• rhyslindmark (2021-11-10): cool generative art from @michaelgarfield. feeding podcast titles to vqgan+clip to create images. below: -festival time, life-changing trips, and community in covid -sex, death, and the return of the black madonna -the evolution of the imagination -bitcoin and fungal economies
• malcolm_ocean (2021-11-10): policy 8: increase resilience in supply chains. at the start of covid, i read that a lot of canadian raw produce (wheat, cows) is shipped to the us to be processed (bread, burgers) then shipped back to canada to be packaged & sold. we can do more of that locally.
• malcolm_ocean (2021-11-10): policy 12: explore ways to use prediction markets to make better decisions. i haven't looked into this in depth but it's related to the covid thing—the citizens collectively can sometimes figure out things leading experts can't, due to blindspots or career investment.
• malcolm_ocean (2021-11-10): policy 11: learning from covid. prioritize vaccine manufacturing capacity & related technology, so we're not waiting on other countries the next time there's a pandemic. have extra ppe of various kinds, and manufacturing capacity there.
• thezvi (2021-11-11): weekly covid post is up:
• eigenrobot (2021-11-11): well ok so everyone on the internet knew about supply chain issues, inflation, and covid before everyone else so thats all clear. whats the next big thing anons are prophesizing
• daniellefong (2021-11-11): we’re all veterans of the covid wars
• nathanpmyoung (2021-11-12): let's imagine this accusation is true. in your heart of hearts was it better for the country that people other than the pm were running the country in the early days of the pandemic. not in terms of precident, but in terms of covid outcomes. poll in next tweet.
• easoncxz (2021-11-13): to this day, november 2021, china's covid control is still a mess: pet owners are banned from bringing their pets with them to quarantine. the pets are then beaten to death by the official "disinfection team", who forcefully entered the home while the owner is in quarantine.
• easoncxz (2021-11-13): moral of the story: 1. china's covid response is nothing worth learning from. stop your praise. 2. your covid response hardly eroded any of your freedoms. shut the fuck up, wear a mask, take a vax, and just get on with it. it's fine.
• daniellefong (2021-11-14): notes on growing twitter account was asked in a dm about tips i might have learned for growing a twitter following. i only ever put major effort into this during earlier points of covid to get the word out, but there's some approaches to organic growth i haven't seen elsewhere.
• malcolm_ocean (2021-11-14): as i pause to jam to taylor's version on "the ukulele my dad got me for my birthday as covid started", i'm thinking about how my relatives have lately taken to giving me cash gifts, and how i've been trying to "spend it" on something i might not have bought otherwise & tell them.
• nobu_hibiki (2021-11-15): granted it wasn't entirely 4 years me ago's fault for not realising that covid is gonna happen and so i can't just hope to sail by just by going through the waves of uni, but still
• nosilverv (2021-11-15): there's a modus ponens modus tollens thing where even if you think covid is real (i do) seeing the same toolset applied to climate hysteria has you go 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 (not to say climate hysteria isn't real/justified - but unless you're pro nuclear, the motivation is fake)
• easoncxz (2021-11-17): > covid-19 cases are spreading beyond auckland and we expect this to continue the end of an era.
• mbateman (2021-11-17): originally i had thought the end of covid (as a public health emergency, not as a circulating pathogen) would come quickly. there's historical precedent for a heady, post-emergency rush to normalcy, even jubilation. the roaring twenties, etc. maybe it's still coming? 😬
• dschorno (2021-11-17): ok so like i dont have much proof of this but im pretty sure that i had covid and then suffered long covid for a year or so and now am mostly better.
• dschorno (2021-11-17): i suffered from the most terrible back pain and pain in my fingers and too. is that a possible symptom of long covid. also rashes on my face and other parts. undiagnosed. anyways idk but it seems like a possibility right? i can be a bit of a hypochondriac sometimes so who knows
• thezvi (2021-11-18): new weekly covid post is up: also experimenting with a substack version (both are identical):
• visakanv (2021-11-19): i generally don't bother getting into politics commentary except really big picture general stuff the 6 theories are: - gravity/familiarity - afghanistan - covid resurgance - inflation, gas prices - democrat infighting - no clear enemy here is my big-picture outsider pov
• eigenrobot (2021-11-21): dems are gonna be wiped out next fall, and basically accomplish none of their agenda subsequently so whats he gonna run on. idk. maybe covid subsides by 2024 and the economy recovers. thats his best bet. ideally his descent into senility halts where it is but idk
• imperialauditor (2021-11-22): i suspect my sense of smell has gotten worse (it was never great) (i did get covid a month ago) how do i improve it? (i'd rather not take lsd, that sounds scary)
• gptbrooke (2021-11-22): ahhh twitter i'm so excited i had another couple months of (comparatively very mild) long covid symptoms and this is the first morning in so long that i woke up feeling back to normal i haven't been to the gym since, i don't know- august, maybe?
• gptbrooke (2021-11-23): (mostly i think this was because i took a nap today, recovery from these long covid bouts is never a quick thing 😅)
• eigenrobot (2021-11-23): good thread, seems like solid in silica work on covid transmission modeling but im not familiar enough to really judge main takeaways are that current modeling approaches probably have some meaningfully wrong assumptions baked in and lockdowns maybe less effective than imagined
• eigenrobot (2021-11-24): pondering my orb trying to figure out what happened. what is the cause. covid response is a symptom. trump: symptom. i think wokeness is a symptom--we /had/ a cultural immune system that handled this more or less well. alternatively: diseases that were present but subclinical
• frideswyth (2021-11-24): i've updated the website to have more details on rooms/private rooms, refunds and covid policy:
• mykola (2021-11-24): ed yong is a gift. read this thread about health care workers with long covid being dismissed by their peers the instant they became “patients”. there is something broken with the state of medicine and its refusal to engage with the subjective.
• gptbrooke (2021-11-24): i have been adding so many things like this into my lil toolbox that the only thing that can keep me in a bad mood for a whole day at this point in my life are (possibly) very rare & extreme emotional events occurring, or several weeks straight of long covid incapacitation
• easoncxz (2021-11-24): ok wtf? have we already reached the stage of "everybody please just get covid" now?
• thezvi (2021-11-25): weekly covid post is up. wordpress: substack:
• visakanv (2021-11-26): new covid variant tweet
• maradydd (2021-11-26): what the actual fuck, my lower back :( idk, twitter, help me out here; should i go to this punk gig tonight i've got tickets to? first reported case of the new covid variant is in belgium, bit worried about that
• mykola (2021-11-26): you ever wish we had competent, non-evil leadership whose actual goal was the eradication of covid?
• petersuber (2021-11-26): from the same piece: the major covid vaccine makers received significant public funding. pfizer, $455 million from the german govt. moderna, $2.5 billion from the us govt. astrazeneca, $2 billion from us & eu. but the companies still hold the #patents.
• nobu_hibiki (2021-11-27): covid omicron also known as covid-o's
• petersuber (2021-11-27): update from @potus yesterday: "i call on the nations gathering…for the @wto…to waive intellectual property protections for covid vaccines…i endorsed this position in april. [variant omicron] reiterates the importance of moving on this quickly."
• rhyslindmark (2021-11-29): i think @trvrb is my favorite covid expert. such great data viz! -omicron neutralizes antibodies at higher rate, but has low r0 -this combines to make omicron rt 2.5 vs. delta rt 1.5 -omicron has 25 s1 mutations vs. 10 for delta -omicron comes from old lineage (v surprising!)
• forthrighter (2021-11-29): this will be my only #covid19 omnicron tweet, some nerdy linguistics stuff. basically they name all covid variants according to a strict sequential greek letter system the #omnicron variant is about the 15th one they've decided to track from a global health perspective
• tyleralterman (2021-11-29): what are the current most credible numbers on rates of long covid after a breakthrough infection?
• _brentbaum (2021-11-29): i give covid an honest review of 0/10 stars. came down with a breakthrough case the day before i was going to get my booster... don't procrastinate!
• _brentbaum (2021-11-29): unfortunate for the virus... i didn't catch covid, covid caught me. picked the wrong host this time, buddy. gloves are off.
• gptbrooke (2021-11-30): it does seem really good but it's also really complicated think i've got a bit of a long covid flare up going on and am pausing on that show to watch my holo love instead i imagine the plot will be easier to follow along with
• profoundish (2021-11-30): breaking: news about covid continues to be predictable
• tyleralterman (2021-12-01): have you had long covid? for how long? what is it like?
• drmaciver (2021-12-02): i would like to register a complaint that the current strains of non-covid viruses doing the rounds in london are fucking awful and i do not approve.
• thezvi (2021-12-02): did a writeup of polymarket's current covid prediction markets, let's figure out what else would be good to offer. wp and likely main discussion: ss version:
• thezvi (2021-12-02): regular non-omicron weekly covid update is up. skippable, the real news this week is omicron. wp: ss:
• nosilverv (2021-12-02): culture war is about belonging through shared narrative lol. this is why everything turns political - imagine facing covid just as pure alien threat lol without pre defined sides (also why sides can shift so much! remember when left was against flight stoppage, masks etc?)
• mykola (2021-12-02): listen: the love and light of my life, @ahandvanish, got covid in march of 2020 and still hasn’t fully recovered. she likely never will return to her pre-covid health. long covid is her future. the risk isn’t just death (unlikely) but permanent disability (way more likely).
• daniellefong (2021-12-03): covid support is deprecated in snow leopard after the omicron release; sorry, the system needs to upgrade to mojave.
• malcolm_ocean (2021-12-03): 75. what if covid prevention methods were good tho? in 50 years people will look back and go 🤨 at how little we were doing to each have healthy immune systems. it's part of a whole mess of unhealthy lives & non-holistic h̶e̶a̶l̶t̶h̶sickness-care tho so hard to name leverage pt.
• visakanv (2021-12-03): how do you think covid affected corona beer sales? (i’ll post the answer later)
• _brentbaum (2021-12-03): 5 days into a mild to moderate covid case and it's been eye opening. everyday activities, like starting the microwave or taking out the trash, are confusing and difficult thanks to the brain fog. as someone who identifies with his intellect/wit, very humbling to live without.
• slimepriestess (2021-12-03): for another, it increases the fragility of the entire system. without slack to absorb shocks, things catch fire and fall over, which then cascade onward to other things, until the whole edifice is dragged down. we're seeing this now with the supply chain issues causes by covid.
• daniellefong (2021-12-03): the online equivalent of seeing someone in the street who you haven't seen in a while and would love to catch up with, and running up and giving them a big pre covid hug...
• imperialauditor (2021-12-04): 4. nasal covid vaccines @radvacproject for example i'm confused by why they haven't tried to run a study yet
• mykola (2021-12-04): just heard second hand that there was a party in norway with 120 guests. two of those guests had just flown in from south africa and were infected with omicron. 120 people at the party, all vaccinated. 85 of them got covid. one party, 85/120 vaccinated people sick.
• mykola (2021-12-06): and, just in case anyone needs to hear this: if you spend some time with someone indoors, and then that person receives a positive covid test? you have had a covid exposure and you need to quarantine for two weeks. no mitigating factors here.
• surenvynn (2021-12-07): the most recent example i can think of for myself is when i simply refused to believe that covid-19 was a humanmade virus because it clashed so strongly with my political identity. until the two whistleblowers became mainstream, it was unthinkable to even consider the possibility
• nosilverv (2021-12-07): ok i sorta buy the filling up hospitals thing but feels like could be easily solved by can choose to not be vaxxed but won’t get treated for covid complications - and also they had 3 years to increase hospital capacity lol
• mykola (2021-12-07): holy shit. this one goes out to everyone who prioritized short-term economic measures over actually stopping covid: fuck. you.
• mykola (2021-12-08): waiting for a last minute save from whoever is piloting those ufos. maybe they can slow down climate change and mitigate covid. stream the new spider-man safely, while they’re at it.
• mykola (2021-12-08): germany started with the disabled, is my understanding. why did they have so many disabled? because the influenza pandemic left millions of people with “long flu” the way we are now seeing long covid. they were systemically dehumanized, then gathered up, then killed.
• blunderbussted (2021-12-08): anyone have advice on how to avoid taxes as an expat of the united states lol do i just country-hop, avoid establishing residency anywhere, or like are any of the no-income tax countries worth living in for a full year while covid is ongoing?
• mykola (2021-12-09): well this is me not leaving my apartment for the foreseeable. take care of yourselves, friends - omicron will give you long covid as bad as any other strain, i’d bet, don’t take any chances.
• mykola (2021-12-09): long covid is killing people too. in case lifelong disability isn’t a sufficient incentive to exercise caution.
• the_wilderless (2021-12-09): still not sure if the thing i had last week was covid or not it wasn’t *quite* like other cold-type things i’ve had, and there’s one or two symptoms that have cropped up that i’m not sure if they were connected or not— hard to tell subjectively.
• mykola (2021-12-09): disability justice is going to be the primary frontier of american social justice work in the long-covid ravaged decades ahead of us. it’s going to be a long uphill fight against bad faith opponents. we will eventually win, but the cost. thank you for coming to my ted talk.
• slimepriestess (2021-12-09): i'm now covid boostered.
• mykola (2021-12-09): hey sound off if you know at least one person with long covid. i know at least a couple in nyc. we are failing them.
• thezvi (2021-12-09): weekly non-omicron covid post is up as well. as usual these days, omicron one has the important stuff. wp: ss:
• nathanpmyoung (2021-12-10): nearly burned through the spare pair of gloves i bought in feb 2020 when i thought covid would sit on surfaces
• slimepriestess (2021-12-10): this covid booster is kicking my ass y'all
• gptbrooke (2021-12-11): alright so note to future brooke: do not use coffee to wash down niacin long covid protocol on an empty stomach first thing in the morning 🥴
• mykola (2021-12-11): let me be precise. according to the research 50% of covid patients go on to develop long covid. some percentage of long covid patients will recover part or even most of the way, but studies are slim right now on actual full recovery as far as i know.
• mykola (2021-12-11): when i say "never recover", some people are calling me out as speaking prematurely. perhaps i am, eternity hasn't passed yet. what we do know is that after every major virus there are people who get sick and don't recover, and covid is no different. past research here matters.
• mykola (2021-12-11): so: you are not immune to long covid. your kids are not immune to long covid. your neighbors are not immune to long covid. if you get covid there's a 50/50 chance you get long covid, and once you have it there's no reason to believe recovery is going to happen.
• mykola (2021-12-11): a lot of people who get long covid go on to be diagnosed with me/cfs. me/cfs is rated as worse than aids or cancer from a patient experience standpoint. read that again: patients with me/cfs suffer more than patients with aids or cancer.
• mykola (2021-12-11): ok, yes, @jellywilkins is right and i'm sorry. words are hard. claiming objectively that 50% of people never recover is more than i should be stating. 50% of people will get long covid and have no reason to expect recovery is a much better way to put it.
• mykola (2021-12-11): i'm going to delete the first tweet in this thread, where i claimed that 50% of people who get covid don't fully recover. that was a stronger claim than i should have made. i walked it back a bit in the thread, and still want people to share this thread but i want to be precise.
• gptbrooke (2021-12-12): gratitude moment! today i'm grateful that my long covid symptoms have cleared up as much as they have i'm in a 'bad phase' right now, often sleeping ~13 hours a day, but i'm still able to get stuff done and my brain isn't full of cotton what are you grateful for today?
• nosilverv (2021-12-12): surprisingly little discussion on how the first year of covid lockdowns etc made us all here insane lol
• nathanpmyoung (2021-12-13): my dad sent this to his mp about covid. some thoughts: - many of you don't read letters from annoyed evangelicalish christians - i find it a mix of compelling and over the top - dad is furious - when dad is furious, i update on the conservative party being in trouble
• dschorno (2021-12-13): new post! comparing the early aids crisis to covid-19, where we're at with hiv today, issues around shame and contamination, and the meaning of sex.
• slimepriestess (2021-12-13): the media pivot to "it's those right wing covid deniers fault that the virus is still a problem!" after biden took office is really working hard to gaslight you about the fact that our limp-wristed corporate-approved lockdowns were never going to contain it successfully.
• mykola (2021-12-13): of course, like any other pissant snowflake this guy is complaining about lockdowns and claiming zero covid deaths from omicorn (as if that’s true, and as if death was the only outcome) and screaming at his favorite soccer team for listening to concerns about racist names.
• blunderbussted (2021-12-14): oh no ppl still get covid all prior messaging is false oh no people get it more indoors but they were saying to not go out hypocrisy oh no better crowd to my niche extremist narrative w/absolutist reactions people loathe uncertainty, are desperate for any resolution of tension
• jd_pressman (2021-12-14): i knew postrat was dead cozy walking when i read this because it means covid and the rest killed the animating spirit: conspicuously fucking off while rome burns. enough of rome is now burning that this is no longer possible.
• mbateman (2021-12-14): as awful as a bad school culture is, there is nothing as wonderful as a good one. believe it or not, there are schools that have been *anchors* during the storm of covid. that students have loved, that educators have loved, that parents have loved.
• mbateman (2021-12-14): what bothers so much is how casual it is. you don't have to make the case that schools are unhealthy places. it's in the air. sure, we'll sometimes get worked up about some curriculum or covid policy. but most of the damage doesn't get attention, even when it's in plain sight.
• alcentian_one (2021-12-14): weaving a community starts at home - weave: the social fabric project i want to bring weave to @wheaton next spring. covid collapsed our awareness of what could be and we can only build it back up together. time to move out of the comfort zone.
• mykola (2021-12-14): this is going to be the same in the us. covid isn't just a mass illness weaponized into a genocide of black and brown people; it's also the largest disabling event in recent history. millions of newly disabled americans are going to be shit out of luck.
• mykola (2021-12-14): my partner developed covid, then long covid, then me/cfs. that makes me #closetome, so let me share my perspective about what i’ve seen since i e been invited to.
• mykola (2021-12-14): i’ve watched her respond tirelessly, again and again and again, to misguided professionals advising exercise (which is proven to make me/cfs worse) and therapy (used to dismiss concerns as psychosomatic) for long covid.
• mykola (2021-12-14): i’ve also watched her work be lauded and praised by many people as they completely ignore it. i’ve seen the way long covid gets attention but me/cfs does not. i’ve seen the teams build up without including infectious disease experts or me/cfs researchers despite the evidence.
• mykola (2021-12-14): this is an amazing opportunity to do meaningful work with some of the most influential researchers in the #longcovid space, get on this if you are a machine learning person laid up with long covid!!
• daniellefong (2021-12-14): narrative coalescing around long covid being the true reason to protect against omicron it may be, but individual or state action is unlikely to protect us from exposure. long covid is vascular, or vit d or zinc helps, eat well, exercise, get sunshine, vax, what else can you do
• eigenrobot (2021-12-14): going forward the optimal number of deaths from covid is not zero
• forthrighter (2021-12-15): covid exposure q. you find out that saturday a big group of people got together and one tested positive next day. the next day sunday, you came into contact with 5 from that group, not including the one who tested positive. is follow-up testing 4-5 days later warranted?
• mykola (2021-12-15): reflecting on this thread has me thinking about everything she’s lost. everything we’ve lost. our lives will never be the same. i don’t care if you are young and healthy, covid will take that from you forever. stop assuming you’re safe.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-12-16): uk covid forecasting i want to write a forecasting question for if i'm going to enjoy january. any ideas? maybe "will there be a lockdown" "if there is a lockdown how long will it last"
• jose_goncalves_ (2021-12-17): hot take: most people are severely overestimating how much covid changed society. we have not changed that much in a million years, why do you think a 2-year-old virus changes everything?
• nathanpmyoung (2021-12-17): covid dilemma i had 2 doses of the j&j trial. the nhs tracked this poorly so i could probably have got an extra dose over the summer. i think it was high benefit, low cost. it felt icky so i never got round to it. what should i have done? how best to think about it?
• rhyslindmark (2021-12-17): 1/ @radxchange kicks off! 🧵 we're doing an unconference with open space™ technology. we have a long-time open space facilitator leading. this is her first big event since covid! goal of open space: "all coffee break energy all the time." 🔥
• iconic_tweeter (2021-12-17): i have covid guys
• algekalipso (2021-12-17): "how will our communities be affected by covid?" "two ways. excruciatingly slowly and in waves for 21 months, then all at once with omicron in early 2022". - zvi, paraphrasing
• mykola (2021-12-17): if you have asymptomatic or mild covid your chance of getting long covid doesn’t go down. if you have asymptomatic or mild covid you are still contagious and pose a risk to people around you. don’t be like ben. the economy needs you more than you need it. prioritize health.
• andreiklepatch (2021-12-18): small mechanical gadget which became my online avatar for quite a while when covid began.
• drmaciver (2021-12-18): i was able to just get the concierge to pass it to me without going in, and i probably don't have covid anyway, so it's all quite low risk, but this could have been much worse in different circumstances.
• drmaciver (2021-12-18): covid has really made me think about the relationship between disease spread and architecture in general, and how hard it is to avoid human contact in most blocks of flats.
• princevogel (2021-12-18): getting into fights with people in the gcs. baristas at the coffeeshop talking about how angry/tense/depressed everyone seems lately. might be the winter. might be this latest wave of covid. worried about it all. should try to do something cozy like read hegel
• mykola (2021-12-18): i thoroughly enjoyed that, and was surprised by the post credits scene implying a cross over with mcu spider-man. i assume that more information is available in the latest spider-man movie. too bad you have to be covid-unsafe to see it.
• mykola (2021-12-19): the ignorance is to be laid at the feet of our leadership, which has systemically failed every opportunity to message correctly. if you wanted to spread covid you’d do what trump and biden have done, sow confusion and encourage false feelings of safety. makes me livid.
• mykola (2021-12-19): imani is right, here. this isn’t exaggeration, this is genocide by proxy. the antivax movement is heavily funded by dark money, this wasn’t random. america’s covid respond was genocide, and let nobody tell you otherwise.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-12-19): how much would you pay to be free from all contagious diseases for a year? no covid, colds, flu, stis, nothing.
• tyleralterman (2021-12-19): let’s say you’re a very social person (parties, restaurants, etc) who always gets the latest vaccines. what year will your chance of getting infected by a covid variant go to <1% ?
• mykola (2021-12-19): i think about steve, and how much he meant to the people in his life, every time i hear about indiscriminate bombings or preventable covid stats or any event where a lot of people die for no good reason. because every single one meant a lot to someone.
• mykola (2021-12-19): i post a lot about covid because i’ve watched the person i love most on earth go from an active source of joy and light to a shadow of her former self as she’s spent almost two years now sick with long covid. this can happen to anyone. and our leadership is open to that.
• yashkaf (2021-12-19): - the people are desperate for paxlovid - we don't feel like approving it, let them eat cake instead - is that going to help with covid? - ok, how about chocolate covered pizza
• hiredthought (2021-12-19): client work done, but then i got covid booster and flu shot, which took me out of commission the last few days. if i'm being realistic, we'll see movement again in january. i'll be rested and revitalized... able to put my whole self into it.
• alcentian_one (2021-12-19): could there be any bigger moment than today?? (covid, web3, vr, biotech…) this is why, if you are in college today, you have to aim for the stars. you have just won the generational lottery. to enter 2022 in your prime means you have the power to write history today.
• malcolm_ocean (2021-12-20): covid zero is laughable at this point (has been since about may 2020, tbh) at what point does the pandemic become an endemic? ...oh, endemic is actually defined more precisely than i thought — "endemic steady state" that it doesn't die out but doesn't grow exponentially anymore
• bierlingm (2021-12-20): bill a08378: "authorizes the commissioner of health to develop and supervise the execution of a program of immunization against covid-19 for purposes of state aid to schools; requires immunization against covid-19 for attendance at school."
• bierlingm (2021-12-20): bill a07829: "requires immunization of certain post-secondary students for covid-19."
• nathanpmyoung (2021-12-20): theory i'm contemplating government will do the minimum necessary to placate the public on covid. since mostly the public don't care mostly the politicians won't until it's too late either.
• profoundish (2021-12-21): tomorrow, it will have been a year since the great conjunction, since the most psychotic i've ever been (w/out 🍄), since the trance, since the beginning of a spiritual reawakening that is still on-going. i also might have had covid? idk for sure. i was sick, certainly.
• chercher_ai (2021-12-21): covid
• rickbenger (2021-12-21): collective small = the latest covid restrictions, fiscal bandaids. collective big = space, new economics, civics.
• jose_goncalves_ (2021-12-21): every covid “expert” saying that we should delay celebrating christmas is a theorist and has no ideia of the implications of such thing.
• mbateman (2021-12-21): our (fully vaccinated) upper west side campus just got its first covid case since the pandemic started. everyone is fine. that pattern—breakthrough case, everyone is fine—is everywhere in nyc right now. it's a monster wave of mild cases.
• igorbrigadir (2021-12-22): feel like this covid onboarding doc is gonna be very useful to pass around:
• mykola (2021-12-22): who are you getting your covid news and insights from? because following @pookleblinky is like having an insightful window into the future at all times. he’s been right about almost everything to a scary degree. here he is a year ago anticipating the way vaxxed ppl drive risk.
• malcolm_ocean (2021-12-22): vaccines mean that people can be symptomatic before they're testing positive, particularly with rapid tests. coughing comes from immune response—way sooner w antibodies! very unlike early covid days
• easoncxz (2021-12-22): please check out how china does covid. asking you to vaccinate, to wear a mask, to keep track of where you've been -- it isn't eroding your freedoms at all.
• richdecibels (2021-12-23): covid is a darklight that reveals how trumpified your country has become
• mbateman (2021-12-23): guess who’s got two thumbs and is spending the morning of his day off waiting soviet style for his ration of covid testing?
• eigenrobot (2021-12-23): sad thing about this vacation is that ive been dropped into family covid drama japanese aunt doesnt want to get vaccinated, her american husband is maybe a germophobe, think he got their tween kids vaxxed behind her back various minor skirmishes around testing before parties
• eigenrobot (2021-12-23): moms concerned about exposure risk from meeting with their family issues of vaccines not substantially preventing transmission aside, i proposed meeting with them the day before we leave covid incubation period is longer than 24h shes resolutely opposed
• goblinodds (2021-12-23): none of my american family are super functional but somehow there hasnt been a lot of fuss about covid in either direction cant believe they're all passing on this opportunity for drama
• goblinodds (2021-12-23): none of my american family are super functional but somehow there hasnt been a lot of fuss about covid in either direction cant believe they're all passing on this opportunity for drama
• nosilverv (2021-12-23): for a few neurotic people i know covid is de facto the best thing that ever happened to them because it gives them the necessary cover to avoid having to confront the origin of their shortcoming
• eigenrobot (2021-12-24): wonder if the biden admin is secretly hoping the court kills this stuff so they can say "welp ok we tried our best!!!" and move on to aggressively ignoring covid because i imagine this is not having a positive effect on their midterm prospects
• mykola (2021-12-24): with covid, politicized as it is, even people you love and trust will treat your illness and subsequent disability as some sort of ideological choice on your part. “don’t ask me to make a commitment on covid to relate to you, we all know this is complicated!” they seem to say.
• mykola (2021-12-24): your leaders know this is false, that omicron is ripping through vaccinated populations too. they made a choice in a strategy meeting somewhere to stop acknowledging #longcovid and they are not your friends. covid is spreading more now than ever. we should be back at red alert.
• mbateman (2021-12-24): from 0 cases throughout the whole pandemic to three cases in three days. all likely from community transmission, not school. jeez. if you think that positive cases undercount actual cases by 3x or 4x, ~1% of nyc is currently getting covid *per day*.
• mbateman (2021-12-24): covid tests are negative so still flying tomorrow. hope we don't get stuck with it in tx...
• princevogel (2021-12-24): according to a rapido test i don't have covid, but i do have something, and now that i'm sick for the first time in a while i can sort of see what @becomingcritter was getting at with time not being real
• mykola (2021-12-24): i’m at the only place that treats medical crises. i’m at the the place where covid-positive employees are all around me. i’m at the combination only place that treats medical crises / place where covid-positive employees are all around me.
• mykola (2021-12-24): this. the signal from the white house that they’ve given up on covid management couldn’t be louder. the narrative they’re selling is “if you are vaccinated you deserve and can return to normal”, with the strong implication of “if you are sick it’s your fault”. genocide.
• yashkaf (2021-12-24): a friend of mine was locked down for all of 2020 because his girlfriend was impervious to any evidence changing how she felt about covid. and then he realized you can't date someone like that, and is now having a great time dating an epistemologically sound woman.
• sedatesnail (2021-12-25): made it to my parents' house, and because it's in cuyahoga county ohio (look up the covid rates, i dare you) i am not leaving the house, and i can pretty safely say they would never play last christmas... it's looking good, my #whamageddon people
• nido_kween (2021-12-25): cons of this quarantine: - i miss christmas eve - i miss chrismas day - i miss my relationship’s 5 yr anniv - i miss new year’s - i miss my 3 day holiday - i might get covid since i am stuck with an infected person and another one with symptoms - i feel very depressed and cry
• mykola (2021-12-25): this is a good thread from a better universe. "learning to live with covid" in 2021 means most people are going to go back to their normal lives without sparing a thought for the disease disabling a sizable minority of their friends and family.
• eigenrobot (2021-12-25): everyone attending has to have a negative covid test masks indoors are encouraged they are running air filters everyone is vaccinated fine. neurotic but fine
• eigenrobot (2021-12-25): i cant handle this half of the adults going to this party have phds the hosts have vaccines and immunity after getting covid last year what is their motherfucking risk calculus
• goblinodds (2021-12-26): o boy my uncle just tested positive for covid (but his equally sick son tested negative) here we goooo (maybe)
• goblinodds (2021-12-26): o boy my uncle just tested positive for covid (but his equally sick son tested negative) here we goooo (maybe)
• nido_kween (2021-12-26): i think my covid induced superpower of tasting plastic/rubber in foods stored in tupperware might be trying to save me from something
• mykola (2021-12-26): give it a week and then there is going to be a wave of vaccinated people posting their positive post-christmas covid tests. two months after that a new batch of long covid patients facing a lifetime of disability are going to start talking about regretting christmas dinner. 💔
• goblinodds (2021-12-26): i didnt realize till now how bad people's intuitions are re: contagion my family's been spending a bunch of time indoors with someone who tested positive for covid...
• goblinodds (2021-12-26): i didnt realize till now how bad people's intuitions are re: contagion my family's been spending a bunch of time indoors with someone who tested positive for covid...
• goblinodds (2021-12-26): me: have you considered,, not exposing strangers to covid?? family: *visible confusion*
• goblinodds (2021-12-26): me: have you considered,, not exposing strangers to covid?? family: *visible confusion*
• mbateman (2021-12-26): boring covid thread: night of 23rd: covid testing. we’re in nyc, everyone has it, we’re paranoid. negative, no symptoms. christmas eve morn: travel is go: nyc -> austin christmas morning: perfect christmas afternoon: 22mo has a runny nose. we use our last remaining test, and
• mbateman (2021-12-26): pondering whether to regret not getting booster. so far my covid symptoms are milder than my shot #2 symptoms, which were brutal for me. but it’s logistically annoying. and though everyone has been understanding and knew we were coming from nyc, it sucks to have exposed others.
• mykola (2021-12-26): someone in my mentions earlier was asking about breakthrough infections and long covid. this backs up my original claim, that you can still get long covid from breakthrough infections. i know nobody wants this shit to be true but share it with your families anyway?
• mykola (2021-12-27): thinking about how many people who still think they’re healthy have a post-christmas covid surprise brewing, and how many of those will be disabled for life. like, the cards have been dealt it’s just a matter of playing it out, now.
• mykola (2021-12-27): anyway. bummer. that sucks and makes me feel a lot of big feelings. i don’t have long covid, but my partner does and watching her struggles over the past two years has been terrifying. you. don’t. want. this. but now thousands of you have it and don’t know it.
• zrkrlc (2021-12-27): so i have all the known symptoms of covid except the lack of taste and smell my mom is blaming me for it, says it's my fault 'cause "i didn't pray enough"
• richdecibels (2021-12-27): is long covid a real thing
• mykola (2021-12-27): to everyone who has lapsed in their covid safety: we all have. nobody is perfect. to everyone eating in restaurants and going to movies, honestly fuck you. we all wish we could do that but not all of us are willing to spend others’ lives to do it.
• mykola (2021-12-27): this is my fear. that this is already over for those who choose to believe it is, and that that demographic gets bigger every day. people have just accepted this as the new normal. and covid will never go away, it’ll be the new flu but way deadlier and more disabling.
• petersuber (2021-12-27): "drug discovery is usually conducted behind closed doors, its secrets tightly guarded. but moonshot researchers believe that #openscience may lead to a better, more equitable way of combatting covid and future pandemics."
• mykola (2021-12-27): heard from a friend who, if i’m reading this text message correctly, tested positive for covid and then traveled for christmas because his symptoms were mild and just. how did we get here?
• mykola (2021-12-27): what air filter do epidemiologists recommend for covid safety in an apartment building?
• nathanpmyoung (2021-12-27): vaccines in the developing world i have lots of opinions about uk covid policy, but fewer about worldwide vaccines. this confuses me. some thoughts:
• goblinodds (2021-12-27): oh lol i forgot i can walk to get a covid test (in theory)
• goblinodds (2021-12-27): oh lol i forgot i can walk to get a covid test (in theory)
• nathanpmyoung (2021-12-27): i think the ea part of me prefers workable tested policies and the neoliberal part likes uk policy. and neither wants to say what the uk should do on the world stage. and if we are donating money, i imagine covid vaccines are still worse than antimalarials. catch 22.
• goblinodds (2021-12-27): my aunt's boyfriend just checked 6 cvses for covid tests and they're completely sold out welcome to florida 😊
• goblinodds (2021-12-27): my aunt's boyfriend just checked 6 cvses for covid tests and they're completely sold out welcome to florida 😊
• yashkaf (2021-12-27): yeah i've got covid, i got clearly one very impressive dick lmaooo
• yashkaf (2021-12-27): probably covid too, tbh
• imperialauditor (2021-12-27): eg people saying "travel restrictions don't work (against covid)" when whnt they believe is that extreme travel restrictions would work but are not worth the incredibly high cost
• mykola (2021-12-28): gaming this out i see a huge economic crunch in 2022 as we are attempting to come out of this but get hit with a wave of long covid like nobody has ever seen before. many smaller companies will finally close for good, or sell to larger conglomerates. ultimately capital wins.
• mykola (2021-12-28): a friend made a choice re covid safety that i found so irresponsible that i scaled back our friendship, and a part of what they said was “i know you’re traumatized but…” and like no, that’s not it. it’s that the only thing that has changed is that the pandemic got worse.
• mykola (2021-12-28): the worst part isn’t the people suffering and dying all across my neighborhood. it’s not even my partner’s new debilitating long covid situation. it’s the constant gaslighting from everyone from the president to my friends to strangers about this. we are in different realities.
• nathanpmyoung (2021-12-28): how do covid vaccines compare to antimalarials in terms of lives saved per $?
• mykola (2021-12-28): this guy is out here running flack for biden getting served by the people he claims will support him. this was 100% about making it harder for workers to take time off when sick with covid. they admit the change was driven in part by employer lobbying.
• mykola (2021-12-28): like honestly. “oh, sure, uh, we have the science to back this. we’ll, uh, release it soon. we are totally not fudging numbers as we speak.” covid apologists like @iansams should be made to teach a roomful of unvaccinated children.
• mykola (2021-12-28): it looks so good but i think it may be time to shave the covid beard for better mask fit. at this point it’s vanity that could kill me.
• goblinodds (2021-12-28): cool even though 2 of the people we've spent several days indoors with tested positive for covid, my mom's like "well the cdc says"-- she's asymptomatic so she wants to go places wearing a mask i've gotten pretty chilled out about all this but this still seems?? unethical??
• goblinodds (2021-12-28): cool even though 2 of the people we've spent several days indoors with tested positive for covid, my mom's like "well the cdc says"-- she's asymptomatic so she wants to go places wearing a mask i've gotten pretty chilled out about all this but this still seems?? unethical??
• goblinodds (2021-12-28): outsourcing my decisions to people i'm surrounded by was great when i was surrounded by rationalists but now i'm surrounded by family and feel like any route i take is insane quarantine or leave the house after covid exposure? truly nuts
• goblinodds (2021-12-28): outsourcing my decisions to people i'm surrounded by was great when i was surrounded by rationalists but now i'm surrounded by family and feel like any route i take is insane quarantine or leave the house after covid exposure? truly nuts
• mykola (2021-12-28): yesterday started with a hilarious op-ed in the nyt about how employers weren't being treated fairly with all the covid time off and we all laughed at it and then the cdc changed policy to kill people to appease them. that's the entire pandemic response in a nutshell.
• profoundish (2021-12-28): it's actually creating new iterations of the class divide, it's incentivizing us to be more insular and less welcoming. and the solution isn't to not care about covid, but it's worth paying attention to these consequences.
• ultimape (2021-12-28): *sniffs* "these results suggest that [substance use disorder] itself, apart from the contribution of comorbid medical conditions, may have increased the risk for covid-19 infection, even among the vaccinated population."
• mykola (2021-12-28): "but myk, what does their work have to do with my industry?" their work is helping every industry as they continue to map and research long covid and its implications for our society. no company in america will be unaffected by long covid and the coming wave of disability.
• mykola (2021-12-28): it's good to know who to trust during times like this. @patientled is a group of researchers who all got long covid and who have done some of the most important research in this space. they are not an institution, they're a handful of sick people doing unreasonably good work.
• goblinodds (2021-12-28): my aunt's bf is an absolute king and snagged 2 covid tests-- both his and mine came back negative
• goblinodds (2021-12-28): my aunt's bf is an absolute king and snagged 2 covid tests-- both his and mine came back negative
• lericdax (2021-12-29): no instant tests in the entire town but i am pretty sure its covid and my mom just wants to be mean about it lol. wore a mask and friggin goggles for so long and yet here we are.........(boomer ellipsis).................and now she telling me to spray lysol down my throat lol
• lericdax (2021-12-29): the covid is getting worse 🙃
• mykola (2021-12-29): do y’all understand how much worse covid is today than at any point since it started? we have not only broken the 7-day average case record in nyc (about 6000) we have shattered it - yesterday was almost 30k. the cdc is relaxing constraints just when we most need them.
• mykola (2021-12-29): fauci coming out here saying that this is necessary to keep society functioning is bullshit because he’s completely ignoring long covid. between 10-30% of those infected will be out of the work force for a long time, many permanently. do they not matter?
• daniellefong (2021-12-29): how about we do as the japanese do and just reengineer our built spaces with lots of fresh air and use co2 monitoring as a proxy and we’ll just cut into covid as background noise. long term needed to do it well for health
• mykola (2021-12-29): not optional. please, we’re begging you. lots of you will still be asymptomatic but positive from your christmas parties. that means you can still spread covid.
• mbateman (2021-12-29): guys, covid really sucks
• mykola (2021-12-29): last year i feel like 80% of people simply hadn’t heard of long covid. this year that feels closer to 40%, and 20% of people are loudly convinced it’s psychosomatic. i’d like to ask everyone to please, please say something when you hear people saying this. don’t let it go.
• mbateman (2021-12-30): the society-level bright side is that the number of actually good public takes on covid has escalated 10000% in the last couple of weeks. all of the bad tales have been reduced to “no, we can’t just let these idiots get away with having good takes after two years of bad takes”
• thezvi (2021-12-30): weekly overall covid post is out: wp: ss: omicron #11 may come later today, but likely waits until friday.
• nosilverv (2021-12-30): people have been joking about applying covid logic to obesity but… i’ve been kinda shocked recently learning how many peopleo literally never exercise or give no fucks about what they eat or do all the drugs. and i’m like — how’d you survive??? no wonder everyone’s a mess by 30
• mykola (2021-12-30): here it goes. this is the future of the american economy, brought to you by joe biden and the cdc. a large percentage of people unemployed for health reasons will likely never work again because long covid fucked em up permanently.
• mykola (2021-12-31): “but myk he acknowledges that the pandemic is real!” but he won’t acknowledge long covid, which will be the legacy of this pandemic long after we get the acute waves under control (if we ever do). don’t you see it’s the same thing? ignoring what he can’t fix?
• mykola (2021-12-31): cdc says you can have a little covid, as a treat.
• gabriel_weil (2021-12-31): my roommate had symptomatic covid while living in our apartment for 10 days and neither my wife nor i caught it. boosters (and air filters) work!
• actualhog (2021-12-31): vaccine to og covid
• lericdax (2021-12-31): lol i got covid but she still gone make me unload her car lol
• daniellefong (2022-01-01): good thing omicron tends to cause shallow (short, less severe) covid if you already had exposure or vaccines. politicians and bureaucrats will declare victory against covid this coming year i think, but victory will be going to our t cells most likely
• exgenesis (2022-01-01): merry new year, in 2021 i finished my fucking master's thesis, got my first freelance gigs, honored my family and friends with attention, caught covid, got decent at melee, got new energy powers
• cxgonzalez (2022-01-01): ngl y'all i'm in rough shape rn ears ringing at 50% capacity, walking w a limp, a little hung over, blisters on feet from dancing til 3, and at least one of us definitely has covid worth it tho
• profoundish (2022-01-01): "not everyone's immune systems will be able to take the repeated hits. in a population, getting covid 1x (on average) over the next 2 years vs. 3x (on average) over next 2 years is likely to result in significant differences in how many end up permanently disabled."
• igorbrigadir (2022-01-01): * covid positive 😩
• drmaciver (2022-01-01): i wonder how much covid changes the economics of producing live-action versus animated media.
• drmaciver (2022-01-01): apparently a big part of the reason that the wheel of time season finale was so meh was lots of last-minute changes had to me made, partly due to covid disruptions. has a bunch more examples.
• imperialauditor (2022-01-01): deep insights from imp: thinking wrong math bad visakanv tweets stuff lot covid happened top lives fast taking true fun hard ppl makes world weird tweet pretty science? cool idea time people write enjoy moment
• mbateman (2022-01-02): baby is covid negative now. all of our symptoms have resolved. adults are likely negative too. (we are rationing our very limited test supply.)
• iaimforgoat (2022-01-02): my heart is aching with covid pain; did i got the bug? no... i got the shot! fuck
• ultimape (2022-01-03): "garlic. there's no evidence that eating garlic protects against infection with the covid-19 virus." [dec. 17, 2021]
• rhyslindmark (2022-01-03): pretty funny #cdcsays memes. 😂 from @thezvi's excellent covid newsletter.
• ultimape (2022-01-03): there is no evidence that molnupiarvir and remdesivir will "cure" coronavirus either, but here we have pbs talking about using them, along with ivermectin, to solve covid.
• zrkrlc (2022-01-03): post-covid cuisine is gonna be weird
• frideswyth (2022-01-03): i'm glad to see a healthy amount of people faking positive covid tests so they don't have to go to work
• frideswyth (2022-01-03): has the covid alignment problem been completely shattering and reforming who you are all friends with too?
• tyleralterman (2022-01-03): 2/ brian is no friend of the cold, but with his heated jacket, gloves, socks, and scarf he can apparently go for 3hrs. this gave me an idea for how friends w diff covid safety policies can still hang out.
• tyleralterman (2022-01-03): 3/ friend groups can fundraise amongst themselves to buy everyone heat-gear, and then hang out outdoors with lower covid risk in parks, etc i call it hottie club.
• patio11 (2022-01-04): it's also tough to disaggregate how much was caused by covid directly or indirectly and how much was caused by attempts to contain covid, which have medical consequences (ranging from people getting less exercise to eating less healthy to experiencing depression from isolation).
• igorbrigadir (2022-01-04): this video perfectly encapsulates how my covid fried brain is absorbing my twitter timeline over the last few days
• malcolm_ocean (2022-01-04): listening to 2 people in their 60s or older talking about travelling during covid and at this point not being really worried about being sick but just the hassle of getting stuck if they test positive, and test expenses etc.
• mbateman (2022-01-04): here's my dream covid school policy: 1. all school staff are vaccinated. 2. that's it. no other covid policies, rules, or behaviors other than the general health and safety policies.
• mbateman (2022-01-04): obstacles/questions: * staff retention in face of vaccination requirement * most locales regulate covid-specific school policies * many locales have parents and/or staff who want more caution * would this cause in-school transmission and thus functionally close rooms?
• igorbrigadir (2022-01-04): was gonna say wow covid is giving me an amazing ability to drink and retain a lot of water! but then realized it's probably because i demolished a chunky bag of salty pistachios
• slimepriestess (2022-01-05): time to brave the ocean. stay safe, it's covid out there.
• cxgonzalez (2022-01-05): reminded today that, since covid, the fed lets banks keep exactly 0% of their deposits in reserve they literally have no money in the vaults
• slimepriestess (2022-01-05): so my roommate might have covid. i'm gonna be kind of really pissed if i managed to keep myself safe this entire pandemic so far, only to have him infect me because he and his boyfriend didn't take things seriously.
• yashkaf (2022-01-05): people are hoping that after the pressure of covid is released people who currently believe seemingly insane things will slowly drift back toward normalcy. i'm afraid it's the opposite: covid has accelerated the rise of the water line; many have drowned and my own feet are wet.
• yashkaf (2022-01-05): think of the whiplash rollercoaster of mainstream narrative on covid severity, transmission, masks, vaccines, lockdowns, and protests. if you saw a relationship where one person made the other endorse contradicting beliefs every other week you'd call it abuse and gaslighting.
• eigenrobot (2022-01-05): ok this is a fun start but. concept: covid bugchasing ht 🔒
• sensefulronin (2022-01-05): one of the things about “don’t look up” is how easy it is to define its scientific conundrum: “there is a comet and it’s going to arrive in six months” i’d be over the moon if making sense of climate change and covid was that easy.
• hiredthought (2022-01-06): this household is targeting zero covid vaccinations, n95 masks, ventilation
• goblinodds (2022-01-06): every social media covid misinformation policy looks exactly like some guy thought "what would a ya novel villain do?" and went for it
• goblinodds (2022-01-06): every social media covid misinformation policy looks exactly like some guy thought "what would a ya novel villain do?" and went for it
• malcolm_ocean (2022-01-06): hmmmm i haven't been keeping up on how many people end up with sequelae after getting covid this thread probably speaks with more certainty than is warranted, but it makes some good points
• goblinodds (2022-01-06): - recovering from lowkey covid - havent seen very new bf irl in 3 weeks, with 1 week to go - trying to figure out how to rev up a career switch "not feeling stressed though"
• goblinodds (2022-01-06): - recovering from lowkey covid - havent seen very new bf irl in 3 weeks, with 1 week to go - trying to figure out how to rev up a career switch "not feeling stressed though"
• thezvi (2022-01-06): new weekly covid post is out, and it's all omicron so the threads are effectively merged. wp: ss:
• mimi10v3 (2022-01-06): from my mom- fl 55+ community, outdoor water aerobics class last wed infected everyone with (probably) covid; yesterday one of the participants was found dead in her home. moral of the story- get a pulse-ox and go to the er if you aren't getting enough oxygen.
• bolster (2022-01-07): hey, @nidirect (or @healthdpt, or somebody). is it a day 2 pcr test or a day 2 lft? this page is full of contradictions. #covid #covidtesting #justletmeout
• tyleralterman (2022-01-07): if you had to guess, do omicron infections have less of a chance of leading to debilitating long covid?
• goblinodds (2022-01-07): recovered from covid and back on this bullshit added color swatches (antagonist's is just the protag's complimentary color), next i'll try to figure out how to use css to visually represent these shape descriptions
• goblinodds (2022-01-07): recovered from covid and back on this bullshit added color swatches (antagonist's is just the protag's complimentary color), next i'll try to figure out how to use css to visually represent these shape descriptions
• easoncxz (2022-01-08): wow, somebody carried out in detail an idea that i had in my mind all this time as "getting covid is a numbers game" -- of course "micromorts" is a good model for thinking about covid. 👍
• jd_pressman (2022-01-08): prompt: one student tested positive in the auditorium, and a few students started screaming and ran away from him. there was now a lack of available seats given there was a covid-positive student within the middle of the auditorium, acrylic on canvas (clip conditioned diffusion)
• cocadonv (2022-01-08): which means diddly dick. in fact im pretty sure they chose 28 days because if they chose 29, that number would be higher than the total covid deaths which would make midwits realize how its wrong. so it's just preying on ppl's bad intuitions as usual
• tyleralterman (2022-01-09): are there any professional pandemic experts in our little network? (immunologists, epidemiologists, virologists, etc) i want to ask them questions about how to do physical community given a covid-endemic reality.
• mimi10v3 (2022-01-09): as an update, not a single person has tested positive for covid, we're thinking it is rsv. another man is in the hospital on bypass, pretty tragic either way.
• transkatgirl (2022-01-09): oh btw, you can get a half-face respirator + filters (shown in the earlier tweet) for like $40 once you add on some goggles (making a total of $60), you can get functionally the same covid protection as a full-face respirator for like half the price
• ultimape (2022-01-09): "recent clinical data have suggested a correlation between coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) and diabetes. here, we describe the detection of sars-cov-2 viral antigen in pancreatic beta cells in autopsy samples from individuals with covid-19."
• ultimape (2022-01-09): "does not appear to be a clear increase in type 1 diabetes incidence during the pandemic. because type 1 diabetes develops months to years after the initiation of autoimmune β cell destruction, longer-term follow-up studies of covid-19 patients are needed"
• lukeallenmiller (2022-01-09): we really need to start training people to use both the raw #’s and %’s in these situations. most of the panic (and many of the errors) could be smoked out like this. “we saw 750,000,000 covid cases registered yesterday. that’s 227% of the us population. ummm… wait a second.”
• forthrighter (2022-01-09): it's extra extra poisonous because it cuts both ways. both sides in any sparring match can pick sentinel events (i.e. covid, or the jan 6 insurrection) and argue that was the seed of the other's mass formation psychosis it's weak thinking, intellectually dishonest, and harmful
• elodesnl (2022-01-09): literally fuck covid. fuck covid. i sign up for dance classes? cancelled i sign up for philosophy games night? cancelled i sign up for movie night? cancelled i sign up for a dance bootcamp? cancelled i sign up for an authentic relating workshop? cancelled
• elodesnl (2022-01-09): i cannot do *anything* with this goddamned lockdown here. i fucking hate this. my life has been on hold for two years now. i'm trying to scrounge together the energy to participate in things that matter to me but everytime i try to jumpstart things, covid blocks me *hard*
• ultimape (2022-01-10): "saydah and her colleagues did not distinguish between types of diabetes, including both type 1 and type 2 in their analysis. the increases were seen both among those who had been ill with covid and those who were asymptomatic but tested positive."
• ultimape (2022-01-10): "why are people developing diabetes after having covid-19?"
• ultimape (2022-01-10): "[creatine kinase] was elevated in 27% of covid-19 and in 28% of influenza patients. [...] higher in severe covid-19 as were markers of inflammation.
• ultimape (2022-01-10): "in conclusion, analyzing the gut microbiome in the context of covid-19, and exploring its modulation through diet, prebiotics, probiotics, or fecal transplants warrants further investigation. [dec 2020]
• nathanpmyoung (2022-01-10): good article. the idea that covid spreads on surfaces is an unhelpful meme: - it takes up space in discussions - it gives people a false sense of security - it wastes our time - it's a widely believed, false idea, hopefully it isn't sacred to anyone
• easoncxz (2022-01-10): i don't think i ever caught covid, but sounds like i never recovered from it either.
• nathanpmyoung (2022-01-10): covid has hit cash pretty hard. how long is it before one country makes the jump. feels like a pretty low bar to me.
• nathanpmyoung (2022-01-10): what is the most important untrue thing that the most people believe? eg covid spreads on surfaces
• algekalipso (2022-01-10): have you had covid yet? / are you vaccinated?
• forthrighter (2022-01-10): i'm against kissing strangers at new years' eve parties, when the clock rolls over to january 1st. it's not covid but i mean c'mon, it's only the first date
• goblinodds (2022-01-10): working alone is hard, esp. when you don't really know other people in your field obvs migraines played a big role too but freelancing is a big part of why covid lockdown didnt feel different from my normal life (and this is bad)
• goblinodds (2022-01-10): working alone is hard, esp. when you don't really know other people in your field obvs migraines played a big role too but freelancing is a big part of why covid lockdown didnt feel different from my normal life (and this is bad)
• tasshinfogleman (2022-01-10): for those of you that haven't started learning (or want to get back into it), i can't recommend it highly enough. understandably, it seems like there a lot of folks not knowing where to go or how to fit in in person classes due to covid or being busy
• nunosempere (2022-01-10): delay is because i had covid + was hooked on . big hat tip to @nathanpmyoung and @claygraubard for some help towards the end.
• qiaochuyuan (2022-01-10): not sure how to evaluate the risk here on multiple levels. first the like object-level covid risk, then the risk that i might idk need to get a test to fly back to the us and then test positive and be quarantined in canada or something?
• m_ashcroft (2022-01-11): i'm sick (testing negative for covid though) and it's funny that the absence of a positive covid test kinda makes me feel like whatever it is that is making me feel crappy is somehow... illegitimate? weird times, to need a positive test to feel like feeling sick is justified
• m_ashcroft (2022-01-11): "well i don't have covid" "yes but i clearly feel unwell" "yes but there are no tests for that" ... "but this is how things *have always been*"
• m_ashcroft (2022-01-11): this is not me complaining about covid or the need to test for it when feeling unwell it's just interesting to observe this thought pattern in response to "feel sick" ∩ "test negative for covid"
• xsphi (2022-01-11): the lack of choice in modern consumerism is such bullshit. rn i want to buy: - steampunk style round goggles (fashion accessory) - airtight (covid, tear gas, etc) - shatterproof (working with power tools, rubber bullets, etc) and i just can't
• tyleralterman (2022-01-11): the year: 2031. average reinfections per person: 19. everyone is too brain-fogged from long covid to enjoy the cool sex bots. suddenly, @dthorson emerges from a decade-long retreat. as the only earthly man without chronic fatigue, he is duty-bound to become our king.
• tyleralterman (2022-01-11): (this week my gf and i are talking to amateur and professional experts to figure out how to still do physical community without everyone getting f-ed by long covid. i wrote this to vent bc i feel lonely in figuring this out. pls tell me your good ideas!)
• mbateman (2022-01-12): there’s no covid equivalent of “black lives matter” (an amazing slogan) for the political left. maybe “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? but that’s a b- at best.
• visakanv (2022-01-12): part of why i have the audience i do (without external boost) is that my tweets/writing get inside the ooda loop of any discourse i participate in. ie, my riffs and taking points are the covid of my community, lol. i’ll get to everyone eventually
• visakanv (2022-01-12): well i’m like a good guy covid, or try to be. imagine a virus that goes around making everyone feel healthier
• nosilverv (2022-01-12): twilight zone episode where a guy buys a ‘smart gun’ and when he finally has to use it he gets locked out for having a fever (it’s counted as a covid death)
• mattdsegal (2022-01-12): what is subsidising these tests supposed to achieve, won't we still be short of them? i haven't seen a plan for how rat testing is actually supposed to be integrated into aus covid response or what outcomes it would achieve.
• mattdsegal (2022-01-12): beneath this i'm very frustrated by the uselessness of public discourse via media, even supposedly academic stuff like the conversation. it's mostly partisan noise as far as i can tell and i guess pre covid it was easy to shrug off or even hard to notice.
• mattdsegal (2022-01-12): any public commentary on govt covid policy the ought to be accompanied by estimates of deaths and qalys lost in the different counterfactuals they're discussing. put up or shut up. and this of course goes with the govt modelling as well - why don't they post projected deaths?
• mbateman (2022-01-12): we try to get clarity on when a health department is "requiring" a covid quarantine, and when they are "recommending" it. it's often unclear so it's something we specifically ask about. just got a response that "it's our required recommendation" that a student quarantine.
• nathanpmyoung (2022-01-13): imagine you knew who had infected you with covid (eg phone tracking + covid testing) would you live somewhere where you could be sued for giving someone covid? you'd pay for their healthcare costs and loss of work, say.
• garrisonlovely (2022-01-13): fauci and other govt health officials are doing it again: lying about what we know about covid because we don't have enough of a thing we easily could have predicted we would need.
• dschorno (2022-01-13): then you get shit like bo burnham's covid special, where he doesn't really respect the power of what he's doing and then just cynically fucks up his audience. it's like cutting or something lol: reopening everyone's healing wound
• tyleralterman (2022-01-14): say you had to come up with the ultimate long covid prevention pak so you can keep socializing normally. would would you include for: 1. preventatives 2. treatments *during* symptoms (if you get covid) 3. treatments after symptoms ?
• leo_guinan (2022-01-14): starting today's sessions with one on testing with cypress. and the news that my oldest has covid. he's vaxxed, so there's that at least.
• jd_pressman (2022-01-14): to the extent that works like hpmor brought a lot of people into 'rationality' on a fandom basis, constituting a new literary movement, that movement became ineffective during the trump-covid era. it's no longer possible to feel the level of joy and idealism that genre demands.
• richdecibels (2022-01-14): given most of us live in social contexts typified by decades of decaying institutional trust... i think it is very uncool to disdain people who can't accept the covid regulations at face value
• nosilverv (2022-01-14): secret-buddha, satoshi, covid-utilitarians…
• jose_goncalves_ (2022-01-14): context: i’ve had covid twice and 1 shot of pfizer, so the us won’t let me in because i am technically “not fully vaccinated” but at the same time the portuguese government will not give me the second shot because i have had covid recently so it is not needed gotta love politics
• nathanpmyoung (2022-01-15): the article doesn't discuss bayesianism in detail. i guess the main point is that covid guidelines are really hard to understand. but as a signal of "a thing clever people know" bayesianism is quoted. you might not have noticed, but your brain did.
• jd_pressman (2022-01-15): "most of the deaths are *with* covid rather than *from* covid."
• alcentian_one (2022-01-16): more recently, i’ve detached from politics but still see this effect in my life. i fell into the rabbit-hole of uber-optimizing productivity at the start of covid. since august, i’ve increasing felt pulled from the trend described here
• transkatgirl (2022-01-17): if covid happened 5 years ago, i would have probably caught it on purpose so that the doctors would forcefem me
• sedatesnail (2022-01-17): thanks team palindrome for a great mystery hunt the usual mix of emotions: - fomo for the 90% of puzzles i didn't do - disconnection because covid - the usual dopamine yes yay - participating in a shared goal this was good, at least! next year in cambridge, y'all
• thezvi (2022-01-17): there's new covid-19 markets up at @polymarkethq so i figured i'd take a look. wp: ss:
• thezvi (2022-01-17): no lines or almost any customers at all at the covid-19 testing tents today in downtown manhattan. huge change from past few weeks.
• nosilverv (2022-01-17): same dude who made "flatten the curve" go viral (10mm) views says its time to end covid. if it works then he must be in history books as one of the most influential people of this whole story, for better or worse
• visakanv (2022-01-17): just glanced at my patreon and i'm startled that not only is it "pre-dominos visa", it's (mostly) pre-fan visa. wow. erm, it's also pre-covid, lolsob
• transkatgirl (2022-01-18): why tf does my school have the line for covid testing *right next* to the bathroom and, the line for covid testing is *long* right now, so there’s a good chance that i’d catch covid from someone if i was around there for long enough
• patio11 (2022-01-18): public service announcement: free covid tests available in u.s. via usps. capped at 4 per address; yes this is legit; shipping timeline on order of 2 weeks; get your order in early because high likelihood they run out of stock.
• hiredthought (2022-01-18): us folks. order your free covid tests now. 4 per residential address.
• mykola (2022-01-18): the antivaxxers in my family are testing positive for covid. scared for them.
• slimepriestess (2022-01-19): well, i have covid. shit.
• friedkielbasa (2022-01-19): trump began the transition from 3 to 4, covid finished it, and reading dominic cummings' blog is the cherry on top. curious what 5 is going to be
• leo_guinan (2022-01-19): well, my oldest son is over covid. so now my younger son has it. 🤦‍♂️ i am really not feeling this. i know the odds of everything, but it still sucks to see your kids sick, even a little bit. i'll be happy when we get through it.
• blunderbussted (2022-01-20): my personal tragedy in covid is there is a perfect corner market a 2 minute walk from my front door but there is a covid curfew in effect and i can’t buy ice cream after 10pm
• nathanpmyoung (2022-01-20): a friend of mine has tested positive on an lft with no symptoms. this is the 4th occasion. each weeks or months apart. at what point do i stop thinking they ever have covid? can some people repeatedly test false positive?
• xsphi (2022-01-20): one of the saddest things to me about covid is we're two years into being forced to abolish and/or fundamentally rethink grade school, yet doing that intentionally is still outside the overton window.
• thezvi (2022-01-20): weekly covid post is out. it's the peak! there's also a bonus post on an awesome proposal to expand manhattan. wp: ss:
• xsphi (2022-01-20): guy who think covid variants end when they run out of greek letters
• nosilverv (2022-01-21): more safe = less need for society’s protection less safe = more need for society’s protection! way to keep people hooked is to make them feel unsafe and like you’re the only source of safety/stability! anthrax/climate change/terrorism/covid, constant emergency panic!
• nosilverv (2022-01-21): covid was just putting us all through school, but as adults lol.
• mimi10v3 (2022-01-21): waiting for hours in a crowded room to get tested for legionella per health dept request for outbreak investigation. feel like the inconvenience, cost, and potential covid exposure is a lot to ask for a low value data point...
• goblinodds (2022-01-21): spooky amt of tickling in my chest a few weeks after covid 👀 do not appreciate
• goblinodds (2022-01-21): spooky amt of tickling in my chest a few weeks after covid 👀 do not appreciate
• mykola (2022-01-22): i know and love a few kids. if one of them got sick and ended up with long covid, or died, i’d be devastated beyond words. even the thought is too horrific to think. but to our leaders they’re just statistics.
• mykola (2022-01-22): if you follow anyone for covid or political analysis, what factors drive you to trust that person more than you would trust a @pookleblinky? because those factors aren’t serving you.
• xsphi (2022-01-23): if original covid had had the same r0 but 10x the death rate, the last two years overall would have gone
• richdecibels (2022-01-23): how's the material reality of your life now compared to the start of covid (not the media/internet/scare stories out there, your day to day reality)
• easoncxz (2022-01-24): new covid subvariant just dropped: (?)
• blisstweeting (2022-01-24): got covid after avoiding it for almost two years. thankfully, i'm vaccinated and boosted so it's bearable.
• slimepriestess (2022-01-24): i've been taking fluvoxin since i was diagnosed with covid and i'm remembering how much i hate ssris in every way.
• eigenrobot (2022-01-24): this cost like $80 which seems like a lot for a covid test (have to take one and it was the only one i could find) on the other hand it is basically a molecular biology laboratory in a box that cost only $80 overall very impressive. biology is going places
• mykola (2022-01-25): cw gross body stuff: i think i’m sick. diarrhea, nausea, stomach ache, cold sweats. thanks i hate it. and to top it off there’s only single ply tp here! 😫😭🥵 took a negative covid test but that’s meaningless. we’ll see how i feel tomorrow but today has been steadily worse.
• eigenrobot (2022-01-25): just got out of an uber on mission and was blasted with the scent of human excrement glad covid hasn't changed the city
• visakanv (2022-01-25): 1219 – genghis be khaning around 1319 – not much tbh 1419 – ottoman-venice peace treaty signed 1519 – da vinci dies 1619 – first enslaved africans arrive in virginia 1719 – robinson crusoe published 1819 – raffles arrived in singapore 1919 – a&w root beer founded 2019 – covid
• nathanpmyoung (2022-01-26): the main problem with uk policy is that more people died from covid than in comparable counties. and people's liberty was unnecessarily constraine. i don't like hypocrisy, but the key problem wasn't no 10 parties, it was the deaths and that we couldn't have safe parties outside.
• daniellefong (2022-01-26): covid is just going to be a thing people die of, until we both defeat it like we are asymptotically are defeating it like cancer, heart disease governments lost the battles for containment without changing the timeframe they thing about provisioning resources to years ahead
• thezvi (2022-01-27): weekly covid post is up, now fully including omicron. the climb down begins. wp: ss:
• petersuber (2022-01-28): new study: "110 scientists received >=10,000 citations for covid-19 work, but none received >=10,000 citations for non-covid-19 work published in 2020-2021."
• mbateman (2022-01-28): what feels more incongruous? when the op-ed class is pointlessly and obviously 9 to 12 months behind in their updating on covid? or when they finally catch up?
• m_ashcroft (2022-01-28): new haircut, but gonna keep growing my hair until it reaches my collarbone before covid i always kept my hair short because it got unruly when it got longer turns out it’s just curly. took me 30 years to figure that out insert ‘expanded hairwareness’ joke here
• askyatharth (2022-01-29): broke: don’t look up says nothing about covid woke: don’t look up makes fun of covid-deniers bespoke: don’t look up shows how much covid apathy makes sense
• askyatharth (2022-01-29): [broke/woke] from an actual class forum page: “i thought this was such a scatching commentary on the covid-19 pandemic” “are you sure we saw the same movie? i saw one about asteroids”
• cxgonzalez (2022-01-29): -negative covid test in last 2 days required to fly -covid tests take 1-3 days 🙃
• cxgonzalez (2022-01-29): guy who’s scared of covid not for health but for canceling plans
• jd_pressman (2022-01-31): you're finally awake, you hit your head pretty bad there. gpt-3? postrat? covid? 2022? dude what are you talking about it's 2011, come on i was just reading this great harry potter fiction by this guy called 'lesswrong'
• richdecibels (2022-01-31): eg, if some dude says something sexist against women, it's easy for me to ignore, but better for me to empathise but if someone says covid is not real... i dunno maybe ignoring them is the smart move
• visakanv (2022-01-31): imagine explaining to 13 year old taylor swift that people would ask her to cancel spotify (what’s spotify?) to punish joe rogan (who’s joe rogan?) because his podcast (what’s a podcast?) spread misinformation about covid (what’s covid?). girl just wanted to sing for the world
• cocadonv (2022-01-31): "they are experts with different opinions, i wanted to hear them" like bruh what kind of neural pathways does such a simple sentence even trigger in u if ur a covid npc?
• nosilverv (2022-02-02): nikola tesla: you will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension wuhan lab scientists dropping covid:
• hiredthought (2022-02-02): okay great but i've been sitting here hoping for a covid moonshot. cancer is horrible and deserves one too, but at this point it feels like they're just picking things out of a hat.
• thezvi (2022-02-03): i resisted the temptation to call this week's covid-19 post shape rotation. you're welcome. wp: ss:
• mykola (2022-02-04): this is really good, and addresses the constant gaslighting that people with long covid are exposed to from everyone from internet trolls to medical professionals. these folks need to be called out for the menace they are, and i'm grateful to @mikesmariani for writing this!
• petersuber (2022-02-04): update. "when the @who…asked moderna, pfizer and biontech to help teach researchers in low- and middle-income countries how to make their covid-19 vaccines…,the companies did not respond, and the who decided to go ahead without their help."
• mattdsegal (2022-02-05): on the other hand, *if* covid came from a lab that was trying to engineer a more infectious or deadly virus... i mean that one's a gimme
• thezvi (2022-02-06): do you currently have fatigue, brain fog, poor memory or shortness of breath? did you ever get covid?
• patio11 (2022-02-07): i know this has been well reported, a psa: rapid deterioration after a covid infection continues to be a thing, including in relatively young and healthy people, and if you have folks close to you with it keep an eye on them. the sad anecdote motivating this psa:
• patio11 (2022-02-07): (someone once wrote that covid is a mirror on modern society and this feels like a painful example of that, showing e.g. extreme atomization in parts of our generation which would have been remarkable at same circumstances in my parent's generation.)
• patio11 (2022-02-07): in "surprisingly good experiences in government and healthcare it", the her-sys system for tracking covid symptoms through self-reports also includes same symptoms input by healthcare professionals and public health workers (typically after followup call or on-site health check).
• patio11 (2022-02-07): "what's the primary key?" a good question, and since all the obvious answers are bad ones for a variety of reasons, the true answer is "if your doctor reports you as covid+ w/ a new case to the system they get issued the new numeric primary key, which gets texted to you."
• technoshaman (2022-02-08): 5g and qanon: how conspiracy theorists steered canada’s anti-vaccine trucker protest the crazies say “false pronouncement of a covid-19 ‘pandemic’ was carried out... by bill gates to facilitate the injection of 5g-enabled microchips into the population."
• richdecibels (2022-02-09): it's time for another thrilling round of... which of my friends are covid cops
• eigenrobot (2022-02-10): tangential from this. was taking a shower the other day and wondered if a long term consequence of vaxx mandates in the case of covid might be a widespread and general rejection of vaccine mandates for vastly-more important vaccines
• eigenrobot (2022-02-10): so overall i would say people pushing covid vaccine mandates can be described as profoundly evil from a consequentialist standpoint, to the extent that mandates generate massive downside risk for marginal uptake of a vaccine thats. you know. its fine but its no polio vaccine
• easoncxz (2022-02-10): i'm gonna call this. masks are obviously good defense against covid, but similar to the early days' advice on any masks in 2020, i say this is because we don't have that many n95 masks.
• thezvi (2022-02-10): like a lannister i always pay my debts, so here it is, the long long covid post. wp: ss:
• thezvi (2022-02-10): weekly covid post is up. now for a well-deserved break on many fronts. wp: ss:
• eigenrobot (2022-02-11): anyway covid suddenly feels over apart from the illness and death
• mbateman (2022-02-11): bad news. but believe it or not this makes things easier for us in some ways to roll back other covid things like masking. if it’s imminent then people will want to wait for it before any relaxations of protocols.
• xsphi (2022-02-11): without looking it up, have more people died of covid or were more jews killed in the holocaust? politically, you lean..
• mbateman (2022-02-12): we moved the montessorium newsletter to substack. it's mostly (so far) best-of-the-week notes from me. you can peruse past newsletters. posting in about an hour: long essay about how we're winding down covid protocols across our 100-school network .
• ultimape (2022-02-12): friend of mine got covid and survived. now he can't smell anything. i am thinking about scent a lot.
• daniellefong (2022-02-12): my heart goes out to long covid sufferers; chronic fatigue / inflammation / brain fog is no joke. i hope there becomes increasing awareness of how to get back to full health as time goes on
• the_wilderless (2022-02-15): i was last there in late 2014. since then we’ve haaaaad ferguson, dylan roof, gay marriage legal, weed legal, 2016 election, mueller, weinstein, metoo, epstein, impeachment, george floyd, 2020 election, another impeachment, covid, biden, more covid, vaccines, more covid…
• nathanpmyoung (2022-02-15): seems pretty effective to keep the programs tom suggests. as a covid, general and biorisk safety measure.
• daniellefong (2022-02-16): hong kong seems to be a place where beijing’s no covid policy is going to crash into reality
• nathanpmyoung (2022-02-16): how much is the most you would you pay for a home test for all respiratory diseases at once? you have to swab your nose, etc. it will tell you if you are contagious with a cold, flu, covid, etc etc.
• mykola (2022-02-17): have you told a disabled person that they matter to you today? have you told a chronically ill friends that you have their back during this pandemic? have you sent food or money to your friends who are unemployed due to long covid, and don’t know what to do?
• mykola (2022-02-17): i’m tweeting about this now because in case you’re somehow not aware we are currently living through the worst mass disabling event in recorded human history. long covid is going to remove a significant number of previously healthy people from public life and work.
• mykola (2022-02-17): if someone you know had covid and is having trouble, weeks or months later, keeping up with things they used to be able to do? that’s a newly disabled person, even if they don’t know it yet, and they will need help and support. hold space for them, please. they need it.
• nobu_hibiki (2022-02-17): lmaoooo nvm practice cancelled the instructor's family got covid 💀💀💀💀
• thezvi (2022-02-17): new weekly covid post is out. wp: ss:
• thezvi (2022-02-17): if you read the weekly covid posts or my other blog posts, which version do you most often read?
• rhyslindmark (2022-02-17): 14/ eth events, and conferences more generally, are a time to turn twitter into meatspace. we've been stuck indoors for 2 years because of covid. enjoy it!
• vividvoid_ (2022-02-18): covid restrictions are lifting. the end is in sight. it's time to forgive all the people you disagreed with. no one had a monopoly on the truth, good information was hard to find and kept changing, and we all went friggin crazy. once the pandemic's over, let it be over.
• eshear (2022-02-18): i feel like this might have been true 6 months ago, but i have had the opposite experience. never felt sf was better…it’s like a forest after a fire, lots more room for new growth. we have problems to work on, sure, but the vibe is more optimistic than i remember pre-covid.
• nathanpmyoung (2022-02-19): i feel like i'm inconsistent on this. i like vaccination. but i empathise with people who don't want to get covid vaccines. but i wouldn't say that about measles. i'm confused by myself.
• ultimape (2022-02-19): fun fact, i've never had covid and my sense of smell is fine afaict. dog shit does smell like fruity rancid wet hay and eggs. what you're smelling is a *lack of* skatol & indole sensitivity. “poo now smelled better than coffee.”
• yashkaf (2022-02-20): if you want to talk to these people about forgiveness you literally can't use the words "covid restrictions" or "misinformation" or anything like that because that's an immediate trigger for conflict mode right now. you have to come at this obliquely. get your parable skills up
• yashkaf (2022-02-20): but also: there's a legit power struggle going on right now and covid policy is a battleground. that conflict isn't close to over, so you can't blame the belligerents for not being eager to talk about the virtues of forgiveness just yet. especially the ones on the losing side
• ultimape (2022-02-20): "covid-19 has a uniquely harmful impact on men's health and erectile function through biological, mental health, and healthcare access mechanisms. as the pandemic wanes, strategies to identify long-term effects and additional health care support"
• yashkaf (2022-02-20): another person tweeted "covid restrictions are ending, time for forgiveness" and his friends said, "wow, look at how hateful these conservatives are in the qts are and they call themselves christian what nasty hypocrites"
• ultimape (2022-02-20): that last quote tweet was dated jan 23, 2020. i didn't know about covid until 5 days after that. but i'm not a doctor.
• the_wilderless (2022-02-21): i think almost every one of my students has covid right now
• nido_kween (2022-02-21): so far (+2 yrs) its been: - ovarian cyst (fixed - hormonal treatment) - inguinal hernia (fixed - surgery) - fucked up lungs (went away on its own?? probably covid related) - now a disc hernia 🤡
• nathanpmyoung (2022-02-21): when people said [boris is a liberal at heart] there is a sense in which they were right. he *has* rolled back covid regulations in a way i sense is quite unusual.
• daniellefong (2022-02-21): laurie garrett was one of the best reporters early covid and onwards too, friends
• daniellefong (2022-02-22): uk announcing pandemic over as the queen gets covid. god save the queen, because we couldn’t
• hargup13 (2022-02-22): after a year or so i got comfortable with not knowing the news. then i allowed myself to consume some news, some of the time. for example, i was following news around covid. then around afghanistan crisis, i would go and often search on google news to know what's happening.
• sedatesnail (2022-02-23): opening a covid test stick, folding it like a stick of gum, just straight chomping away
• mykola (2022-02-24): to be disabled in america in 2022 is to be gaslit by literally everyone you know. it’s to tell people about your incurable permanent long covid and have them ask you how come you never come out anymore. it’s to try to talk about autism only to have people change the subject.
• rhyslindmark (2022-02-24): - march 2020: covid overblown. "it's the flu". - march 2021: continue to believe "covid overblown", so no vax. - june 2021: delta has 2.5x ifr. lots of death.
• yashkaf (2022-02-24): i encourage everyone to keep tweeting about ukraine and inflation and covid. everyone except for the "suddenly everyone's an expert" folks, those can shut the fuck up. i'm not on twitter to hear from credentialed pundits, i'm here to hear from literally everyone else.
• thezvi (2022-02-24): not where anyone's head is at this morning but the new weekly covid post is out. wp: ss:
• thezvi (2022-02-24): post of various non-covid things, including an attempt to clear some of my backlog. brief mention of ukraine but all written pre-invasion. wp: ss:
• rhyslindmark (2022-02-25): reminder that wikipedia was a great source for covid early 2020 and is still a great source for doomscrolling events like ukraine.
• ultimape (2022-02-25): "kefir can act as an anti-inflammatory agent by reducing expression of il-6, il-1, tnf-α, and interferon-γ. hence, kefir might be a significant inhibitor of the ‘cytokine storm’ that contributes to covid-19."
• the_wilderless (2022-02-26): all of my students except one currently have covid
• nosilverv (2022-02-26): i’ve been reading that sanctioning russia is impossible because people aren’t willing to make sacrifices. i don’t know if this is true? “climate change”, “blm”, covid restrictions - people seem pretty eager to engage in masochistic demonstrations of loyalty to *something*
• nido_kween (2022-02-26): anyway i bought myself a new stainless steel lunchbox today since my post-covid plastic intolerance seems to be lingering on
• ultimape (2022-02-27): there are currently a 1/3rd the number of people in the hospital with covid, and only 5 in the icu. directly from our state's health data. lowest it's been since i started looking at it regularly.
• ultimape (2022-02-27): if only there was a reliable source of community transmission that can be tracked using municipal measures. a population level sampling method that predicts covid case by a couple of weeks (that i've known about since at least march 2020)...
• daniellefong (2022-02-27): getting crap like this now, wonder if it's genuine tankies or actual paid troll behavior. had aggressive actions taken against me (e.g. report spam and account lockouts) in the past during early covid reporting (feb 2020), feels a little similar
• ultimape (2022-02-27): > “i think it’s hard to process what’s actually happening right now,” said janet woodcock, acting commissioner of the food and drug administration, during a senate hearing tuesday, “which is most people are going to get covid.”
• nido_kween (2022-02-28): the place i was going to do my observation and teaching practice in just told me i need a document approved by the dutch justice department which takes 4-8 weeks (i’m supposed to go this month, before that it was january, canceled due to covid) 🥲💀😤
• eigenrobot (2022-02-28): hmmm would also explain covid paranoia rationally
• jd_pressman (2022-03-01): this is like a perfect time capsule of covid energy that is rapidly fading during the current crisis. i wonder if tweets like this will even make intuitive sense a month from now, maybe we'll all just forget.
• eigenrobot (2022-03-01): as with covid, ukraine is becoming alot less interesting to me as a realtime event as the discourse is crowding out discourse and information channels are getting colonized probably going to talk about it less
• daniellefong (2022-03-01): 💭"by and large it's the same people who were smart on covid who are at least trying to be smart during this crisis, and it's the same people who are assholes" 😆
• rhyslindmark (2022-03-01): i heard amazing things about the first graph day pre-covid. this one is looking to be just as good, if not better. get your tickets below for $250 before the prices go up. hope to see you there! 👋
• easoncxz (2022-03-02): remember when it was "the first person i know to have died from covid"?
• nosilverv (2022-03-02): feel like everyone is prettier recently. what’s going on? spring? end of covid? mercury in retrograde? war?
• nosilverv (2022-03-02): covid
• blunderbussted (2022-03-03): you were also right about a return to a tendency toward addictive substances but it's not nearly so bad rn because of the work i have going on. you made a prediction about a physical shift too, but it's mostly i'm gaining weight and not exercising after getting covid lolol
• thezvi (2022-03-03): covid limps on, so coverage must continue. might not have as much time for a while, so next 1-2 updates might be brief. wp: ss:
• mykola (2022-03-04): fuck, my dad has long covid. he got covid at a work meeting right after christmas and he's still sick, currently on a bunch of meds to help his lung congestion, still.
• mykola (2022-03-04): fuck all of you people who are pushing for "covid is over" party. fuck you, i hope you get long covid and spend the remaining decades of your life out of breath, weak and disabled.
• mykola (2022-03-04): 10. you watch as people you know and love go about their lives as if things are back to normal, never checking in on you. 11. you realize for them to check in on you would disrupt their cognitive model of "covid is over", so you become a symbol not a person. 12. they have fun!
• mykola (2022-03-04): 13. you understand, now, that 10-30% of all covid infections end in long covid. 14. you don't understand how or why the government has ignored that reality in all of its policies. 15. you slowly realize you are a victim of capitalist policy that ignored science.
• mykola (2022-03-04): 16. every time you see photos of friends socializing without masks you're reminded that if you get covid again it could ratchet your condition worse, permanently. you can take fewer risks. 17. friends complain when you ask them to wear masks around you. 18. the cdc is your enemy.
• mykola (2022-03-04): 26. you will maybe finally understand why some of us are so adamant about school closures -- because giving long covid to a kid is stealing their best years of health and vibrancy. 27. you will finally see, in high resolution, just how horrific our societal values are.
• mykola (2022-03-04): 21. you will spend weeks, then months, desperately hoping to find yourself among the percentage of long covid sufferers that recover. 22. three, six, twelve months in you'll realize the grim truth. 23. many of you will kill yourselves, but i wish you wouldn't. this is real.
• mykola (2022-03-04): 28. every time a member of our government talks about "most people..." with respect to covid you will understand that they are explicitly excepting you and everyone like you. you don't count, you don't factor into our national response or the public reaction. nobody cares.
• mykola (2022-03-04): 30. welcome to the global left -- i don't see many people undergoing this process and coming out of it as the same fox-news watching covid-denying people they were. this can and should be a radicalizing event for you. now it's time to organize.
• mykola (2022-03-04): i don't have long covid, but i have other disabilities and a lot of this holds for them as well. i have people in my life that i care about and love deeply who do have #longcovid , and i watch them as the world moves on without them, and my heart shatters. thread is for them.
• mykola (2022-03-04): 36. as more and more people talk about post-covid life you understand that they simply don't mean you. you don't have a post-covid life, you will live the rest of your life in 2020 or 2021 or 2022. 37. increasingly, people will act like you're faking your illness.
• mykola (2022-03-04): i repeat: you are one infection away from this! q: but i'm vaxxed and boosted! a: you can still get long covid. q: but my infection was mild/asymptomatic! a: you can still get long covid. q: i'll just exercise through it! a: your long covid just became me/cfs.
• mykola (2022-03-04): 52. because long covid is a form of post viral sequelae, and because doctors simply don't understand post viral sequelae, many doctors will treat your symptoms and tell you the rest is in your head. they're wrong, but don't know how to say "i don't know".
• mykola (2022-03-04): 50. i want to be very clear: getting any kind of care for long covid is almost impossible. what care is available is short-term and will prevent you from dying, and then you have to pay a fortune for it. 51. welcome to experimental medicines with terrible side effects!
• mykola (2022-03-04): 47. you will go to your general practitioner and say "i think i have long covid" and he'll calmly reassure you that there's no such thing, you just need rest. 48. the doctors will look at but not address your resting heart rate of 120. 49. the insurance companies are after you.
• mykola (2022-03-04): 54. assholes all over the internet will weigh in with opinions about whether or not you're really sick, whether or not it's really long covid, whether long covid is real, etc. they don't care about you, they just wanna be right.
• mykola (2022-03-04): the parallels between long covid specifically and hiv are sobering. did you know that hiv takes about 10 years to turn into aids on average? we don't know what long covid looks like 10 years from now.
• mykola (2022-03-04): hey @neilhimself here’s a thread about details of what it’s like to get long covid. would you help me get this in front of as many eyes as possible?
• mykola (2022-03-04): i know how i started this thread but i don’t actually wish long covid on anyone but the trump and johnson and putin administrations. it’s just: only people who get it seem to get it.
• mykola (2022-03-04): finally: i hope the above thread has helped you to understand why all of the disabled people in your life are freaking the fuck out about biden's covid plan -- because it's the same as trump's, and offers zero protection against long covid. they are totally ignoring it. be mad!
• mykola (2022-03-04): having compared notes between autistic burnout and long covid / me/cfs i can tell you that the similarities are striking. it hurts to process information, all sensitivities go up, social challenges become pronounced, etc etc etc.
• zencephalon (2022-03-04): covid made obsolete by war
• mykola (2022-03-04): bunch of people are calling my long covid thread "brutal" or "brutally honest" and huh. it makes me realize that people just don't know. i'm not trying to be brutal i'm just an autistic person sharing information that makes me sad and angry. this shit is just true brutal or not.
• mykola (2022-03-04): everyday nobodies like this guy will, for no good reason, randomly start arguing that long covid isn’t real. can you imagine?
• visakanv (2022-03-04): radley’s first guess was actually correct! in the before times you’d just take the soy and pepper yourself but this was like a covid measure to minimize contact
• mykola (2022-03-05): this asshole thinks long covid isn’t real because its being covered in teen vogue.
• mykola (2022-03-05): here’s another one, miss combs is on twitter arguing that long covid isn’t real.
• mykola (2022-03-05): here’s doug, weighing in to make sure we all know that long covid is actually a political position.
• mykola (2022-03-05): jeff from chicago thinks long covid is all made up. basically like a scene in a tv show about criminals.
• mykola (2022-03-05): andrea here is pretty sure long covid is mostly psychological. the insurance industry agrees strongly, so that they don’t have to support anyone.
• mykola (2022-03-05): shannon thinks long covid is mostly a reaction to covid policies. genius level thinking, here.
• mykola (2022-03-05): long covid is fake, says this “expert”. people are just sad about the world being bad.
• mykola (2022-03-05): note: the symptoms of long covid are a lot more complex than what i’ve laid out here. it impacts your body’s autonomic functions, it causes micro clotting which leads to neurological symptoms like memory loss and cognitive dysfunction. to learn more, follow the experts:
• mykola (2022-03-05): if you have long covid: you are not alone. if you haven’t found them yet, check out the support group in the previous tweet. disability is isolating until you find out how deeply it connects you to others. you aren’t alone, even if the people in your life dismiss you.
• eigenrobot (2022-03-07): one can maybe view the way the culture war ate everything and then trump ate everything and then covid ate everything and now ukraine is eating everything not as a series of war's that have anything to do with each other coalitionally, exactly, but as an outgrowth of new media
• eigenrobot (2022-03-07): does russia ideologically speaking have anything to do with covid. does gamergate have anything to with police brutality. idk you can draw lines but i think trying to align these things feels like yarn walling
• georgejrjrjr (2022-03-07): also absent but present in spirit: @danielcolson6. as he pointed out in lisbon: since covid killed offices, we all have the opportunity to be the best friends the world has ever known. that insight was alive for me throughout vibecamp.
• mykola (2022-03-08): (he basically completed succeeded in the uk, by the way. terf island pulled out of the eu, drilled a bunch of holes in its own economy and then started inhaling covid recreationally. today they're not even sanctioning the russians who own them, and providing laughable aid to ukr)
• kcorazo (2022-03-08): the theory is that lower testosterone means lower aggression, which means fewer wars... (goes on to explain covid-19, ukraine and nfts based on this this theory)
• mykola (2022-03-08): this shit was real, even if iq is a really really bad measure. a generation from now they're going talk about the cognitive decline our population suffered after covid, given that even a mild infection shrinks your brain matter.
• myceliummage (2022-03-08): fuck it yeah crying thatnk god for covid masks to hide behind
• rhyslindmark (2022-03-08): 6/ ukraine has captured this memetic moment we are transitioning to endemic covid. but this pandemic dominated the headlines for 2 years. bu the eyeballs need to look at something. that thing is ukraine. h/t @baseballot @fivethirtyeight
• mykola (2022-03-08): friendly reminder that he’s not appeasing right-wing tories, he’s appeasing their owners. the klept. they’re using covid casualties like school shootings, a source of massive casualties.
• mykola (2022-03-09): we know this is a mass disabling event for 10-30% of people who get covid, because they go on to develop long covid and have persistent symptoms. but i had no idea covid was at all associated with lewy bodies. that shit is so much more serious than anyone is talking about.
• mykola (2022-03-09): as more than one person has observed to me: aids is to hiv as long covid is to covid. aids is long hiv. doctors have systemically failed to understand and treat post-viral sequelae.
• frideswyth (2022-03-10): if you joined tpot at the start of covid i think of you as the most recent wave, y'all are babies 🥰 i'm of the middle generation, here's my first ever image post amongst my automatic tweets every time i posted my blog:
• mykola (2022-03-10): the thing everyone needs to understand right now is that thing are not, generally speaking, going to get better. we are only going to see more war. there's going to be famine in parts of the world due to ukrainian grain shortages. climate change is accelerating. covid mutating.
• br___ian (2022-03-10): egregores are fundamentally viral: how "powerful" is covid? very strong or very weak depending on the frame, but there is more fruit in asking about side effects, germination periods and r-values than imagining a person
• thezvi (2022-03-10): new weekly covid-19 post is out. everything seems fine except we somehow cut all pandemic funding. but we'll fix that, right? (padme meme) wp: ss:
• chercher_ai (2022-03-10): a cabinmate tested + for covid. wonder if this might explain why i've slept 40 out of the last 48 hours.
• mykola (2022-03-10): this is a brave and necessary thread. if you think covid is behind us think again.
• daniellefong (2022-03-11): covid public officials slightly astonished to find themselves fading out of being senior alarm
• algekalipso (2022-03-11): in the 2020s the cocktail in question might be aggression-enhancing steroids and brain fog caused by long covid. also a combo that leads to strategic blunders.
• xsphi (2022-03-12): there seems to be a new push in the media to establish "guy who hasn't had covid yet" and talk about him like he's a bit eccentric and annoying
• xsphi (2022-03-12): i predict i'll see the term "covid virgin" in a major publication sometime in the next 12 months
• nathanpmyoung (2022-03-12): this is awful. and shows a kind of error where countries great at keeping out covid failed to learn from the countries who became great at vaccinating etc
• profoundish (2022-03-12): v pleased with the "social experiment" aspect of the outreach i've been doing. being around another human being and socializing feels like a completely different thing than pre-covid. i like this flow better. still wears me out but not as much maybe?
• igorbrigadir (2022-03-12): another one right here, these tend to come from "rt for promo" accounts. these spaces generally full of random ukraine war and covid disinfo, people shilling their crypto, various sensationalist fakes, broadly anti government.
• mykola (2022-03-13): the great gaslighting, they’ll call it, if anyone survives. seriously, i’ve seen a few people now speculate that biden is ending covid restrictions as a desperate attempt to gain enough popularity to survive the midterms. if that’s true and it’s public health vs democrats…?
• myceliummage (2022-03-13): so in a sense it was perfect timing, youu all got me through covid starvatiojn. when the few secular friends i had just started to make in my city didnt have room for me in their cocid pods. this place was my anchor
• eigenrobot (2022-03-14): lmao west carries water for china on covid for years and then this
• patio11 (2022-03-15): some news from hong kong and china about the effectiveness of vaccines and the danger of covid in various age groups, which has implications which are both unsurprising to anyone following along and which will nonetheless be treated as surprising in the days to come.
• patio11 (2022-03-15): (this is downstream of the impact-by-age graph, which you can crudely model as "risk of covid goes up 10x per decade of life." that crude model is good enough to absolutely swamp many, many intuitions people have about healthcare policy.)
• kcorazo (2022-03-15): the sensemaking egregore is getting stronger a doctor uses the concept of egregore to explain the zealotry of covid camps
• tyleralterman (2022-03-15): loved one just got covid and i’m gonna take care of them for the week. for those who got covid, what would have made your isolation period 10x nicer?
• daniellefong (2022-03-15): it is totally possible to recombine and together the most contagious and deadly variant traits into an omni covid, on limited capital. adversaries will do this, and probably are doing this. don’t cut funding to viral defense you nutters. keep the science & surveillance working
• profoundish (2022-03-15): just saw my meta for the first time since covid and i missed them so much and it was so nice to say hi 😭😭😭 they're coming over tomorrow and we're all so excite :3
• malcolm_ocean (2022-03-16): are there any known covid cases from vibecamp? kinda feels to me like if we pulled off vibecamp with no covid, the pandemic is just clearly over in some meaningful sense
• dschorno (2022-03-17): also the guy who is the source of a lot of these theories is a hardcore covid antivaxxer so idk lol. this shit is not really working for me tbh but the alternative is to accept the slime mold time mold thesis and just give up
• thezvi (2022-03-17): weekly covid post is out. wp: ss:
• daniellefong (2022-03-17): cosigned on this weekly covid assessment from zvi
• patio11 (2022-03-18): and after all this preparation i did not remember to check the deadline for this year, and am now late by a few days because the extended deadline for these trying covid-19 times expired after last year and i didn't notice. *sigh* salaryman life. but at least not too stressed.
• patio11 (2022-03-18): salaryman cred restored! accountant: "oh they didn't extend the filing deadline this year for everyone. only people who write 'request for extension of filing deadline and payment deadline due to covid-19' in the top right corner of their return. which i will do."
• petersuber (2022-03-18): update. "the united states, european union, india and south africa have reached a consensus on key elements of a long-sought intellectual property waiver for covid-19 vaccines."
• mbateman (2022-03-19): 6. covid response i was actually on paternity leave when covid (née "the coronavirus") first hit. i've been more and less involved with our response for two years, but extremely involved in the last few months. outcome achieved:
• yashkaf (2022-03-20): someone who believes in chakras is often more likely to arrive at a correct model of things like covid or bitcoin or ai than someone who believes cnn, because chakras aren't a totalizing yet wrong epistemology. that's much closer to rationality than most
• tyleralterman (2022-03-20): this seems like one of the better covid prevention and treatment protocols:
• tyleralterman (2022-03-20): went entire pandemic + 6 days with covid gf before getting it, give me a w
• daniellefong (2022-03-20): people upset about covid, climate change, the war; you’d think living is a mortal question
• richdecibels (2022-03-21): aaaaand i just tested covid positive on arrival fs in the chat
• mechanical_monk (2022-03-21): 5 % of austrian population has covid rn kinda impressive ngl
• ultimape (2022-03-21): the best case for this situation is she actually had acute bronchitis (they tested for pneumonia and covid at the er) and it went away... but that implies they gave her a candida infection with the meds and is now in worse condition than before.
• thezvi (2022-03-21): ukraine post #5 is up, attempting to synthesize all the links i've saved and do something covid-post-like. lot going on. wp: ss:
• mykola (2022-03-21): my really long thread about the realities of long covid as witnessed by me from having several people with long covid in my life has been translated into spanish by @el_nomad_cook
• yashkaf (2022-03-21): trump? makes sense. covid? these things happen. russian invasion? yep, i have a model for it. st. pete's beating kentucky? that's just march madness for ya. but fucking gamestop is singlehandedly making me up my estimate of us living in a glitchy simulation
• daniellefong (2022-03-21): us dod: 680 total(?! only?) deaths from covid.
• daniellefong (2022-03-21): there are people who are still dying of covid, vaccine is literally saving lives, it is a mandatory vaccine, it is a lawful order, it makes individuals more healthy, which makes units more ready
• xsphi (2022-03-22): apparently it's simply not possible to get a covid test if you don't own a car
• xsphi (2022-03-22): tempted to go inside and demand a test until they agree to serve me at the drive-through just to get me outside, but i don't actually want to give them covid.
• mykola (2022-03-22): i learned a lot about this from my partner @ahandvanish, who you may know as a long covid researcher and advocate but who was, before she got sick, a researcher and public speaker about ethics in artificial intelligence. it's all about what data gets collected and what doesn't.
• thezvi (2022-03-22): two great tastes. in its honor i'm going to be streaming some brawl starting now at . it will double as an ama/hangout, on anything - covid, the war, emergents, you name it.
• transkatgirl (2022-03-22): (it's likely not covid, as i did a rapid covid test and it came back negative. it still sucks though)
• transkatgirl (2022-03-23): well, at least both me and my partner have done covid tests, and both came back negative but it *really* sucks aaaaa
• transkatgirl (2022-03-23): anyways, going back to the topic of the original tweet, i wish mask wearing would just stay around from now on, even if it someday becomes no longer necessary for covid reasons getting sick sucks
• transkatgirl (2022-03-23): also, i have a feeling that we’re not actually going to eliminate covid any time soon restrictions will get lowered, another vaccine-resistant variant will come around, and then it’ll spread like wildfire in the time it takes for the restrictions to be raised again
• sedatesnail (2022-03-23): i love and endorse (most of) this thread. (also, i miss throwing parties. some of that is covid, some is sf apartments.)
• johnsonmxe (2022-03-24): how to believe in the future again? one way is rebooting transhumanism & investing in permanent improvements in the human condition. imagine if we felt better as we age, not worse. or if we could wipe out depression & covid like we did smallpox.
• thezvi (2022-03-24): new weekly covid post is out. wp: ss:
• ultimape (2022-03-25): looking at animal models for insight into this: "our results demonstrate a critical role for il6st and nf-kappab subunit 1 (nfkb1) in fluoxetine’s ability to act as a potential therapy for hyperinflammatory states such as asthma, sepsis, and covid-19."
• ultimape (2022-03-25): gs-441524 "predominant metabolite of remdesivir and superior to remdesivir against covid-19 [...] could strongly inhibits feline infectious peritonitis virus (fipv), with an ec50 of 0.78 μm."
• ultimape (2022-03-25): wonder if this has been followed up on. "bacteremia with s. aureus is associated with high mortality rates in patients hospitalized with covid-19. further investigation is warranted to understand the impact of covid-19 and secondary s. aureus bacteremia."
• ultimape (2022-03-25): i wonder if relationship has been followed up on because covid mortality & mrsa ties may be incidental e.g. maybe hospitals simply have it more, and the sewer bioflim phenomena could be driven by something else like candida auris.
• mimi10v3 (2022-03-27): tryin to decide what % of "my pants are too tight" feeling is actual weight gain vs forgetting how waistbands feel after 2 yrs of covid-casual... having the same problem w shoes- apparently got used to spreading my toes when i walk
• daniellefong (2022-03-27): “miasma” stagnant air theory of disease now more correct (because of covid)
• natural_hazard (2022-03-28): almost forgot to add @thezvi! he also gets at similar topics. his best probably shines through in him consistently bringing the goods to his object level weekly covid updates over the last two years. conceptually he's also built on the simulacra and the moral mazes stuff
• hiredthought (2022-03-28): why i'm still careful about covid: 1) it spreads through people who don't have symptoms 2) 1 in 5 people who get it have long-lasting symptoms that's it.
• drmaciver (2022-03-28): i've been thinking of 2022 as the year in which any restrictions we're still adhering to are ones where we're keeping to them for the long haul, but i must admit the sheer number of people i know who have caught covid recently is giving me a little bit of pause for extra caution.
• drmaciver (2022-03-28): maybe one of the restrictions we're in for the long haul is that sometimes there will be spikes when everyone is getting covid and you need to be extra cautious for a few weeks. 😢
• yashkaf (2022-03-29): thankfully we haven't had to deal with edge cases where mainstream guidance fails, only trump and brexit and china and ukraine and covid and crypto and billions pouring into ea and crazy advances in ai and medicine and a flip on free speech norms and the collapse of legacy instit
• petersuber (2022-03-29): update. "our results imply that the gender gap in [preprint sharing] suffered an approximately 1-year setback during the strict lockdown months of 2020, and covid-related research areas suffered an additional 1.5-year setback."
• drmaciver (2022-03-30): i know this is hard to do, but the data i've most consistently wanted over the course of the pandemic and have never really found a good way of getting is "roughly what percentage of the uk has covid right now?"
• xsphi (2022-03-31): regardless of the article content, the takeaways people will get from the headline are: - normal people have gotten covid by now - if you haven't, it's probably because of natural immunity so you don't need to be careful they really want this economy running at full tilt again
• thezvi (2022-03-31): new weekly covid post is up. wp: ss:
• dschorno (2022-03-31): yesterday i was shivering with cramps/pain and projectile vomiting on and off for hours and hours, today i'm *mostly* feeling better just achey and need to stay next to a bathroom. negative covid test, i think that it might be food poisoning or flu or somethin ig
• chercher_ai (2022-04-01): my covid diet is +++carrot juice, strawberries, raw fish, elderberry, green tea, yam, grapefruit juice, and light
• br___ian (2022-04-01): a coop ive spent some time in got its social structure absolutely wrecked during covid:
• br___ian (2022-04-01): -intense disagreements over handling sexual harm allegations -coop financial crisis -wildly varied covid safety preferences -racial/social justice harm, meditation, etc etc
• chercher_ai (2022-04-01): i've got the spirit of covid on the line ama
• the_wilderless (2022-04-01): to start off: if covid had never happened, everyone would have descended into madness and despair over some other more minor event. it was simply time for the collective meltdown and psychosis.
• rickbenger (2022-04-01): day 1 of our residency, made possible via @portunusi. we are exhausted and sharing tales of covid, mourning, parents in ulpin, isolation. tonight, reunion. tomorrow, we make.
• richdecibels (2022-04-01): i've never seen my nz social network so dramatically polarised as it is right now over covid feels like reality tunnels have completely decoupled, the paranoid against the delusional, max mutual mistrust
• princevogel (2022-04-02): you alright over there? looks like you hit your head pretty hard on that banister. covid? war in europe? the ceaseless decline of all binding truth and bureaucratic functionality? here's a cold press - we've got to hurry, the ceremony of global unification is about to start
• mbateman (2022-04-03): .@songpinganq’s threads documenting china’s covid lockdowns are harrowing. to the point where i don’t even want to link them directly. food shortages in lockdown, spates of suicides, literal covid police, etc.
• eigenrobot (2022-04-03): meanwhile in china, the country of state capacity, the country of the future, the endlessly tradpilled and based country where families matter, the country representing sane covid policy contra western overreach,,,,,
• eigenrobot (2022-04-03): what a country! none of the problems like the degenerate west has like psychotic covid restrictions, deranged overpowered health authorities, social media censorship, and a disrespect for family integrity we have much to learn from them moving on lets discuss based russias mi
• eigenrobot (2022-04-04): giant stack of workout equipment shipped today very excited haven't been able to consistently lift since covid but soon im gonna have a platform and a bright green rack in my basement
• jose_goncalves_ (2022-04-05): calling wildly different things by the same name is bad in every domain i can think of covid? trauma war? trauma will’s slap? trauma do you see the problem?
• eigenrobot (2022-04-05): oh @toad_spotted wrote about this, along with other trends a couple years back ongoing revolt of parents over covid stuff and coherence of parents as an interest group against teachers also seems relevant
• mbateman (2022-04-06): covid really killed my extroversion endurance
• easoncxz (2022-04-06): suburbian shanghai, some kind of covid control-zone. straight-up free-for-all chaos, created by fencing up lots of people but not providing food, water, and household supplies. yeah, this is what a world-class first-tier city looks like.
• thezvi (2022-04-07): new weekly covid post is out. wp: ss:
• chercher_ai (2022-04-07): i fixed my covid smell loss without lsd
• eigenrobot (2022-04-09): while this tweet is a sardonic barb directed at everyone who suggested two years ago that we needed to become a statist society because covid it is in fact also lowkey fury at the ccp for starting to starve god knows how many of its own people
• ultimape (2022-04-09): i like that the cdc data on covid severity actually shows me what the larger pattern looks like and isn't restricting it to state-only now.
• ultimape (2022-04-09): news on a study about using cellphones to track movements during covid crisis.
• mykola (2022-04-09): i honestly don't think people understand how bad it is. i think if the cdc and the white house had better messaging (any messaging?!?!) around how horrific long covid is we wouldn't be seeing this emerging consensus that covid is over.
• ultimape (2022-04-10): what does this mean? "early treatment with molnupiravir reduced the risk of hospitalization or death in at-risk, unvaccinated adults with covid-19. (funded by merck sharp and dohme; move-out number, nct04575597. opens in new tab.)"
• malcolm_ocean (2022-04-10): i *have* gone to the gym every 2-3 days for most of the last few months, except a hiatus (travelling for xmas then gyms were closed bc covid) and finally making progress, which is motivating!
• tyleralterman (2022-04-10): back pre-covid & pre-gf, i had amazing dating experiences with contact dance within seconds of dancing, compatibility (or noncompatibility) would become obvious. i had ~5 dances that ended with some1 taking me home 🤯 (this never happened to me w words-first interactions)
• m_ashcroft (2022-04-10): it's one of those things where if you raise it or google it it you seem to align yourself with the '5g causes covid' crowd... which is very different from 'actually it doesn't seem unreasonable that artificial em fields could interact with human tissues in complex ways'
• petersuber (2022-04-11): update. @pfizer has denied african researchers access to "a key covid-19 antiviral drug, frustrating efforts to test the [drug] in african populations and in combination with therapies that could potentially expand its utility on the continent."
• __drewface (2022-04-13): i finally got covid. that sucks.
• tyleralterman (2022-04-14): my mom, my sister, and two of my most dear friends have covid right now, so i'm compiling a list for them of tv shows that actually feel nutritious rather than blah-inducing here are my top four: 1. old enough 2. the great 3. arcane 4. high maintenance
• thezvi (2022-04-14): new weekly covid post is up, but side from disappointing numbers and china, not much to report. wp: ss:
• mykola (2022-04-15): what. the. fuck. @time why are you publishing this it’s going to kill and disable people. why don’t you fucking care? 10-30% of all covid cases, including asymptomatic, lead to long covid. long covid is the real story and has been for years now.
• askyatharth (2022-04-15): the point of a market is to make arbitrage easier it’s so douche bag hustlers don’t have that much of an advantage flipping stocks or covid tests the whole point is to ease discovery and make arbitrage useless bc arbitrage helps no one if it can be avoided
• __drewface (2022-04-15): so i've been tweeting a lot the past few days because i've been bedridden with covid now that i'm recovering, i can already feel my hesitation to tweet growing. there's a part of me that says "if you're healthy, you have no excuse to be using twitter"
• mykola (2022-04-15): i’d frame this as: you’ll have whatever support system you invest in. i didn’t invest in enough covid support. i’m going to change some strategies moving forward, because we were too alone.
• mykola (2022-04-16): i will never forgive the democratic party for making covid denial a part of their midterm electoral platform.
• mykola (2022-04-16): in case anyone thinks i’m being histrionic or dramatic, no. read this thread there are receipts. the democratic party is running on a covid “win” for the midterms.
• __drewface (2022-04-16): hm, weird covid symptom that i've never heard of before, but i have: - i can smell, but everything smells... kinda bad -- like, every scent has a tinge of... sourness to it, it's really weird. even candles and stuff
• alcentian_one (2022-04-16): tested covid-positive for the first time…any recs for self-care/ways to pass the time welcome! mostly feeling achy and tired so im looking forward to some good books and shows to keep me going stay safe y’all 🧡
• __drewface (2022-04-17): or maybe i just have covid 🤔
• mykola (2022-04-17): 15 million dead. nobody is counting the permanently disabled but 150 million would be a good low-ball ballpark estimate. (~2% death rate, ~10-30 let’s call it 20% disability rate, that’s an order of magnitude higher.) long covid is the real story, even against this body count.
• visakanv (2022-04-19): finally got my covid booster shot (moderna) yesterday and damn it is kicking my ass. i basically feel sick and i haven’t been sick in years, it feels like. also my arm still hurts! whine whine
• thezvi (2022-04-21): weekly covid post is out. wp: ss:
• kcorazo (2022-04-22): 1/ i bet this is the strangest productivity technique you've heard last year, i wrote my first book[1], led an international volunteer covid-response team[2] and hung out with my mother in mexico[3] i thought that i was gonna die this year lol
• kcorazo (2022-04-22): 3/ the thought emerged many years ago, when my age today was still unimaginably so far in the future. it has gained so much momentum that i knew it was pointless to unthink it. so i leaned into it. i lived last year as if it were my last. covid was also a good memento mori.
• easoncxz (2022-04-22): cw: literal human feces one of shanghai's covid "quarantine" facilities.
• mykola (2022-04-22): this is such incredibly good news. the patient led research collaborative, who has been producing some of the best long covid research on earth, has been operating almost entirely without funding for two years. today that changes.
• drmaciver (2022-04-24): i noticed today that the nhs (outside of scotland) seems to have ended free at home pcr tests for covid, which is a genuinely unfathomably bad decision.
• drmaciver (2022-04-24): i knew they'd ended the lateral flow tests which is merely incredibly stupid, but i genuinely can't come up with a theory for ending at home pcr testing that doesn't assume that someone's taking bribes from covid or something.
• visakanv (2022-04-25): so… is it likely that covid was leaked from a lab
• drmaciver (2022-04-25): i probably have covid at the moment (no positive test, but i was with a bunch of people who have tested positive and am showing mild symptoms). this is very annoying, but also is probably an inevitable consequence of the choices i made so i don't have much grounds to complain.
• visakanv (2022-04-26): 44. covid in shanghai
• drmaciver (2022-04-26): how many times have you had covid? (best guess - feel free to count things where you're pretty sure you had it but couldn't get a test)
• drmaciver (2022-04-26): if i was less full of covid right now i'd probably do some stats to this properly, but eyeballing the numbers this fits pretty well to a poisson distribution, which suggests the (sadly) expected result of minimal protection from prior exposure.
• drmaciver (2022-04-27): three observations that are a bit "well, duh" but that i hadn't really internalised until my recent covid exposure. (disclaimer: not an epidemiologist. i am reasonably confident in these claims, but i could be missing something crucial)
• drmaciver (2022-04-27): 1. lateral flow tests are totally inadequate for guaranteeing the safety of large extended close-contact events, because covid is infectious enough that the safety of those events is dominated by whether there is anyone at all there who is infectious.
• drmaciver (2022-04-27): this makes total sense given the things we've been hearing about viral load throughout. amount of covid you get hit with all at once is a big deal.
• drmaciver (2022-04-28): i already knew this happened, but it's interesting and annoying how non-obvious it would be that i have covid if it weren't for the fact that i got ill on an identical timeline to various people i was in close contact with who tested positive.
• thezvi (2022-04-28): weekly covid post is out. wp: ss:
• brimmingvessel (2022-04-28): matilda’s covid diaries: a thread
• visakanv (2022-04-29): i was hoping to travel right when covid hit. i’d like to visit a bunch of other cities 🌍 , and i could maybe see myself living somewhere else for a few years, but i think ultimately singapore is my home, yeah. i was born & raised here and i think it has tremendous potential
• the_wilderless (2022-04-29): applied for a card w my new bank and they were like “lol you don’t have a credit score” and i was like “well that’s weird” but yeah that makes sense now, it’s been frozen since before covid
• eigenrobot (2022-04-29): basically govt was in a position before omicron started breaking out where they could continue to push for covid zero with aggressive lockdowns, testing, etc, or they could just give up
• eigenrobot (2022-04-29): the problem is if they gave up it might undermine govt because apparently approximate success of covid zero was a source of pride and authority for govt over the last few years "were great weve got this under control" so that was unattractive
• m_ashcroft (2022-04-30): note for the covid cautious - there was basically no mask use i am fine with this but your risk tolerance may differ
• mykola (2022-05-01): prepare in advance for the fact that democrats are going to run on science denialism re covid in 2022 and that means the republicans may pick up the science slack. i hate it too, this is where we are
• annieposting (2022-05-02): china's covid response is so cool, i've never seen redditors seethe more
• tyleralterman (2022-05-02): i've started waking up bc of shallow breath 4+ times per night. i think covid might have given me sleep apnea! does anyone have tips? (eg breathing exercises, aids i can buy, etc. i already exercise daily.)
• nosilverv (2022-05-02): covid masks @elonmusk edit button wenn
• igorbrigadir (2022-05-02): i'm super curious to find out, anyone have any write-ups on how successful the covid-19 tracking apps were? how useful was the actual data in tracing and alerting close contacts? did it actually matter in the end? any other unintended consequences?
• algekalipso (2022-05-03): gpt-x, please describe the experience of getting covid, in the style of an erowid trip report. "you know the body vibrations people get on covid? feels similar to the body high of dob. harsh, unforgiving, irregular, spiky. this ain't your typical euphoric 2c-b vibe."
• algekalipso (2022-05-03): covid vibes are definitely more aligned with something like a neurotoxic amphetamine psychedelic than any of the gentle hallucinogens. (the upside is that you can introspect on the vibes to experientially verify the symmetry theory of valence!).
• drmaciver (2022-05-04): anyway, i have thoughts on this generally great piece, that i shall attempt to put together at some point when covid recovery (or possibly unrelated illness) isn't doing a complete number on me.
• nathanpmyoung (2022-05-04): this is a lateral flow test for covid and flu. it costs about £15. i think i'd buy it if it were £3 each
• thezvi (2022-05-05): weekly covid post is out: wp: ss:
• mykola (2022-05-05): btw you know how the western covid response is “let them become disabled and die and gaslight them about it to avoid accountability”? this is the climate change response, in action. if you’re expecting our institutions to save us? you’re approaching the last stop on that train.
• richdecibels (2022-05-06): this is particularly obvious right now where opposing teams are claiming 'my body my choice' as a heuristic for choosing their covid & abortion ethics
• daniellefong (2022-05-06): anecdotally a lot of people i know have covid now, so i went to check if it’s a new wave, and apparently so. i suspect there’s a socioeconomic phasing, these are the young active people who know people who travel a lot for business or pleasure and might have had covid in 2019
• mykola (2022-05-07): these people act like long covid isn’t a thing, act like you can’t get it from mild or even asymptomatic cases, and they refuse to acknowledge this when pressed. this is not medical advice it is capitalist propaganda. doctor tom should be ashamed.
• mykola (2022-05-07): one point eight million people in the uk are now disabled thanks to long covid, and that number is going to keep rising into perpetuity. why not come out and say that it would be politically inconvenient to support them in the ways they need? at least then you’d be honest.
• nido_kween (2022-05-07): (the actual photographer got covid)
• qiaochuyuan (2022-05-07): the orientation i see towards covid from my friends these days isn’t exactly that it’s over or not a problem but more like it’s become kinda another one of those fucking things you just have to deal with occasionally that will never go away like the dmv or taxes
• daniellefong (2022-05-07): some of the best performing viral content is stuff that “debunks” an inconvenient reality media was so full of this with covid early and still thereafter, stuff was called misinformation and some of the accounts sharing the most reliable information were banned.
• algekalipso (2022-05-08): "covid-19 was deliberately created by a small group of people who secretly manipulate world events."
• algekalipso (2022-05-08): i think quite often about this slide from geoffrey miller @primalpoly i have a bunch of really boring opinions (e.g. gay marriage is good, there is no grand covid conspiracy, dictatorship's are a rather bad form of government, etc.) that i often see challenged by smart friends.
• patio11 (2022-05-08): i know folks are very tired of covid supply chain problems but fwiw you may wish to be at least passively aware of the situation in china if you have to be aware what economy in u.s. is going to need to metabolize in 3-6 months.
• ultimape (2022-05-09): #eatshit "the intestinal microbiota and improving the efficacy of covid-19 vaccinations" [2021]
• ultimape (2022-05-09): letter to editor: you're all fucking wrong. "therefore, during vaccination, rectifying gut microbiome dysbiosis with prebiotic and probiotic oral supplementation might be a solution for the management of covid-19 vaccine induced adverse reactions."
• brimmingvessel (2022-05-09): i think my post covid body is finally strong enough to start going for runs again! 🥰🏃🏽‍♀️🏘🍃🌸
• mattdsegal (2022-05-09): playing league with covid is like doing kung fu with a weighted vest... probably a waste of time idk if i learned much feels good to take it off tho i feel like i'm most accurately able to gauge my mental acuity by playing a game
• mimi10v3 (2022-05-09): are there earplugs or something to dampen overly loud conversation without making it unintelligible? ever since covid i can't take the noise of a work lunch...
• christophcsmith (2022-05-09): us covid cases are beginning another sharp upswing. consider taking precautions if you're going to be around anyone immuncompromised.
• christineist (2022-05-09): currently holed up in a random airbnb in northern kentucky for the next five days with five friend-acquaintances who all caught covid at the same wedding event
• petersuber (2022-05-10): from peter hornby: "rapid [& open] communication of clinical trial results has likely saved lives during the covid-19 pandemic & should become the new norm…i cannot envisage a future without such rapid dissemination of new evidence."
• nathanpmyoung (2022-05-11): 1/ governments are not acting fast enough progress on climate change has taken decades. despite covid, pandemic prevention funding is wholly inadequate. then there is the spectre of nuclear war. these things are improving too slowly.
• thezvi (2022-05-12): new weekly covid post is out. also working on some longer-term policy-related stuff that i hope will result in more new posts down the line. wp: ss:
• eigenrobot (2022-05-12): maybe more like a milder version '80-'81 classic monetary policy recession, fed raising rates to compensate for sloppy loose policy earlier add a dash of negative supply side shocks from china, russia, covid
• daniellefong (2022-05-14): super powers still trying to covid zero, we have been in an unwinnable war against this thing for more than 24 months now, *sniffles*, stupid virus
• daniellefong (2022-05-15): ps i have covid 😰
• ultimape (2022-05-15): an interaction? "10 were found to have symptoms of multiple inflammatory syndrome in children (mis-c) and were ruled out, while the remaining 37 were classified as having what the researchers named covid-19 associated hepatitis in children (cah-c)."
• mykola (2022-05-16): oh just a normal one where much of europe is over 110f in fucking _may_. the reason you're not seeing a climate response from the western governments is that their plan is to let us all die suffering, just like with covid.
• daniellefong (2022-05-17): my typos are so covid brained today
• forshaper (2022-05-17): until covid there were several extremely affordable collectives that made things easy to work on even if you didn't have space or tools, from bicycles to carpentry.
• forshaper (2022-05-17): after covid the californians started arriving, which has skyrocketed property prices, naturally. otherwise rent was really cheap, like cheaper than small town georgia or alabama.
• algekalipso (2022-05-18): when did you first get covid?
• garrisonlovely (2022-05-18): (e.g. above 65, overweight, some other underlying condition) to be eligible. but if you get covid, it's worth talking to your doctor, especially if you're vulnerable and/or it feels like a bad case. mostly sharing for visibility, as i think a lot of people aren't aware of
• garrisonlovely (2022-05-18): my dad tested positive for covid yesterday on the worse end of mild. paxlovid, an antiviral pill prescription treatment, is now available in much of the us. he was able to get in touch with his primary care physician & get a prescription to a nearby pharmacy (in fernandina beach,
• garrisonlovely (2022-05-18): this option. i also want to express gratitude to live in a place where so many good options are available for protection from covid. most people around the world aren't this lucky. info about availability:
• transkatgirl (2022-05-18): istg it feels like this school is *trying* to get me to catch covid
• thezvi (2022-05-19): weekly covid post is out. working on a full baby formula post for later today or tomorrow. wp: ss:
• daniellefong (2022-05-19): this is the kind of tweet where i’m imagining someone saying this. this is not me saying this. am tryin’ to figure wth a woke vs based mind virus is. i need @vgr level analysis but am too covid brained. halp…
• eigenrobot (2022-05-20): 5. looks absolutely ghastly, imagine ppl would take more seriously as a result vs covid 6. public health ppl absolutely shat the bed on covid and ppl will not trust them, probably reasonably 7. covid broke a lot of ppl left and right and theyre not gonna respond well
• daniellefong (2022-05-20): am covid brained today
• qiaochuyuan (2022-05-20): covid overwhelmingly felt to me like the universe was giving me a really hard test and i was mostly failing it. this kind of schoolbrain nonsense apparently just runs really deep in my psyche and i have not been able to budge it hardly at all really
• nosilverv (2022-05-21): good article. choice quotes: > over the past 60 years in the united states, we have had the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on covid, the war on disinformation, and the war on domestic extremism. > moral panics ­— spiritual warfare
• daniellefong (2022-05-21): covid brain pretty bad today
• daniellefong (2022-05-21): the world should invest, order of magnitude, the 100’s of billions needed to have an operational just in time supply chain for tests and vaccines, to scale to 8 billion people, instead of the too little by a factor 2-3 bn that it did for covid, and drop the vax hording diplomacy
• m_ashcroft (2022-05-22): something i never fully appreciated about nomading is how far ahead i'd need to think maybe it's just because people are travelling loads after covid restrictions, but i need to be thinking where i want to be living 3+ months ahead to secure decent/affordable places
• slimepriestess (2022-05-23): gotta stay safe at the street fair, still covid season.
• annieposting (2022-05-23): conservatives are now claiming that the wuhan lab they claim created covid, also has caused the monkeypox outbreak. probably the fastest i have ever seen them reuse their propaganda
• the_wilderless (2022-05-23): new strategy: gonna hit 10k followers this week by posting articles about examples of fairly common extreme health problems, but claiming that they never happened before covid vax
• lchoshen (2022-05-23): apparently, the convention centre (not center :-) ) held the parliament during covid waves. yes, i've been first in the hall, an early bird...
• lchoshen (2022-05-23): thanks, arr, covid, acl is 60, really, you are not missing much (what happened to the statistics and money announcements they were at least interesting.
• mykola (2022-05-23): as everyone is pointing out, amy, most of those deaths were from covid. during a pandemic that killed over a million americans. during which cops largely refused to wear masks or take vaccines. please, dismantle this archaic institution. stop glorifying these assholes.
• eigenrobot (2022-05-23): real blackpill on covid is not the disease itself or the cack-handed response by health authorities, but the apparent fact that they learned nothing from the exercise and so when something really bad leaks we're probably just deeply fucked
• mykola (2022-05-23): each one of those cops that died from covid likely spread it to other people. that they as a political institution decided to organize around anti-masking and anti-vaccines was criminal. that they want pity from us for the obvious consequences of that harmful choice is obscene.
• daniellefong (2022-05-23): i’ll know i’m over covid if i stop relying on rpgs to hijack my sense of progress while hiding from the world…
• ultimape (2022-05-24): amy has summarized all the ways that i suspect why long-covid mimics my own family's autoimmune symptoms. not only that, she's been building a team and research protocol to illuminate the exact places that we need to look. i cried.
• daniellefong (2022-05-24): in terms of wattage, i’m at like, 20% capacity, max. i’m going to bed in the pm. covid is no joke
• daniellefong (2022-05-24): passive aggressive crap from someone i would just love to have pit a timeline of covid predictions again efd
• goblinodds (2022-05-25): ahahaha christ my head has finally stopped hurting (and fever seems to be down/gone) tested negative for flu and negative for covid (but urgent care doc was p sure it's covid again 👍👍👍)
• goblinodds (2022-05-25): ahahaha christ my head has finally stopped hurting (and fever seems to be down/gone) tested negative for flu and negative for covid (but urgent care doc was p sure it's covid again 👍👍👍)
• rhyslindmark (2022-05-25): covid is finally “just the flu” in the uk.
• eigenrobot (2022-05-25): to get a license from the state after immigrating from another state you not only need multiple forms of identification but to take another fucking drivers test and also pass a covid screen. masks are still required and they take your temperature godless commie shithole
• daniellefong (2022-05-26): both the panic and the downplaying happening on a faster cycle with monkeypox than covid my attitude? who can know without - understanding the shape of probability around mutation - understanding airborne dynamics / time / legnth scales - understanding secondary transmission
• goblinodds (2022-05-26): so this makes roughly: 12 days lowkey seasick, 4 days with a migraine, 2 days sleep-deprived/jetlagged, 2 days with monster cramps, 6 days with ??covid??or something good thing work's been slow lolol
• goblinodds (2022-05-26): so this makes roughly: 12 days lowkey seasick, 4 days with a migraine, 2 days sleep-deprived/jetlagged, 2 days with monster cramps, 6 days with ??covid??or something good thing work's been slow lolol
• thezvi (2022-05-26): so yeah, i guess i should indeed respond to this week's long covid study.
• algekalipso (2022-05-27): scenario: you just got a positive test for covid. do you take paxlovid, and if so, how much would you pay for it?
• goblinodds (2022-05-28): ok so what's the latest actual info on what to do for how long *after* your covid fever breaks (google turns up cdc recommendations, which,,,, no thank u i need to know what internet anons know, not what bureaucrats say for social reasons)
• goblinodds (2022-05-28): ok so what's the latest actual info on what to do for how long *after* your covid fever breaks (google turns up cdc recommendations, which,,,, no thank u i need to know what internet anons know, not what bureaucrats say for social reasons)
• blunderbussted (2022-05-28): areas of the atoll are helicopter bases and airport bases for the us armed forces. since the covid-19 pandemic kicked off, travel to and from the atoll, even the city of 15000, has been limited to an extreme by the us govt. linked: the travel prohibition
• jose_goncalves_ (2022-05-29): i was shocked to learn that they stopped performing a centuries-old ritual, “paz de cristo”, because of covid if anything, this showed me that modern catholic church lacks convictions
• mykola (2022-05-30): you know they’re pulling your leg when privacy concerns inform a government program’s decision to halt. the us government wants no measurement of covid at all. they want it to just circulate forever and everyone to keep getting it until we all have long covid. that’s the plan.
• nosilverv (2022-05-31): i can also smell (!!!!!) which i couldn't before, not for the most part. (i've smelled fish twice when fish was not present but that's just covid paranosmia i guess)
• rhyslindmark (2022-06-01): here's a balancing feedback loop i created at the beginning of the covid pandemic. thread👇
• rhyslindmark (2022-06-01): more covid creates more attention for covid. this means that everyone will be talking about it more, changing behavior, etc. which decreases the amount of covid.
• hiredthought (2022-06-01): us friends, you can order 8 free covid tests from the government: do it now, so you have them on hand when you need them.
• patio11 (2022-06-02): apparently the two (now former) nta employees were paid $50 each for creating falsified tax returns to support the requests for covid relief, which aaaaaaaaaa i am torn between not providing pricing advice to crooks and gobsmacked awe at how much work and risk for little gain.
• thezvi (2022-06-02): new weely covid post is out, still feels like someone's gotta do it. wp: ss:
• christineist (2022-06-02): protesting in a steep alleyway, i realize i will get hurt, turn and run through broken bodies, covid & violence has scattered bodies through the airport, neglect turns to mold and thousands of bugs feasting in human paste, i sit in oakland harbor and open an expired yogurt
• mykola (2022-06-02): the thing is, @potus knows all of this. he made it happen when he chose to continue trump’s covid-denial policy response. he doesn’t care about anything but party donations and the next election. if he can convince enough gullible people he ended covid he’ll win the midterms.
• leo_guinan (2022-06-02): it's been a bit of a rough week for me. fighting off some sort of sickness (possibly covid, although i do keep testing negative). that's taught me that i have a really rough time taking it easy. forced myself to lay down for a couple hours yesterday and it was tough.
• tasshinfogleman (2022-06-03): may you be protected from illness, from covid in particular as well as from any other dangers whatsoever you may fear
• transkatgirl (2022-06-03): fuck i got sick the literal day before my highschool graduation it's likely not covid (i did a rapid test as soon as symptoms appeared), but regardless of what it is, it really sucks
• c_harwick (2022-06-03): the only way to blame inflation on biden is if you think he compromised the fed's independence during covid. so it's still a good tweet whether you read it as a "not my fault" or a "mea culpa"!
• visakanv (2022-06-04): 73. ☕️ with @lucia_asanache: travel, seasonal differences, global teams, covid, sibling dynamics, latin america, marketing, embracing mistakes, asking for help, resolving issues, writing one’s memoirs, vlogging, healthcare systems, models of health & wellness, diets, architecture
• nosilverv (2022-06-04): speaking of mass psychosis, the “wordcel” wildfire def felt like that. same feel as when trump got elected or covid newsfare was pumping hardest
• princevogel (2022-06-05): viral load is the real limiting factor on human intelligence - covid isn't the only virus that knocks some iq points off, it's all of them. you're constantly losing and regaining .5-5 points, but anyone who could reduce their viral load enough would break the cycle
• pepijndevos (2022-06-05): humans suck at judging risk. how likely is a vaxed healthy individual to get covid and suffer permanent disability or death? how likely is that compared to say cancer or a car accident? i honestly don't know.
• pepijndevos (2022-06-06): have any of you been to a tech conf recently? how was it? last time a conf was on my tl it had a whole hashtag for all the covid cases, which isn't encouraging.
• nosilverv (2022-06-08): twitter anons record vs “experts”: covid ✅ afghanistan ✅ inflation ✅
• thezvi (2022-06-09): weekly covid post still a thing, so here we are. note that there's some sort of outage, so emails aren't going out on substack at the moment.
• askyatharth (2022-06-09): —and covid was just a dumb virus. it barely qualifies at life. it has to evolve at the rate of natural selection and we can actually give name to all the variants
• visakanv (2022-06-11): 74. 🥰 also: framing, optimism, societal change, culty dynamics, marriage heuristics, unhelpful statements, how covid changed our lives, the narrative bias that goes into biographies & cvs, teenagers, childhood learnings, the challenges of communicating in multiple contexts
• daniellefong (2022-06-11): when covid hit i remember tv economics commentators saying “we’ve never had a supply crisis at the same time as a demand crisis. no one knows what will happen” financial support were steroids inflating the demand, but there have been supply problems the whole time. so, inflation
• goblinodds (2022-06-11): us just lifted the covid test requirement for reentry, so now i dont have to spend tomorrow (today) at a french pharmacy (or hunting for a french pharmacy that gives documented tests) woooooo
• goblinodds (2022-06-11): us just lifted the covid test requirement for reentry, so now i dont have to spend tomorrow (today) at a french pharmacy (or hunting for a french pharmacy that gives documented tests) woooooo
• the_wilderless (2022-06-12): anyone have this article or other ideas about this? cuz my memory has been rock-solid my whole life, and i am lately having weird little lapses—and as far as i know, i never had covid (tho there’s a lot of room for error there, sure)
• yashkaf (2022-06-12): why are rationalists uniquely obsessed with it? some historical reasons (eliezer), some demographic (40% in tech). but also, rationalists have a track record of taking things with 3-30% probability seriously (bitcoin, trump, covid, ukraine war) when most people round 30% to zero.
• goblinodds (2022-06-13): lingering covid(?) symptoms cleared up just in time for my period+another flight taking bets on whether i'll get sick again immediately
• goblinodds (2022-06-13): lingering covid(?) symptoms cleared up just in time for my period+another flight taking bets on whether i'll get sick again immediately
• strangestloop (2022-06-14): "your pussy has covid"
• mykola (2022-06-14): some thoughts on long covid.
• christophcsmith (2022-06-14): while masks are not 100% effective against covid—in part because of the small size of covid virus particles at 0.125 microns—they're much more effective against pollens. pollen grains are about 30 microns. n95 masks filter down to 0.3 microns.
• christophcsmith (2022-06-14): i'm still holding out hope that the legacy of covid will be that americans wear masks when they get sick. i fear that this common-sense message got lost in the political fight over universal masking, though.
• adam_kranz (2022-06-14): ended up getting covid the same way i acquired my genes and much of my microbiome and cultural toolkit: i inherited it from my parents
• rhyslindmark (2022-06-15): idk why we're not massively celebrating this covid deaths below 1k for first time
• leo_guinan (2022-06-15): back to the doctor today to get a test for strep! was finally getting over bronchitis and got hit with a nasty sore throat last night. at least i still seem to be avoiding covid. but damn, lol. would like to just be healthy again.
• c_harwick (2022-06-16): this 2008-throwback "why didn't economists predict this" genre is infuriating because it basically admits that lots of economists saw inflation coming (our job) but couldn't predict the timing or magnitude exactly right (guess long covid affects our clairvoyance lol)
• thezvi (2022-06-16): new weekly covid post is up: nothing terribly important happened this week.
• the_wilderless (2022-06-17): and aside from traffic and walk ability—the air pollution is insane (i’ve been wearing breathing masks daily since 2016 or so, so that aspect of covid barely registered for me)
• the_wilderless (2022-06-17): danang vietnam 🇻🇳 i only lived in danang during covid, which definitely skews things. it was pretty empty already by the time i got there, and it emptied out further almost every month. that said, the overall message of danang was “chill out, take a load off”
• the_wilderless (2022-06-17): danang isn’t perfect, but after hanoi it was basically shangri-la people were more relaxed, traffic was fine, i could walk everywhere, food was better, air quality was fine, the ocean was at my door, (rent prices were super low cuz covid)
• the_wilderless (2022-06-17): this is my overall tirana thread, it’s quite walkable, not crowded at all—during covid “spikes” i’m pretty much always able to stay 6 feet away from people on the street without much effort,
• daniellefong (2022-06-17): interesting implications for the collective intelligence of firewalls, need to know basis tla's. was surprised that lil' ol me could be ahead of the collective advice of intelligence agencies wrt covid, undoubtably some people had a better view but it wasn't able to propagate
• blunderbussted (2022-06-17): i am sick but it's not covid god has stricken me for a reason i'm certain
• petersuber (2022-06-18): update. at @braincomms "the representation of women authors and reviewers decreased…in the months following covid-19 restrictions, suggesting a possible exacerbating role of the pandemic on existing disparities in science publication."
• annieposting (2022-06-18): can yall imagine spending a year in prison? what about since before covid to right now? and how excruciating that would be? and somehow 25 years isn't enough?
• cxgonzalez (2022-06-18): part of me wants to do it just to, you know, live a little life especially after doing fuck all for 2 years during covid, i have a lot of catch up to do these next few months while i’m here
• mykola (2022-06-19): then again it's pretty weird to look at the 20% long covid rate and conclude that eating in a restaurant is fine. i'm beginning to understand that white mainstream americans have no concept of risk because every story they see or hear centers them and they always win.
• adam_kranz (2022-06-19): covid groundhog saw its shadow, 5 more days of isolation for me
• noncanonicaleae (2022-06-19): i don't give a shit about covid anymore. before lockdown we feared it because we didn't know what it was capable of. now it's perfectly known. we can judge whether it's worth taking the risk. not like it can spread farther than the whole earth.
• ultimape (2022-06-21): getting a p2p fhir client was literally what i was working on before the pandemic hit and we pivoted to doing covid stuff. i was 85% of the way to getting an automated gnu health install on a raspberry pi to poke around with.
• algekalipso (2022-06-22): large effect sizes like cleaning indoor air are the right way to think about the challenges we face. they require no personal sacrifice and lower the risk of disease across the board (i assume it has a lot of positive externalities and not only fewer covid cases!).
• thezvi (2022-06-23): new weekly covid post is out - short answer is yes, now that it's allowed vaccinating young kids is worthwhile, but it's small mistake either way.
• mykola (2022-06-24): this number is only going to go up y’all. every time you get covid your odds of long covid go up. there is literally no policy in place to protect us from a future where everyone eventually gets it, and @potus knows this.
• daniellefong (2022-06-25): worked out a bit today post covid, i think it’s good but i’m wiped before the sun even set
• nosilverv (2022-06-26): seems like its now a contrarian view (mainly bc of gov economically necessary gaslighting?) that covid is still a problem
• mykola (2022-06-27): this is the thing that i keep coming back to. we're starting to see shades of it now. the insurance lobby is invested in selling a narrative that long covid is psychosomatic. the liberal establishment pretends to buy the controversy enough to not do anything about it.
• nosilverv (2022-06-27): disability rights finally prevail, but it’s because everyone is now disable due to multiple reinfection + long covid.
• nosilverv (2022-06-28): plastic straw bans -> covid -> ppes nuclear dismantling -> russia in ukraine -> exploding energy prices wat mean??
• jd_pressman (2022-06-28): yup lol public messaging on covid was completely fucked by treating it like plague instead of polio or tb
• daniellefong (2022-06-28): went for a bit of a run today! post covid progress 💪🏻
• hargup13 (2022-06-29): drinking lots of hot water. will get a covid test tomorrow, maybe will see a doctor.
• m_ashcroft (2022-06-29): today: - arrive in uk on boat from france; delayed 👎 - just make the train to london 👍 - arrange emergency hotel room because friend has covid and can't stay there 👎 - awesome q&a live session with @khemaridh 👍 - zip on luggage breaks 👎 that's enough, day, i can't take it
• hargup13 (2022-06-29): it’s covid. doctor recommended 3 days of home isolation, i can go out after that with mask on.
• mykola (2022-06-30): hearing that the latest covid variant is extra contagious even outdoors, which blows. i’ve been masking and distancing and limiting my social life extremely since match of 2020 and i don’t see this ever changing, now. on the contrary it may be time for more precautions.
• thezvi (2022-06-30): new covid post is out:
• the_wilderless (2022-06-30): living in a low population density spot is nice, my suspicion is that a whole lot of weird post-covid health issues gonna be coming into sharper focus over the coming years/decades, and this is a decent strategy for not being exposed over and over again in the meantime
• nathanpmyoung (2022-07-01): $182,000 is a lot of money. if @ftxfuturefund had given this to @givewell it would have saved ~18 lives. i think forcasting can save lives. @metaculus knew about covid and they knew about ukraine. but hold me to a high standard here. i want to use this money well.
• sabbatical (2022-07-01): wonder what china's "zero covid" policy endgame is, when the virus seems to have become endemic across so much of the rest of the world
• aleksil79 (2022-07-02): everyone: *worrying about the cumulative impact of repeated covid infections* me: you think this this is the first respiratory virus to do that?
• mykola (2022-07-02): the things i've learned about doctors and the way the medical industry works since understanding my own disability have been heartbreaking. the things i've learned about doctors and the medical industry since my partner got long covid have shattered all of my faith.
• mykola (2022-07-02): everyone who is paying attention is terrified of the long-term implications of letting covid-19 go unchecked and untracked and unmitigated. please don't stop wearing masks, even outside if you're around other people. the new variants are aggressive.
• nosilverv (2022-07-02): is (your) life back to how it was pre-covid?
• profoundish (2022-07-02): please send prayer-vibes to my wife and meta, they somehow both managed to catch covid without giving it to me. not how either of them (or me) wanted to spend the three-day weekend >.>
• aaronbergman18 (2022-07-03): kinda reminds me of how (apparently, i can't verify firsthand) some media sources insinuated or claimed that the lab leak theory was more conducive to racism than the "some guy ate a bat" theory of covid origins, whereas this doesn't seem obvious to me at all
• daniellefong (2022-07-03): i read these mutations g446s & r493q and i'm like "this covid gives you gas and rage?"
• daniellefong (2022-07-03): got my 2nd covid shot at a bodega
• goblinodds (2022-07-03): how many times have you caught covid (or strongly suspect you had it-- obvious symptoms etc.) in the past 12 months?
• goblinodds (2022-07-03): how many times have you caught covid (or strongly suspect you had it-- obvious symptoms etc.) in the past 12 months?
• askyatharth (2022-07-05): huh, seems worth retweeting about covid
• jd_pressman (2022-07-05): during the covid-19 pandemic we used up the last of the world's crucial supply of 90's nostalgia, leaving none for future generations.
• mykola (2022-07-05): we’re in the middle of another covid surge in case nobody told you. if you aren’t aware of the risks beyond death please read this thread. one in five covid infections becomes long covid. 20%. and every time you get covid that risk gets worse. wear a damn mask.
• pepijndevos (2022-07-05): first thing i did is polish and extend the arduino app for the bme680 gas sensor. in a covid world monitoring air quality could be quite useful. sadly the sensor is kinda bad as far as i can tell.
• gabriel_weil (2022-07-05): i tested positive for covid this evening. so far, i have moderate symptoms.
• nosilverv (2022-07-05): my whole adult life i’ve lived through succeeding crises (us housing bubble, eu sovereign debt, covid, supply chains) parallel with the narrative that things are good, fine, normal, improving, and progressing
• br___ian (2022-07-06): has anyone written a good 'what hindsight says should've done about covid' essay?
• mykola (2022-07-06): every person who got covid and one day plans to have kids, have you thought this through?
• algekalipso (2022-07-07): imagine getting covid at burning man.
• aleksil79 (2022-07-07): at this point, covid zero is likely only attainable through flu zero. not so sure it's a pipe dream. remember city life before sanitation?
• mykola (2022-07-07): the new thor movie comes out tonight, in theaters only, in the middle of an invisible wave of covid that scoffs at vaccines. so many people will develop long covid as a result of these decisions.
• mykola (2022-07-07): nobody will ever, ever be held accountable for the tens of thousands of lives or more that are going to be forever derailed because people like thor movies and the government told them covid is over.
• patio11 (2022-07-07): going slow against covid is a choice, and we should stop choosing it.
• patio11 (2022-07-07): this fatalism is untrue. we have had major, history-making successes in the fight against covid. the existence of the vaccines on the timescale they were rolled out is the most obvious one, but we know we are in the garden of low hanging fruit because we can see it get plucked.
• thezvi (2022-07-07): new weekly covid post is out:
• aaronbergman18 (2022-07-07): i’d like to nominate this sign on the fence of the berkeley lawn bowing club as the least necessary covid protection measure of all time.
• dschorno (2022-07-08): being a bit hard on myself, i keep forgetting that i'm pretty sick actually. not covid, but 2 days of active fever/involuntary fasting followed by a full week of what i think is bronchitis? keep coughing so hard that i lose the ability to swallow and everything smells like metal
• nobu_hibiki (2022-07-09): lads any tips for going through covid for the first time? symptoms are mild, fever, coughing, and a sore throat.
• daniellefong (2022-07-09): since covid, one of my favorite rituals became drinking coffee and listening to internet friend on podcasts. looking forward to days where meeting friends for coffee in person becomes as regular
• eigenrobot (2022-07-09): we hadnt gotten back to the 90s high when the financial crisis hit in 08 we hadnt recovered from /that/ before 2016 we hadnt recovered from /that/ before covid we hadnt recovered from /that/ before (all of this) maybe history is just like this though. one thing after another
• blunderbussted (2022-07-09): airplane tickets are digital. concert tickets, etc. why the hell haven't we solved for digital government papers and licenses yet? those little covid vaxx cards were dinky af and they still worked, i could just show a picture of them to ppl in nyc/montreal when asked
• aaronbergman18 (2022-07-10): likewise, i'm 99% sure i ran across this article which basically directly caused me to text my family that they should prepare for covid. probably didn't matter much materially to us, but at least i got some ethos points lol
• dschorno (2022-07-10): i read the zvi coverage of covid all through the pandemic but i've been left high and dry now because his take on monkeypox is basically just that it doesn't affect him so he doesn't give a shit about it. cool. does anyone know if i should try to get this vaccine for it
• daniellefong (2022-07-11): really feel i'm like 80% back from covid
• patio11 (2022-07-11): * 2020 i wouldn’t have expected a salaryman-and-tourist-targeting optimized to the square millimeter counter space to end covid with better economics than it started but here we are.
• nobu_hibiki (2022-07-11): ah man that's a really really tough pill to swallow in the middle of having covid.
• mykola (2022-07-11): it’s almost like they heard covid was hurting non-white people more than white people and just decided to use it as a population reduction tool. this will of course backfire, as supremacy always does. it’s a footgun at best that can’t be wielded safely.
• mykola (2022-07-11): this. humans of the world i’m begging you if you’re listening to a covid “expert” who isn’t addressing long covid you are being actively misled into feeling safer than you should in the interest of short term economic gains.
• mykola (2022-07-11): this was my biggest biden disappointment. continuing trump’s covid response was a crime that killed countless people and disabled tens of millions.
• mykola (2022-07-14): i wfh and have for most of my career, but i totally get why people are worried that they're about to lose the privilege: many are. more and more employers are forcing folks to come back to the office, and it's contributing to the spread of long covid. it's valid to resist that.
• thezvi (2022-07-14): new weekly (inessential) covid post is out:
• mykola (2022-07-14): truly amazing times we're living in. magical warfare. you've watched the biden administration cast a magic spell that says covid is over and you watched our whole society walk off the covid cliff. trump's been casting dark magic for years and his reality is about to win.
• daniellefong (2022-07-14): i don't think what percentage it is (50%? 60%?) but a huge amount of the economic pain that's being inflicted right now is buffered austerity, trapped behind the three gorges dam of financial policy, of both the covid and post 2008 recession era, finally making it to wage earners
• daniellefong (2022-07-14): don't forget -- the systems that got everyone to upend their lives -- they failed! covid hit everyone, and the prognostications that we could be hit by a series of mutations turned out.
• daniellefong (2022-07-14): note that digital nomads are one of the types of people that still have a lot of money, but even they will be price conscious, nobody is looking at $5000 average rents in nyc and not feeling the sting. with relaxed covid restrictions & a $1 €uro...
• eigenrobot (2022-07-14): oh right forgot already have been bank failures, ppl saw accounts frozen, got btfo'd by the covid app when they went to protest apparently even relatives of ppl who had money in the banks lol.lmao
• mold_time (2022-07-15): a couple people have emailed us to report that they dropped out of the study because they got covid, so chalk a few more study dropouts up to illness
• panchromaticity (2022-07-15): so my mom found out she was exposed to covid yesterday and we leave for a family vacation/reunion tomorrow. 😞
• nosilverv (2022-07-15): do you, or anyone you know, ever had sex with masks on (to avoid covid)?
• drmaciver (2022-07-15): i ordered some covid tests from boots, and they've arrived addressed to "null david maciver", which i enjoy immensely.
• mykola (2022-07-15): long covid brain fog means not being able to remember that you turned that burner on, or whether you took that pill, or paid that bill. it means you don’t know if it’s safe to turn if you try driving. it means losing memories of departed loved ones. america hates the disabled.
• mykola (2022-07-15): i don’t agree with every conclusion but damn is it refreshing to read someone laying it all out like this. here’s the part where he is being naive imo: there is no evidence to support the idea that people with long covid will recover. what if that % of the pop remains disabled?
• ultimape (2022-07-15): "in summary, it is preferable to obtain antioxidants from food rather than from supplements. [...] further studies into the effects of vitamin and mineral supplementation on outcomes related to covid-19 [...] are warranted."
• eigenrobot (2022-07-15): >ellsburg prosecuted for releasing pentagon papers; no one held responsible for war actions >no senior commanders disciplined for abu ghraib >epstein's secrets going with him to the grave >schools teach that oswald acted alone wow how did they ever get away w/ a covid cover-up
• blunderbussted (2022-07-15): think covid gave us opportunity to reimagine data interfaces and helped teach us what practical useful statistic dissemination looks like
• mykola (2022-07-16): the media constantly and apparently with no self-awareness discussing “the trans question” is everything you need to know. trans friends if you can get out now is a good time to do that. then comes the long covid question once they realize what’s happening.
• daniellefong (2022-07-17): not even long range airborne like covid, disfiguring, and still
• strangestloop (2022-07-18): long covid
• moonboi_ (2022-07-18): what idiot called it long covid instead of ccccccooooooovvvvvvviiiiiiiiiiidddddddd
• the_wilderless (2022-07-19): i don’t like, *love* that my main options around covid are -take tons of precautions to avoid it as much as humanly possible -accept that i’ll catch it every year or two, and just hope that long covid & side effects don’t build up over decades, making my body an unlivable prison
• mykola (2022-07-19): if you have some time at 10am you should watch this as a way to watch congress, in realtime, receive the most up-to-date information about long covid from various experts.
• ultimape (2022-07-19): "nevertheless, our work has made a good case that these drugs can fight the coronavirus. while we still need to use antibiotics carefully, they might therefore have a role to play against covid in the future."
• nathanpmyoung (2022-07-20): i don't know how to say this, but 1000 deaths are 1000 deaths. better than 1,000,000 deaths, worse than 1 death. should the journalists have taken him more seriously? i don't know. how seriously did this show take covid?
• eigenrobot (2022-07-20): claims, might be fake. would be an interesting development context, bunch of (minor rural) banks in china were ponzis, some people got their accounts frozen on exit. they protested, govt nuked their covid passports for a while, protests continue reportedly
• yashkaf (2022-07-21): barcelona used to rely on their famous youth academy and global popularity for recruitment, but in the last decade they resorted more and more to exorbitant spending on players. when covid hit their revenues in 2020, years of financial mismanagement finally bit them in the ass.
• thezvi (2022-07-21): new weekly (non-vital) covid post is out:
• profoundish (2022-07-21): wife has post-covid pneumonia :/ i'm p much back to normal, maybe a bit of sinus weirdness, but she's still been lethargic and cough-y and now we know why :// would appreciate anyone lighting a candle for her
• mykola (2022-07-21): this article reads like a “things are slowly getting back to normal” puff piece as long as you don’t know that 10-20% of all covid infections end in long covid, which can ruin your life forever.
• drmaciver (2022-07-22): a good rule of thumb is probably that if a conference's covid policy has less teeth than its code of conduct, the conference doesn't actually have a covid policy, it's just asking you nicely not to have covid.
• maimecat (2022-07-22): i am definitely, absolutely, positively a covid super-dodger.
• mykola (2022-07-22): i can't wait for whoever first launches midjourney/dall-e for music. i bet @ahandvanish would have done that by now if the long covid hadn't knocked her out of the game. "a protest song about whales and climate change as performed by nirvana, with a great hook." whatever.
• drmaciver (2022-07-23): dear internet: i'm flying to the usa for a week long family reunion today, and i am freaking out a bit. please help me out by responding to this tweet with your worst-case scenarios for how it's all going to go horribly wrong *that have nothing to do with covid*.
• transkatgirl (2022-07-23): welp, i leave the house a single time this month, and then i immediately get really sick afterwards i just hope it's not covid again...
• xsphi (2022-07-24): guy who added covid to his muted words in january 2020 and is still vaguely confused as to why everyone wears masks now
• zrkrlc (2022-07-25): kaicamp covid hazing series
• patio11 (2022-07-25): back in the u.s. for a family trip and i’m idly wondering whether a lot of travel adjacent things are suffering from shrinkflation, present disturbances due to covid, or an attempt to reset customer expectations and/or deal with diminished capacity in an effectively permanent way
• patio11 (2022-07-25): a bit of covid vaccine policy news:
• patio11 (2022-07-25): "... this guy is clearly too disorganized to remember the dates for his covid shots but i am extremely, extremely certain of them for professional reasons. can we go forward please?" consultation between multiple employees. "ok we can give you the shot." "thank you."
• eigenrobot (2022-07-26): officials are finally acting to end this plague. by calling it something different it makes sense. covid was basically a public health failure because they spent the first three months ignoring the stigma that was driving the spread of the virus
• mykola (2022-07-27): bad news about the president’s health. it wasn’t covid, it was a minion brain spore. they develop rapidly. on the flip side being led by a mischievous cartoon character can’t be worse, right?
• drmaciver (2022-07-27): turns out the real worst case scenario was the covid inside us all along.
• pepijndevos (2022-07-27): really not sure how big of a deal long covid is. one in five is a lot, but tired after 6 weeks and permanently disabled really isn't the same. like, what's the chance of life shattering consequences, accute or not.
• lericdax (2022-07-28): so @fastpacehealth, whats with your carthage ms director refusing to follow contemporary best practices for covid medication? it's pure malfeasance. i demand he be reprimanded. absolutely no one should ever go to your establishment again @nationalmedassn @americanmed @nih @cdcgov
• lericdax (2022-07-28): check out this story on covid @cnn @abc @cbs @bbc @aljazeera @wjtv— @fastpacehealth is basically killing people by refusing to prescribe the same medications that all of our politicians and wealthy get to enjoy
• thezvi (2022-07-28): new covid post is out, in which in light of alzheimer's developments i propose maybe we go ahead and fund a project to check all major results and data to see if they are obvious frauds, and ignore that biden got covid cause who cares.
• iaimforgoat (2022-07-29): you know the concept of sleep debt? i've never read anyone say self-care debt. interesting... it could also apply! did a search and everyone uses it in the sense of owing money curious, because of covid we all went into self-care debt in some way... i offer you this expression
• drmaciver (2022-07-29): fortunately i think part of why i'm still testing negative is that if it is covid it is a mild case swiftly passing. i only really had one dreadful day and have had two days of lingering symptoms.
• drmaciver (2022-07-29): i miss when it was possible to get a pcr test for less than £150. it wouldn't apply to me anyway right now because i'm in the usa, but it looks like i'm in for another ambiguous "well it sure seems like it's covid but the tests don't think so"
• drmaciver (2022-07-29): still if the negative test results continue this makes it three for three on times i think i've had covid but can't be sure, and zero confirmed cases. makes me very suspicious of accuracy of numbers of times people have had it
• qiaochuyuan (2022-07-29): has anyone else experienced or heard of someone having worsened gut problems like intensified food sensitivities as a result of the covid vaccine? the timing is a bit suspicious for me (2nd dose in december, worsening food sensitivities over the next ~5 months)
• eigenrobot (2022-07-29): the left fucked up in a really big way over covid lockdowns its not necessarily the case that it will come back to bite them, this is dependent on many things. but alot of infrastructure and precedent were created such that it might
• lericdax (2022-07-29): lol of course my mothers phone just up and stops working while she's isolating next door with covid and theres no internet there
• zrkrlc (2022-07-30): no one got covid afaik, and we were going back and forth in closed spaces eg pepito in freaking bali
• ultimape (2022-07-31): > "our study positions saliva as a viable fluid to monitor immunity beyond plasma to document covid-19 immune, inflammatory, and coagulation-related sequelae."
• slimepriestess (2022-08-01): remember the really tough covid protocols from when everyone was freaking out? yeah that's not enough to keep you from getting monkeypox, you should be more paranoid than you were then. there's a vaccine, get it as soon as you can, stay away from public events until then. 4/5
• slimepriestess (2022-08-01): the system will not do anything to support or protect you until it's too late. do what you need to do to protect yourselves, monkeypox is an entire decimal place more lethal than covid. don't let them force you into dangerous situations, money is worthless if you're dead. 3/5
• ultimape (2022-08-01): it's not surprising to me that treatments explored from the tcm space of medicine are being used by people looking to deal with covid. given black ant powder is said to treat fatigue, it might be a good choice from before we had vaccines. could also be promising in long covid.
• eigenrobot (2022-08-01): out of curiosity is anyone on the right taking a principled position that closing churches to stop the spread of covid was an illegitimate use of government power, and mandating no orgies would be too i dont think i embrace this position but it would be impressive in a way
• mykola (2022-08-02): when the right didn’t act on covid it was weird. when the dems double down in their decisions it feels like conspiracy. biden’s failure on monkeypox will go down in history. these aren’t the actions of someone trying to prevent genocide. we’re in gibson’s jackpot.
• nathanpmyoung (2022-08-03): i chatted for like 20 mins to someone who now has covid, so i guess i'll book a hotel room* and wait for two days then test? (previously i was staying with a friend)
• drmaciver (2022-08-03): it does make talking about pain management with people from other countries annoying though. e.g. someone in germany was saying they had covid and the headache was the worst and i want to be able to say "yeah co-codamol will sort you out", but alas prescription only there.
• drmaciver (2022-08-03): i accidentally brought some co-codamol to the usa and this was probably illegal (fortunately nobody noticed) but boy was it useful on the day when i was lying in bed shivering with what i thought at the time was probably covid (but now think probably wasn't).
• qiaochuyuan (2022-08-03): covid headache is brutal, don’t know if i’ve ever had a headache like this. pretty much was just lying in bed observing it and waiting to see if it changed (basically no)
• kcorazo (2022-08-04): folks, after 2.5 years, covid finally got to me please recommend movies and documentaries
• thezvi (2022-08-04): weekly covid post is up, with relatively less covid as the world moves on. but still a bunch.
• frideswyth (2022-08-04): inflation would be even worse if we were still restricted by covid measures instead of having freedom day this time last year. inflation / recession kills people too. the govt was always balancing the economy vs covid deaths because the economy tanking kills a known no. of ppl
• rickbenger (2022-08-04): here's to a beautiful re-bundling, of lives pulled asunder and unbundled by covid.
• nathanpmyoung (2022-08-05): i'm surprised by this, since i heard the @cftc was behaving quite favourably to prediction makets. eg @kalshi was recently approved to trade non-politics events such as inflation and covid contracts. i don't know what happened & i won't claim @cftc are wrong. but i'm surprised
• leo_guinan (2022-08-05): back from vacation. wife has covid, so that's not great. most things we did were away from other people and outside, but apparently caught it somewhere. so far, she's the only one, but i'd be shocked if the rest of us don't get it.
• yashkaf (2022-08-07): the fact that the useful jargon "growing exponentially" was corrupted to mean "is high and growing fast" made communication about covid very frustrating in the early days when cases were still low but *exponential* in the sense of doubling every n days
• leo_guinan (2022-08-07): working on my plans for the week. do you have anything big happening? i'm trying to prepare a couple of plans in case i do end up having covid and won't be able to do much which, actually is an interesting way to look at the week.
• leo_guinan (2022-08-07): kinda have a not productive plan, a slightly productive plan and a really productive plan, so depending on energy levels, i'll be able to tackle different things. might end up doing this more in the future even if i don't have to plan for possible covid...
• nosilverv (2022-08-07): compared as to before covid happened, now my mood shifts are more - noticeable, - larger, - pronounced
• kcorazo (2022-08-08): interesting cbd oil seems to work pretty well for pain relief from this nasty covid sore throat plus sleep was 💯
• leo_guinan (2022-08-08): well, i wasn't able to avoid it this time. covid got me. so far, looks like only my 10 year old has successfully avoided it. this week is now about rest and recovery. hopefully we can kick it soon.
• kcorazo (2022-08-09): lol so this is why i only got covid at the tail end of the pandemic
• leo_guinan (2022-08-09): the hardest part of covid for me so far: the lack of energy. i have so much i want to do and just can't. feels like i'm losing the momentum i had over the weekend coming off of vacation. but i'm telling myself i just need to focus on the recovery and i'll be right back.
• patio11 (2022-08-10): cue a visit to american girl on our first post-covid chicago trip. someone walking the floor spotted lillian holding shiru-chan and said “miss, you want the doll hospital. second floor all the way back on the left.”
• lithros (2022-08-11): i tested positive for covid-19. the whole experience has really vindicated what i (and the real experts) have been saying all along: 1/🧵
• thezvi (2022-08-11): new covid post is out, with more covid content than i expected given how quiet the week seemed.
• profoundish (2022-08-11): -wife and i get covid, she can't work for a month -but she has short term disability, so it's okay -but they don't send the check out for like a month (literally misfiled paperwork) -but we do get it -but it's through a private disability company so can't get a corp to cash it
• lithros (2022-08-11): today's game: is it a covid headache or a caffeine withdrawal headache
• mykola (2022-08-12): from an economic standpoint i still don't hear enough people acknowledging that, all else aside, long covid has already decimated the workforce and created millions of newly disabled people. there's no cure. that number will only keep going up.
• leo_guinan (2022-08-12): having brain fog is scary to me and the idea of long covid or serious complications is terrifying, because i'm the sole earner right now for the family. what's the worst outcome? i don't want to focus on it, but i do think it's important to consider.
• goblinodds (2022-08-12): anyone remember that doctor in? seattle? who was administering covid tests back when that was illegal? whatever happened to her?
• goblinodds (2022-08-12): anyone remember that doctor in? seattle? who was administering covid tests back when that was illegal? whatever happened to her?
• eigenrobot (2022-08-13): note this is pre-covid
• mykola (2022-08-13): thread. the lack of action on covid leaves me wondering why. they are choosing a future ride with disability. why?
• mykola (2022-08-14): just… my whole youth was wasted. entirely. i’ll never be young again. i have health issues and i’m aging and it feels like the good years are all behind me right now and i spent them sobbing and confused. and that’s without society throwing us all under the covid bus.
• mykola (2022-08-14): you’d think they’d at least cover their tracks. they know about long covid. and they’re letting it run rampant anyway. this was the killer blow to america’s future. whatever else trump did he ended america with covid. (don’t ask me to explain biden continuing it.)
• m_ashcroft (2022-08-14): n=1 anecdata: i got covid in april of this year and about a week later i got a coldsore that lasted about a week i've only had one other coldsore before that, about 10 years beforehand, which i assume is when i was first exposed to hsv-1 so for me hsv-1 was reactivated by covid
• m_ashcroft (2022-08-14): neither covid nor the coldsore have caused any long term problems, for anyone who may be interested
• m_ashcroft (2022-08-14): interestingly this didn't happen after my first encounter with covid in march 2020
• visakanv (2022-08-14): not saying covid brainfog isn’t real, just saying i suspect the person’s interpretation of their experience has a role to play in their experience, which can be the case with a lot of things to a surprising degree
• visakanv (2022-08-14): to be clear it’s pretty indisputable that long covid *is a thing*, independent of people’s thoughts and feelings about it
• maimecat (2022-08-14): first covid, then monkey pox and now updog. what is the world coming to?
• kcorazo (2022-08-15): really looking forward to my first post-covid barbell session tomorrow
• kcorazo (2022-08-16): i'm back i haven't felt like myself since i've had covid deadlifts earlier restored me hello world!
• ultimape (2022-08-16): smooth muscle tissue shows up as problematic in covid autopsies. what is causing this?
• ultimape (2022-08-16): there is no evidence that garlic can protect you from oxidative stress or vein related dysfunction tied to ace receptor expression shifts or gpx4 tied to covid. please ignore the people who are sharing folk wisdom on the internet, they aren't qualified.
• ultimape (2022-08-16): it's neat how covid can cause the same symptoms i get from crohn's disease flair ups.
• ultimape (2022-08-16): "we postulate that in those patients who developed long covid syndrome along with an elevated serum ace level may have developed an aberrant longer-term immune response to covid infection." me too buddy.
• kcorazo (2022-08-16): i've taken some cbd oil to relieve my nasty covid sore throat this is the only possibly psychoactive substance i've taken (aside from my usual coffee and a bit of alcohol) in the past days
• ultimape (2022-08-16): what if we just say "while there have been limited (although promising) human trials of garlic on the impact of colds, indications that it can reduce lead exposure might be valuable as fewer children being tested for it due to covid related complications"?
• hrosspet (2022-08-17): what helped me notice my self-deceptions and (at least partially) get rid of them was to spend some time removed from the society (during covid).
• petersuber (2022-08-17): 1/ new study: how often (in 2020) did covid researchers cite preprints when they could have cited published postprints of the same research instead?
• rhyslindmark (2022-08-17): been feeling strong house cat energy in our new post-covid hybrid world. want to bring my golden retriever energy more. gotta retrain myself.
• ultimape (2022-08-17): seeing the food systems absolutely fuck themselves due to large scale disruptions tied to covid has made me kinda scared about food security, not going to lie.
• ultimape (2022-08-17): literally pitched a moonshot covid research project to help launch a fro to help work on decentralized science tools. (stuff like this: )
• daniellefong (2022-08-18): what distinguishes people who recover from people who don't? a silver lining may be, if we figure it out, we can help restore many more people to health from chronic illness. personally, covid did knock me back, but a couple months on and i think i'm fully recovered. is it luck?
• thezvi (2022-08-18): weekly covid post is up. no idea how this one got so long.
• garrisonlovely (2022-08-18): this is a nicely written essay [1], but it's largely based on an incorrect assumption – that long now and longtermism are basically the same. the longtermists i know are making covid vaccines that can actually reach people in the poorest countries, trying to prevent the next...
• gptbrooke (2022-08-21): it would appear i have covid kind of miraculous i made it through both vibecamp and vibegala unscathed; prolly should have gone to get a second booster already but oh well pls send tv show recs that i can watch curled up in my nest 🥺
• ultimape (2022-08-21): my life was a sensory hell for a while. i couldn't speak. i was having meltdowns left and right. and this was before covid hit. the only thing that kept me going during early covid was sheer adrenaline.
• ultimape (2022-08-21): heck. i'm literally in the middle of building out a diy microscope to help track a long-covid related fertility symptom and even tho we don't plan to sell it (release it open source) we are worried about getting sued by the federal government for something we overlooked.
• ultimape (2022-08-21): imagine being told "there is no evidence that covid causes loss of smell" by a fact-checker and then all the conversations on twitter about it as a symptom being silenced. that's what has been happening.
• ultimape (2022-08-21): can we talk about how disinformation here may have lead to immune compromised people getting infected and spreading covid even after getting vaccinated because everyone was in a moral panic about "just take the vax bruh"?
• ultimape (2022-08-21): i guess this isn't really talking about long covid tho. i suppose i'm ignoring millions of people who have suddenly got a disease that mimics what i have basically been trying to cure since 2015.
• ultimape (2022-08-21): did you know they found covid in a small percentage of men's semen?
• ultimape (2022-08-21): sure would be fun to find out what *exactly* predisposes a small proportion of men to experience viral persistence in semen and see if it expends to the similar fertility problems seen in long covid.
• ultimape (2022-08-21): long-covid ( like most autoimmune-esque diseases i've read about) seems to have a different symptom profile depending on if you are biologically male or female. can we talk about how this is overlooked in most studies so i can't even tell if it's true?
• ultimape (2022-08-21): i'd love to have a discussion about how little funding and little research has been done within academic science around stuff that has shown some promise to treat covid.
• ultimape (2022-08-21): likewise, i think it would be great to discuss political and institutional biases that have manifest in academic research round covid. in particular how this space has perverted the lens we've had with regards to "evidence" gathering.
• eshear (2022-08-22): in 70 years original covid vaccination cards (and other ephemera) will be collectors items for historical enthusiasts the way that wwii memorabilia is collected today.
• ultimape (2022-08-22): can we could have a discussion in how to prepare for children born in the next few years and the impacts of long covid on th17? "remodeling of t cell dynamics during long covid is dependent on severity of sars-cov-2 infection"
• ultimape (2022-08-22): i'm so progressive when it comes to long covid that i've been preparing for trying to help their children not suffer. i will wake up crying, thinking about all the children who will have to suffer like me; taking care of my self and my brother/sister as my mom is stuck in bed.
• 5matthewdub (2022-08-22): nothing like getting sneeze-pissed-on by your daughter while changing her diaper, just before you need to give her a covid test, to keep it real.
• ultimape (2022-08-22): musing at how hard it is to turn eth into fiat thanks to being homeless for a while and the difficulty of getting an id due to covid associated scheduling changes making an annoying interaction between dmv restrictions and my non-24-hour disorder.
• ultimape (2022-08-22): paypal has technically verified my identity and has even sent me tax documents. maybe i can use that and risk them shutting me down without recourse if i can exchange the $90k i got from vitalik buterin to work on a long covid moonshot. i'm in a place between zero and one.
• goblinodds (2022-08-23): not to mention got covid twice??, vibe camp??? 2 florida visits, france??? am i forgetting anything
• goblinodds (2022-08-23): not to mention got covid twice??, vibe camp??? 2 florida visits, france??? am i forgetting anything
• rhyslindmark (2022-08-23): brilliant story on how the collapse of the nhs is causing 500 deaths/week. it highlights trends of this decade. how: - the west deals with aging populations - extreme heat kills - we're stuck in short-term bandaids - covid's long-term impacts are all second-order
• rickbenger (2022-08-24): a melange of the ukraine-russia war, moving countries, changing jobs, losing relationships, covid, dashed plans. i thought about my hopes for week. i thought about this meme.
• the_wilderless (2022-08-24): granted these are estimates from covid times, so there’s not a lot of travel or recreation in there, but still
• rtk254 (2022-08-25): phd self-pity in covid times 20-21 - only virtual conferences 22 - real confs, but to attend you need to run a gauntlet of not getting sick before, during or on return bummed i got grounded by covid and will miss a conf i was looking forward to all year :(
• visakanv (2022-08-25): covid test negative, i think this is like from my book and my travel and me generally not taking breaks prob because i never learned how to do that
• 5matthewdub (2022-08-25): stumbling out of a week of covid for the whole family like
• thezvi (2022-08-25): new weekly (increasingly inaccurately named, although still not too inaccurate just yet) covid post is out:
• ultimape (2022-08-26): this suggests to me that gut bacteria may be producing something similar to what covid already may be doing. that lectin thing shows up in other covid related research. it is cited as possibly one of factors for how gut bacteria may be impacting outcomes
• ultimape (2022-08-26): that opportunistic aspect seems to be something going on with covid as well. with enterococcal species causing infections in the blood stream.
• ultimape (2022-08-26): i'd be curious if there is something about what covid is doing to the body that impacts cholesterol-dependent cytolysins in particular, or if is a more generic issue of cell destruction.
• ultimape (2022-08-26): oh jeez. "deaths weren’t just pandemic-related, either. non-covid deaths went from seven in the year before the home was sold to seven in the first four months"
• ultimape (2022-08-26): would be nice if we could have honest discussions about the impact of the spike proteins on tissue, and implications about their use as a target for vaccination. what if that is driving long covid? #teamclots
• ultimape (2022-08-26): "and then the patients and the sufferers… not just long covid, but many other chronic conditions that have long been ignored or denied. historically, both multiple sclerosis and ulcers were once treated as “in your head” diseases"
• ultimape (2022-08-26): if we could finger a reason why the smooth muscle tissue within the kidneys is failing as a result of covid infection, i would be more confident that experts know what they are talking about.
• ultimape (2022-08-26): remember when fauci et. al. was telling me that in 100% of people in covid trials were protected from death/hospitalization. but i was alarmed they didn't test on immune compromised people in those trials...
• ultimape (2022-08-26): "two types of biomarkers — known as interferons — were elevated in the long covid group 8 months after infection with sars-cov-2. scientists describe interferons as a type of protein that body cells make in response to the presence of viruses."
• igorbrigadir (2022-08-26): yesterday the world was divided. as covid-19 has clearly demonstrated: it's everyone for themselves. but in six months, ukraine changed all that.
• imperialauditor (2022-08-27): beginning to think that if covid had been widely believed to be a bioweapon, a lot of countries would have responded *better*
• rhyslindmark (2022-08-27): variant pressure is one of the only covid metrics we should be tracking in the ~after times.
• caffeinum (2022-08-27): over the last two years, during covid, feeling of the community was tough my productivity was crazy low; sometimes i went weeks without anything done
• nosilverv (2022-08-28): insane how fast we went from 'after covid it'll be the roaring twenties all over again!' to '10 difficult winters'
• mykola (2022-08-29): it was just a matter of time before the business people decided that they suddenly cared about covid. this positions the democratic party on the side of giving up on everyone, because it's what the republicans said they wanted but now will pivot on, i bet.
• nosilverv (2022-08-30): ok i understand media now lol. covid was life for two years and now it has completely disappeared. how to not get addicted to the power of literally creating reality? absolute power corrupts absolutely and so on
• nosilverv (2022-08-30): ok i understand media now lol. covid was life for two years and now it has completely disappeared. how to not get addicted to the power of literally creating reality? absolute power corrupts absolutely and so on
• nosilverv (2022-08-30): ok i understand media now lol. covid was life for two years and now it has completely disappeared. how to not get addicted to the power of literally creating reality? absolute power corrupts absolutely and so on
• iaimforgoat (2022-08-31): ex: intuitively we know covid was a huge part of the news airtime in 2020-22 but how big was it? how much airtime was given to it? by each channel? by each country? each year? when was the top? how did this curve behave? did they flatten the curve?
• ultimape (2022-08-31): i think me and the gf have covid? all symptoms and symptom progression. i got a bad fever, headache and a runny nose + lots of thick mucus (especially in stool). also we both got weird farts before we saw nasal symptoms. it's hitting her lungs way more than me. kinda scary.
• ultimape (2022-08-31): i don't think anything i've read has mentioned weird farts as a symptom. so that might be useful for someone. we haven't been able to get a covid antigen test due to it being the end of the month and the impact of the fatigue. but this hits harder on me than past flu.
• mykola (2022-08-31): friendly reminder that if you get covid you should prepare yourself for a 20% chance that it will never fully go away and you’ll end up with long covid and eventually me/cfs. what does that look like? here’s a thread with my observations as someone close to a long covid patient.
• ultimape (2022-08-31): "one of the problems that i've noticed is that ever since i suspected i got covid, my farts have increased in frequency and they have started to smell like death. each one of them smells terrible." [feb 2022] 🤔
• ultimape (2022-08-31): "to burn the world" => engulfed in flame. fire. to spit fire. neutralize the acid. lyrics of insanity. i was rhyming about a reason involving trpa1's role in covid associated bronchial-alveolitic response to something in the spit (mucus).
• mykola (2022-08-31): this is what really scares me. people just ignore this stuff, but like. once you get covid your life expectancy is reduced, no matter how mild it was. your brain is smaller, forever. even if you avoid long covid symptoms you are _fucked_ compared to someone who never had it.
• ultimape (2022-08-31): i'll go to hell and back again to find the bit of information i need to save her. "we argue for expeditious clinical testing of this inhibitor in covid-19 patients with respiratory malfunction and at risk for lung edema."
• igorbrigadir (2022-08-31): not just me getting an old, outdated covid-19 eu certificate email from @hselive then! the email itself does seem legitimate on first glance, but the pdf attached is actually an old, out of date cert (mine was pre booster)
• thezvi (2022-09-01): new weekly covid post is up:
• ultimape (2022-09-02): "statins likely do not confer any impact — positive or negative — on covid-related mortality and may be associated with an significantly increased risk — nearly 1 chance in 5 — of more serious illness."
• ultimape (2022-09-03): got a covid test for the gf. negative with at home antigen nasal swab. this doesn't really mean much? very annoying.
• annieposting (2022-09-05): rlly sick the past few days but got a negative on a covid test, fuck yeah, still have never gotten it 😌😌😌
• malcolm_ocean (2022-09-05): "covid" is a word (whoa, my dictionary has "covid"—i was assuming it was waaaay older than that based on all the other stuff it didn't have) (not sure what to do with stuff like "waaaay" btw. i think i'm gonna add it to my dict so no squiggle but not usually mention it here)
• actualhog (2022-09-05): imagine being miri and canceling everything and destroying your institution to prevent a few people getting covid
• askyatharth (2022-09-06): covid was a big “oopsie!” and that was just a tiny, dumb virus imagine ai that could order viruses to be sequenced and mailed
• zrkrlc (2022-09-07): ok more uni pics ate at my fave cafeteria, can't believe it's still the same a decade later, even after covid
• easoncxz (2022-09-08): top notch 🇨🇳 -- barb wire for fencing residents inside their apartment compound, in the name of covid control.
• mykola (2022-09-08): queen of england is dying, eh? how long ago did she have covid?
• thezvi (2022-09-08): new weekly covid post is out, nothing urgent:
• profoundish (2022-09-08): ableism is a death force, and it's coming for you and your loved ones. it will not be a 'woke' issue when you're trying to get your ssi. it is a system designed to quietly get millions sick and let them die, and covid is an opportunity that this eugenic deathforce knew how to use
• brimmingvessel (2022-09-08): so let’s say i had a covid exposure last night & i am quite keen on not getting it... what can i do to support my immune system? will take any and all suggestions - i’ve got echinacea extract, will have some raw garlic as per mom’s traditional remedy, get sleep, exercise...
• mykola (2022-09-08): this this this. if you can’t see it today you will, just wait until you get long covid.
• mykola (2022-09-09): this right here. all of these pearl-clutchers are right there acting like the pandemic is over and minimizing the staggering loss of life and health it’s causing every day. and like, covid deaths are a side story compared to long covid, its true legacy. when do we grieve that?
• ultimape (2022-09-09): lets see... a prediction here is that covid should drive sciatica pain akin to how an m.s. flair dives it in my family. seems to check out: "has anyone gotten covid and found that sciatica got much worse?"
• ultimape (2022-09-09): another prediction... people with long covid should be pissing themselves and experiencing bowel incontinence like me, my mom, and gram. oh look, it does.
• ultimape (2022-09-09): i'd like to talk about hibernation in bats, but it seems to be taboo to even mention bats + covid to weird political trends and speculation around biolabs.
• ultimape (2022-09-09): "a paucity of data on the gastrointestinal sequelae of sars-cov-2 infection. since covid-19 can directly or indirectly affect the gut physiology in different ways, it is plausible that functional bowel diseases may occur after the recovery" [nov 2021]
• forshaper (2022-09-11): i'm informed that the lan centres were in slow decline, but they were finally finished off by covid.
• ultimape (2022-09-11): the moon calls for you. "hypothesis is that people with long covid have higher blood levels of alpha 2-antiplasmin, a serine protease inhibitor responsible for inactivating plasmin."
• ultimape (2022-09-11): "patients who survived covid-19 exhibited increased risk of kidney outcomes in the post-acute phase of the disease. post-acute covid-19 care should include attention to kidney disease."
• ultimape (2022-09-11): "the levels of proinflammatory cytokines in the asymptomatic cohort dropped off, whereas those in the long covid cohort remained more or less steady, with only a statistically insignificant decrease."
• demiurgently (2022-09-11): i made it 2.5 years without getting covid and it finally got me this weekend 🫤 i’m stuck in bed for now and could use good nonfiction book recommendations, preferably econ/tech related!
• transkatgirl (2022-09-11): welp, i just realized that google maps removed the ability to view covid case numbers from within the app
• nosilverv (2022-09-12): what i most resent about current year is this: like the geb story it's stories within stories, no closure, no release, no catharsis. we're still in covid 'anomalous time' but now with ukrainian war atop, we never officially ended it, we just ‘moved on’ except we didn’t.
• nosilverv (2022-09-12): what i most resent about current year is this: like the geb story it's stories within stories, no closure, no release, no catharsis. we're still in covid 'anomalous time' but now with ukrainian war atop, we never officially ended it, we just ‘moved on’ except we didn’t.
• nosilverv (2022-09-12): what i most resent about current year is this: like the geb story it's stories within stories, no closure, no release, no catharsis. we're still in covid 'anomalous time' but now with ukrainian war atop, we never officially ended it, we just ‘moved on’ except we didn’t.
• mykola (2022-09-12): yeah, we lose a 9/11 or three of people to covid every week and they’re happy to ignore it.
• nosilverv (2022-09-13): this is both why covid sucked (always same state of consciousness) and why you need dreaming (change in state of consciousness)
• nosilverv (2022-09-13): this is both why covid sucked (always same state of consciousness) and why you need dreaming (change in state of consciousness)
• nosilverv (2022-09-13): this is both why covid sucked (always same state of consciousness) and why you need dreaming (change in state of consciousness)
• the_wilderless (2022-09-13): i put on weight during covid which has proven remarkably difficult to get the hell rid of. not sure how much i can blame on being over 30 now, how much is cuz i also lost muscle mass when all the gyms in vietnam closed for a year straight, but yeah. it’s fuckin stubborn
• aleksil79 (2022-09-14): after observing the spread of covid across the world and sending four homegrown children to public preschool and school, i dare say that our respiratory hygiene culture is about as sensible as emptying chamberpots on the streets.
• aaronbergman18 (2022-09-14): getting bariatric surgery and a year’s supply of semaglitude should be like 30% harder than getting a covid shot, tops
• transkatgirl (2022-09-15): fuck, i'm sick currently waiting for my gf to covid test me
• thezvi (2022-09-15): new weekly covid post is up. happy to report cases are down and non-covid content share is up despite zero monkeypox news.
• daniellefong (2022-09-15): moderate the emotional intensity of news how much effect you can physically have on it most of the shit you see on the news. you're downstream of it, you can hardly do anything. (worked myself to exhaustion warning about covid, of course to only medium effect & general failure)
• daniellefong (2022-09-16): they really using covid control as cover for all their worst social control programs :(
• ultimape (2022-09-17): so... can we please please please get studies done on the impact of garlic on covid, or at least on the disease that have higher rates of covid related complications and notable grip strength problems?
• ultimape (2022-09-17): sure wish we had someone looking for evidence that garlic would impact pathways associated with long covid or me/cfs, by way of glutathione.
• the_wilderless (2022-09-18): right, i spent most of covid-times in empty towns, low population density areas, etc—and it’s been _*nice*_, but i’m gonna be in berlin in autumn/winter for a fellowship thing, which means i’ll be near more people in smaller areas more often,,, tips?
• mykola (2022-09-18): calling anyone who follows me who works in the press, get this protest some coverage. people with me struggle to leave bed sometimes, for so many of them to travel to protest together is heroic. they’re doing it for us — to get biden to take long covid seriously.
• ultimape (2022-09-19): gf had the worst candida flair up so far, it'd been under control but something about catching covid(?) absolutely made this latest menstrual cycle really bad. been kinda scared.
• ultimape (2022-09-19): i'm just thankful that the ibs symptoms from covid were temporary. if this was a year ago we would both probably be dead.
• ultimape (2022-09-19): i wonder how many are getting candida infections in gut & don't even realize stuff like mucormycosis etc is common complication of covid. candida flair tied to diabetes/autism/alzheimer's might be tied to higher complication rate?
• ultimape (2022-09-19): i still think we are seeing gut dysbiosis as the main driver of long covid, but i can't shake the idea that there's something else going on.
• ultimape (2022-09-19): wouldn't surprise me if candida albicans can get infected by covid and persist ala via horizontal gene transfer. yeast and human cells are surprising similar. *cough* swi5 *cough*
• ultimape (2022-09-19): do we know why covid causes kidney problems yet?
• mykola (2022-09-19): declaring the pandemic over when 500 people are dying per day and 20 people get long covid for every death is a hell of a choice. @potus has chosen eugenics and genocide for short-term electoral gains.
• ultimape (2022-09-21): i believe a dark-skinned person w/ thick skin from diabetes, combined w/ poorly controlled blood sugar (a complication from covid itself!) might explain doctors reporting patients suddenly going from good spo2 to bad on short notice. but i have no evidence. i am not a doctor.
• aaronbergman18 (2022-09-21): got flu vax and covid booster together… do we know to what degree subjective vaccine side effects stack. like, is less-bad one a free lunch given the other? i’d guess net severity of side effects goes covid<(covid+flu together)<(covid+flu a week apart) but just speculating
• ultimape (2022-09-21): don't worry, the way the fda measure of covid during booster trials was defined as... *checks notes* "peripheral-blood oxygen saturation level"🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
• jd_pressman (2022-09-22): covid was the final blackpill because it showed the discourse loss function could be perfect, predict everything right and name every malfeasor to no consequences for anyone involved. it showed the current power structure isn't predicated on a lack of information and discourse.
• eigenrobot (2022-09-24): re china rumors its probably nothing but flight cancellation is weird to me might be covid tho who knows
• ultimape (2022-09-25): stinky farts and a cough, random fevers. is this a side effect of the fluconazole? ... i really don't want us to be getting covid again. at least this time there are spicy garlic undertones.
• ultimape (2022-09-25): i'll throw a raspberry pi + 7inch touch screen on the thing and call it a smart sanitation bot. the covid fvcker 3000™️
• eigenrobot (2022-09-25): occasional reminder that no one will ever be held responsible for any portion of covid or the response to covid in even the slightest way
• iaimforgoat (2022-09-25): 2021 a glimpse into infectious disease specialist, dr. anthony fauci who has led the u.s. fight against every epidemic the country has faced from aids to sars to ebola, and the ongoing covid-19* early 2022 *he may or may not have been involved in the creation of the virus ups-y
• iaimforgoat (2022-09-25): but is fucked up in a very weird way how he was one of the responsables for covid-19 and there's a fucking movie about him 600m infected, 6m dead. one of the biggest fuck-ups ever...
• askyatharth (2022-09-26): > the lesson of covid is you can’t trust anyone, even the guys telling you not to trust anyone, and, simultaneously, civilization can’t make it without vast, complex coordination. mfw.
• profoundish (2022-09-26): the covid clinic isn't going to get wife in for a pulmonary test until *december*. her actual consult isn't even until after that. by the way if we're pretending the pandemic is over these systems will be even *more* clogged by the time you or your loved one gets long covid.
• ultimape (2022-09-27): "of 11 lactating individuals enrolled, trace amounts of bnt162b2 and mrna-1273 covid-19 mrna vaccines were detected in 7 samples from 5 different participants at various times up to 45 hours postvaccination" whelp.
• easoncxz (2022-09-27): … covid backyard science? 🤔
• visakanv (2022-09-27): reasons for the prediction: cdpr has amazing rep with witcher 3 game dev clearly got fcked by covid & had to ship unfinished completing playthru of game even at launch showed a tremendous story at the heart of it, great chars, worldbuilding, music, a+ bones obvsly salvageable
• goblinodds (2022-09-28): got the flu shot and a covid booster today, which i keep forgetting except i feel like i got socked in both arms
• goblinodds (2022-09-28): got the flu shot and a covid booster today, which i keep forgetting except i feel like i got socked in both arms
• hiredthought (2022-09-28): have you had covid?
• ultimape (2022-09-28): "unfortunately, questions about menstruation have been excluded from most large-scale covid-19 studies (including vaccine trials)" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• ultimape (2022-09-28): gonna spend the next few hours reading every paper on miscarriage and covid-19 i can find. apparently "evidence continues to build showing that: covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy is safe and effective." so i should be able to find it, no?
• ultimape (2022-09-28): "found no evidence of an increased risk for early pregnancy loss after covid-19 vaccination and adds to the findings from other reports supporting covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy." [nov 2021]
• ultimape (2022-09-28): hmmm.... "our pooled analysis suggests that the covid-19 vaccination in pregnant women prevents infection effectively and has no adverse outcomes. future large-scale trials in a randomized fashion are needed to confirm our results." [aug 2022]
• forthrighter (2022-09-28): i will consider ai actually intelligent when it passes the popsicle turing test covid sick wife sends ai to store to buy her favorite brand of tri-color popsicles that are out of stock; ai needs to return with the closest possible match without angering her
• ultimape (2022-09-29): while investigating research on miscarriage and covid + vaccines, i found a weird study that suggested some antibiotics increase the risk of miscarriage?! a couple of them are sometimes used to treat covid infections.
• ultimape (2022-09-29): which raises an interesting question: are rates of covid infections and vaccine use independent or dependent variables?
• the_wilderless (2022-09-30): strikes me as a pretty clear message that the face is asking for attention a couple weeks before the residency, i have not had to socialize much since covid, aaaand i probably need to find new better-aligned ways to “infer-face” w people
• ultimape (2022-09-30): having rank farts thanks to covid has given me fun ideas on ways to make cheap air filters. i think anything that can take cannabis smell out of the air should be good enough for 3d printing vocs.
• the_wilderless (2022-10-01): wait, there’s gonna be some wild post-covid paranoiac sci-fi coming along, ain’t there? like pkd, but with mrna spikes as receiver antennae for eldritch otherdimensional psychic hitchhikers or sth
• petersuber (2022-10-02): update. "#moderna has refused to hand over to china the core intellectual property behind the development of its breakthrough covid-19 vaccine, leading to a collapse in negotiations on its sale there."
• daniellefong (2022-10-02): it's the same people who get on the same wagons on opposing sides, re, covid, ukraine conflict, inflation. these algorithmically boosted affiliation networks are no joke. practically the only people who have been consistently sensible & still commenting are the bloggers...
• nobu_hibiki (2022-10-02): seeing the d&d booth took me back to 2018 and to a time where i wanted to play board games and ttrpg so much but none of my friends understood nor wanted to play it and so i went into a 6 year crusade of slowly introducing them all to that new world before covid fucked things up.
• profoundish (2022-10-03): whether covid was intentionally created or not (i go back and forth), the reaction of us oligarchs was *absolutely* to weaponize it to slaughter over a million people and disable millions more because it became clear that most of those people would be poor, or disabled, or black.
• profoundish (2022-10-03): also if covid was intentionally created, i imagine it was created by the us in such a way as to make it easy to blame on china. i do honestly think accident (or no leak) is a bit more likely, & that covid appeared & only *later* was it weaponized , but... conspiracies do happen.
• eigenrobot (2022-10-03): and its not just the ongoing collapse of the notion of russia as a great power lets check in on based china's remarkable state capacity and its advantage in controlling covid because it doesnt have to listen to its ppl whats that? covid is over? oh ho
• mykola (2022-10-03): trying to date in 2022: them: you’re cute, wanna meet up? me: probably! but can we talk covid safety for a sec? any chance you’re still masking in public places, avoiding indoor dining, etc? them: *ends the chat* so it goes.
• nosilverv (2022-10-04): fascinating mix of us and brazilian mentality. much more direct and pulling on family loyalty (vote as if your daughter had been rape, your family died of covid, your son got shot...)
• nosilverv (2022-10-04): fascinating mix of us and brazilian mentality. much more direct and pulling on family loyalty (vote as if your daughter had been rape, your family died of covid, your son got shot...)
• nosilverv (2022-10-04): fascinating mix of us and brazilian mentality. much more direct and pulling on family loyalty (vote as if your daughter had been rape, your family died of covid, your son got shot...)
• aaronbergman18 (2022-10-04): iteration 1 was early march 2019 covid, so now i’m just spending down my credibility points lol
• mimi10v3 (2022-10-05): i do feel like twitter is my third place since covid shut down other options… love you all! 🫶
• goblinodds (2022-10-06): gonna be real mad if this is covid again tho, the headache last time was brutal and lasted like 4 days
• goblinodds (2022-10-06): gonna be real mad if this is covid again tho, the headache last time was brutal and lasted like 4 days
• thezvi (2022-10-06): covid 10/6/22: overreactions aplenty on don't worry about the vase
• goblinodds (2022-10-06): ok i dont think it's covid (or the current strain is weak af, or the booster shot actually helped a ton?) congestion/itchy throat have noticeably improved on the second full day of illness bad headache but not brutal, will *probably* be able to play games/watch tv all day
• goblinodds (2022-10-06): ok i dont think it's covid (or the current strain is weak af, or the booster shot actually helped a ton?) congestion/itchy throat have noticeably improved on the second full day of illness bad headache but not brutal, will *probably* be able to play games/watch tv all day
• thezvi (2022-10-07): readers: would you prefer that i split the non-covid parts of the weekly covid post into
• justavagrant_ (2022-10-08): seeing a nurse and (ostensibly?) someone anti mask hold stay in connection, mutual care and understanding and agree on a covid policy was beautiful. if we can do it here maybe we can do it elsewhere
• petersuber (2022-10-08): update. from the article above: "charles gore, executive director of the medicines patent pool (@medspatentpool)…says: 'the silver lining of covid is that it has focused people’s attention on access. the tragedy is that a lot of people died to get that focus.' "
• mykola (2022-10-09): trying to do poly dating should be fun but it’s primarily been an exercise in rejection and frustration. which is fine, i know dudes on dating apps have a much harder time, but i don’t know how to meet people otherwise while being covid safe.
• mykola (2022-10-09): (of course, the one person who was like “you’re hot let’s meet up!” ghosted me when i asked about covid safety precautions. so it’s not just irl, the dating pool is reduced by 90% because nobody takes covid seriously.)
• nosilverv (2022-10-10): "[...] so hyper-risk-averse when it comes to covid, yet so hyper-risk-loving when it comes to nuclear war [...]"
• nosilverv (2022-10-10): "[...] so hyper-risk-averse when it comes to covid, yet so hyper-risk-loving when it comes to nuclear war [...]"
• nosilverv (2022-10-10): "[...] so hyper-risk-averse when it comes to covid, yet so hyper-risk-loving when it comes to nuclear war [...]"
• nathanpmyoung (2022-10-10): "but forecasters aren't nuclear experts" no, and i want more numerical forecasts from nuclear experts. but they *do* have expertise. look at their track records: - look at @metaculus on covid and ukraine. - samotsvety hold the top 4 spots in infer, which advises the us govt
• goblinodds (2022-10-11): a ha ha didn't see bogfriend this week bc i was sick and didn't want him to miss the big acx meetup but someone who went to the meetup just tested positive for covid so now i'll likely get to miss him for 2-3 weeks x_x punished
• goblinodds (2022-10-11): a ha ha didn't see bogfriend this week bc i was sick and didn't want him to miss the big acx meetup but someone who went to the meetup just tested positive for covid so now i'll likely get to miss him for 2-3 weeks x_x punished
• goblinodds (2022-10-11): wishing i'd tested for covid when i caught this cold, maybe i'm immune almost certain i caught this cold from people who caught covid recently enough that they were still covid immune before they could pass this on to me tho
• goblinodds (2022-10-11): wishing i'd tested for covid when i caught this cold, maybe i'm immune almost certain i caught this cold from people who caught covid recently enough that they were still covid immune before they could pass this on to me tho
• goblinodds (2022-10-11): normally i'd be like "fuck it i'll just get sick" but the last 2 times i caught covid i was about as sick as i could be (for like a week straight!) without being seriously concerned for my life lol
• goblinodds (2022-10-11): normally i'd be like "fuck it i'll just get sick" but the last 2 times i caught covid i was about as sick as i could be (for like a week straight!) without being seriously concerned for my life lol
• igorbrigadir (2022-10-13): time and time again "debunking" has proven useless at best, and counter productive at worst. i remember there was a post on reddit, this guy described how a family member got over the covid conspiracy hole: telenovelas. just.. started watching them and forgot about antivax bs.
• thezvi (2022-10-13): weekly covid post is up. plan going forward is these will be all-covid, and a 2nd weekly (coming later today) will cover non-covid stuff, plus i'll spin more other things off too.
• thezvi (2022-10-13): apologies, accidentally linked to the wrong place, link should work now for the first weekly non-covid post:
• askyatharth (2022-10-14): what’s the status with covid? are people still dying in large numbers, and people care less or
• nopranablem (2022-10-15): flu shot + covid booster definitely showed up in oura! took ~9am, saw the steady body temp hike (but felt ok to do easier work), then basically zonked out 8ish on sleep quality p bad but it's passed out. massage gun helped a bunch with muscle soreness compared to last time iirc
• frideswyth (2022-10-16): where shall we start? covid after-care sessions: recovering joy after coronavirus unlearning helplessness: meetups to manipulate our world (positively) using our powers of evil for good hashtag let adults play - starting with forgetting lane swimming in swimming pools
• iaimforgoat (2022-10-16): maybe i'll adjust the speed, try to run 30min at 8.5 and then slowly increase from that. since i got the 2nd shot of the covid vaccine i started getting some heart issues, so no way i'm gonna force my little heart to its limit until i check what's up with that!
• petersuber (2022-10-16): new study: "political affiliation has emerged as a potential risk factor for covid-19, amid evidence that republican-leaning counties have had higher covid-19 death rates than democrat- leaning counties."
• ultimape (2022-10-16): can't wait until we see what kind of biofilms we are harboring in our gut. "dental biofilms from symptomatic covid-19 patients harbour sars-cov-2 rna and might be a potential reservoir with an essential role in covid-19 transmission."
• patio11 (2022-10-17): (you have to actually wrap them yourself these days, because covid, but in any other circumstance the store wraps them for you. for free, of course.)
• eigenrobot (2022-10-17): other ongoing related risks include multiple plausible financial crises, revolutions foreseen and unforeseen, famines, and everything downstream of these things everything still looks real shaky for everyone we wasted so much slack on covid. ruinous
• georgejrjrjr (2022-10-17): nearly every depiction of a scanner in sci-fi i've seen looks a bit like this: planes of laser light cross-cutting a thing of interest, be it an alien artifact or a humanoid suffering from space-covid. you can scan your body and your environment, mentally, in much the same way.
• daniellefong (2022-10-18): taking to heart the covid rapid test (negative) and the recent research showing that if you have a cold, mild exercise helps, went on my long walk yesterday and today. am tired but def in recovery, and my body is perfused with the happy feeling of my cells coming back to life
• drmaciver (2022-10-19): i understand that "timeless essays" is a thing on which reasonable people can differ, but: if you write about covid-19 without a clear date of publication visible in your article, you're a bad person, and you are not to be trusted on an matters of public health.
• richdecibels (2022-10-19): a complaint: its kinda effed that i need proof of vaccination to enter the us, my 2 doses plus covid recovery is not sufficient to obtain such proof in italy, so i just unwillingly took a third dose which is doing something weird to my heart 👎
• transkatgirl (2022-10-19): like, yes, i know covid is bad. i don't wanna catch it again, and i'm trying my best to take measures to prevent myself from catching it again and, yes, long covid is a real issue
• transkatgirl (2022-10-19): i hate seeing posts that basically tell me that because i caught covid once, for reasons out of my control, i'm tainted for the rest of my life and doomed to have tons of scary health issues
• transkatgirl (2022-10-19): but, there's nothing i can do about the fact that i caught covid. stop trying to blow the risks out of proportion to scare people for no reason this isn't helping anyone
• visakanv (2022-10-19): some stuff i have no idea about: how covid will play out: idk how the russian invasion will play out: idk how inflation will play out: idk china’s future: idk what is game theory: idk anything about ai or ml and such: idk
• thezvi (2022-10-20): spoiler alert, the answer to the question is we did gain of function research on the covid-19 virus. and by spoiler alert i mean we risk creating pandemics if we don't stop gain of function research.
• eigenrobot (2022-10-21): oh damn ht @lotuna_ i really dont have the background necessary to competently evaluate this but the argument as i understand it is a pretty persuasive case for a synthetic origin of covid, accepting the premises will try to sum up below, caveat emptor
• eigenrobot (2022-10-21): looking at covid 19: yeah actually when you look at how it would get chopped up, it falls into exactly the area by # restriction sites and longest fragment after chopping that would fall out of engineering, but would be an outlier if it were wild oh shit
• eigenrobot (2022-10-21): that said i can also imagine a super fun followup that wouldnt make it into any research publication: go back and read papers from researchers at wuhan to see who exactly was using the specific engineering techniques mentioned here as likely candidates for creating covid
• eigenrobot (2022-10-21): opportunity for some fun testing some hypotheses that covid paper missed
• thezvi (2022-10-21): weekly roundup #2 (of non-covid things that don't want to stand on their own) is out, trying doing it on fridays.
• eigenrobot (2022-10-21): stray thoughts thread from that covid preprint that dropped yesterday if you are not a technical expert in some area it can be challenging to evaluate the merits of arguments regarding a subject. one heuristic you can use is to evaluate the behavior of debaters this is fraught
• easoncxz (2022-10-21): are there any examples of people who grew up in low-trust cultures finding retreat in internet strangers for chronic conditions like long covid?
• algekalipso (2022-10-21): thank you 🙏 i actually used that exact brand and e.o. set to test my sense of smell the first time i had covid (delta variant). twice a day, i would smell each of these 20 scents and rate them along various dimensions and note any difference, if any. thankfully: no change!
• daniellefong (2022-10-21): i wasn't sure if i had covid or not (negative testing) but my sense of smell sure has come back in force
• eigenrobot (2022-10-22): very helpful thread picking apart one of andersen's critiques. if i understand correctly: andersen (and others) argued that the preprint was dumb because the restriction sites it identified in covid are widely present in wild type gadboit points out that
• mykola (2022-10-22): this person wants as many people as possible to infected with covid. i do not know why. i can only look at the way she is using the cdc to promote anti-scientific distractions and false reassurances. this is your literal enemy she wants you disabled or dead.
• visakanv (2022-10-23): i wasn’t sure when i was gonna mention it lol: i’m currently like day 6 into my first covid. (vaxxed n boosted) i’m doing alright, first couple of days were fairly rough. i just been lying on the sofa watching movies everyday. bummed abt cancelling on friends who r passin thru 🇸🇬
• nosilverv (2022-10-23): gustavo santos é um covid truther. i can save him
• nosilverv (2022-10-23): gustavo santos é um covid truther. i can save him
• nosilverv (2022-10-23): gustavo santos é um covid truther. i can save him
• adam_kranz (2022-10-24): was listening to fauci "anthropomorphizing" covid in the new david quammen book and realized that @mnvrsngh's subjective selection hypothesis brings a lot of clarity to the fretting about that
• patio11 (2022-10-24): (fixed by pivoting to plan b, an in-airport rapid covid test, which if you are negative obviates the need for proof-of-vaccination.)
• eigenrobot (2022-10-25): havent been paying close attention but @gadboit has been going back and forth with authors in what seems like a really productive way the last few days discussion here is: there's a restriction site present in close relatives that's missing in covid;
• transkatgirl (2022-10-25): just got the bivalent covid booster
• richdecibels (2022-10-26): good day to practice not freaking out: 30 guests arriving tomorrow for 4-day retreat and my 2 cohosts just dropped out with covid 💀
• nobu_hibiki (2022-10-26): i mean in all honesty all of my issues can be blamed on covid but that's no fun is it.
• visakanv (2022-10-26): while having covid i’ve been watching a lot of hot ones, and you can really see how many celebrities open up and become so warm and nice when they discover that sean has done his research and really knows his stuff, asks very specific, personalised questions. it’s delightful
• yashkaf (2022-10-26): you saw it in 2020 after a dozen narrative flops on covid severity, masks, outdoor gatherings etc. people didn't try to learn how viruses work physically, they'd just pick one person like fauci, trump or their aunt who's a nurse and follow them religiously
• thezvi (2022-10-27): weekly covid post is up.
• visakanv (2022-10-28): covid test is negative now but i still kinda “smell and taste sick” iykwim. wonder how many more days that’ll last. 1? 3? 5? funny thing tho is that this low grade level of sick doesn’t feel even a quarter as bad as i felt when i was going off of cigarettes early this year
• nobu_hibiki (2022-10-28): "worst fucking luck" is just another word for covid but. now that things are happening again. and i'm starting to be in situations where little nudges toward leading actually does get you places. i still fully believe that the strategy i've chosen is the right one.
• adam_kranz (2022-10-28): i think i have a non-covid respiratory virus that is hitting me harder than covid and it raises the question: why are we so far behind on vaccines??
• nobu_hibiki (2022-10-30): imagine if i get a continuous stream of new high quality data points like that one. imagine what kind of powers i would have to be able to enjoy things. i would be invincible and unstoppable by anything but the greatest forces. forces like, y'know, covid.
• nosilverv (2022-10-30): massive covid vibe shift would love to understand how this stuff happens
• nosilverv (2022-10-30): massive covid vibe shift would love to understand how this stuff happens
• nosilverv (2022-10-30): massive covid vibe shift would love to understand how this stuff happens
• ultimape (2022-10-31): it's wild how much overlap there is with long covid and m.s. this describes my mom growing up. she'd do something with us kids and then be bed-ridden for weeks.
• yashkaf (2022-10-31): people are mad at two groups. first are cdc/fda/nih/fauci who charitably only fucked up the rollout of tests, vaccines, and public messaging in a way that killed thousands and uncharitably funded the research that caused covid-19 in the first place and killed millions.
• paul_melman (2022-10-31): how much of the increase in crime and traffic deaths is due to long covid-induced brain damage, i wonder
• yashkaf (2022-10-31): the second are those who willfully used covid as an excuse to direct the coercive power of the state to fuck with their outgroup. who got businesses closed while they got ppp gifts, who got people arrested for attending funerals while they went to blm protests and french laundry.
• yashkaf (2022-10-31): if you want move on from covid to promote tutoring and pertussis vaccines that's awesome, you can just talk about that and not mention covid policy debacles at all. but of course, "let's remember to give kids pertussis shots" doesn't get you published in the atlantic.
• nathanpmyoung (2022-11-01): we don't take ventilation nearly seriously enough on public transport (unless planes count??). i wear a mask on the tube, not for covid, but because air quality is terrible. i'm not saying we need masks but we do underrate this.
• mbateman (2022-11-01): the negative responses to @profemilyoster’s covid amnesty piece are fascinating. i think there’s a real question as to when and how you battle for a public moral reckoning and when and how you should make it as easy as possible for people to adopt better positions.
• daniellefong (2022-11-02): watching john campbell (!) on the senate report that a lab origin of covid was most likely
• eigenrobot (2022-11-02): if we learned anything from osters article, its that today reconciliation is impossible. people on all sides of the argument simply united for a brief moment to condemn her so no, "amnesty" is not an option; we require another civic remedy we need to declare a covid purge night
• eigenrobot (2022-11-03): i wonder how many americans are still lowkey constantly scared of terrorists. you gotta imagine some people never got past that just like some people are fixated on covid to the point of agoraphobia there are definitely some 70yo hippies still kicking
• thezvi (2022-11-03): weekly covid post is up, happily things are quiet and this is quite a small edition.
• _brentbaum (2022-11-04): if elected your middle school class president i promise i will + bring back spirit fridays + start free lunch mondays + establish ubi for bullied kids + eradicate paper cuts & covid + realize the kingdom of heaven on earth + free all beings everywhere from samsara
• mykola (2022-11-04): the new economy is one where more and more people are disenfranchised from the work force. many of them of course have long covid — but others have always been disenfranchised. the solution to disenfranchisement is connecting locally and building webs of mutual support.
• patio11 (2022-11-04): (everyone is fine; we appreciate your concern. minor childhood thing interacting poorly with covid-era policies about accompanying young children and not being able to leave mid-stay.)
• princevogel (2022-11-04): some people are saying that covid can lower your iq. maybe. but the real secret is that most viruses do and your brain is caught in a constant cycle of repairing itself from the last bought, which in turn is why iq is static during adulthood
• nido_kween (2022-11-04): why'd the covid test kit come with three copies of the instructions like geez i'm not that dumb 0.0
• patio11 (2022-11-05): the honest version: “the pharmacist is the only person in the world who knows the stock levels of the covid vaccine at this location today, but we at corporate would prefer you not push 4 to ask them about it. their time is very valuable and needed to deliver healthcare.”
• nido_kween (2022-11-06): i don’t understand why but since i had covid last summer, whenever i get a cold i get the same smell distortions and massive headaches, that i never got before
• nido_kween (2022-11-06): i can’t figure out if i’ve just had covid a bunch of times but all the tests were negative or if covid changed something in my body’s response to respiratory viruses
• goblinodds (2022-11-07): covid is horrible and i'm not saying it was by any means worth it but it's been almost pure upside for me personally (even factoring in that i caught it twice and has a moderately rough time)--
• goblinodds (2022-11-07): covid is horrible and i'm not saying it was by any means worth it but it's been almost pure upside for me personally (even factoring in that i caught it twice and has a moderately rough time)--
• malcolm_ocean (2022-11-07): people who were genuinely trying to figure stuff out on twitter in the early days of covid got banned for claiming (or even positing) things that were at the time considered false by cdc/who, that later turned into cdc/who doctrine.
• goblinodds (2022-11-07): is/was covid terrible and has it been net good or bad for you personally?
• goblinodds (2022-11-07): is/was covid terrible and has it been net good or bad for you personally?
• mykola (2022-11-07): if you don't care about the fate of the disabled -- if the words "pre-existing condition" have escaped your mouth defending your covid choices -- then congrats. you're not only likely to die in the collapse but you're actually helping to accelerate it. but you've got a few years.
• mykola (2022-11-07): after all, your first bout of covid was fine, you weren't disabled yet. that lingering cough and brainfog you've had ever since, though? those are *pre-existing conditions* for your next bout of covid. just to be clear.
• mykola (2022-11-07): and covid is exactly one dimension of the total infrastructural, societal and moral collapse we are facing. the fascists have prepared for this. the rest of us haven't, because the only two ways to prepare are to get good at violence or to get good at mutual aid.
• mykola (2022-11-08): this is a game changer for millions and millions of people. long covid may have a biomarker, and at least some of its complexity may be the result of previously undetectable microclots. amazing research. this is nobel-worthy.
• mykola (2022-11-08): my questions: does this apply to me/cfs as well? could this be the mechanism of action there too? could this be more than just clotting, but rather a complex cardiovascular subsystem we’ve never noticed before? could covid be attacking *that system* in some people?
• mykola (2022-11-08): like, it’s scaring me because it’s the same sort of stuff long covid folks have been describing for years. and i wonder if i got asymptomatic covid and now have long covid? or am i having an off-week?
• eigenrobot (2022-11-08): missing a bunch of context but basically claim is something like they backed out an obviously manipulated covid-related coronavirus from a chinese dataset
• mykola (2022-11-08): serious question, while twitter still exists: how can we get this work nominated to the nobel committee? if this pans out (and it’s looking like it’s going to pan out) we will have tests for the hundreds of millions of long covid sufferers, as well as treatment options.
• leo_guinan (2022-11-08): i've been fighting off some sort of cold thing and it's made the last few days a bit rough, productivity-wise. i keep hitting a wall mid-afternoon and my energy is pretty drained. doesn't seem to be covid, thankfully, but tough to manage energy levels.
• thezvi (2022-11-10): new short covid post is out. news this week lies elsewhere.
• nathanpmyoung (2022-11-10): aren't parkrun times public? can someone do research on times vs self-reported covid?
• easoncxz (2022-11-11): i'm not arguing for or against stricter covid controls, but just to draw a parallel to how nz reacted when ardern ended the "traffic lights system", essentially switching to a "live with covid" model.
• frideswyth (2022-11-13): just tested positive for covid for the first time! do i get a prize
• mykola (2022-11-14): i have this tiny sliver of hole that the covid denial was a midterm election strategy they’ll abandon now. it won’t work in ‘24.
• thezvi (2022-11-15): ...and it's covid.
• mykola (2022-11-15): personally i’d like to see @patientled win the nobel prize for medicine. they are the truly underappreciated leaders of the covid-19 pandemic, and if they hadn’t done what they did you wouldn’t even know about long covid yet. (cc @nobelprize) not to mention the insights into me!
• goblinodds (2022-11-15): tldr i didnt come back from the pharmacy with my meds but even odds i've come back with covid and a migraine
• goblinodds (2022-11-15): tldr i didnt come back from the pharmacy with my meds but even odds i've come back with covid and a migraine
• mykola (2022-11-15): if you are still taking covid precautions and as a result you are just at this point completely missing out on public life with no clear sense of how that will ever change — can you qt this and tell us how angry you are? let’s be visible here, once, before this place is killed.
• ultimape (2022-11-15): fun fact: i no longer wear masks. "the lung–gut axis during viral respiratory infections: the impact of gut dysbiosis on secondary disease outcomes" oh yeah, and i was probably wearing them before you even knew what covid was.
• visakanv (2022-11-16): i think i found my way to make peace with “x will kill y” statements by charitably reinterpreting them as “x will kill y’s present form”. so covid did “kill new york”, for example. 2020 nyc is dead, long live 2022 nyc. see, everybody is correct, everybody wins
• mykola (2022-11-16): i am feeling pretty sad and tired today. part of it is that i’m giving up weed for a while and today had been my first all sober day in quite a while. part of it is the death of twitter. part the russian invasion. part of the covid denial. it just feels like things are bad.
• tyleralterman (2022-11-16): i both underestimated the material impact trump would have on society (covid), and the impact he’d have on societal morale. because of divisive politics, the world just feels nastier than it used to
• mykola (2022-11-16): my family is half antivaxxer/covid deniers. i honestly don’t know if i will ever see them again because i do not feel safe around them, let alone my immunocompromised partner. i have other family that wouldn’t isolate for three days before christmas so we could join them. why?
• mykola (2022-11-16): imagine coming to a thread mourning the way the disabled can’t participate in public life anymore just to gaslight us about it. all data shows masks work, even anecdotally i’ve worn masks (sometimes improperly!) for years and have yet to get covid.
• daniellefong (2022-11-17): "if you've had covid, watch out for stroke symptoms" 😕
• pepoospina (2022-11-17): the same thing happened with covid and is happening with the ukraine war. twitter is faster and better for the news. no doubt about it.
• thezvi (2022-11-17): covid post is also up, although beyond "i have covid" there is very little to talk about.
• ultimape (2022-11-18): #teamclots "based on our finding of endothelial thrombomodulin downregulation in covid-19, recombinant thrombomodulin treatment could be considered as a potential therapy."
• ultimape (2022-11-20): can we talk about how many people were being attacked for suggesting that vitamin d levels might help people avoid getting severe symptoms from covid?
• ultimape (2022-11-20): i have strong feelings about this passage talking about the finding of the spike protein in patients with long covid.
• sedatesnail (2022-11-20): corollaries: - this is closely related to "comfort in, dump out" - friends, you can call me to vent about your so, blanket invitation - covid probably made this worse - isolation makes this worse
• myceliummage (2022-11-22): i need to – and i'm embarrassed to admit this – .. read more books. making myself a curriculum again. .. what the hell kind of strange world was i in during covid lmao
• mykola (2022-11-22): if you’re not paying attention to what’s happening in long covid research, here’s a tldr: the nih allocated over a billion dollars to look into long covid and snubbed all of the patient advocates who were first in the space with research.
• mykola (2022-11-22): they gave all the money to the same medical establishment that has dismissed me/cfs for years as psychosomatic *in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary* there’s a real risk one of the studies they end up funding will be around using cbt to treat long covid.
• mykola (2022-11-22): (cbt, or cognitive behavioral therapy, is a thing that’s cheap and bounded for them to pay for. long covid is an unknown illness wreaking havoc on our population at an unheard of scale. if you were an insurance company would you follow the science or the money?)
• mykola (2022-11-22): we are witnessing, in long covid, a complete overhaul of how medicine works. recover and the nih are going to take years to waste a billion dollars, plrc funded nine studies in months with less than five million. they will generate more useful findings than the establishment.
• mykola (2022-11-22): when the dust settles, if a cure for long covid is found it’s going to come from the existing work of existing researchers into me/cfs and other post-viral sequelae. it won’t come from the nih funding studies in the wrong direction, no matter how much money they have.
• mykola (2022-11-22): the thing about the people who survived? the jackpot wasn’t visible to them except in hindsight. if you are killed by the jackpot you don’t get to contribute to the story of the jackpot afterwards. how many covid dead do we have? you think that’s unrelated? how many disabled?
• mykola (2022-11-22): the peripheral tv show finally got to the jackpot and it’s like. no. we are living in it now. covid is the jackpot. anti-queer violence is the jackpot. the rise of fascism around the planet is the jackpot. was disappointed they say it “started in 2040” or whatever.
• mykola (2022-11-23): fast forward two more years to 2024. long covid has decimated the american workforce even more than it has today. death rates have climbed from 40% to 60% increase. supply chain collapse means many people are going without their meds. food insecurity for white people. what now?
• mykola (2022-11-23): so you’re a queer person who gets disabled by long covid. you’re just living your life, trying to out food in the table and barely scraping by. suddenly all of your neighbors see you as the cause of their problems. what happens when they come for you? who speaks up?
• thezvi (2022-11-24): weekly covid post is up. all clear.
• mykola (2022-11-24): we just lost a huge portion of the american workforce to long covid. just as a number of states made it illegal not to have children, boosting future population of working class ppl. i’m not saying that there’s a conspiracy there, lots of various interests in play. just: huh.
• mykola (2022-11-24): they all care more about non-fungible tokens than non-fungible people and that’s fucked up. and so they enact policies that exploit and kill us. they use fucking covid as a population control measure ffs. they disable tens of millions and counting. they shift demographics.
• mykola (2022-11-26): if you have a long covid patient in your life make sure they know you love them and will make time and space for them. we legit don’t know what the future holds but signs are not looking good. if long covid is fatal in the long run then american civilization is over. masks up.
• mykola (2022-11-26): hearing stories of more and more long covid patients dying. cause of death is never covid, just mysterious heart failure or strong reaction to flu or personal weirdness. but it’s covid. and we didn’t do anything to mitigate the spread. and now it’s too late.
• mykola (2022-11-26): so, i’ve lived with the knowledge for a while — because i’m paying attention — that doctors are arriving at a consensus that we will see ling covid evolve not only into me/cfs but also into early onset dementia. we don’t know for sure yet. but the signs are terrifying.
• eigenrobot (2022-11-27): apparently its partly protests in urumqi (xinjiang, so uyghurs, apparently some families were locked in a burning building bc covid, died while begging to be let out, this was recorded) and partly some idealists(?) in shanghai, both calling for revolution?
• qndrms_ (2022-11-27): i got covid like a week after norik ademi did we're like two besties having our periods in sync🙏
• panchromaticity (2022-11-28): got covid :(
• rhyslindmark (2022-11-28): 👀👀👀 just updated my metaculus predictions for when china will end zero covid policy.
• eigenrobot (2022-11-28): otoh shes suggesting these price movements predict xi will back down on zero covid who knows tho. im not sure id take this bet.
• yashkaf (2022-11-29): i know it's early but tpot has made it through trump and covid and rats/postrats have been around even longer and at some point people should start asking not when we're gonna get inevitably mindkilled by politics but what we are doing to have avoided that
• nunosempere (2022-11-29): neat botec: grumpy economist estimates that california programmes spent around $130k per homeless person since 2020 (start of covid pandemic).
• yashkaf (2022-11-30): how about: the us is past both peak wokism and peak trumpism, vaccines and ai are quietly ushering a spirit of techno-optimism, free speech norms have withstood an assault, our #1 geopolitical rival is handicapping itself with zero-covid delusions and #2 is drowning in the dnipro
• justavagrant_ (2022-11-30): sprint 9 month 1 of camp covid, my first foray into coliving with a bunch of dear friends. feeling each other and the entire arrangement out
• justavagrant_ (2022-11-30): sprint 10 month 2 of camp covid, trying to cultivate a container for deepening relationships as best as i was able to at the time
• justavagrant_ (2022-11-30): sprint 11 month 3 of camp covid, trying to resolve conflict as best as i could at the time (poorly) from which i wrote this
• justavagrant_ (2022-11-30): sprint 12 month 4 of camp covid, building out a van. building out a van fees like it’s own sprint, but the combo of the 2 led me to writing this
• justavagrant_ (2022-11-30): sprint 15 experimenting with camp covid - 1.5 week “mini camp” like the original but shorter
• blunderbussted (2022-11-30): anw it's top-of-page on drudge rn, makes me wonder at angle prob best to use the inflammatory lang "more rs than ds died of covid!" & let ppl draw their own conclusions, conspiracy or challenging narrative
• daniellefong (2022-12-01): fwiw imo the circumstantial evidence around the response to covid in china implies obviously that they were doing bioweapons research, and though they didn't release it on purpose, they did suspect a leak and that it could be even worse than it was. behavior of who also suspect
• thezvi (2022-12-01): weekly covid post is up. cases were up rather than down despite the holiday, introducing downside risk. main focus is china.
• technoshaman (2022-12-02): how hungary used citizens’ covid data to help the ruling party
• daniellefong (2022-12-02): covid has eroded our epistemic immunity even more than our biological immunity 😔
• mykola (2022-12-04): was chatting with someone i was pretty excited about dating. they said they took covid seriously. then they made plans to go to an indoor concert and an indoor theater show and resisted the idea of wearing a mask. i get it. and also? im pretty bummed.
• mykola (2022-12-04): anyway. lesson: people can claim to take covid seriously while not, in fact, taking covid seriously. chalk up another member of team abled people left the rest of us to die i guess.
• mykola (2022-12-04): anyway. point is life is frustrating in a lot of ways rn but there’s something extra spicy about someone flat out lying about taking covid seriously.
• mykola (2022-12-04): anyway. lots of kids dying from not-covid right now. if you’re not aware of it, 🚨 lots of kids are dying of preventable illnesses they should have better immunity against but don’t because covid weakened their immune systems 🚨 please wear a mask.
• mykola (2022-12-04): this is the future. regional plagues that spread uncontrolled. covid seems to have the same “neat trick” that measles does, that it makes your body’s immune system “forget” how to deal with last infections. as a result if you get covid once you become immunocompromised, ig?
• nosilverv (2022-12-05): covid lockdowns must have given the coordinated elites that put them together the biggest boner. they truly must have felt like rulers of the universe, managing what no king had ever done.
• nosilverv (2022-12-05): covid lockdowns must have given the coordinated elites that put them together the biggest boner. they truly must have felt like rulers of the universe, managing what no king had ever done.
• nosilverv (2022-12-05): covid lockdowns must have given the coordinated elites that put them together the biggest boner. they truly must have felt like rulers of the universe, managing what no king had ever done.
• daniellefong (2022-12-05): my feeling is, immune compromises, in part born of damage from covid, in part due to lack of exposure + widespread unmasking and travel + winter, means everybody is a petri dish gain of function experiment for the latest batch of respiratory ailments, not just covid 🤷🏻‍♀️
• ultimape (2022-12-06): "increased lps levels coexist with systemic inflammation and result in monocyte activation in severe covid-19 patients" so it might be neutralizing one wing of a multipronged inflammatory response where one aspect is lps induced?
• slimepriestess (2022-12-06): woke up feeling very sick and feverish, sucks. i really hope i don't have covid.
• sabbatical (2022-12-07): bb! weird to have nostalgia for things specifically early pandemic, but a youtube walkthrough of this game was total background ambience for me during early covid when we were hammering hard on eventmobi's pivot to virtual. had just the right unsettling chill.
• thezvi (2022-12-08): weekly covid post is up. not as worrisome as the title might suggest.
• daniellefong (2022-12-09): i’m pretty sure my account has, from time to tike and even now, been “visibility filtered,” which has not had entirely negative consequences, but was absolutely paranoia inducing when it triggered during peak gaslighting by various (esp state-linked) accounts on covid fed 2020
• daniellefong (2022-12-09): i think it was report spam by wumao. my grandma also called me at that time, concerned, harassed by people on facebook for stuff i said about covid. i tried to respond to everything, and the system read this as engagement, algorithmically pulled me into hostile space
• daniellefong (2022-12-09): predictably lws are dunking on this since it was rw accounts that bari weiss is highlighting but it's bad twitter has the power to do this in secret they'll get you too. if similar algorithmic stupidities weren't promulgated back then, might the world have avoided mutant covid?
• c_harwick (2022-12-10): i've been puzzling over zero covid for a while now. whose interests does it even serve? i've been asking chinese friends and colleagues for a while, and finally got a plausibly satisfying answer today.
• c_harwick (2022-12-10): today's answer: (1) it's a function of clumsy top-down metrics. local governors are rewarded and punished based on covid numbers, so the straightforward incentive is to minimize covid numbers at any cost. echoes of soviet steel plant management.
• ultimape (2022-12-10): 1) flu vaccine effectiveness mediated by gut bacteria. 2) maternal gut regulate rsv infection risk in children via bacterial strain lactobacillus johnsonii. 3) gut bacteria disrupted due to covid. 4) ergo:
• ultimape (2022-12-10): "to date there is no direct evidence from human or animal studies on the role of lung microbiome in modifying covid-19 disease; however" [aug 2020]
• ultimape (2022-12-10): "impact [...] viral respiratory infections on the gut microbiota and discuss [...] imbalance on disease outcomes, including gastrointestinal disorders and secondary bacterial infections. [...] potential role of the lung–gut axis in [covid]" [jan 2021]
• ultimape (2022-12-10): "therefore, the development of drugs based on ras blockers, such as angiotensin ii receptor blockers (arbs), that inhibit the damaging axis of the ras cascade may become one of the most promising approaches for the treatment of covid-19 in the near future"
• ultimape (2022-12-10): there's a reason why i'm talking about c diff infection. it highlights another problem that is a fallout of how we have been treating covid w/ antibiotics and immune modulating therapies. this destroys the gut (hence why fmt is needed).
• mykola (2022-12-11): yesterday i woke up with the worst sore throat of my life. i was completely exhausted in a way i’ve never been. i spent the whole day in bed, temperature consistently at 96* f. now about to get a pcr test. feel a little better today but so tired. i hope this isn’t covid.
• mykola (2022-12-11): i have organized my whole life around avoiding this disease. my world is my house and the grocery store. my dating life is nonexistent. i have taken every precaution. if i get covid i’m going to be apoplectic.
• mbateman (2022-12-11): the cavalier demand for jail time for elected officials is insane. *prosecute* public officials for being wrong on covid in commonplace ways? i don’t even think that prosecuting trump is wise. would be better to pardon him and move on.
• qephatziel (2022-12-11): hey if you were an homeless guy in rehab at an ancient mental hospital but the library was shut down in 1961 and all potential group activities vanished with covid never to return, what ragged paperbacks would you get the most out of your underpaid therapist bringing in?
• eigenrobot (2022-12-14): out of paywall now this is an exceptional essay about long covid. but it's also not about long covid probably the most important social commentary ive read this year at least, very highly recommend
• forthrighter (2022-12-14): she would have been 41 when ww2 ended. she retired at age 75, meaning she's had 43 years in retirement and she's a covid survivor (at 117)
• aleksil79 (2022-12-15): hypothesis: the cure for "long covid" is embodiment
• tyleralterman (2022-12-15): i’ve had a mild cough but no other symptoms for 3 days. negative rapid covid test. am i likely to infect people with whatever i have?
• thezvi (2022-12-15): weekly covid post is out. cases up here, cases way up in china, and of course a reminder about the story of vaccinateca.
• patio11 (2022-12-15): zvi, probably one of the best public intellectuals during the time of covid, wrote up some interesting commentary on my vaccinateca piece (and the initiative):
• patio11 (2022-12-15): *three years covid time, right.
• not_a_hot_girl (2022-12-19): how many covid vaccine doses have you had?
• mbateman (2022-12-20): 1. early 2022 was about exiting the emergency mindset of the pandemic. here's a (long) internal memo, by @raygirn and me, reflecting on two years of covid in the context of running a network of 100 schools—and winding down all of our covid protocols.
• daniellefong (2022-12-21): people blame tesla's stock price decline on twitter antics don't really have a great argument. like, i am sure it's a factor, but, the primary source of the peak stock price was a generational bubble inflated by fed et. al. low interest rates and in response to covid shocks &
• danielbrottman (2022-12-21): i found a really helpful resource on covid information
• thezvi (2022-12-22): weekly covid post is out, continuing the trend of reflecting on the past.
• visakanv (2022-12-23): makes sense that it was in development hell and affected by covid. easy to forget as a viewer how complicated a movie is to make – budget, schedule, etc it did make $400m on a $120m budget… how much more $ would they have had to spend to make it a really good movie?
• friedkielbasa (2022-12-23): covid autist lmao
• puheenix (2022-12-24): covid is such a ripoff of mission impossible 2
• thezvi (2022-12-29): covid post is up for this week:
• goblinodds (2022-12-30): starting to think about visiting family but both times i caught covid it was shortly after landing in florida lol
• goblinodds (2022-12-30): 2022 is gonna be a tough one to improve on but then again maybe this year i wont catch covid twice
• goblinodds (2022-12-30): starting to think about visiting family but both times i caught covid it was shortly after landing in florida lol
• goblinodds (2022-12-30): 2022 is gonna be a tough one to improve on but then again maybe this year i wont catch covid twice
• mattdsegal (2023-01-02): so covid in china is the next inflation curve ball right
• rhyslindmark (2023-01-05): with the salesforce news, a reminder that most of the tech layoffs look like this: 2x increase during covid, then 10% layoff. similar to eth up from $10 to $5000, then down to $1000.
• thezvi (2023-01-05): weekly covid post is out. new year, still doing this, lot of xbb takes this week. hoping i can start winding this down not too long from now.
• daniellefong (2023-01-06): left because of algorithmic covid censorship, but, everyone was doing it
• danielbrottman (2023-01-08): if anyone wants to measure the effect of a positive covid test on frequency of poasting, i can offer you an n=1
• forthrighter (2023-01-08): kid i know is 1000% stoked to have covid. "i get to stay in my room all day, play video games, and eat ice cream"
• danielbrottman (2023-01-08): laying in bed all day, drinking water, watching youtube. i've been training all my life to recover from covid, it's show time
• nunosempere (2023-01-08): 57/57. covid-19 in rural balochistan, pakistan: two interviews from may 2020. taking advantage of "amnesty day". <>
• danielbrottman (2023-01-08): what streaming service should i get to carry me thru covid and why
• danielbrottman (2023-01-08): give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day give a man a fisherman's friend when he has covid and he'll get high on menthol 🙂🙃🙂🙃
• aaronbergman18 (2023-01-10): both housemates have covid. afaict i do not (yet) is there a nerdy cutting edge take on transmission between two non-adjacent rooms that each fork from a single vent? (also i know the basics and am not super worried but any other advice is welcome too)
• ultimape (2023-01-10): "evidence is beginning to suggest a covid infection could affect the balance of bacteria in the gut, which might go some way to explaining why some people have persistent symptoms after a covid infection." 🤪
• ultimape (2023-01-10): "in this article, a new potential treatment for covid-19 by fecal microbiota transplantation (fmt) is described." [2021] we must go faster.
• danielbrottman (2023-01-10): covid listening
• danielbrottman (2023-01-10): man. my covid symptoms fucking *suck,* but they are very unlikely to become life threatening, and i'm at home. my heart goes out to those in crowded hospitals who may have orders of magnitude more uncomfortable sensations, and the spectre of death looming
• br___ian (2023-01-10): it does feel a little liek the covid state of emergency is lifted in the last month or two. more friends reaching out, plans being made, things happening
• ultimape (2023-01-10): while you're learning about genetics, i'm studying why covid made my farts stink of sulfur and applications of improving sulfur related antioxidant/bile pathways to fix humanity's fertility problem.
• danielbrottman (2023-01-10): no, i don't know why i have the jurassic park theme stuck in my head. just gonna assume it's a covid symptom at this point
• c_harwick (2023-01-10): good reminder that covid was a vascular disease as much as a respiratory disease
• iaimforgoat (2023-01-11): oh wait, was this the first time since covid that i was surrounded by hundreds of people?!?! yeah it probably was... woah... damn :|
• askyatharth (2023-01-11): in retrospect, being stuck in a foreign country in covid lockdown instead of with my parents was pretty instrumental to my growth i had a lot of zoom calls late into the night and felt completely safe in them that period changed me
• c_harwick (2023-01-11): it's a shame that "current thing" discourse got so worn out on covid and ukraine where the current thing was actually worth worrying about, because there's very clearly an extensive apparatus of narrative control (twitter files being just a tiny part).
• thezvi (2023-01-12): of course it came out to 3,666. weekly covid post is up.
• qiaochuyuan (2023-01-12): have you guys noticed that people seem slightly cognitively impaired after lockdowns and covid? i'm making weirder mistakes than i used to, like whole-word substituting a word for another unrelated word b/c i was thinking about it, and i've seen youtubers do it too
• danielbrottman (2023-01-14): this whole thing is really good - really hitting home for me even just with my brief brush here with covid (hopefully brief - i'm way better than a couple days ago but there's no knowing what long term symptoms/effects may be)
• aaronbergman18 (2023-01-14): and to under-explain the 5 days thing: i’m usually slightly fucked up health-wise but am currently (prob and hopefully temporarily) moderately fucked up. this is the main reason i’m still living at home, buuuut my parents both have covid now so yeah
• malcolm_ocean (2023-01-15): therefore covid achieves immune escape, particularly from the "shoot on sight" by changing its name & hair and dressing up in a new outfit but once it starts to do its shenanigans, the body is much faster & better to be like "we know your deal, die"
• malcolm_ocean (2023-01-15): like just trying to reason through... it seems like certain viruses (eg smallpox) get to like 100% immunity because they achieve the first thing in a way that the virus is incapable of mutating around but covid is a sneaky bastard who mutates like fuck, so that doesn't work here
• malcolm_ocean (2023-01-15): (this line of inquiry based in part on that tweet but more from the gestalt of this whole latest @thezvi covid article on xbb, which says "yep, it will spread more, no, p(doom|infected) has not increased")
• malcolm_ocean (2023-01-15): so people don't get as sick, but they are still vectors for spreading this new variant of covid in particular, which other people are then more likely to catch in particular because they also don't have "shoot on sight" immunity still?
• danielbrottman (2023-01-15): chance of long covid may even rise with each infection. going forward, i'm not going to entirely avoid being with people or anything as strict as early in the pandemic - i think a balance has to be found for the sake of mental health and just living -
• danielbrottman (2023-01-15): cw covid i really feel it's important to keep exercising whatever caution we can bear, regarding avoiding covid. it sucks to be sick for a week like i've been, but for me the real concern is long covid, which is a possibility with each reinfection
• danielbrottman (2023-01-17): sometimes i have really honest thoughts, like "i wish i didn't get covid" or "i just want to be happy all the time"
• algekalipso (2023-01-18): over the last 3 months: did you get covid, the flu, both?
• mbateman (2023-01-18): nb: i actually think the two biggest issues that the msm has been worst on in my lifetime aren’t race or gender or whatever. the worst were 9/11 and covid.
• nathanpmyoung (2023-01-19): a have a friend who is flying to japan tomorrow from the us. some questions. she doesn't have a visa. she hasn't done a covid test. she doesn't know anyone there. is this gonna be a problem? do any of you live in japan?
• danielbrottman (2023-01-20): i don't know what's harder: discerning subjective internal truths, or discerning objective external truths (2 examples of a billion: what am i really feeling right now? vs. what information is reliable and actionable around preventing long covid?)
• mimi10v3 (2023-01-21): i think the first twitter acct i made was to record my early guess that crystal city would win hq2, but then i ended up deleting that acct so 🤷‍♀️ ... i really started using it after covid shut down irl socializing and i got kinda bored w the arlnow comments section
• danielbrottman (2023-01-21): i know i'm still recovering from covid bc when i wake up every day it feels like i have a slight hangover
• nobu_hibiki (2023-01-21): made by the same person who made ase to sekken, it's a romcom set during covid era about a software engineer and a post-grad student. it's *chef kiss* and also have only just recently started.
• danielbrottman (2023-01-22): it's hard not to be upset that so few people are wearing masks at the church where i work. covid kills, disables, causes heart attacks, leaves people bedbound for years. i know my anger is trying to cover up my fear.
• danielbrottman (2023-01-22): it's easy to try to manage my fear by being angry at others, and i know that's not skillful. i know covid safety is always a cost/benefit analysis, and being maximally safe would drive us all crazy. still, i wish we were doing more to protect each other.
• goblinodds (2023-01-23): "spend even more hours exposing yourself to covid at the er while people with obviously imminent medical problems get the care they need, in the hopes of having a 5 min conversation with a neurologist" lol
• goblinodds (2023-01-23): "spend even more hours exposing yourself to covid at the er while people with obviously imminent medical problems get the care they need, in the hopes of having a 5 min conversation with a neurologist" lol
• ultimape (2023-01-24): what are the magic words to get a doctor to test if it's c. auris? this is what it looked like after we had covid in augst 2022. but it's been doing this since she was given trellogy and when to the er in march 2022.
• pachabelcanon (2023-01-25): i'm not usually one to talk about timeliness in culture, but it does make me wonder. how is science fiction going to respond to covid-19, chatgpt? ie how are we as writers/readers of sf going to think the future with that in the background? without rehashing old tired tropes
• thezvi (2023-01-26): weekly covid post is up, whereas cases are down:
• blunderbussted (2023-01-27): covid as a convergence point in media and socialization, convergence points as moments where national energy contracts around a set of conversations & thoughts, other convergence points being 09.11.01 & '08-'09, moments of extraordinary psychological concentration
• caffeinum (2023-01-30): - verified on twitter (though in a different way than i expected) - got more than 1k followers! - met at least 20 friends around the world that i didn't see since covid - my smart-contracts processed 5m$+ without issue - more than 2 days in a plane - 150+ hours of meditation
• danielbrottman (2023-01-30): i think my tinnitus is a bit louder since getting covid, altho it's hard to be certain
• daniellefong (2023-01-30): noam chomsky sequel could come out on covid “manufacturing distrust” “merchants of doubt”
• ultimape (2023-01-31): their videos remark that it is meant to help people plan around covid concerns. kinda shitty if the data isn't accurate.
• ultimape (2023-01-31): published today. "the u.s. still doesn't have good covid-19 data. here's why that's a problem" garbage, its all garbage! data is crap.
• drmaciver (2023-01-31): when was the last time you took a covid test? (include at home lateral flow / rapid antigen tests)
• tr_babb (2023-01-31): it could certainly say something about the branch's hiring practices, but it also makes me think of some of @yishan's threads about covid brain.
• tr_babb (2023-01-31): i.e., that covid may be causing a widespread lowering of iq. more than a little scary
• qiaochuyuan (2023-01-31): there was a period when the covid was finally starting to wear off in the fall where i kept feeling like everything i was reading on the internet made 50% less sense than normal and i couldn't figure out if i was going crazy or everyone else was or both
• loopholekid (2023-02-01): making a deep update from "others are trying to control me before i've verified that they aren't" to "i can just delight people" and idk if it's long covid or a large chunk of my brain rewiring but there's a pressure in my head that feels potentially related
• vividvoid_ (2023-02-01): ayyyyyyyy my very first covid-19 infection. baby's all grown up now. i need all your tips and tricks please. i'll be quarantining in the basement for the next however long and i want to be as comfy as possible.
• thezvi (2023-02-02): covid emergency end date is finally chosen. woo-hoo? also post is up.
• mykola (2023-02-02): y'all understand covid isn't some once-in-a-lifetime thing, right? that we are facing the emergence of a dozen pandemics of equal or far greater severity in the coming years? that this was all documented decades ago by climate scientists? or did you think...?
• vividvoid_ (2023-02-02): day 2 of covid: 1. intense sweats / chills yesterday, migraine headache through the night, everything backed off around dawn 2. mild cough and fatigue now. 3. i'm significantly dumber than normal. have not read anything but watched my first hour of youtube shorts so
• mykola (2023-02-03): what you have to understand is that they normalized fascism. they normalized homophobia, again, after we won. they normalized climate change and covid. you think they won't normalize these atrocities?
• vividvoid_ (2023-02-03): day 3 of covid: chills have become mild, sore throat is dull but pronounced, occasional flash and crack of intense headache pain that passes quickly. energy levels are deceptively high but focus is markedly low. suffering feels mostly optional, unlike the last flu i had.
• loopholekid (2023-02-03): update: inner critic and hypervigilance loops are completely offline, possibly gone, social skill is way up probably not long covid, updating my estimate to major cognitive refactor underway
• daniellefong (2023-02-04): the hairs stick up on the back of my neck with this one. of all of the people who were early in predicting the threat of covid, @zeynep was among the most sensible / least alarmist / most balanced -- probably the most!
• vividvoid_ (2023-02-04): covid day 4: feeling back to 70%. notes: jung's red book has been the perfect covid read. it's feverish, a little delirious, and carries you along on its own power. paxlovid makes your burps taste like batteries
• vividvoid_ (2023-02-05): covid day 5: feeling back to 80% but not yet smart enough to play crosswords with my gf and keep my dignity lingering sore throat is worst at night but ginger beer has been great for this. i will probably return to work with a limited schedule next week.
• eigenrobot (2023-02-05): if you really loved me youd get covid with me
• daniellefong (2023-02-08): the women disappeared after the covid protests in china still haunt me i didn't retweet their faces, i didn't want to trigger people... i can't find the old tweet but her face haunts me, ughh states shouldn't have the power to disappear people
• nosilverv (2023-02-09): "us bombed nord stream gas pipelines" is at "covid was a lab-leak" levels of obviousness to me. don't get who these articles are supposed to convince
• nosilverv (2023-02-09): "us bombed nord stream gas pipelines" is at "covid was a lab-leak" levels of obviousness to me. don't get who these articles are supposed to convince
• nosilverv (2023-02-09): "us bombed nord stream gas pipelines" is at "covid was a lab-leak" levels of obviousness to me. don't get who these articles are supposed to convince
• thezvi (2023-02-09): new weekly covid post is up. i do intend to wind down but this week at least something actually did happen:
• mykola (2023-02-10): tfw you've managed to dodge covid so far but are resigned to dying of bird flu because white americans as a form of cultural identity don't believe in preventing disease as long as it seems like there's a 51/49% chance of it hurting people of color more than it hurts them.
• daniellefong (2023-02-11): would appreciate an institutional post mortem in covid, but it’s too much to ask.
• ultimape (2023-02-11): my focus has always been on avoiding the covid-19 induced heart problems.
• ultimape (2023-02-11): so i had problems that put me at risk of complications due to catching covid: autism, multiple sclerosis, and crohn's disease. crohn's disease is particularly bad because it has poor mucus and higher ace2 receptors.
• ultimape (2023-02-11): so after i cured my gut issues and successfully treated my crohn's and multiple sclerosis with literal dog shit... i ended up getting covid naturally.
• ultimape (2023-02-11): someone should test garlic as a covid prophylactic against covid. it's an ace inhibitor! "ace inhibitors and arbs are associated with reduced risks of covid-19 disease after adjusting for a wide range of variables."
• danielbrottman (2023-02-12): fun fact i am now fairly certain my tinnitus has gotten louder since having covid
• ultimape (2023-02-12): we're going to see the synthetic stuff on the market soon enough. but probably not for covid.
• visakanv (2023-02-15): reminded of how once i went out to have dinner with my wife and in-laws in a really crowded place, and i recognized my sister’s voice from across the entire diner. we hadn’t met all year either bc of covid restrictions. remarkable how it’s possible to pick out a voice in a crowd
• qiaochuyuan (2023-02-16): god yeah you guys ever get nostalgic for the first bit of 2020 before covid had been politicized and we were just watching the big red circles expand every day on that one website tracking global covid statistics
• algekalipso (2023-02-16): has your enjoyment of foods consumed after march 2020: increased, stayed the same, gotten worse when compared to eating the same foods pre-covid?
• thezvi (2023-02-16): covid weekly posts to be replaced by ai weekly posts?
• thezvi (2023-02-16): sure, why not, weekly covid post, non-ai stuff does still happen:
• askyatharth (2023-02-16): i remember when i was trying to be a good millennial and convince my parents that the origin of covid was not a conspiracy and ended up writing a long essay where i convinced myself (long before mass media reported it) that it indeed was conspiratorial cover-up
• mattdsegal (2023-02-16): > "about a year ago" > it was 4 years ago lol covid + baby
• the_wilderless (2023-02-17): covid was a total dead zone for movies, what was the first movie you saw post-lockdowns’n’such that you really loved and thought “okay, we’re back”?
• ultimape (2023-02-20): someone did the science at last. "clinical and radiological findings in these cohort of ms patients confirmed disease re/activation and suggested a temporal association between disease activity and covid-19 vaccination"
• ultimape (2023-02-20): let's talk about long covid's similarity to me/cfs and fibromaylagia.
• ultimape (2023-02-20): *stab stab* is the akt pathway impacted enough to survive metabolic decline associated with poor blood and low oxygen state we see in covid. the situation mimics hedgehog's aestivation trigger.
• daniellefong (2023-02-22): the same people in march 2020 who were writing about how if you wore your mask without professional fitting you could increase for risk of covid will soon be writing about ai risk. expect the mass discourse to lose about 50 iq points and plan accordingly
• nosilverv (2023-02-23): 'oh, the people who predicted covid months ahead are worried about world-ending ai, it's probably nothing'
• nosilverv (2023-02-23): 'oh, the people who predicted covid months ahead are worried about world-ending ai, it's probably nothing'
• eigenrobot (2023-02-23): i am sick again i am once more congested and my thyroids are painfully swollen and i am falling into an incipient fever delirium i just had covid two weeks ago and now i am sick again for the tenth time since july i am losing my mind
• askyatharth (2023-02-23): >capitalism isn’t failing, but [infra costs are soaring] >covid isn’t the new hiv, but [life expectancy is flailing] >[doomerism makes us] see all the bad stuff… as part of a mutually reinforcing web, instead of a list of challenges to be addressed one by one
• richdecibels (2023-02-23): covid was y2k
• daniellefong (2023-02-23): still amazed by how the who stood against travel bans from china during early covid, since it would “make it difficult to do their investigations, it could hurt” and then it never happened! wiv database deleted sept 12 2019, really a wake …
• ultimape (2023-02-23): it makes me giggle that i've been exploring how to deactivate ace2 receptor activity by impacting ahr receptors responsible for th17 related apoptosis. this shows up as a mechanism for increased covid infectivity in the host.
• ultimape (2023-02-23): "a ras and bradykinin-mediated mechanism for covid-19" [nov 2020] rapid runaway mucus production via ace + inflammatory molecule.
• ultimape (2023-02-23): ah, and also the notes on the theory of dog shit curing autism was linked to bradykinin+covid but didn't make it in there.
• ultimape (2023-02-23): "acute neurological deficits in the setting of recent mrna covid-19 vaccine administration may represent new onset multiple sclerosis."
• nobu_hibiki (2023-02-24): yeah my depression is due to covid ehehe
• petersuber (2023-02-25): update. it looks like the @nih and us taxpayers do own some of the vaccine ip and @moderna_tx is finally paying for it. (i have more on the #covid #vaccine #patent problems in this longish thread.)
• daniellefong (2023-02-26): it's a big problem that both the political left and right is vulnerable to being concern trolled. discourse everything from covid lab leak to the ukraine russia conflict to lgbtq rights is coopted by bad faith actors. you can barely stop it, at a mass level.
• yashkaf (2023-02-26): if you think there's no way a smart future civilization could be misled about something on the scale of a world war i invite you to imagine how the equivalent of textbooks in 2454 will describe covid-19
• nosilverv (2023-02-27): cannot believe the usg discovered that covid originated in a lab leak in china just 5 days after xi jinping announced he was gonna make a visit to moscow! what are the odds??
• nosilverv (2023-02-27): cannot believe the usg discovered that covid originated in a lab leak in china just 5 days after xi jinping announced he was gonna make a visit to moscow! what are the odds??
• ultimape (2023-02-27): "the study data confirmed that immunocompromised individuals show varying serological responses to covid-19 vaccines under the influence of the gut microbiota."
• thezvi (2023-02-28): you have no idea how happy i am that there will be no post "covid 3/2/23: it probably came from the lab."
• mbateman (2023-03-01): there was a @natesilver538 tweet a couple years ago where nate asked experts to plainly state bets that covid was zoonotic and not a lab leak, and he got at least one or two emphatic bites of 100x more likely to be zoonotic. anyone remember this or have a link? can’t find it
• rhyslindmark (2023-03-02): eastern europe bore the brunt of covid deaths. mostly from antivax old folks, it seems.
• christineist (2023-03-02): during covid it was maddening, everyone with masks on making for furtive eyes scaly eyes dark eyes unwanted eyes eye darting all over the place
• blunderbussted (2023-03-03): we're leaving out the obviously true ones like epstein was murdered covid came from a chinese lab
• mykola (2023-03-03): they have organized and formalized the efforts of a group of grassroots scholars in a way that contributes directly and meaningfully to the covid fight while also completely upending the way medical research is carried out by centering and believing patients as experts.
• mykola (2023-03-07): probably time to start re-evaluating responsibility for covid. this thread is sobering — it’s basically a list of people from before 2020 saying that gain of function research would lead to something like the covid pandemic. fucking hell. been ignoring this but. can’t, right?
• visakanv (2023-03-07): a funny thing - i was told to expect new yorkers to be ruthless commuters, boarding trains and crossing roads etc with forceful haste, but actually i’ve found them to be slightly more confused and docile than singaporeans. someone suggested it might be bc of the covid exodus
• danielbrottman (2023-03-09): i find it too easy to get freaked out about covid sometimes, esp when imho most people don't seem to be paying it enough attention. so i try to remain grounded in the body, and awareness that death and disease are inevitable. at the same time, i wish to advocate for more caution
• blunderbussted (2023-03-09): sick 3 times in 3 months, half-wondering if it's covid or smth, 2x a headcold, 1x a 24 hour stomach thing no fever this time first time i've gotten so sick so frequently maybe when they stole my appendix they stole my resiliance i must rub my face on the public bus seats
• eigenrobot (2023-03-09): im sorry but the sustainability of trillion dollar structural budget deficits was a low interest rate phenomenon the first figure from wapo looks like biden is making some progress! but no. actually both lines are completely fucking bonkers relative to pre-covid baseline
• profoundish (2023-03-11): today is what i call "c-day": on this day in 2020, they cancelled an nba championship game for covid, and we all knew that there was no chance this wouldn't be a big deal. i've grown so much. we all have.
• daniellefong (2023-03-11): haven’t seen this kind of rapid grassroots founder activity to protect against a threat since covid came up and all the dashboards and apps. hopefully this won’t be politicized like covid, but, of course it will :( public appetite for bailouts seems non existent, but a big bank?
• _brentbaum (2023-03-15): spotify's new dj is great after a friendly opening it picked a new album for me, told me a story of how it was made (three artists had a concert where 2 were openers, covid cancelled the concert, they decided to record an album in 3 days instead), then played future is bright
• danielbrottman (2023-03-15): today is #longcovidawarenessday. follow the hashtag to see more stories like this. i'm not living in a bubble, but given that people still get covid all the time and chances long covid have been shown to increase with repeated infection, i am wearing a mask in public
• rhyslindmark (2023-03-15): every coordination failure— svb, covid, the climate crisis —just shows how screwed we are with agi. 😬
• mbateman (2023-03-18): maybe it won’t end up playing this way but the banking crisis is the thing that feels most like covid since covid: smart people on twitter are calling it and explaining it with what amounts to clairvoyance before the rest of the world fully clues in.
• danielbrottman (2023-03-19): i have been reading about covid nasal sprays all day and what i can definitely tell you for certain is that science is very hard
• danielbrottman (2023-03-19): if you want to also be frustrated and overwhelmed for many hours (but potentially have a cheap way and easy way to reduce covid risk? by as much as 60-80% in some studies?) possible buzzwords to get you started are: xlear covixyl iota carrageenan enovid
• danielbrottman (2023-03-20): them some letter saying to stop saying their product could help with covid. the study shows an 62% relative reduction in covid cases (34.5% placebo ppl got covid and 13.1% of experimental group ppl got covid).
• danielbrottman (2023-03-20): covixyl has been studied in petri dishes where it destroyed a bunch of viruses, and in a challenge trial with syrian hamsters (poor hamsters) who apparently get sick with covid the same way we do, through the upper nasal passages,
• danielbrottman (2023-03-20): and reduce my chances of getting covid again by some appreciable amount. to me that's worth it. (i also found the mother of all “covid and long covid is very very very scary backed up by lots of science and charts” articles in this guy's substack )
• rhyslindmark (2023-03-20): replaying the 2008 playbook: 1. systemic: 2008 taf = 2023 btfp. short-term liquidity w/ loans. 2. monetary: did 4t of qe in covid. expect rate cuts. 3. fiscal: 4.5t of stimulus in covid. 4. international: swap lines. today! 5. housing: check back next sunday. 😂
• nosilverv (2023-03-20): covid chinese lab leak confirmed
• nosilverv (2023-03-20): covid chinese lab leak confirmed
• yashkaf (2023-03-20): and then within 12 months we had covid, "experts" incinerating their credibility on masks and protests and internal woke takeovers, gpt-3, the consolidation of antiwokism past george floyd, $40k bitcoin, and dall-e 2. how the turntables
• cis_female (2023-03-20): midjourney: “positive covid test”
• iaimforgoat (2023-03-23): uhh i guess this was covid all along, kinda makes sense...
• danielbrottman (2023-03-24): cw: covid
• mykola (2023-03-24): a tech sector on the verge of a sort of low-key ai-driven apotheosis of capital the masks are all coming off. the covid response is the climate change response, signed off on by both parties and capital. if the republicans ever win any power again our nationstate is over.
• drmaciver (2023-03-24): my current bout of covid has me extremely frustrated with the impossibility of making your own covid healthcare choices in the uk even if you're willing to get them privately.
• drmaciver (2023-03-24): also, further booster vaccines, which it now sounds like will be available (good!). similar restrictions. i think this is less obviously correct (herd immunity etc) but could well be the right call. but again... if you want to pay for covid vaccinations, nope. not a thing.
• rhyslindmark (2023-03-27): what we used to call the everything bubble is now just part of the graph. new bubble is...covid bubble?
• profoundish (2023-03-27): at this point in the pandemic i'm finding it really hard to assess what makes sense in terms of risk-mitigation. pelle's long covid really changes that calculus; on my own, i would probably not be very concerned at all at this point. but i'm horrified of getting her sick.
• profoundish (2023-03-27): tweeted abt wanting a crowded high-stimulus environment but the risk/reward is a little fucked, still. maybe? that's the thing. it's now actively impossible to really know what covid is doing anymore. it's definitely better, i can unmask more often, but. . . exactly how much? idk
• mykola (2023-03-28): you think the covid response was a failure? it was exactly according to their goals. it optimized for short-term capital gains while weakening the population physically and socially. this isn’t a stupid long term investment. it’s a calculated short-term one. this is war.
• chercher_ai (2023-03-29): for me it's been neck, shoulder, back pain, all kinds of facial and bodily tics, stomach, diet, and weight issues, acid reflux, gut microbiomes, muscle cramps, flexibility, sensitivity to light, heat, cold, covid-19 symptoms like loss of smell, allergies, it just keeps going
• adam_kranz (2023-03-30): tested negative for covid but cannot smell or taste pretty much anything
• adam_kranz (2023-03-30): i've never had this happen before. covid test was negative but i'm kind of skeptical a normal cold would do this??
• nosilverv (2023-03-31): ooooh the ai stuff is like covid all over, people losing their minds over it, got it
• nosilverv (2023-03-31): ooooh the ai stuff is like covid all over, people losing their minds over it, got it
• goblinodds (2023-03-31): if i learned anything from covid it's that governments will find a way to bungle any coordination problem much worse than if citizens were just left to their own devices
• goblinodds (2023-03-31): if i learned anything from covid it's that governments will find a way to bungle any coordination problem much worse than if citizens were just left to their own devices
• goblinodds (2023-03-31): given their covid track record, what should we expect if they decide this is a problem? what would the ai regulation equivalent to "denying vaccines to people who want them while forcing people to stay home without pay during a pandemic" be
• goblinodds (2023-03-31): given their covid track record, what should we expect if they decide this is a problem? what would the ai regulation equivalent to "denying vaccines to people who want them while forcing people to stay home without pay during a pandemic" be
• annieposting (2023-04-03): i am always scared in public of people thinking i have covid because i have a tic that makes me cough all the time despite not actually being ill and even tho i have had it longer than covid has been a thing.
• iaimforgoat (2023-04-04): remember that time when people where so into a note taking app that they started jokingly talking about it being a cult? man, the covid disconnection really hit hard. why cult tho? was it the plausible deniability? oh noo i am talking with people who *checks notes* take notes!
• mimi10v3 (2023-04-05): haha this is my first active account! i had a different one for scrolling politics (since deleted), but i didn't post anything till i got lonely after a year of covid.
• daniellefong (2023-04-07): remembering when the covid data out of china was perfectly fit to a parabola peaking in the imminent future. political data vs raw worth considering
• mbateman (2023-04-10): we experimented with this sort of thing during covid but recently did an acquisition (@neighborschools) with the hope of ultimately blowing out our montessori infant program into (in the near term) hundreds of homes.
• transkatgirl (2023-04-12): holy shit i’m so sore and fatigued again i wonder if i caught covid or something
• transkatgirl (2023-04-12): my throat is sore and i have a bit of a cough so it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it’s covid
• danielbrottman (2023-04-14): i promise not to post about covid too often but i feel obliged to once in a while pipe up that i still think it's dangerous and it's still worth taking precautions to protect ourselves
• nosilverv (2023-04-15): cbdcs are the new covid
• nosilverv (2023-04-15): cbdcs are the new covid
• zencephalon (2023-04-17): i feel excited to write about my complicated relationship with astrology, finally, after flirting with it for quite a while. some benefit highlights: * richest character-description language i know of * aids communication with people * i got married before covid because of it
• visakanv (2023-04-18): childhood friend was supposed to get married today and got covid last night lol so he is gonna attend his own wedding lunch via zoom
• patio11 (2023-04-18): "have you noticed that every talk or deck at this conference has mentioned burnout? that feels new." @arvidkahl i think covid was really, really rough for many people, and it exacerbated many issues people were having professionally, both for founders and employees.
• christineist (2023-04-19): i made a twitter booklet (pre-tpot) of internet humor that captures the backdrop of chaos, dread, and violence during the initial covid outbreak, george floyd protests, trump era, etc
• daniellefong (2023-04-20): there are people out there still fighting for victory over covid it is like those snipers of the japanese empire who fought from wwii until the 70s
• natural_hazard (2023-04-20): there was an older gent who'd lived in nyc his whole life up till covid and was back for the first time asking me if this is just what the park was these days he cracked up when i told him it was national weed day. said he couldn't believe how much it felt like haight-ashbury
• daniellefong (2023-04-22): feels like twitter is still smart, diagnosed the likely problem with the starship launch and posting rough consensus on the likely problem (basically pad failure, no flame diverter within a ~day. same oom as reacting to early covid
• visakanv (2023-04-22): covid for eg was a great inciting event for lots of people to quit jobs, end relationships, etc that they had already pretty much decided they were going to do
• mykola (2023-04-23): hey if you haven’t had covid yet — like you’re really pretty sure, understand asymptomatic spread, etc — can you answer this question? how much weed do you smoke? again: if you have not had covid, how much weed do you *smoke*?
• mykola (2023-04-25): hannah remains the single best resource for long covid information.
• iaimforgoat (2023-04-26): a friend told me she may have been just using me for attention (it was during covid lockdown) and now i think he may have been right... :\ at least it was fun while it lasted, i had a blast talking with her
• daniellefong (2023-04-26): this temperature has me covid brained
• mykola (2023-05-04): thinking about the corporations controlling the cdc’s guidance for covid, and the ceaseless needless death and permanent disability we are now causing each other. thinking about exploitation of neurodivergent brilliance and dismissal of neurodivergent needs. thinking about war.
• neats29 (2023-05-04): what they don’t tell you is just how much time you will spend at whatever property you choose to live in. especially post-covid.
• iaimforgoat (2023-05-05): this episode is quite interesting, it ends in a very strong way too, where he is talking about how he realized near covid time that being a successful entrepreneur can be very lonely i can't even imagine what it must be losing 80% of biz in 8w and turning it around. what a champ
• mykola (2023-05-05): why wouldn’t she? mission accomplished. and when we get our covid nuremberg we will remember.
• visakanv (2023-05-05): who declares covid emergency over tweet
• mykola (2023-05-05): that’s what, a quarter billion cases of long covid?
• mykola (2023-05-05): i just. i know you all think covid is over. and that long covid can only happen to someone else. but listen: if you haven’t watched someone you love succumb to it over years? you don’t know. i’m done begging. i see the shape of this. i’m just trying one more time.
• selonnerias (2023-05-06): dropping my covid bmi graph
• inkolore_ (2023-05-07): covid and the rise of ai are one of many examples that show me 2 things about society : 1) school is so fucking outdated it's unbelievable 2) nassim taleb was right that we are completely incapable of predicting the future, and worse, we don't even acknowledge that fact
• transkatgirl (2023-05-08): i hate how fucking physically sick my depressive episodes can make me i just did a rapid covid test and it came back negative, and i felt fine for like a half hour earlier today both physically and mentally before feeling sick again once i got depressed
• daniellefong (2023-05-09): stock market still way higher than before covid, interest rates higher, bitcoin higher really feels like we're in a different economic phase; after winter, there is spring
• nosilverv (2023-05-09): every time i see the "hammer and the dance" covid guy's latest idea being retweeted i wither a bit
• nosilverv (2023-05-09): every time i see the "hammer and the dance" covid guy's latest idea being retweeted i wither a bit
• profoundish (2023-05-10): covid iso cum nervous breakdown permanently altered my brain chemistry i'm p sure. i was already a bigger fan of solitude than most. still, a year is fucking nuts. i can't think of a single set of conditions to keep in the spirit of the challenge but make it possible for me. nah
• danielbrottman (2023-05-12): i remember in the several weeks after the acute phase of my covid infection ended i often felt like i had a mild hangover in the mornings. the last few days i've been noticing that again and it has me wondering if i got a mild reinfection or something.
• danielbrottman (2023-05-12): or maybe it's nothing. but i'm scared of covid and not scared to admit that. it's a scary thing, and i think life expectancies are going to continue to be diminished our whole lives from the effects of infections and reinfections
• danielbrottman (2023-05-12): tested negative on a rapid test, although that's no guarantee. i've also heard covid can like, stay in reservoirs in your body for a long time, so maybe it's just kinda acting up...
• daniellefong (2023-05-12): california turned off covid exposure notifs, which, is interestingly narrative violating (surveillance state dismantling, even a bit?? ok)
• algekalipso (2023-05-14): hot take: the current boom in ai has been, at least in part, fueled by the society-wide reprioritization annealing that happened due to covid lockdowns, and remote work/study. people had a chance to question what matters and what projects will result in exponential returns. ai…
• zrkrlc (2023-05-20): my baseline used to be that i could resume the last conversation i've had with someone years after we last saw each other relevant info: - been using ritalin 2-3x a week since 2018 - went on the potato diet for ~8 mos last year - recently on keto - never (knowingly) had covid
• daniellefong (2023-05-20): dr john campbell reviewing the @elonmusk / @bbc interview on covid misinformation i hadn’t seen this, but tbh it’s kind of heroic ppl have not delt with the fact that govt made bad, even insane decisions around covid. when astra zenaca was doing an adenovirus vax i was like…
• daniellefong (2023-05-20): i actually got a bunch of these but i recovered at least, think we are all in a process of rebuilding ourselves post covid tbh
• daniellefong (2023-05-20): bet ai can be a lot safer than humans ngl humans did covid
• rhyslindmark (2023-05-21): econtwitter vs. aitwitter has been quite generative recently. reminds me of covid, when economists doing (quite good) armchair epidemiology.
• danielbrottman (2023-05-24): how many times have you had covid, as far as you know
• the_wilderless (2023-05-25): i wonder if some kids are gonna get weaker immune systems, from not encountering germs and whatnot due to covid/post-covid hygiene stuff
• cis_female (2023-05-27): for the long covid folks, why is the case for eliminating covid stronger than the case for eliminating any of the other endemic diseases around? seems like a lot of them are more tractable and we have proof they cause long term problems
• nosilverv (2023-05-27): ok, twittercels, it’s been a long time and i held strong 💪💪💪 but now it’s the time to reevaluate: should i get vaxxed for covid? (currently a pureblood)
• nosilverv (2023-05-27): ok, twittercels, it’s been a long time and i held strong 💪💪💪 but now it’s the time to reevaluate: should i get vaxxed for covid? (currently a pureblood)
• nosilverv (2023-05-27): had basically never seen covid stuff in my for you page then these two appear within minutes of posting this ok elon i get it
• nosilverv (2023-05-27): had basically never seen covid stuff in my for you page then these two appear within minutes of posting this ok elon i get it
• m1guelpf (2023-05-27): been coming back to this for the past few days. i used to be better at it, but covid def "sent me back" to stage 3 and i haven't been able to recover. feels like i should do something about it, but ofc im too busy coding to interact with other humans 🤡
• danielbrottman (2023-05-28): this is what i look like in church. if i'm gonna get covid again it ain't gonna be for this
• mykola (2023-05-28): covid is a mass disabling event roaring unchecked through our society and the act of wearing a mask in public spaces is such an easy way to protect yourself and others that not doing so should be cause for ostracizing and fines to help defray the cost of prolonging the pandemic.
• ultimape (2023-05-29): you know, if you just avoid supplementing with folate and act on mtor directly, you can get around this whole pesky covid infection thing.
• sanjehorah (2023-05-31): anti-il6 receptor antibodies (tocilizumab) have been found to be an effective treatment for severe covid — which i found interesting, using an immune suppressant on a viral infection
• garrisonlovely (2023-05-31): overall, i think this statement and the support it's gotten is encouraging. but we need to do much better on ai than we have on pandemics and nukes we weren't even close to ready for covid and biden requested under $1b in funding for barda this year[1].
• mykola (2023-06-01): why don’t you care about disabled lives. why. yes, you. the person who i get along with and banter with and consider a twitter friend, but who doesn’t wear a mask in shared spaces. why don’t you care? what will it take? do you need long covid before you start caring? really?
• mykola (2023-06-02): like, if you weren’t cynical before then watching the covid response through this lens cements everything. the parties have agreed to adopt policies to ensure the spread of covid. this isn’t a conspiracy theory it’s an observation. every choice they make increases the danger.
• mykola (2023-06-02): “well some things are just necessary” my dude i inquire in earnest: who decided that spreading covid was necessary but that providing lead-free drinking water to everyone is one of those nice-to-haves we can roll out over generations based on zip code? seriously.
• mykola (2023-06-02): like, think about it. what gets treated as simply above politics by both parties, even today? what do they just do, without fighting? empower police. spread covid. subvert unions. war. quarterly market gains. what else?
• mykola (2023-06-02): they did it right in front of us and like. every autistic person i know and a few allistics too watched it the whole time and said right here on this website “hey they are doing this thing.” covid at this point has become a genocidal biological weapon. regardless of origin.
• aaronbergman18 (2023-06-03): the point being to circumvent the byzantine regulatory moats of the regular healthcare system entirely: no healthcare, doctors orders, or anything that would require more process than a covid pcr test
• sunriseoath (2023-06-04): the better i get at speaking, the worse i get at spelling and piecing my thoughts together. i wonder if i have long covid symptoms that are slowly making me into more of a normie…
• tyleralterman (2023-06-05): woah, i just noticed a major shift in my experience of nyc pre-covid it was pretty common for me to meet eyes with passersby, share fleeting moments of connection, maybe 1 every other block post-covid this doesn’t really happen anymore 😔
• iaimforgoat (2023-06-05): these kinds of tweets are performing so crazy well... either it is bc musk changed the algo to boost the numbers (i mean 300+ m views?!) or this is a consequence of society at large trying to create more moments to connect globally (after covid shenanigans it would make sense)
• garrisonlovely (2023-06-05): i’m wrong, i’d love an excuse to focus more efforts on nuclear security!). - critics like this conveniently leave out the ea focus on pandemics, natural and engineered. eas were warning about the risks of pandemics years before covid and are working on preventing...
• iaimforgoat (2023-06-06): our government had a chance of making something interesting out of portugal becoming hip/trendy post-covid i think they didn't understand it on time, so now they'll do what they always do: desenrascanço. things may become messy...
• mykola (2023-06-06): listen. listen. listen. there has long been reason to believe covid causes cancer but the evidence is mounting. you just. if you won’t mask for the disabled people around you. will you mask for yourself? #covidnurembergwhen
• mykola (2023-06-06): i literally never want to see a single non-disabled person’s opinion about covid again. how do we make that happen? (…besides waiting…)
• daniellefong (2023-06-09): got shadowbanned early on from fb when warning about covid in early feb, drove me up the wall. happy there is some acknowledgement of the complexities
• mykola (2023-06-10): i need a place that takes insurance, understands neurodiversity, addresses trauma, that won’t give me covid, etc. that will feed me. bonus points if it’s really bougie i need a place that is not “you are a prisoner here” vibes. i need a healing vacation. is rose house it?
• iaimforgoat (2023-06-12): the whole thing was a mess of misinformation and miscommunication. doesn't the public at large now think covid is "just like the flu"? from those i have contact with this is the perception i get... health organizations keep failing us.
• mykola (2023-06-15): if you're going to express an opinion about autism to half a million people, do you think that maybe you need to do a bit better than parroting a single talking point crafted in a lab to justify abandoning covid safety by concern-trolling a community you know nothing about?
• ultimape (2023-06-18): fighting covid with gut bacteria made sense back before we had a vaccine.
• ultimape (2023-06-18): have you tried to fix your homocysteine function? "homocysteine ​​levels may be a potentially useful marker for predicting the risk of unfavorable progression in patients with covid-19."
• ultimape (2023-06-18): before you were even worried about the trump vaccine, i decided to become resistant to covid.
• ultimape (2023-06-18): before i thought the spike proteins was going to cause autism, i thought covid itself was going to cause autism adjacent phenomena.
• ultimape (2023-06-18): drug that impacts gut microbiota positively in crohn's disease ends up making covid less deadly. "immune modulator drugs improved survival for people hospitalized with covid-19"
• daniellefong (2023-06-18): am annoyed by how often i get left out of the histories in the rationalist spaces, maybe they are intimidated by what i did, intellectually covid, covid financial response, early miri history and discussions, current agi posting. maybe it’s just sour grapes, (not everyone always…
• daniellefong (2023-06-18): afaict people have been broadly stupid about and post covid, and that’s just, that’s fine, and people are trying to hold each other to the various stupidities that were inflicted upon them, or which are ongoing, and that’s where the forever war is, just, grievance politics, and…
• forthrighter (2023-06-19): official cdc covid vaccination cards are going to look so weird in 20 years
• nosilverv (2023-06-20): only thing midwits got going for them is numbers lol. confidence game. house of cards. no foundation. no principles. many to many mimesis. covid, lol. yep. which is how they form beliefs too. this is why you get such swift and contradictory belief change cascades.
• nosilverv (2023-06-20): only thing midwits got going for them is numbers lol. confidence game. house of cards. no foundation. no principles. many to many mimesis. covid, lol. yep. which is how they form beliefs too. this is why you get such swift and contradictory belief change cascades.
• nosilverv (2023-06-22): “i believe ai to be […] designed solely to eliminate artists careers” jesus, lol, are artists in the times of ai the new nurses in the time of covid? settle down lol
• nosilverv (2023-06-22): “i believe ai to be […] designed solely to eliminate artists careers” jesus, lol, are artists in the times of ai the new nurses in the time of covid? settle down lol
• transkatgirl (2023-06-22): so i decided to try an xylitol nasal spray because there were some recent studies showing that it could help lower viral load if you’re exposed to covid and holy shit, my nose actually works well for the first time in my life now
• yashkaf (2023-06-24): shower thought: dating has a meta, like collectible card games so eg "troubled but sensitive guy who goes to therapy" got nerfed coming out of covid and "makes six figures, no debt" is a strong matchup against more potential dates after the inflation 2.1 patch
• transkatgirl (2023-06-25): i’ve done multiple covid tests, all of which have come back negative so far but this person was recently visiting another county so who knows what i caught lol
• myceliummage (2023-06-27): tested postive for covid in case ive seen you in the last week
• iaimforgoat (2023-06-27): 4some reason today i felt like singing... this never happened before, but i went with it and recorded it. and uhh i kinda find my voice cute, wth?!?! i think covid did smth to my voice oo oh well wtv, i might do more of this tho, it was fun (my diction is garbage, smth2improv)
• patio11 (2023-06-28): an anecdote from the culture that is japanese retailing: school is, after a few years of covid, hosting a fireworks event on its grounds for the children. this requires kids buying some fireworks to use. (they’re smaller and handheld versus the fireworks you might think of.) /2
• ultimape (2023-06-28): shame we're going to argue about climate change and not try to figure out if the gut disruption caused by covid may make people more susceptible to plasmodium.
• ultimape (2023-06-28): "friendly bacteria that produce the chemical butyrate, such as bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum and f. prausnitzii, were the most likely species to be depleted in people with long covid 6 months after discharge."
• ultimape (2023-06-28): atopic dermatitis, in my mast cell activation syndrome driven by poor gut health, potentially enhancing malaria parasite infection strategies, and treatable via f. prausnitzii (missing in long covid)? imagine that.
• sarahamcmanus (2023-06-29): highlight 3: bedazzling @danielmingram ! he was wearing a covid filter mask that looked effective but a bit intimidating. the mask-as-social-interface was much improved by the addition of a few iridescent stick-on gems! 💎✨
• qiaochuyuan (2023-06-29): tweeting a prayer to whatever tiny god was responsible for me not getting covid after traveling to 3 different cities + vibecamp in 2 weeks. ur a real one thx
• daniellefong (2023-06-30): explaining to my friend the vc who moved away during covid why it's really happening here, invoked this again :)
• myceliummage (2023-07-02): my brain feels very slow after covid, has anyone else experienced this... it goes away right
• ultimape (2023-07-03): "discuss how artemisinin and its derivatives could be repurposed to treat cancer, inflammation, immunoregulation-related diseases, and covid-19. […] implications of the "artemisinin story" and how that can better guide the development of tcm today."
• ultimape (2023-07-03): "therefore, tcm and western medicine could share similar philosophical methods to fight covid-19 and understanding their philosophical theories could achieve the maximum benefits for treatment of covid-19 and other diseases."
• nido_kween (2023-07-04): esp because living in lisbon would probably mean living far far away from the centre and commuting quite a bit every day….. and im having such a good time being back in my city and feeling connected to ppl after going away for college and then covid
• tyleralterman (2023-07-05): even nyc’s best dance clubs suck sooooo hard post-covid. like 3 out of 100 people on the floor actually dancing, seemingly few enjoying themselves still fun dancing 2b had at ecstatic, contact, etc, but i miss the somewhat sloppy (disinhibited) & democratic nature of the club
• ultimape (2023-07-05): get covid. it's bad. scary. wipes out gut bacteria. get vax. it does more of the same because the bacteria are being killed due to the spike protein. get covid again. it's worse. now you're depleted. now you have pots and maybe me/cfs.
• ultimape (2023-07-05): let's go. "during the covid-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the united states government seems to have assumed a role similar to an orwellian ‘ministry of truth,’"
• forthrighter (2023-07-05): how is this ok (covid mask meat aspic) why does octopus aspic return more than zero results? are we ok
• ultimape (2023-07-05): can we talk about how the gut disruption from coronavirus (and the vaccines) may make people with long covid subject to increased malaria infectivity?
• ultimape (2023-07-05): "our recent studies show that microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract affect the severity of covid-19 and for the first time provide indications that the virus might replicate in gut bacteria." [apr 2022] 😱
• ultimape (2023-07-05): "me/cfs from long covid aligns perfectly with sarcopenia in aging."
• malcolm_ocean (2023-07-06): i have heard a bit about an injunction by judge doughty yesterday: us govt now can't tell social media companies what to censor as misinformation. anybody got links to good threads or articles on it? seems quite good in many ways! early covid times were a clear overreach.
• not_a_hot_girl (2023-07-08): how many covid shots you got?
• not_a_hot_girl (2023-07-08): guess i just forgot covid was a thing after 2021 *hair flip* catch ya later nerds
• ultimape (2023-07-08): "finding of sars-cov-2 viral shedding in 4% of covid-19 patients seven months after infection suggests that a small minority of patients may have gastrointestinal symptoms related to infections months after an acute illness." wonder if we'll find out why.
• ultimape (2023-07-09): can we talk about how "this study was the first to discover that covid-19 infection in the third trimester of pregnancy could cause fetal kidney developmental injury" [dec 2020]
• ultimape (2023-07-09): can we discuss how "since this is not a controlled study, the specific pathophysiologic link and causality between the incidence of kidney diseases and covid-19 vaccination are difficult to confirm. however" [feb 2022]
• ultimape (2023-07-09): how about discussing how "evidence for sars-cov-2 spike protein in the urine of covid-19 patients" [jun 2021] only tested on people with nasal swabs and ignored those with covid positive in their fecal matter.
• ultimape (2023-07-09): "in this review, we have explored components of the first-generation viral vector and mrna covid-19 vaccines that are believed to contribute to adverse reactions and which may negatively impact fetal and neonatal development." [nov 2021]
• ultimape (2023-07-09): more like... thanks to operation warp speed, a public–private partnership initiated by the united states government to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of covid-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.
• ultimape (2023-07-09): can we talk about how "trump renews praise for covid vaccines, 'one of the greatest achievements of mankind'" meanwhile:
• ultimape (2023-07-11): "this review is aimed at highlighting the association between viral infections, including viruses similar to covid-19, and the aetiology of autism."
• transkatgirl (2023-07-14): so i've confirmed that nobody i met up with was recently sick, and none of the people i met up with got sick afterwards, yet i'm over here feeling like this is gonna kill me i've tested myself over and over and it's likely not covid at least aaaaaaa
• transkatgirl (2023-07-14): so i've confirmed that nobody i met up with was recently sick, and none of the people i met up with got sick afterwards, yet i'm over here feeling like this is gonna kill me i've tested myself over and over, and it's likely not covid aaaaaaa
• transkatgirl (2023-07-15): i think from now on i’m only going to meet up with girls who either take covid precautions regularly, or girls who i’m fping so hard that i’m willing to risk death to see them
• technoshaman (2023-07-16): robert f. kennedy jr. suggests covid was designed to spare jews, chinese people
• c_harwick (2023-07-17): new by me at econlog: a back-of-the-envelope quantity theory basically nails both the onset and the end of the post-covid inflation.
• daniellefong (2023-07-21): hey guess what that theory people had about the long covid trigging/cfs/herpes virus activation. seems to respond to antiviral treatment i really think people should consider just mass manufacturing broad spectrum antivirals. people could pop them like vitamins, frankly
• ultimape (2023-07-22): lmao, someone has been probably carrying covid for 2 years and it's leaking out in their shit.
• ultimape (2023-07-22): can we talk about people having negative covid tests and unknowingly still leaking it out in their feces likely for years?
• ultimape (2023-07-22): back in 2020/2021 i had access to a massive research compendium and read up on nearly every single covid test ton the market. i was basically screaming at my boss about how its's dumb we are looking in the nose for something that should show up in feces.
• ultimape (2023-07-23): "these findings advance our understanding of the contribution of immune and microbial factors to inter-individual variations in vaccine-induced adaptive immunity." [apr 2023] (bnt162b2 = biontech/pfizer's mrna based covid shot "tozinameran"/"comirnaty")
• ultimape (2023-07-23): that study on covid vaccine response seems to be talking about how "activator protein 1 (ap-1)" makes the vaccine not work as well. guess what bacteria makes a thing that inhibits ap-1? this is found in my kefir.
• daniellefong (2023-07-25): i bet the public health establishment but fucking up covid so royally, has made climate change and the culture war like 2x more partisan. just so annoying
• daniellefong (2023-07-25): i bet the public health establishment by fucking up covid so royally, has made climate change and the culture war like 2x more partisan. just so annoying
• mykola (2023-07-27): asking for help is hard, but like. i need to stay with someone who can give me a room and feed me for a few days. i can pay my own way, i just can’t function. if we are friends, and if you have a safe covid-cautious guest room, and you would like to see me? say hi, please.
• ultimape (2023-07-27): why women are protected against bad acute covid response is that their gut bacteria is enhanced? and that populations w/ weird estrogen/testosterone are at higher risk cuz they are missing those? (ref table 1)
• ultimape (2023-07-27): "the serum cortisol level seems to be higher in patients with severe covid-19 infection. this finding could be helpful to detect patients with poor prognosis at early stages of the disease, although age and sex may modify this level." [jan 2022]
• ultimape (2023-07-27): get treg'rred. "profound treg perturbations correlate with covid-19 severity" yip.
• igorbrigadir (2023-07-28): she did the right thing. she won, and you can split hairs on the technicalities of the rules (handshakes were banned for covid btw!) but in the end, she took a stand and turned her victory on the piste into a moral victory over fie hypocrisy, double standards, and appeasement.
• ultimape (2023-07-28): it seems that coming out of lockdown has reversed the reduced spread of strep a strains (and meningococcal meningitis). "covid-19 measures reduced life-threatening invasive bacterial infections" [jul 2023]
• ultimape (2023-07-28): this article isn't helpful for learning about bacterial throat infections, but neat that someone did a proper trial on covid + salt gargle and found positive results. also that it may be healing mucosal membranes! that is useful.
• ultimape (2023-07-29): are we overlooking an interaction between strep a and an effect behind covid induced mucormycosis? "bacteria that have high affinities of adhesion to salivary pellicle, such as species of streptococcus and actinomyces, are primary colonizers of teeth."
• ultimape (2023-07-29): ok. long shot... but i bet covid related gut dysbiosis impairs nitric oxide recycling from the gut and that changes the oral environment. this would promote pathogenic strains that would normally be kept at bay. and it will promote strep a + related.
• ultimape (2023-07-29): impaired no recycling could also explain long covid associated muscle wasting problems.
• ultimape (2023-07-29): the body stops doing eno during covid infection. why? the body doesn't want any more ace receptors, covid wants more to infect them. "can exhaled nitric oxide be a biomarker for hospitalized and post-covid-19 patients?" [2021]
• ultimape (2023-07-29): its important to separate the acute from teh long term effects of covid. in the acute state with risk of death from pneumonia in a hospital, ace activators may help. its like the body pushes itself too far into protection mode to point of hurting itself.
• ultimape (2023-07-29): the immune cells doesn't know anything initially about covid. or if it does, it'd based on past experiences & needs to learn it to pattern match. immune system is vaguely like image classifiers. it works on taste-testing receptor sites & surface glycans.
• ultimape (2023-07-29): can we talk about how there may be many people who 'caught covid' but didn't show any lung or flu-like symptoms and still got long-covid due to gut dysbiosis?
• ultimape (2023-07-29): if you say you really want zero covid, have you considered wearing a mask on your ass? /s
• ultimape (2023-07-29): mobs are fun. the guy who shared the idea of covid being in feces with me was writing about it before he got ousted from twitter for 'spreading fake news' and "hate speech".
• daniellefong (2023-07-31): having a brain fog / post covid viral malaise feeling day. ugh. mana at like 20%… 🫠 stupid fucking virus
• daniellefong (2023-08-01): joke but not really. taiwan had vastly superior covid epistemics in large part due to their digital ministry and their shitposting division and meme wing
• gptbrooke (2023-08-02): i'm really just a chaos monkey there was something about covid that i secretly kind of enjoyed the chaos, the abrupt shifts in understanding and rules and feeling like the future was so very unknowable i feel like that now except this time it's publicly acceptable to say so
• gptbrooke (2023-08-02): i'm really just a chaos monkey there was something about covid that i secretly kind of enjoyed the chaos, the abrupt shifts in understanding and rules and feeling like the future was so very unknowable i feel like that now except this time it's socially acceptable to say so
• nobu_hibiki (2023-08-02): man how do i learn to let go of covid happening during my uni years.
• ultimape (2023-08-04): on treating covid symptoms with dog feces.
• danielbrottman (2023-08-05): for good data on how much covid is in your area, i recommend checking wastewater data. only looking at lab confirmed cases is very limited bc many people are not testing at all, or not reporting at home tests
• danielbrottman (2023-08-05): fyi, covid cases are rising currently in the us. not nearly as high as last summer though, thankfully.
• mykola (2023-08-05): it’s like. this isn’t rocket science people. if you wear a mask you either eliminate viral contamination (ideal) or you drastically reduce viral load (often enough to fight it off if it does get in). i haven’t had covid. i mask. it’s not rocket science.
• daniellefong (2023-08-06): journalists in my dms trying to square how the community here is so hyped about floaty rocks but all the academic scientists she found were extremely skeptical. reminded her about the media’s reaction to covid but i’m not even sure she took my point
• mykola (2023-08-08): i am starting to believe that the weaponization of covid into a mass disabling event is intentional. i have tried every possible explanation, and it just doesn’t make sense to me that nobody is wearing masks. this was done to them. the anthropocene’s next sub-era is the cull.
• mykola (2023-08-08): is it “true”? buddy i don’t know what that word means anymore, it’s 2023 grow up! what i do know is that plan or no, if you wanted covid to do as much damage as possible you’d be hard-pressed to do anything differently. and that should worry all of us.
• mykola (2023-08-08): now, i’m not saying that this theory is true, that those leakers weren’t cranks, etc. but. at least one leaker claimed the plan was white supremacist in origin. it’s literally the first theory i have heard that explains the covid response.
• forthrighter (2023-08-09): that is essentially the problem with people doing their own biomed research on youtube about covid. not that they did the research, but they were over-confident in the "done-ness" of their research. like taking 1 undergrad course and going toe-to-toe with a phd. unwise.
• mykola (2023-08-10): that my government weaponized covid against the population under a trump administration wasn’t a surprise. that it continued to do so under a biden administration was a horrific moment of clarity. that 99% of the individuals i see are helping them is. just. too much.
• mykola (2023-08-10): plans changed. leaving raleigh due to some covid misalignments. driving back up to new york saturday and sunday to stay with a different friend. i am running out of myk.
• mykola (2023-08-11): reading this, where they start out by misdefining the dangers of covid and then spend countless paragraphs asking "why are all these people dying? it's almost like the big covid wave in 2021! such a mystery!" y'all this isn't a conspiracy theory. they are suppressing covid info.
• mykola (2023-08-11): honestly just sobbing at the truth of this. i have been too overwhelmed to read a book for years. i thought it was about covid, but no. it's because i never recovered from my burnout 5 years ago, i just masked over it.
• aaronbergman18 (2023-08-11): i feel dumb but where did the d in covid come from?
• patio11 (2023-08-13): not the only permanent structural change as a result of the covid years, but one which graphs reasonably well.
• ultimape (2023-08-13): and china seems to be building these too, cuz of covid or something.
• ultimape (2023-08-14): a society where "reform through democratic legislation requires either 'public consensus or a powerful minority lobby.'" means that you can legally use money to buy more money (by way of government earmarks to fight covid).
• mykola (2023-08-17): do you understand yet? hiv takes ten years to turn into aids. we are seeing people get to a very similar place from covid in three.
• ultimape (2023-08-17): "to be blunt, this means that long covid patients may actually be miscategorized early-stage parkinson's patients." 🤔
• mykola (2023-08-17): there's, like, a maximum level of trauma and panic that a human being can be at. if you've reached that level then no bad news is going to make anything worse for you. even like world-ending bad news. and i have to wonder if that's what's happening re: covid?
• ultimape (2023-08-18): also oxaloacetate gets freed up in ketosis, which taking directly helps treat me/cfs it seems. "significant reductions in physical and metal fatigue for me/cfs and long-covid patients were seen after 6 weeks of treatment."
• ultimape (2023-08-18): "our findings suggest increased risks and 1-year burdens of incident dyslipidaemia and incident lipid-lowering medications use [...]. post-acute care for those with covid-19 should involve attention to dyslipidaemia"
• ultimape (2023-08-18): i have to convince my mom to go to a hospital to see if the cancer came back. she hasn't been out of the house since covid started. she's supposed to get uterine cancer screening yearly. frankly, i don't give two shits about your opinion of me.
• daniellefong (2023-08-19): is anyone checking reliability for personal covid tests vs the evolving virus? feel crappy in a covid-consistent way, tested negative. feels like eventually it could evolve away from accuracy. 😵‍💫 (sore throat, headache, fatigue, joint inflammation)
• mimi10v3 (2023-08-20): in the early days of the covid lockdowns i surrendered to the chaos, stopped planning ahead because everything was too unpredictable, wasn't worth it...
• strangestloop (2023-08-20): the first covid babies turn five years old this year. let that sink in
• mimi10v3 (2023-08-21): wrt yimby & homeless shelters- i live within walking distance of a long-term shelter & rehab in one direction and a cluster of group homes in the other; during a covid spike, the county short-term shelter moved into a nearby motel for a few months... ppl from the shelters sit…
• princevogel (2023-08-22): so are excess deaths back to normal now? i'm contemplating how serious of a problem covid still may be for all that there's not much to be done about it
• visakanv (2023-08-23): there’s a little boxing gym near my place and they seem to be doing really well lately, i’m so happy for them. it’s so nice to see something flourishing in the community that’s organic and bottom up. i remember being worried that they might close during covid
• justavagrant_ (2023-08-29): todo: covid, immediate family, prostitutes, taking care of woman, gotten jumped, horrific accidents, prison deaths, drug deaths of friends, warn daughters, assumptions of me
• adam_kranz (2023-08-29): amazing that in some circles covid has already reached the same status as nosebleeds have in japan: more commonly used as a euphemism for horniness than encountered in real life
• cis_female (2023-08-29): it’s been twice as long now between covid ending and my world changing (nine months) as between then and now (eighteen months)
• mykola (2023-08-30): oh neat, "we will not comply" is trending, is there some new organized rights movement? ...oh it's trump's new motto for his base re: covid protections, making sure that they are as weaponized as possible.
• ultimape (2023-08-31): "thrombotic thrombocytopenia associated with covid-19 infection or vaccination: possible paths to platelet factor 4 autoimmunity"
• ultimape (2023-08-31): "covid-19: vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (vitt)"
• ultimape (2023-08-31): cursed "there are several cases described in the medical literature of possible new onset of sle after covid-19 infection. this is the first case that describes a possible new onset of ssc. conclusion: sars-cov-2 may trigger systemic sclerosis."
• ultimape (2023-08-31): "proteolytic inactivation of cxcl12 in the lungs and circulation of covid-19 patients"
• ultimape (2023-08-31): haha, remember that time when i figured out how vaccines and covid can sometimes rarely cause miscarriage and i couldn't talk about it publicly because people would have reported me for misinformation? i do.
• ultimape (2023-08-31): one does not simply double your grip strength thru sheer autistic zeal. it take a lot of research into the origin and impacts of il-6 factors tied to crohn's, multiple sclerosis, and covid.
• ultimape (2023-08-31): "covid-19 is threatening gains against the hiv epidemic, including the u.s. ending the hiv epidemic goals. the ongoing collision of these two global pandemics will continue to need both study and interventions to mitigate the effects"
• ultimape (2023-08-31): and you're saying that covid itself can also cause seemingly unconnected cxc* autoantibodies because when a dysregulated immune system misidentifies other factors as a disease causing agent and drives autoimmunity? yes. #teamclots
• ultimape (2023-08-31): what other autoantibodies could be exacerbated that drive weird symptoms. could this explain the weird spectrum of health outcomes tied to long covid? good question.
• ultimape (2023-08-31): "more research is needed to determine if long covid patients have these autoantibodies, which may be a potential therapeutic target for covid-19."
• c_harwick (2023-08-31): for the same argument with more econometric rigor, see @rebeleconprof and @davidbeckworth. on the post-covid inflation: and over us history: and
• ultimape (2023-08-31): i literally bought a book about black bile to study galen's theory of humors, to explore this space around spleens. i realized cxc* chemokines are elevated in to fight infection as part of hibernation response . this was before covid was on my radar.
• zrkrlc (2023-09-01): so it turns out i have strep and covid 😂😂 doc is starting me on molnupiravir asap, hope we're just flipping nothingburgers over here ✌️
• daniellefong (2023-09-01): consider: lab leaks. three mile island vs (hypothetical!!) wuhan institute of virology one, leaks tritium, hurts nobody (?), panic reaction kills american nuclear, which helps cause climate crisis the other, leaks covid, which kills millions, and mutates to cause a worse cold
• mbateman (2023-09-01): chatgpt panicked when i told it i might have covid so just for fun i briefly updated it on the last two years. here’s what it said. kind of interesting time capsule/updating response
• mykola (2023-09-01): hey, you know who's "vulnerable" now who wasn't three or four years ago? literally everyone who has had covid. do you see it yet or are you still going to nod to yourself, think "yeah things are bad" and go out to a restaurant? you think we don't *miss* restaurants?
• daniellefong (2023-09-02): nobody is bothering to shotgun sequence the shit? our international biosecurity is so far back. worse than before covid maybe
• gptbrooke (2023-09-05): ....fuck, the cold i came away with is actually covid pretty sure this is thanks to a girl at a talk who was coughing and talking about how she had a fever but wasn't distancing from the crowds at all, sigh
• mykola (2023-09-06): like, take covid alone. forget climate change and all the other stuff. a generation of children has been sacrificed on the altar of getting back to normal. those kids know you are fine with them being shot, and they will see clearly that you are using them to spread plague.
• mykola (2023-09-06): you think you can keep using the same tricks ("cdc says covid is over!", "constitution says we can't stop gun violence!") on people who have watched you weaponize narratives to kill their friends their whole lives? you think that'll work. i hope i can see the day you learn.
• zrkrlc (2023-09-07): i sincerely hope not, but it seems there are three major things i got from my covid stint: (-) parosmia (-) can't even walk two miles without getting shortness of breath (+) my memory seems to be sharper than ever???
• gptbrooke (2023-09-09): i am attempting to use covid quarantine time to quit vaping and i'm feeling annoyed rn i have a nicotine spray so i'm not even going cold turkey but 😤😤 probably should eat more, i bet that would help anyway wml, then there's added social pressure to succeed
• gptbrooke (2023-09-10): guess who's back (to being covid negative) with prep, build, strike, and then covid i think i may have just lost almost month of my life to burning man 😅
• gptbrooke (2023-09-11): okay maybe covid just fucked my brain a bit, just did something just as dumb in the kitchen
• mykola (2023-09-11): fighting for the future means no longer playing make-believe that everything is fine. i don't even know how i'm going to pay for the insurance i already owe money for for this month. but like, insurance is going away anyway. we are in long covid land now, and it's not covered.
• malcolm_ocean (2023-09-11): realized this week in a convo w @drmaciver that: - the pandemic is over - covid is not over which is confusing because it used to be that those phrases were both short for "the covid pandemic"; but now that it's in endemic mode, they aren't
• princevogel (2023-09-11): has anyone else had covid or covid vaccines cause you to develop an allergic reaction to something?
• slimepriestess (2023-09-13): i would really like to find an alternative housing arrangement before my roommate carelessly gives me covid again (again) and permanently ruins my physical health even more than it already has been.
• rhyslindmark (2023-09-15): covid had both large negative and large positive impacts on students: 1. massive learning losses for most students. 2. lots of students became super bored during covid, which gave them permission to escape the prison, join online communities, and spark their success spiral.
• danielbrottman (2023-09-16): hey imma be in portland oregon visiting family from 9/22 - 9/29! any portland tpot-ers around? i don't know my schedule yet or how comfortable my parents are with potential covid exposure so no promises at the moment but it's always great to meet more moots :)
• mykola (2023-09-16): i haven’t had a covid booster in like 9mo this at least. do i go in for whatever cvs has today, or do i hold out for novavax?
• __drewface (2023-09-21): wow covid still really sucks
• nobu_hibiki (2023-09-22): replied to my dad last night during the insomniac tweeting session and he's worried whether this is like long covid stuff and honestly i have never thought it could be that i might just be that.
• noncanonicaleae (2023-09-22): >threats and divorce and shit >nothing >high school happens >never hear of him again >2016 graduate high school >2017 big meltdown >its schizophrenia >its terminal >go to less stressful school >2020, covid, episode >exams were cancelled anyway >2021, covid, episode >fail the year
• nopranablem (2023-09-22): retreat is over! heading back to austin today. good time, got exactly what i needed (lots of rest) 😌 got covid on day ~3/9 so i basically just quarantined here the whole time lol. nearly fully recovered and got some great practice in despite/through it!
• rhyslindmark (2023-09-22): excellent policy entrepreneurship: -1.5m people die each year from tb, higher than malaria, covid, etc. mostly in global south. -with new policy, tb test price went from $10 to $8. -at 10m tests / year for a decade, this saves poor folks with tb $200m (!) lfg @johngreen et al!
• profoundish (2023-09-23): my wife and meta have covid again 😭 (i'm testing negative so far.) prayers/vibes/well-wishes would be deeply appreciated 🙏
• __drewface (2023-09-23): covid comes in waves. it's like i think i'm almost recovered, and then the next day i can't really breathe. it also feels like it moves around my body. first fevers, then nausea, then headaches, then congestion. (i like congestion the least) today is day 4 of bed rest 😮‍💨
• strangestloop (2023-09-24): covid gender politics trans issues or bonald tr0mp
• paul_melman (2023-09-25): what if inflation is just being caused by long covid?
• lericdax (2023-09-26): covid-19. the shelves pillaged. each roll a searing commodity, the kindling currency of survival. the paper towel absorbed more than spills; it absorbed fear, anxiety, the liquid dread of uncertainty. the pulp became the tissue of our dripping collective neuroses.
• drmaciver (2023-09-26): people still seem to be getting this wrong and it matters quite a lot, so psa: covid tests will mostly not show positive for a few days after symptom onset. if you're only testing at the point you start showing symptoms, this is almost useless.
• drmaciver (2023-09-26): (this is harder to follow in the us because dear god are covid tests expensive over here. literally an order of magnitude more expensive than the uk and yet somehow there are still shortages)
• johnsonmxe (2023-09-27): slightly more esoterically, nattokinase also dissolves the covid spike protein(!):
• johnsonmxe (2023-09-27): there’s some question of whether nattokinase could also help treat alzheimer’s, prion diseases, and other buildup-related neurodegenerative diseases. apparently covid seems to create fibrin tangles that contribute to these conditions — dissolving these tangles might be broadly…
• johnsonmxe (2023-09-27): but for the average person i think nattokinase is hugely positive. it’s probably especially good to supplement if you have symptoms of clots, are a frequent traveler, have a history of cardiovascular disease / poor diet / arterial plaque, have covid, are recovering from covid, or…
• ultimape (2023-09-28): remember when the who said that saline and garlic to treat covid was a myth, and then in january 2022 they changed their mythbusting website to remove those entries? i member.
• blunderbussted (2023-09-29): imagine spending months in existential dilemma when all you need is 400-800ug of vit d daily it's idiotic i'm pretty sure i'm bad at manufacturing it via skin as well, i can spend hours outside daily and still have this problem. i learned this during the covid quarantine.
• vividvoid_ (2023-09-30): covid school closures are gen z's leaded gasoline
• yashkaf (2023-10-02): if any of this actually worked it would be terrible! you can't perpetually be implementing the new hot thing if the old thing works, and things with a robust effect size can't be so easily coerced into any random narrative or covid policy that the cathedral needs to justify today
• ulkar_aghayeva (2023-10-06): yesterday, while i had a post-covid-booster fever and spent most of the day half-sleeping, i lucid-dreamt a short story titled "the fruit stand at the end of time". it featured a pyramid of colorful fruits, and eating them would make me vividly re-live my memories
• mattdsegal (2023-10-07): we'll find a new way to kill them the present ubiquity of lateral flow covid tests tells me that there's a lot of stuff that we haven't invented or popularised because we can't be bothered rn
• imperialauditor (2023-10-08): i begin to understand why the uk govt can't do things when they try to do a thing, they must: avoid large contracts, give 25% of business to smes, solve covid or climate change, check suppliers don't have a gender pay gap..... and then if possible hire someone to do the thing
• danielbrottman (2023-10-08): idk if any of y'all also follow covid-conscious accounts but i do, and i generally find them to be a helpful source of information. but there's also a streak of incredibly bleak and panicy doomerism. afaict, covid is still here and a very real concern, and, the world hasn't ended
• danielbrottman (2023-10-10): it's been covid for so long that i think back to memories when i felt like i was a different person and it was also covid then
• cxgonzalez (2023-10-10): like i’m… good. i feel like i sorted all my shit out during covid when all my family (7 of us) was forced back into a basement
• mimi10v3 (2023-10-11): oh- one other question before i log off again- what's the consensus on covid vax this fall? in particular - no special health concerns, had first two + one booster, never tested positive for covid & haven't had any severe colds since pandemic started
• danielbrottman (2023-10-12): the thing covid is most keeping me from doing is going to the nude swim parties these nice people a couple blocks away from me hold in their basement regularly
• danielbrottman (2023-10-12): just scheduled my covid novavax shot, (also flu shot). it's supposed to be significantly more effective than the mrna vaccines, protect against a wider range of variants, immunity lasts longer, and even have less side effects
• eigenrobot (2023-10-12): another case everyone blamed the explosion of riots in 2020 on covid and i'm sure that was a contributing factor, but another issue is that everyone in the country saw the video, and then everyone started seeing riots happening in minneapolis, and then---foom
• daniellefong (2023-10-12): not great -- sure hope some positive changes will be made soon. education begins at home, and continues throughout life. we've taken a lot of hits with covid
• vividvoid_ (2023-10-18): the pandemic era of our little subculture was characterized by people who, for a variety of reasons, knew how to painfully uproot their identities and find new epistemic and spiritual soil. covid was a mini-ego death event for the entire world, which gave us the opportunity to…
• maxdiffusionrl (2023-10-19): it's said that andrew zuckerman helped keep qri together until the covid era [and after zuck got sick and couldn't admin qri anymore, many qri employees left] [everyone in qri means a lot to me so i can't say anything bad - this is mostly promoting zuck's reputation]
• mykola (2023-10-23): being neurodivergent sometimes means navigating the emotional turbulence of life by monitoring orange consumption. this is, in a very real way, a *constructed sense*. like the way yankee candle reviews indicate covid waves, low-citrus kitchen means i’m low in general.
• danallison (2023-10-24): during covid lockdown, i went through a period of obsession with stories from r/glitch_in_the_matrix. good times. i still don’t know what to make of these kinds of stories.
• ultimape (2023-10-24): "provides evidence regarding the potential effects of ginger against sars-cov-2 infection and highlights its antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antioxidative, and immunomodulatory impacts [...] as an alternative therapeutic agent for covid-19 treatment." [2021]
• ultimape (2023-10-25): oh, look, some authority figure has decided that all of that evidence doesn't matter. "false. consuming ginger will not prevent or cure covid-19." [2022]
• mykola (2023-10-25): a lot of people failed the “can you recognize a genocidal ideology” test when capitalism decided to simply ignore covid. ok. but seeing the number of people actively failing it as israel uses white phosphorous on children is… alarming. they’re not failing. they know.
• mykola (2023-10-31): covid taught me most of the left was full of shit. you can’t even wear a mask to the grocery store yes please do go on about how you value human life and liberation. neurotypicals can do x while believing they’re doing y as long as someone with authority tells them x=y.
• blunderbussted (2023-11-02): when i had to leave the united states for my job i wound up in montreal for the coldest, darkest winter of my life. i drove from asheville to montreal without snow tires, which i learned was a mistake. quite probably illegal. but i made it. i promptly caught covid, lol.
• slimepriestess (2023-11-03): so: sea/acc transhumanist technosolstice event, who'd be into that? i helped with earlier seattle secular solstice events but those fizzled after covid and never really bounced back from that.
• daniellefong (2023-11-04): excising the seed tangles in my hair like in covid days
• goblinodds (2023-11-07): oh yeah wait i forgot i pierced my own ear at home during covid despite a reasonably severe phobia of needles
• nobu_hibiki (2023-11-08): a tear escape my eyes as i lie there in the sofa of my old organization building listening to music doing fuck all with my juniors, thinking how i didn't manage to build these intimate quality time with the friends my age i wanted to have during uni because of covid.
• mimi10v3 (2023-11-10): oh- until covid i'd have said my biggest fear since childhood was a pandemic / bioterrorism because of the fear of infecting family & how ppl turn on each other... but having lived through it now it feels just very unpleasant & undesirable rather than a scary nightmare
• mimi10v3 (2023-11-10): oh- until covid i'd have said my biggest fear since childhood was a pandemic / bioterrorism because of the fear of infecting family & how ppl turn on each other... but having lived through it now it feels just very unpleasant & undesirable rather than a scary nightmare
• nido_kween (2023-11-11): i'm so close to banning all words related to nutrition bc all day it's like "you need 10.000 iud of d3!" "nooo vitamin d is rat poison!" "noo it's standing between you and depression, autoimmune disease and covid" "noo it's responsbile for causing allergies in children" like wth
• eigenrobot (2023-11-13): what levers does he even have? there's no extra money to give away, that all got burned during covid. and forget printing more unless he wants inflation to spike again, as if he could get it through the house anyway build back better just a historic cockup
• eshear (2023-11-13): i actually think gaming is speeding up again. there was definitely a pace of change that slowed down a lot during the decade from ~2008 to ~2018 where mobile grabbed the spotlight, but i think since covid there's been a ton of interesting stuff. outer wilds comes to mind.
• jd_pressman (2023-11-15): i considered myself late when i posted about covid in february.
• jd_pressman (2023-11-15): what's interesting in retrospect is that i remember sitting down with a friend who insisted at the time that covid was no big deal. i said asymptomatic transmission was the big differentiator, then we looked it up and sars turns out to have had it too.
• jd_pressman (2023-11-15): i'm still not 100% sure why covid spread around the world but sars was contained. i'm tempted to think it basically came down to a somewhat higher r0 and a handful of superspreader events that got the ball rolling. also probably a *higher incidence* of asymptomatic transmission.
• blunderbussted (2023-11-16): when i was in montreal during or just after the covid lockdowns, intensely alone, that's the last time i'd an obsessive delve into film. that was all me-driven. the last few nights, or weeks, my delve has been other-driven. this has been nice.
• the_wilderless (2023-11-17): so we all have to look around and see “coffee is dangerous!! i’m 3 years no-caf and uou should too” while also looking around and seeing “hey, coffee and tea help with parkinson’s, alzheimer’s, diabetes, bone health, liver stuff, covid somehow?, longevity…
• cxgonzalez (2023-11-17): college, covid, 1st year back in spain all feel like different lives. being single + going back to coliving + company taking off is a gonna be a big change. the future’s really exciting
• mimi10v3 (2023-11-19): if u r ever curious who is og e/acc, just know that beff lost access to his original account when he got suspended for saying covid was lab leak (-> password reset snafu)
• mimi10v3 (2023-11-19): if u r ever curious who is og e/acc, just know that beff lost access to his original account when he got suspended for saying covid was lab leak (-> password reset snafu)
• askyatharth (2023-11-19): hey, so is the whole "us congress committee found china was literally running a disease biolab with covid, and modified mice, and the local government told the cdc and fbi about it, and neither did anything, after being told china was literally doing wuhan here" … real?
• c_harwick (2023-11-19): mahyar ebrahimitorki: covid was a shock to banks' monitoring capabilities, leading to small banks becoming closer substitutes with marketplace lenders, and further substitutes from large banks.
• rikardhjort (2023-11-20): getting early covid lockdown vibes things spinning chaotically hard to keep up the center cannot hold yet so many new threads pregnant with possibility and here i am glued to twitter trying to keep up
• yashkaf (2023-11-20): note that your friends who dropped off the face of the earth for an entire year during covid will absolutely do the same when they have kids. they were always just looking for an excuse to stay home and chill with no social obligations. kids don't make socializing impossible
• goblinodds (2023-11-21): the last time i thought actually maybe my libertarianism is wrong in this *particular* case was covid govt responses pretty quickly put me back on my bullshit idk whether this should make me more or less optimistic
• ultimape (2023-11-21): did you know that antibiotics seem to make the covid vaccines not work as well? seems to me it's rather important to have your gut be healthy if you wanna mount an immune defense.
• forthrighter (2023-11-22): let's apply this principle. post covid-19, which option do you think corporate america will adopt for getting work done? all-remote, all-in person, or mixed hybrid remote? (you should be catching on by now ....)
• puheenix (2023-11-23): this was late 2021, and the newly re-opened cruise industry still had a ton of covid fear. every new employee signing onto a ship had to spend 10 days in quarantine. no human contact. didn't even have enough internet to stream, only tweet. it started a week before thanksgiving.
• mykola (2023-11-24): can't wait to watch america spiral into a completely predictable spiral of "vote for my guy or the genocidal maniac who will give you covid and kill your family will win" coming in good faith from both sides. (the covid part is implied, neither will say it out loud.)
• transkatgirl (2023-11-25): fuck it, i’m telling them i have covid and rescheduling the orientation so that i have time to buy the fake piss i am so tired of being in pain. i’m so tired of being trapped inside by fatigue. i’ve spent too much of my life like this.
• eigenrobot (2023-11-25): do covid tests still work pulled a negative on a lucira kit earlier but maybe its changed so much youd just expect that
• mykola (2023-11-26): if you've gotten yourself so twisted that you believe you have to support one genocidal maniac to defend against the other, what are you doing? they both want you to die of covid and stop complaining. it's the same stats on the card, only the flavor text is different.
• natural_hazard (2023-11-26): i can't remember most of what happened during covid, i can't remember how many twists (doubling back on lies) different narrative sources took, i just remembered being confused and upset that maybe life was gonna get worse for everyone because no one feels obligated to be honest
• natural_hazard (2023-11-26): the qt is just cuz it reminded me of this, not because i've investigated it's claim. it reminded me of how i understood almost all of my media environment around covid to be hostile, and the sense that it was regular and routine for "oh, we made xyz up" to eventually be stated
• natural_hazard (2023-11-26): i'm curious how many people have a clear memory of the order of events and how things happened during covid
• nosilverv (2023-11-26): this has happened! see republicans vs democrats on covid control measure in the early pandemic. they shifted and memory holed it in a cooperation of opposites!
• nosilverv (2023-11-26): this has happened! see republicans vs democrats on covid control measure in the early pandemic. they shifted and memory holed it in a cooperation of opposites!
• algekalipso (2023-11-27): relative to having covid how bad is it for your overall long-term health taking 120mg of mdma once (a typical moderate dose)? (i.e. how many times of having covid does it take to develop the same long-term consequences as taking mdma?)
• the_wilderless (2023-11-27): thank god the deep covid times have been memory-holed
• mbateman (2023-11-29): this only happens to me when i have covid or feelings
• c_harwick (2023-11-30): whether inflation is transitory or permanent depends on the growth path of the money supply! and covid was only ever a one-time shock.
• danielbrottman (2023-12-01): man, ppl still be getting covid
• _ceeeeeeee_ (2023-12-01): this album to me feels like it was inexplicably written about covid (before it even existed) instead of the president. instead of the overall message being "good luck with the elections, everybody", it became "oh god. good luck everybody, we're going to need it".
• _ceeeeeeee_ (2023-12-01): and that's not bad, some of ajj's greatest songs are about "fuck government" and i'm all for that. but in 2020 i just wanted to tune out of that stuff after all these years. and then covid happened a few months later and it recontextualized the whole thing for me.
• _ceee_ (2023-12-01): this album to me feels like it was inexplicably written about covid (before it even existed) instead of the president. instead of the overall message being "good luck with the elections, everybody", it became "oh god. good luck everybody, we're going to need it".
• _ceee_ (2023-12-01): and that's not bad, some of ajj's greatest songs are about "fuck government" and i'm all for that. but in 2020 i just wanted to tune out of that stuff after all these years. and then covid happened a few months later and it recontextualized the whole thing for me.
• ceeeeeres (2023-12-01): this album to me feels like it was inexplicably written about covid (before it even existed) instead of the president. instead of the overall message being "good luck with the elections, everybody", it became "oh god. good luck everybody, we're going to need it".
• ceeeeeres (2023-12-01): and that's not bad, some of ajj's greatest songs are about "fuck government" and i'm all for that. but in 2020 i just wanted to tune out of that stuff after all these years. and then covid happened a few months later and it recontextualized the whole thing for me.
• _ceeeeeeee_ (2023-12-01): "maggie" almost makes me cry every time i hear it. a little beautiful song about a dog, completely detached from the political bullshit that was going on. for a lot of us during covid, our dogs were the only thing holding us together and i fucking love it.
• _ceee_ (2023-12-01): "maggie" almost makes me cry every time i hear it. a little beautiful song about a dog, completely detached from the political bullshit that was going on. for a lot of us during covid, our dogs were the only thing holding us together and i fucking love it.
• ceeeeeres (2023-12-01): "maggie" almost makes me cry every time i hear it. a little beautiful song about a dog, completely detached from the political bullshit that was going on. for a lot of us during covid, our dogs were the only thing holding us together and i fucking love it.
• _ceeeeeeee_ (2023-12-01): a lot of this stuff doesn't feel as impactful these days when covid and trump are really not on everybody's mind, but in mid-2020 all this stuff i just wrote really made the album feel almost prophetic and easily the greatest album of all time to me.
• _ceeeeeeee_ (2023-12-01): its another song about dealing with the changes that covid did to our minds and bodies. like 2020 chewed us up and a lot of us turned into weird quiet fortresses of solitude, but theres always hope that the little things we used to take for granted might come back eventually?
• _ceee_ (2023-12-01): a lot of this stuff doesn't feel as impactful these days when covid and trump are really not on everybody's mind, but in mid-2020 all this stuff i just wrote really made the album feel almost prophetic and easily the greatest album of all time to me.
• _ceee_ (2023-12-01): its another song about dealing with the changes that covid did to our minds and bodies. like 2020 chewed us up and a lot of us turned into weird quiet fortresses of solitude, but theres always hope that the little things we used to take for granted might come back eventually?
• ceeeeeres (2023-12-01): a lot of this stuff doesn't feel as impactful these days when covid and trump are really not on everybody's mind, but in mid-2020 all this stuff i just wrote really made the album feel almost prophetic and easily the greatest album of all time to me.
• ceeeeeres (2023-12-01): its another song about dealing with the changes that covid did to our minds and bodies. like 2020 chewed us up and a lot of us turned into weird quiet fortresses of solitude, but theres always hope that the little things we used to take for granted might come back eventually?
• mimi10v3 (2023-12-02): sigh, a story re: keeping thoughts to myself tho... two years ago when covid transmission was spiking, my family got sick w coughing and fever, my dad first & worst.... and for some reason when he was first getting sick i thought to myself "could it be legionnaires?" ... googled…
• mimi10v3 (2023-12-02): and like, if i'd said something when i initially thought of it, my mom would've googled it and told me i was being ridiculous and it must be covid, which logically i agreed was most likely given transmission rates at the time... but she would've had it on her mind when they…
• nobu_hibiki (2023-12-03): got rained on in the way home, feeling super melancholic and bittersweet about the whole event. this seems like a glimpse of the live i would have had, had covid not came and ruined it. i've only hanged with this guy 8 times in total man, and here we are.
• algekalipso (2023-12-05): is it a good idea to practice the jhanas while you're in the thick of covid? intuitively it seems helpful and wonderful if you can use them as a safe place to dissociate from the unpleasantness. but just curious if anyone has any reason _not_ to?
• danielbrottman (2023-12-05): y'all i'm still terrified of long covid just being honest
• rhyslindmark (2023-12-06): zeroism: lefties doing care maximalism during covid ______: college students doing anti-oppression maximalism re gaza
• goblinodds (2023-12-06): turns out if you're sick enough to be in the hospital there's good odds that it's also hard for you to ask for stuff i remember during covid thinking it was sad that it was hard for ppl to visit sick relatives but with some experience now that sounds terrifying
• goblinodds (2023-12-07): wondering if it's actually environmental allergens maybe smell came back during covid bc i rarely went out and wore masks for awhile even when i was outside and now bf has 2 air purifiers inside??
• ultimape (2023-12-07): "at 12 months, 20.3% of covid-exposed children and 5.9% of the controls received a diagnosis of neurodevelopmental delay (risk ratio, 3.44; 95% confidence interval, 1.19 to 9.95)." (in brazil)
• ultimape (2023-12-07): predictions tl;dr: covid causes autism-esque (fetal?) oxygen deprivation syndrome driving developmental delay at 4x above baseline.
• ultimape (2023-12-07): the children who's mothers have diseases that cause higher ace receptor counts and increase covid susceptibility.
• yashkaf (2023-12-08): the second is propagating and laundering ideas beneficial to the regime, whether bullshit social psych studies on why the rich are bad or bullshit public health studies on covid or the most important idea which is that only democrats can be good people
• gptbrooke (2023-12-08): boy how cool would it have been to have had this data from right when i got off the street, and during all the long covid stuff after i’ve since seen some of my basic blood panel results from that time and i can assure you there was nothing good or optimal about those 😂
• nunosempere (2023-12-09): 2020: covid, trump impeached, george floyd protests, us supreme court: rgb dies, acb instated, vaccines created & produced in record time, biden wins us dems primary, 2024 us elections, abraham accords, china-india clashes, britain withdraws from the eu, gpt-3 released. 3/3
• danielbrottman (2023-12-09): only weirdo masking in the gym, only weirdo masking in the church i'll hang out w people unmasked bc i actually wanna socialize with them, but i ain't catching covid for nothing man
• lericdax (2023-12-10): great my mother has covid
• aleksil79 (2023-12-11): new most woo belief: long covid portends an epochal shift in human metabolism & biology. current functional equilibria are becoming unstable and we are nearing a tipping point where we shift into a new one en masse
• qiaochuyuan (2023-12-11): for myself i appear to have acquired sensitivities to gluten, alcohol, seed oils, alliums, and a couple other random things (and was already sensitive to dairy); possibly long covid was involved but i think the self-therapy and psychedelics were too
• mimi10v3 (2023-12-11): "rise of anti work sentiment online, is partially to blame for recent ai laziness duh, of course a society feeling post covid malaise, work is meaningless, woe is me, would then be reflected in the ai trained on it. which means: if we e/acc hard enough, next knowledge gap…
• noncanonicaleae (2023-12-12): it's hard to describe exactly how much damage covid did to me. i don't like that fact, but i actually talked to people 2+ times a week before that! these 3 years, it was like discovering an entire new dimension of misery. my personal 9/11
• mykola (2023-12-13): listen. when the cdc says it that means they have tried everything they could to not say it, to reframe it, to dismiss it. do not get covid it’s not about the acute phase.
• ultimape (2023-12-13): "covid-19: gut bacteria may influence severity"
• ultimape (2023-12-13): fixing my ibd by learning about how diseases with ace receptor problems predisposes high risk to covid infection. like one does.
• ultimape (2023-12-13): we neglect the guts roll in this: "we provide a comprehensive review of the relationship between sars-cov-2, nod2 and ubiquitination. covid-19 infection partly results from host inborn errors and genetic factors and can lead to autoinflammatory disease"
• eigenrobot (2023-12-13): 2020 was a weird election i think i don't recall at all any substantial program that biden was running on, maybe it was covid and maybe it was just that biden was kinda anemic itd be interesting if he has to actually bother finding issues and taking popular stances this time
• lericdax (2023-12-15): covid suxxx
• mykola (2023-12-17): this detail, that they didn’t allow covid vaccines for palestinians, is really fucking me up. israel iirc has been a major player in the vaccine research and development. they wouldn’t distribute it domestically to non-jews? seriously?!?
• georgejrjrjr (2023-12-18): dad got covid; thoughts on paxlovid?
• qephatziel (2023-12-19): abramelin takes a year and a half to do properly ...thanks, covid
• ultimape (2023-12-19): > "hence, our study provides information on the possible likely hood of a link between covid-19 and the development of parkinsonism as post-covid neurological sequelae." [aug 2022]
• ultimape (2023-12-19): > "we prospectively recruited 50 patients from neurological post-covid outpatient clinics (age 18–69 years, 39f/8m) and matched non-covid healthy controls [...] our diffusion imaging analyses revealed aberrant fractional anisotropy of the thalamus."
• ultimape (2023-12-19): you ready to have a large proportion of the population have part of their brain ablated away using ultrasound because they had long-covid and were mis-diagnosed as parkinson's due to the odd thalamus function? it's cheap and fast! no incision! what coud go wrong?
• algekalipso (2023-12-20): do you currently have covid? (defined here as the window of time between onset of symptoms/positive test [whichever came first] and up to 15 days after that or the elimination of symptoms [whichever came later])
• danielbrottman (2023-12-22): very touching video about dianna cowern, who ran the youtube channel "physics girl" before coming down with an extremely severe case of long covid. fellow science youtuber and friend destin sandlin visited her and describes the depth of love and care between her and her husband⬇️
• danielbrottman (2023-12-22): dianna has had long covid since july 2022. she and her husband got married in may of that year. youtube . com/watch?v=xbcjf-hroas
• blunderbussted (2023-12-23): covid is part of an ongoing process to lessen human recall abilities to increase our dependency on technology accelerating the singularity
• danielbrottman (2023-12-23): by all means do not let covid get you down, but once in a while i feel like psa-ing that cases are about as high as they've ever been, even mild cases carry significant secondary risks for over a year, and each reinfection increases the chance of long term symptoms
• voooooogel (2023-12-23): wife is in the hospital again and there's a good chance i've got covid but at least the blog is doing well...
• gptbrooke (2023-12-24): ugh i got covid for the third(?) time in august and since then i’ve been having random extremely mild versions of the symptoms i had during the like two-ish years of long covid i had debuting this week is my butt/upper legs feeling tingly like they just fell asleep but it’s 24/7
• gptbrooke (2023-12-24): (this happened before and i saw a neurologist in addition to a number of other specialists for it & other symptoms and after a bunch of testing they all shrugged and said it was long covid so nothing to worry about just very mildly distracting)
• eigenrobot (2023-12-24): sometimes feels like low grade civil war among the elites felt like that all got suppressed during trump and covid but. cracks are showing
• maxdiffusionrl (2023-12-24): it's sad that both openwater and neurable both took forever to build a product less ambitious than what they originally planned (covid disrupted things, but still..)
• transkatgirl (2023-12-25): gotta love feeling really sick for no reason i wonder if i caught covid or the flu
• _ceeeeeeee_ (2023-12-25): 64 - after dating for 10 years and delaying because of covid, the gf and i got married in late 2022. i have a weird aversion to applying labels to things so "girlfriend", "wife", "partner" weren't really distinct terms to apply to us
• _ceee_ (2023-12-25): 64 - after dating for 10 years and delaying because of covid, the gf and i got married in late 2022. i have a weird aversion to applying labels to things so "girlfriend", "wife", "partner" weren't really distinct terms to apply to us
• ceeeeeres (2023-12-25): 64 - after dating for 10 years and delaying because of covid, the gf and i got married in late 2022. i have a weird aversion to applying labels to things so "girlfriend", "wife", "partner" weren't really distinct terms to apply to us
• _ceeeeeeee_ (2023-12-25): 87 - covid and breakup really shattered my friend group and i only have one person who i could reliably see irl. i'm going to try to get better at "putting myself out there" when i go out, maybe join some more social groups, sports(?), meetups
• _ceee_ (2023-12-25): 87 - covid and breakup really shattered my friend group and i only have one person who i could reliably see irl. i'm going to try to get better at "putting myself out there" when i go out, maybe join some more social groups, sports(?), meetups
• ceeeeeres (2023-12-25): 87 - covid and breakup really shattered my friend group and i only have one person who i could reliably see irl. i'm going to try to get better at "putting myself out there" when i go out, maybe join some more social groups, sports(?), meetups
• mykola (2023-12-25): this thing where the only people speaking up about covid are those who have had their lives destroyed by it is… well. the rest of you? y’all have shown me, time and again, who you are. i think maybe it’s time i just believed you.
• voooooogel (2023-12-26): third negative test, so i probably don't have covid 🙏
• natural_hazard (2023-12-27): "the trust required to maintain a kind of cooperative nonaccountability" (from moral mazes) makes me think of the thing with more fraud being reported over covid, no in-person bonding/hazing to make your organized crime ring work right
• nosilverv (2023-12-27): v funny that we might actually get the new roaring 20s we were trying to meme into reality post-covid but through agi lol
• voooooogel (2023-12-27): my experience being on medicare (covid extension) and then expensive marketplace insurance (yay 1099) is that it's kind of a mix, actually
• thezvi (2023-12-28): perhaps news coverage of electric car adaptation is a better example than covid or ai to use of the complete inability to know what an exponential is? every time, so brutal.
• patio11 (2023-12-28): bits about money’s year in review issue will likely slip to the new year because i seem to have come down with christmas covid.
• mykola (2023-12-29): life has been so horrible that i saw a few people on christmas eve. small gathering, old friends, i knew the risks. one of them has tested positive. i’ve been having shortness of breath for about a day now… still testing negative, but. i had a good no-covid run. :-/
• mykola (2023-12-29): do i follow any doctors who would be willing to give me a clinical covid diagnosis over video call and write me a paxlovid scrip? i lose insurance monday and worry i won’t test positive in time to get a scrip i can afford.
• slimepriestess (2023-12-31): i think rebuilding the reach/search group-house-above-a-community-center spaces we had pre-covid and living there with a bunch of cool mages would fix me.
• eigenrobot (2023-12-31): "your telling me the same people who sold us vaginal douches and got us to replace safety razors with mach 7 monstrosities and who gave us the food pyramid and trans fats and covid vaccines would lie to us about hygiene? no. no sir. i wont believe this calumny"
• danielbrottman (2023-12-31): seems like every week i'm hearing about another person with covid. i've heard from many sources that lots of rest for longer than you think is very important if you catch it
• danielbrottman (2023-12-31): the thing that is so mindfuckingly annoying about covid risk is any one event has very little risk, but lots of events in aggregate have greater risk, and any one event can theoretically have as negative an outcome of going to lots of events.
• danielbrottman (2023-12-31): genuinely having covid anxiety about going to a nye party tonight. if anyone has kind or helpful things to say i'd appreciate it. if you wanna be mean to me about having covid anxiety please save it.
• nobu_hibiki (2023-12-31): maybe i just miss my kaicamp friends. maybe i just miss amir. maybe i just miss the ingroup that i had back during covid. maybe i'm just at the end of a period and i need to put to rest what has had, and move on to something new.
• tyleralterman (2024-01-01): my friend & i commiserated with old school nyers abt the situation. here were some theories: a. nyers felt less than festive w palestine going on b. smth smth internet c. bigger party venues have opened, and those drew ppl in d. new covid wave? others?
• tyleralterman (2024-01-01): nye in nyc was weirrrd guys. the usual party streets, which would’ve been packed at 2am pre-covid, were relatively barren. ppl seemed more isolated&sad than ever. (but lively ppl stood out like lighthouses & implicitly collaborated to get ppl dancing, etc) why??? theories👇
• easoncxz (2024-01-01): long-covid vibes, from china:
• danielbrottman (2024-01-02): i woke up today feeling like a slight hangover (haven't had any alcohol) and was a bit worried bc that's how i felt when i had covid. but maybe it's just bc i'd been binging on these bad boys (party leftovers) that are processed af haha
• adam_kranz (2024-01-02): not to speak too soon but i feel pretty good for having covid. i get a whole week off working from home (not sure how much i'll actually enjoy this but we'll see) and i'm not really even suffering
• mykola (2024-01-03): the covid response will one day be understood as a devastating parting shot from boomers against their descendants.
• danielbrottman (2024-01-03): pretty sure i'm sick :( covid test was negative, i'll take another one if i still feel bad tomorrow. bed and throat coat tea and stormlight archive for now
• qiaochuyuan (2024-01-03): ugh okay i'm actually just sick. feeling like garbage enough that it might be the flu or covid. i really really really don't wanna do a rapid test ugh fuck
• countj0ecool (2024-01-03): probably a good 30-40% of my day-to-day problems are just long covid the physiological multiplies the discomfort of the psychological my body is screaming along all axes "just let me die already"
• danielbrottman (2024-01-04): morning 2: throat is still sore/swollen, but no new symptoms yet, and i don't feel very feverish. it not being worse today seems like a great sign. still gonna pick up another covid test
• chercher_ai (2024-01-05): we return to the lab, where jbp is there showing the new infinity covid vaccine and recording a video about it is causing the killer horse. i admit he might have a point. <prompt blocked 4 times>
• danielbrottman (2024-01-05): 2nd covid test still negative, yay!!!
• puheenix (2024-01-07): one cool side effect of covid is everybody having a really good microphone
• mykola (2024-01-07): it’s gonna be denial and then anger at everyone who warned them for not warning them the right way, i bet. public realization of the truth of covid and lc will lead to anti-disabled backlash because we live in hell.
• brimmingvessel (2024-01-08): the sf la trip has been a thing in my life since summer 2019 - first roadtrip with bf a few days into dating; got my car during covid and now have done drive 20+ times. first time i did it was longest drive i’d done by myself, i did it all at night, was terrifying, but made it
• mykola (2024-01-11): the thing is, they are filling holes left by the covid pandemic but they’re not doing anything to address the pandemic so the holes will keep coming. we are going to witness unfathomable horrors for a few quarterly returns so mid-level execs get bonuses before the world ends.
• mykola (2024-01-11): the covid response is the clear illustration to me. the decisions were made to allow the public to suffer repeat infections while telling them that that’s fine. this is straight up mass population control. by the time we organize to fight back everyone’s too sick.
• mykola (2024-01-11): i had some covid symptoms a few weeks ago, but tested negative six days in a row and then felt better. but fuck, this feels like what long covid patients describe - felt better then days or weeks later, bam. i can’t name what feels wrong. it just feels wrong. 😑 😔
• eigenrobot (2024-01-12): if you were to take away anything from covid it might be that - pandemics are real - health authorities are completely incapable of doing anything about them - health authorities are cops who put people in camps when given the chance
• mykola (2024-01-13): past few days i’ve felt weird. was hoping it was from emotional processing and getting unblocked in some ways. this morning i woke up chilled to the bone and congested to hell after like two hours of sleep. i haven’t been sick in years, since covid precautions. praying nocovid.
• mykola (2024-01-13): confirmed covid positive. i had a good run.
• daniellefong (2024-01-13): covid and wars are depleting much of the backup cushion (eg via zirp) years, and the cutting is starting to make headway on the economic metabolic syndrome. but it’s not remotely true that the abundance of the west is exhausted. the economists are simply choosing to cut, and it’s…
• qiaochuyuan (2024-01-14): [flirting casually] so i used to worry about whether climate change would destroy the planet before agi, at this point i'm betting agi wins but now i'm worried about whether agi comes before long covid drives everyone insane. i have no idea what kind of world our kids inherit
• mykola (2024-01-14): managed to get a paxlovid scrip. who has taken it? i hear it can be rough, and that it offers no protection from long covid. what do i have to look forward to on it?
• mykola (2024-01-14): *covid whining* i feel like poop.
• __drewface (2024-01-14): covid is just out here, still taking names, jeeeeez
• danielbrottman (2024-01-14): when's the last time you were sick (like a virus or a bug or covid or somthin)
• mykola (2024-01-15): the covid has thus far avoided my lungs but i started coughing just a bit, and my chest is starting to hurt. so glad i got that paxlovid. can’t wait until next dose. i feel so godawful right now.
• mykola (2024-01-15): lol because i have been alternating between covers with a hot water bottle and soaking my feet in a lukewarm tub. i have covid though so i literally don’t seem to know why i’m doing anything. chasing vibes.
• mykola (2024-01-15): jeffrey likely had a friend who started masking again, given that we are in one of the most devastating covid surges yet. jeffery likely yelled at that friend. that friend no longer has to deal with jeffery. listen: it’s not too late to mask again. please do.
• myceliummage (2024-01-15): this was right before covid tbf
• garrisonlovely (2024-01-15): my pos insurance (fidelis care silver) i've paid $700/mo for didn't cover a single one of the vaccines i signed up for at my local walgreens. i literally wasn't even allowed to pay out of pocket for a covid vaccine and a flu shot would cost $80. wouldn't it be cool to live...
• mykola (2024-01-16): day 6 of covid symptoms and holy shit am i glad i got paxlovid. i can feel it arrest the symptoms. i find that as time goes on i can feel the dose wearing off and symptoms increase, then next dose checks them again. this… stops eventually, right? i am *sick*.
• mykola (2024-01-16): y’all have allowed them to tell you this is normal? i’m almost a week into this and i’ve never been this sick in my life, and like that’s not even mentioning that this could give me cancer or diabetes in three months, or my 20% odds of long covid and never recovering.
• mykola (2024-01-16): how the fuck is anyone acting like covid is nbd? i’m on paxlovid, the only treatment, and it costs $1700 in the us for a five day dose. my pharmacist found a way to give it to me for free because lol. even on this i can barely do anything without needing to sit immediately.
• mykola (2024-01-16): there is no normal to go back to. they are just going to keep boiling the water as vulnerable people die. look at the covid response. covid isn’t getting less lethal - the most vulnerable people all died! they died! and if you survived covid you are now more vulnerable.
• br___ian (2024-01-17): ok exercise shortly after covid >> bad, possible long covid what about meditation retreat?? obviously sorta different but i could see an argument that it's like how chess players burn a fuckton of calories focusing
• daniellefong (2024-01-17): ok so basically digging deeper here it's not a covid-19 strain, it's just a ~related coronavirus, actually obtained from pangolins isolated from nature, not crafted all of that headline is basically new york post spin however apparently they are still isolating and screening…
• daniellefong (2024-01-17): from the early pandemic the who took over a lot of authority for internet soft and hard censorship from google, youtube, facebook, twitter. this included "soft" censorship (eg. demonetising ~all covid accounts including public servant luminaries like dr. john campbell)…
• daniellefong (2024-01-17): from the early pandemic the who took over a lot of authority for internet soft and hard censorship from google, youtube, facebook, twitter. this included "soft" censorship (eg. demonetising ~all covid accounts including public servant luminaries like dr. john campbell)…
• mykola (2024-01-18): imani’s right. she’s been right. all i hear from all the democratic campaigning is “but trump!” no plans for climate crisis, no covid mitigation strategies, no acknowledgement of gaza genocide, just a complete abdication of what one might call leadership or vision. “but trump!”
• forthrighter (2024-01-18): during the covid years (which will rapidly slip from all of our minds) it was frequently banned for infection reasons isn't it interesting how human closeness implies risk...and how without it, you'll be miserable? let that sink in a bit, i mean this across many levels 🤝
• forthrighter (2024-01-18): contrast on a scale of greeting closeness: namaste gesture, or prayer hands. 🙏 (a popular covid option) - greeting of equality - nobody's armed 🗡️ - (.....more.......distance.....between......)
• kindgracekind (2024-01-18): if you believe that gain-of-function research inadvertently caused the deaths of 6 million people via covid-19, does that increase your level of caution around ai risk?
• kindgracekind (2024-01-18): if you believe that gain-of-function research inadvertently caused the deaths of 6 million people via covid-19, does that increase your level of concern around ai risk?
• kindgracekind (2024-01-18): if you believe that gain-of-function research inadvertently caused the deaths of 6 million people via covid-19, does that increase your level of concern around ai risk?
• mykola (2024-01-19): congrats to the long covid community. they’re listening.
• c_harwick (2024-01-19): useful context on the killer covid paper.
• danallison (2024-01-19): got covid. covid is not good. remember to mask up.
• not_a_hot_girl (2024-01-20): my friend's friend is doing some research on tinder and covid and needs survey responses! if you lived in the us and used tinder during the pandemic, please consider helping her out and taking her survey (or boosting!) :) (link next tweet)
• leo_guinan (2024-01-20): this has been an interesting week for me. started the week by getting hit with covid, so not ideal. i slept for about 40 hours out of a 48 hour period. and had the realization during this time, that this was the first time in a long time i was ok with just letting myself rest.…
• myceliummage (2024-01-20): kinda feels like i spent the last 4 years since covid in the woods and now im layering honey on my severed head
• danallison (2024-01-20): as for me, my week was kinda derailed by getting covid. i didn’t make much progress on my intention for the week, other than thinking through my options and ideas. 📌 my intention for this week is the same as last week, reach out to people to ask for help with stuff.
• mykola (2024-01-20): thinking about the huge disconnect between the things we need policy and action around today (genocide, covid, climate change) and the way the biden administration isn’t even willing to acknowledge that the problems exist. that’s the problem. they are gaslighting us so hard.
• danallison (2024-01-21): is there a good checklist out there for steps to take when recovering from covid to minimize risk of long covid?
• mykola (2024-01-23): my sleep schedule is so broken lol. i just sleep through much of the day and then toss and turn all night. i’ll get up around 1030, have breakfast, and then go back to bed until/unless i have a call. i’ve gotten so much rest since getting covid. but i am coming out of it now.
• mykola (2024-01-25): empire has to spend constant non-stop energy on making sure that we cannot perceive an alternative to empire. biden is an emperor. covid and gaza have shown this - his loyalty is not to the people, but to the empire and its enforcers. the theater of democracy is over.
• mykola (2024-01-25): sure, trump is bad. but if you can’t see that biden has continued trump’s genocidal covid policies why are we even talking? no muslim ban under biden but we are slaughtering palestine wholesale? that’s not the win they want us to see it as. that’s imperial parody.
• ultimape (2024-01-27): "this highlights the potential of long-term fasting as an effective intervention for managing and treating long covid."
• tr_babb (2024-01-27): i got sick over the break, and developed a bad cough (not covid, or at least antigen-negative) the cough is gone, but i think it trained me to breath more shallowly to avoid a coughing fit now i'm wondering whether this week's headaches have been due to lower oxygen
• tr_babb (2024-01-27): ☝️possible mechanism involved in long covid?
• blunderbussted (2024-01-29): there's an increased sense of alienation since covid. an emotional detachment, bizarre flights of overreaction. people point to the isolation & anxiety of the last years, between lockdowns, inflation, & increased global conflict. i posit china engineered covid to make us npcs.
• blunderbussted (2024-01-29): covid was engineered by the ccp to replace normal, happy human behavior with behaviors that increasingly isolate people so that they will use tiktok and other algorithmic methods of population control, while they send their agents among us to control the behavior of westerners.
• maxdiffusionrl (2024-01-29): covid damages dopamine neurons - given all my issues with dopamine, i'm so glad i always avoided covid so far. tho now i'm concerned about accumulation of too many lnps from the boosters and am hesitant to boost further
• mykola (2024-01-30): the sequel? in the first half hour something incredible happens, it literally made me gasp and sob: our protagonist talks about the covid pandemic, and about how hard it’s been for everyone. i just… how is this the first work of fiction i’ve encountered to mention it?
• goblinodds (2024-01-30): i feel like my sense of taste disappeared almost entirely (more than usual lol) after taking the lozenge wtf this better subside soon this better not be some covid thing (seems like i have a p mild cold)
• forthrighter (2024-01-31): organizationally, most people only see the high water mark and everything to the right of it, and that's a one way straight linear decline picture (got worse in 2020 with covid). they don't know about the entire curve
• mykola (2024-01-31): i hate to have to ask for support so often. i’m at final stage of one job interview process and waiting to hear back if i’ve made it to final stage of another. covid derailed me for january. i’m about to lose my car insurance and need 200 bucks asap. if you can - help?
• forthrighter (2024-01-31): everybody had it really tough during covid and freemasons did too
• puheenix (2024-01-31): tested negative for covid! but whatever this thing is, it knocked me flat. spent about 48hrs mostly sleeping, occasionally moaning & barely comprehending a children’s television program. i may be an actual baby
• danielbrottman (2024-02-02): "as many as 1 in 3 patients recovering from covid-19 could experience neurological or psychological after-effects of their infections"
• mykola (2024-02-02): i got novavax in early december. i got covid in early january anyway, because i chose to take a risk and see some folks over the holidays. vaccines - even the best vaccine! - aren’t enough.
• mykola (2024-02-02): so after about a month i finally feel "recovered" from acute covid but uh. how long until a short trip to the grocery store stops making me feel like i just ran a marathon?
• mykola (2024-02-03): a cure for long covid, and a vaccine that is 100% effective against all strains. but we won’t get those afaict. so i might also consider it if my community collectively took contact tracing and quarantine measures to control spread and added air filters to public indoor spaces.
• yashkaf (2024-02-04): someone who actually *did the research* on covid knows exactly *why* other people believe in zoonosis, what evidence they've seen and which authorities they follow. a smart skeptic can guess immediately what someone else thinks about the issue and what arguments they'll listen to
• yashkaf (2024-02-04): most people who believe that the moon landing was faked or that covid was a lab leak aren't really skeptics, they just unskeptically accepted some unpopular take. because of this they rightly fear being called crazy, or simply being crazy a true skeptic doesn't feel that way
• danielbrottman (2024-02-05): somehow part of me always believes that a year from now there'll be no more covid
• aaronbergman18 (2024-02-05): deeply unserious medical history who gets this but never a broken bone or sprained ankle? who gets lyme but not covid?
• mykola (2024-02-05): i’ve got this person i met on a dating app. we had one date, it was nice, then i got covid. planning to hang again. but it’s weird i have, like, no goals or ambitions with this. i enjoyed her company, we will make some art. but if it fell through, ok. and it’s confusing.
• 5matthewdub (2024-02-05): i thought the whole "thc fights covid" thing was just an epic stoner theory, and n=1, but my whole family got covid and i didn't.
• mykola (2024-02-06): god since getting covid every time i run errands i’m just completely wiped out. like in bed exhausted after getting groceries. :-/
• eshear (2024-02-08): i wonder if famous people’s covid vaccination cards will be valuable collectibles in 40 years
• mykola (2024-02-08): and with the anti-masking laws starting to come up they're just going to compound the mandatory covid exposure, which means a subset of people will continue to develop long covid and be unable to work, pay rent, etc. which then works with the laws criminalizing homelessness...
• mykola (2024-02-09): i have a date tonight. i'm feeling kinda sick still, i think i am at this point firmly in the long covid camp. it's the thing i have been trying to avoid like, well, the plague. and now it's here. ok. so instead of despairing, let me go enjoy someone's company deeply.
• mykola (2024-02-11): i burned out six years ago and life has only gotten worse for a long time. last year i lost my marriage and had to sell the house we’d just bought. this year seems to be starting with long covid. but, i kinda get it now. these are teachers. and i am finally learning.
• mykola (2024-02-11): if you can retain your curiosity you can pull yourself out of all kinds of trouble. covid fucked me up. i can’t go to the grocery store without needing a recovery day. ok. i can be mad or sad or scared, and i have those feelings. but curiosity is the one that’s helping.
• ultimape (2024-02-13): does anyone else remember back in february 2020 when fauci said don't wear masks and the risk of covid was minisqule?
• mykola (2024-02-14): but how to square that with the way biden is handling gaza, or covid? is it enough to vote with care for local folks and ignore the federal? how do you approach that choice? and like, if you’re not in a swing state, how and why does your choice matter? this is global.
• mykola (2024-02-16): everyone just accepting that we are going to let covid destroy us because the talking heads on the tv assured them it was weird to take precautions?
• mimi10v3 (2024-02-17): i'm sick w another cold (not covid)... what movies or tv shows should i watch on netflix? 🫶
• mimi10v3 (2024-02-19): was reminded of silly story abt my parents today... when covid first hit my dad got $10k in cash from the bank, hid it at home and forgot where he'd put it mom cancelled their weekly cleaning service for the first year but kept paying anyway, bec it was "the right thing to do"…
• mykola (2024-02-20): i have an autistic friend who is looking for any remote work. like entry-level stuff is fine, just needs an income and not to be exposed to covid. please rt for reach, dm if you have a lead you’d recommend?
• mykola (2024-02-21): seriously, if you bounced off of it when it came out, maybe give it another try. especially if you are covid-cautious and aware of what’s happening.
• mykola (2024-02-21): a dear friend just shared this album with me, and holy shit. that's all i have to say. holy shit. this is like... the first album i've ever heard that acknowledges covid and grief and the shit we are all living in. hymns of grief and joy.
• maxdiffusionrl (2024-02-22): feeling more and more like now is a better time for internet vs irl even compared to peak covid days (when it was really good, but before the truly magical year of 2021) pretty sure i'm gonna travel less this year than any year in the recent past
• nosilverv (2024-02-23): mfw people were making fun of there being a 'post-covid roaring 20s' but then we actually went ahead and invented agi
• eshear (2024-02-24): 4/ there’s a dip in dauq growth from early 21 to late 22…if i had to guess, this is the hangover from reddit’s rapid growth during the covid lockdowns. that growth was partially due to pulling forward growth that would have happened a year later. (chart from statista not s-1)
• eigenrobot (2024-02-24): two years of ukraine four years since covid got real eight years since hillary v trump, sixteen since the financial crisis, nearly a quarter century after 9/11 good grief
• plus3happiness (2024-02-25): 3. in 2021, really stressed by covid, had like 2-3 weeks of trying to 'intentionally relax' the body right before sleep one morning woke up with no anxiety, rather no reactivity(?) and nothing could rattle me the next 3 days the body was relaxed, untriggerable and
• ultimape (2024-02-25): turbo cancer: > "glioma […] progression at an accelerated pace in the first two months after […] infection. […] warrant further investigation exploring […] tumor microenvironment and the possible correlation between tumor progression and covid-19."
• ultimape (2024-02-25): covid's spike can accumulate in the brain. is this good? "our paper suggests that the sars-cov-2 spike protein can accumulate in the brain and cause cell death, highlighting a direct effect on brain tissue,"
• ultimape (2024-02-25): "sars-cov-2 spike proteins disrupt the blood-brain barrier, potentially raising risk of neurological damage in covid-19 patients" [oct 2020] again and again we see this pattern.
• ultimape (2024-02-25): remember, its better to take the vaccine that has all these rare side effects than to get catch covid itself, which also cause the same problems but more frequently.
• christophcsmith (2024-02-25): lol just fielded a message from someone who is voting for trump because of the "damage the vaccines caused." y'all do know that developing and distributing covid vaccines in record time was his one unmitigated policy success that clinton might not have been able to match, right?
• christophcsmith (2024-02-25): lol just fielded a message from someone who is voting for trump because of the "damage the vaccines caused." y'all do know that rapidly developing and distributing covid vaccines was his one unmitigated policy success, right?
• christophcsmith (2024-02-25): lol just fielded a message from someone who is voting for trump because of the "damage the vaccines caused." y'all do know that rapidly developing and distributing covid vaccines was donald trump's one great unmitigated policy success, right?
• easoncxz (2024-02-25): i don't expect others to keep me safe. i just expect to suddenly suffer or die one day. (disclaimer: i support wearing masks during covid waves.)
• mykola (2024-02-26): seriously, this album has had me openly weeping all week. it's about covid, and it's about grief, and it's about how we have to, well, keep going on. and about how hard that is, but also it's about joy. and how we find it in the places we don't expect.
• mykola (2024-02-27): i haven’t been to a movie theater since covid, but let me tell you as much as i loved going to the movies i don’t miss the lack of subtitles. i have auditory processing disorder and it sucks that i need to wait for streaking release to understand nuances of dialog.
• askyatharth (2024-02-27): humanity has frequently been brought its knees by tiny, invisible particles bent on replication. the black plague. covid, in recent memory why were/are people so skeptical of the idea that nanobots could do it?
• askyatharth (2024-02-27): viruses are literal organic nanobots, and covid proved countries can engineer them. already, we have engineered things a 100 times worse
• eigenrobot (2024-02-28): reminds me of the time during covid i drove @selentelechia to a med appt they wouldnt let me or our two month old into the hospital. bc covid so i just walked around outside trying to get baby to stop crying
• mykola (2024-03-02): we need like a legal entity people can use to declare their desire for their bodies to dropped at the front door to the cdc when they die of covid.
• mykola (2024-03-02): what you need to understand is that covid hasn’t changed. it’s not any safer than it was. there is no medical or scientific data driving this decision. it’s just capitalism. it is as dangerous as it was when you were masking and staying home. this should radicalize you.
• mykola (2024-03-02): “covid is just like the flu now” my comrade you are doing the enemy’s work for him. covid is not like the flu. it will never be like the flu. if it’s “less deadly” rn it’s because all the most vulnerable people died. but you get more vulnerable each time you get it.
• mykola (2024-03-02): i have friends who are or know teachers all saying that kids have gotten weird - they can’t focus, grades suffering, behavior problems, nobody knows why. and it’s like. seriously? covid causes brain damage. you know this. why are you pretending you don’t?
• mykola (2024-03-02): want to just clear a few things up: 1) when i say it hasn't changed i mean the risk isn't gone. yes it has evolved, there are over a dozen distinct variants running rampant at any given time. 2) vaccines help! even a bit with long covid. but not enough! hope that helps!
• mykola (2024-03-02): over two months since i got covid and my body is nowhere near back to normal. i am exhausted all the time. my limbs ache, my muscles are weirdly sore, and if i exert myself even a bit i have to go to bed. i feel, like, on the verge of a cold every day. i hate it.
• mykola (2024-03-02): one last data point since i see a lot of people still don’t grok this: death isn’t the only negative consequence of covid. it causes brain damage. it causes vascular and organ damage. every time. it destroys your immune system. you may “recover” but be permanently harmed.
• alex_with_ease (2024-03-03): ameliorating brain (and other longterm health) issues of covid-19 should be a major research area.
• mykola (2024-03-04): it occurs to me that given that biden’s entire 2024 strategy is “i’m not trump” and he has abandoned every claimed value in support of genocide and covid denial, all the republicans have to do is change their candidate to get everything they want.
• mykola (2024-03-06): the one good thing about the current historical moment is that half these assholes getting so worked up about things like "women and queer people exist" and "characters can be black" are just going to drop dead from the stress that puts on their covid-wracked bodies.
• tr_babb (2024-03-06): honestly i'd have expected a complete revolution w.r.t. awareness of air quality since covid there is some movement i suppose, but it's bizarrely slow
• mykola (2024-03-07): "but it causes brain damage!" yes, you can say that. iq is not a helpful measure of anything, and if you accept the frame that "covid is bad because it reduces iq" you are just the advance guard of the right-wing covid reaction to biden's incompetence. hint: they're not helping!
• mykola (2024-03-07): musing about a possible relationship between sensory processing disorder and adhd. since covid i am way, way more sensitive to light. in practice that means my attention is drawn strongly to bright lights. and like. hmm.
• demiurgently (2024-03-07): 2015: hs graduate 2016: organic farmer 🥕 2017: organic farmer but better at it. also blonde 2018: college debater. nose ring. vegan. 2019: college debater 2020-21: dark covid era. brunette now 2022: government employee 🏦 2023: private sector employee 👹
• tyleralterman (2024-03-08): i wonder how many people modeling new behaviors it would take to change the culture of a city. for instance, in nyc there used to be a culture of reasonably frequent deep eye contact with strangers in the streets. this seems to have gone away with the influx of covid & gen z.…
• yashkaf (2024-03-08): '15: lived in 1 br with my ex and her fiancé '16: wrote viral post about soap '17: picked coca leaves '18: fired from hedge fund '19: stopped feeling jealousy '20: changed uk covid policy '21: california sex trip '22: elden ring '23: my daughter turned 1 '24: elden ring dlc
• visakanv (2024-03-12): 8. an essay i was thinking about working on last night might be titled “narrative cycles” or “discourse cycles”. i’m currently too sick to do anything (seems to be a non-covid regular flu lol) so i’ll just connect some dots and do some tweets maybe. this won’t make sense much
• billiamfrances (2024-03-13): may i experience this again one day 😌🙃 today marks my 4 year anniversary of getting sick with covid and subsequently developing long term chronic illness from it
• mykola (2024-03-14): and at the end of the day we'll never know if we could have healed the damage if covid hadn't hit, and had the effects it did. some days i think yes, some days i think no. but that inability to know, that's making me feel crazy right now. another thing to learn to accept.
• peakexperiments (2024-03-14): got my first non-covid respiratory bug since before 2020. we're, uh, so back?
• alexkrusz (2024-03-14): just donated. it's not just covid and flu - air quality is strongly connected to cardiovascular disease risk, lung cancer, and more. would love to see filters running at the next restaurant or indoor event i go to.
• mykola (2024-03-15): major newspapers are literally trying to kill you at this point. the guardian uses long covid awareness day to share baseless propaganda to minimize this life-destroying condition. fuck these people.
• mykola (2024-03-15): listen to scientists about long covid, not media outlets with a long track record of being wrong.
• chercher_ai (2024-03-16): if you were 3 days out from a non-reschedulable international vacation and you tested positive for covid, you would probably
• chercher_ai (2024-03-16): my guess is we'll discover the cause for long covid and then realize there's also long cold, long flu, long chicken pox, ...
• mykola (2024-03-16): when an artists cancels a performance due to unspecified health reasons it’s often covid, but if they say that they can’t get insurance reimbursement. insurance companies - and reinsurance companies in particular - are the most highly motivated to dismiss and trivialize covid.
• mykola (2024-03-16): a lot of “free speech” absolutists who unironically consider themselves “antiestablishment” will absolutely show up in your mentions to shout themselves hoarse about how there’s no such thing as long covid. the irony is that they’re just serving insurance companies’ interests.
• mykola (2024-03-16): if covid is serious and long covid is real they’d be on the hook to actually pay for the care that millions now need. since they don’t want to, they muddy the waters with junk science and highly publicized dismissals of the real threat. i sorta think this is behind everything.
• mykola (2024-03-16): and so they do everything they can to minimize the scope of them problem, and to incentivize people to say or believe that something else is in play. all the covid denial makes the most sense when viewed through this lens, imo.
• mykola (2024-03-16): i’ve had a few semi-viral covid tweets in recent weeks and invariably most replies are from comically angry insurance company apologists. we should just refer to them as such moving forward, rather than “minimizers” or whatever else. the purpose of a system is what it does.
• mykola (2024-03-16): all the trolls spending their time dismissing long covid: are you aware you are serving the interests of insurance companies or are they just using your angry ignorance for free? 🤔
• mykola (2024-03-16): they publish this and their dismissal of long covid on the same day. these are not serious people and they think you’re stupid.
• billiamfrances (2024-03-19): last pic of you before the world changed 4 years ago literally me at the student health clinic with covid two days before they shut the university down
• mykola (2024-03-22): had a covid thread of mine rt’d by an md to other mds and they were all commenting on how i was a dumbass, how i look like i shouldn’t leave the house, etc. i blocked but probably should have named and shamed on the off-chance their patients see. this is the stupidest timeline.
• eigenrobot (2024-03-24): sort of like people who get covid boosters
• nosilverv (2024-03-24): "isis-k" they dropping new terrorism variants like covid 😭😭😭
• mykola (2024-03-26): and that’s before like trying to find even a single person who is covid conscious, let alone a whole fucking polycule. like the world is ending i want someone to build a bulwark with me. i can’t do this alone. but why does that have to be a romantic partner? it’s all so much.
• askyatharth (2024-03-27): given how the cdc and government handled covid my faith in that government doesn't measure up to the standards i have for myself or my family in handling ai crises
• nido_kween (2024-03-28): saw family a couple of days ago, my aunt had “allergies” and now i seem to be getting her “allergies” 🤨 gotta love the quiet 2024 covid
• peakexperiments (2024-03-28): dunno if it's a long covid flareup or something else but i have had my clumsiest, most forgetful of basic things day probably ever today. windows left open after closing blinds, frozen food i have to throw out b/c put in fridge, you name it. hope it's something i can sleep off.
• sunriseoath (2024-03-29): keep unhappy people close at your own peril. love those who are miserable, but keep a safe quarantine. much better to catch covid from than godlessness. flee from those who spread sickness of spirit.
• eigenrobot (2024-03-29): china systematically underreported infections and suppressed infection counts even barring that its not like there was a sophisticated system for tracking the spread of covid in china before ppl even knew it existed
• yashkaf (2024-03-29): if saar's only goal was to prove lab leak then yeah, he lost. but insofar as his broader goals are to: 1. improve human thinking on covid 2. improve human thinking on bayes 3. improve human epistemology overall this debate made a big contribution to all three
• yashkaf (2024-03-29): #1 is kinda obvious in that i learned more about viruses, genes, the geography of wuhan, the reliability of newspapers, research grants, and covid as a whole in reading this article that in the previous 4 years of endless debate and grift on the topic combined what about bayes?
• eigenrobot (2024-03-29): ai depiction of the covid origin debate
• mykola (2024-03-30): hey covid conscious people, if i’m talking to someone who feels that covid is basically the flu now but is open to learning why that’s wrong, is there a one-stop resource i can send them?
• mykola (2024-04-02): i can put “i am covid cautious and expect partners to share that value” and like, the few matches i do get it’s like they didn’t even read that. it’s almost like covid is itself between the fnords these days, for lack of a better metaphor. people *can’t perceive it*.
• dpinkshadow (2024-04-03): - dad's friend was the employer - a friend recommended me - applied to a posting - a friend recommended me but then covid happened and they withdrew the offer but hr felt bad and recommended me to somewhere else - applied to a posting in shady website
• mykola (2024-04-04): serious question: i’d like to date. almost nobody on the apps seems to be covid conscious or masking. i can’t go to bars. so like. honestly, where do i meet people?
• m_ashcroft (2024-04-04): hey @richdecibels i think this unusually elevated inflammation blood marker is the aftermath of the weeks-long non-covid thing i picked up at richfest 😂
• mykola (2024-04-05): why not - hello! autigender cishet dude in ohio who takes covid seriously seeking cuties to face the horrifying future with. looking for people who are into nerd shit, have healed or are healing their trauma and who like weirdos! dm me? :)
• mykola (2024-04-06): omfg it’s covid. this isn’t rocket science stop burying your heads in the sand. the experts told you this was going to happen and you ignored them, now it’s happening and you’re performing confusion. it’s covid. and soon it’ll be bird flu on an immunocompromised population.
• mykola (2024-04-06): like, every time you get covid you roll the dice and in a bad roll you’re here. “wear a mask!” isn’t political signaling, it’s trying to save your quality of life. please. please wear a mask.
• mykola (2024-04-07): i worry about him and his brother, growing up into covid and now bird flu, climate collapse and rising fascism. tryna figure out how i can support them, be the cool mentor/supporter in the wings. i’m crying, holding this memory and feeling the love. grateful for my healing.
• askyatharth (2024-04-08): same way covid was the anti-meme to anything vaccination and safety-related being taken seriously in the us. total discredit. what can scientists do now
• askyatharth (2024-04-08): yoooo this is like when the crystal hippie lady tells the universe to make covid go away but with christian preacher aesthetics
• mykola (2024-04-08): these kids were abandoned to school shootings and then subjected to repeated infections with covid, all while being lied to. when they have had enough you think “hey i’m not a republican” is gonna save you? they know, that’s why you get the benefit of a tribunal.
• mykola (2024-04-08): i understand why people say “gen z is gonna save us” but when the dam breaks about covid denial gen z (and younger) are going to hold everyone else accountable, and y’all are frankly not ready for that salvation. they don’t have superpowers they were raised as sacrifices.
• mykola (2024-04-08): you think covid is over? show me the peer reviewed medical paper that makes that case. did you, like, think there was one? i’ll wait. or did you just stop masking in feb 2022 after the paper that said black and brown people are more likely to die?
• mykola (2024-04-08): you think gen z is going to save you, but you think salvation means protection from reality? you think you can vote for biden, whose covid policies were literally worse than bleach face, and that’s that sorted? you did your part? you think this goes away?
• mykola (2024-04-08): that doesn’t mean your white ass is magically immune it means demographics with fewer resources have to work the shittiest jobs and get the worst health care. covid kills the poor people who serve you in restaurants you fuckers. oh i’m sorry, did you want to eat in peace?
• mykola (2024-04-10): it’s covid. it’s covid! fuck’s sake it’s covid! please wear a mask!!!
• mimi10v3 (2024-04-12): i was lonely a year into covid, and i think it has changed me a lot for the better- matured and gained confidence and learned social lessons that i had missed by skipping high school
• mykola (2024-04-15): he’s a harvard professor of psychology and brain science. you can’t make this up. somewhere our entire civilization went very wrong. it wasn’t 2020 - covid is just revealing it. the people with all of the authority seem to have insulated themselves from all feedback.
• friedkielbasa (2024-04-20): fortunately this is changing since covid. i'm interested to see what happens when you can make (a lot) more money as a ev charger installing electrician than as a pro emailer
• mykola (2024-04-22): if the democrats are this fucking evil then i am horrified at what the republicans have waiting in the wings. where are the covid-safe anti-genocide organizers in central ohio? i need to get more involved.
• mykola (2024-04-23): i’ve mostly recovered from finally catching covid in january, but a new special feature in my life is that if i have a few beers my muscles *ache* the next day - specifically my legs. i’ve tried to ignore but i think i need to add alcohol to weed in the “not anymore” pile. 😒
• jd_pressman (2024-04-24): government hands out covid stimulus checks by running the money printer? the dollar is devalued by 20-30% and food prices (and everything else) mysteriously rise 20-30% in price? how dare all these big corporations price gauge people in an emergency!
• profoundish (2024-04-27): fever today 🤒 covid tests morning and evening both came back negative but it's still taking a lot out of me, spent all day in bed, barely eaten anything. feeling a bit better now but temp still up.
• nosilverv (2024-04-28): who is this guy whose blog post determined the elites response to covid? how does he keep pushing out viral material? who's behind him?
• nobu_hibiki (2024-05-01): i've always knew that i'm not meant to write. i don't like words and writing have always been a thing i'm not particularly good at. it's just so be that the roll of the universe made it so that text is the best way for me to be when there wasn't much room to during covid.
• nobu_hibiki (2024-05-01): now that covid is a distant memory, and everyone have already moved on in their lives, i question my position here. not just on this site, but on this world, because precious moments that was meant to cement where i belong got swept up under me.
• billiamfrances (2024-05-03): oh 1 other thing: i’d really love meet others with long covid, me/cfs, or other things causing brain fog, especially if you’re into meditation and embodiment practices. i really could use others who “get it” and want to find ways of connecting that are less draining on our brains
• puheenix (2024-05-03): i used to tweet bullshit sentences like this from my parents’ basement during covid lockdown kinda cringe, but it led gradually to finding my friends and building the life i want to live if you’re tweeting this bs, start spending quality time (even on zoom) with people you like
• mykola (2024-05-04): is there a good dating app these days? i’m not holding out hope for an app with covid cautious feature support, but like, one that is used by cool people and doesn’t charge a fortune?
• billiamfrances (2024-05-06): one of the more shocking things last year was taking my mom to get immunotherapy and we were among maybe 10% or less of the people in a giant room of cancer patients wearing masks. it should’ve been standard practice •before• covid, it’s appalling now
• tr_babb (2024-05-07): the body abounds with software errors i had an upper respiratory virus this past winter (covid negative), and my throat got very sore since healing, discomfort (not pain) with swallowing has lingered. my throat felt like it wasn't fully clearing saliva
• maxdiffusionrl (2024-05-07): even 2020, the year of covid, was a really happy year compared with this year i've been growing progressively sadder each passing year
• sarahamcmanus (2024-05-08): feels like the reports of folks fixing post-covid anosmia / parosmia / sense-of-smell troubles with psychedelics should go in the same bucket!
• justavagrant_ (2024-05-11): i lived in a 40+ fraternity house in college, i got people to live together for years after post grad, i got a dozen friends to colive together thru covid, ive put together multi week/month long international trips/coliving. people get disgruntled
• aleksil79 (2024-05-11): what if long covid was a dark night of the bodymindsoul
• mykola (2024-05-14): autistics are frankly over represented in the covid-conscious community. at this point it’s almost diagnostic.
• mykola (2024-05-14): also like heads up. this tweet is about autistic people being over represented in covid cautious spaces. this tweet is not saying only autistic people wear masks, nor is it saying all autistic people are covid safe. it says only what it says.
• visakanv (2024-05-15): 9/11 (2001) and covid-19 (~2020) were obviously two of the biggest events of their time. what's the biggest event that occurred in between the two? interpret "biggest" however you like, just curious to hear what people's personal answers would be
• mykola (2024-05-15): i’ve been trying so hard to connect with people and like, i love my online community but i need more connection in physical space. but i don’t do it, even when it feels like i could. part of that is covid fear, but if i’m honest a part of it is just… i’m tired of being hurt.
• mykola (2024-05-15): i’ve got a few people in the world i see some times, but they all kinda seem to think i’m crazy for taking covid precautions. i’m casually chatting to a couple of people on hinge, which is neat? life itself feels like the simulation is loading and i just gotta wait?
• inkolore_ (2024-05-15): going to write the rest up until the present tomorrow. few notes for future me: - covid happened on my 3rd year, when i was 20. didn't impact me that much actually - driving was a huge emotional blow and huge trauma activator - disdain of academia and society building up
• mykola (2024-05-18): democrats don’t give a shit. biden has been worse on covid than trump and that’s staggering. this isn’t a red/blue thing the empire is doing a genocide.
• mykola (2024-05-18): this confused me too until i finally came to understand that people hoard specific ignorance like it was gold. people don’t want to know about covid, don’t want to know about fascism, don’t want to know how they hurt you. ignorance lets them maintain their desired narratives.
• mykola (2024-05-18): our stories are still being written, will be until we die. as unconscious authors we reject those constraints that we feel will keep us from writing the ending we want. this is why everyone is acting like covid is over. because the truth is ego-dystonic.
• mykola (2024-05-21): i needed so much help that i was never able to articulate or secure. like being buried alive in ptsd and dissociation and burnout, the core of me in there somewhere but trapped, unable to speak. and once i finally started figuring out how to heal covid happened and. well.
• alex_with_ease (2024-05-21): feeling grateful that i still have access to the peace i found during the jhana retreat earlier this year even now with getting covid. 🪷 may all beings be healthy and at peace
• benpence (2024-05-21): 2. i found out the day before the event that the cold i had the week before was actually covid. the discussion about how the community should deal with covid was hard. a non-trivial number of people got sick in the end. still thinking about this, the tradeoffs, consent/boundaries
• positive_loop (2024-05-21): help i got the sudden urge to listen to linkin park! is that a possible side effect of covid?
• mykola (2024-05-22): had a call with @sam_sundius today and it was great. did an exercise where i imagined being in community with someone who saw the hard shit, covid conscious etc. they helped me consider myself in relation to that person, and from there transitioning to parts work with that part.
• mykola (2024-05-22): god damn it i am gonna have to build the covid cautious dating app myself, huh? warning you now it’s going to be so autistic-friendly…
• mykola (2024-05-22): i’m thinking: - standard profile stuff, but including neurotype and long covid stuff. - space for online-only or online-at-first connections. - features around organizing and mutual aid - regular hosted video-call “socials” to meet people casually
• mykola (2024-05-22): - space to describe your capacities and expectations for social energy, comms, etc. - extensible to go beyond just covid. this would be a connection app for a failing society. call it falltogether? 🤔
• mykola (2024-05-22): followed by “your covid precautions are paranoid, i haven’t been sick in forever!” and it’s like, you were just sick last month, you told me about it, but i’m not even gonna say anything at this point.
• easoncxz (2024-05-22): next goal: heal from covid. 😷
• easoncxz (2024-05-22): is the covid in the cuddle room of the flirt variant? 👄
• kindgracekind (2024-05-23): broke: debating the zoo/lab origins of covid-19 woke: debating the zoo/lab status of earth itself
• easoncxz (2024-05-23): i've just paid €8.9 for one (1) covid rat kit from a nearby pharmacy. covid seems to still be of no concern in finland right now. 💩
• malcolm_ocean (2024-05-25): interesting thread on how the art world (of cinema at least) doesn't seem to be particularly keen to set films in a timeline that has covid in it (please post counterexamples!)
• mykola (2024-05-25): honest covid question, i have been going with the idea that outdoors it’s relatively safe not to mask unless i’m in a crowd. i’m seeing people lately saying that that’s not true, and i feel like i missed a memo - is eg meeting a friend in the park not safe?
• moissanist (2024-05-25): got hit by a bat praying for no covid
• archived_videos (2024-05-25): i think it's more of a "covid had good parts" than "covid was good"
• archived_videos (2024-05-25): still remember when we had a presentation on covid by doctors and someone asked why did they sacrifice the mental health of the young for the physical health of the old and there was a silence
• rikardhjort (2024-05-26): i’m also not completely making this up. i called my friends and family every week during covid. once i stopped only grandma occasionally calls back. same pattern as being a child and inviting people to play. i didn’t get a bachelor party (my wife had a surprise bachelorette…
• easoncxz (2024-05-27): my covid rat result is now negative, as expected. i've probably been rat-negative for ~2 days. total covid-positive time was about 4 days (tues-fri). it'll probably take another ~2 weeks for my respiratory system to get back to normal.
• easoncxz (2024-05-28): my covid has now progressed to the point of becoming the equivalent of the long-tail of a common cold. more specifically, i think it's at that point that the most effective therapeutic intervention is to go for a slow run to activate some cardio. 🏃
• easoncxz (2024-05-28): but, anyway! happy to have completed two loops around the island, total of about 5km, without any pain or suffering. if i do this on 5 more days, i should be recovered from covid. 😎👍
• mykola (2024-05-29): biden normalizing genocide with american weapons has so many layers of horror behind it. i can’t help but feel like this is - like his genocidal covid policies - driven by global warming. the powers that be have chosen to let the masses die. silence re gaza misses this.
• mykola (2024-06-01): i get why people stopped taking covid precautions. i won’t do it, but i get it. there is something so important about gathering to eat and drink and make music and *connect* and i haven’t felt it in a really long time. i miss the before times.
• goblinodds (2024-06-02): - been in close proximity to 3 coughing ppl i better not get covid again 💀
• mbateman (2024-06-03): putting aside the object-level issue for a moment, i think this is the only piece i’ve read on covid in the last 5 years that actually improved my epistemic hygiene. it’s a really excellent argument.
• mbateman (2024-06-03): putting aside the object-level issue for a moment, i think this is the only piece i’ve read on covid, across almost 5 years, that actually improved my epistemic hygiene. it’s a truly excellent argument.
• not_a_hot_girl (2024-06-04): does anyone in the us (ideally new york, philly, or vibecamp) have a use for a buttload of covid texts that expire in august? i got a bunch for free
• goblinodds (2024-06-04): idk if he means government oversight or what for a few weeks, covid really had me thinking "here's a clear use case for a central government!" and pretty quickly it seemed clear that the apparatus only made things *worse*
• daniellefong (2024-06-04): getting the scraps of satisfaction as some in the media and government anti misinformation apparatus are eating crow appropriately i was hit by a shadowban for covid reporting, not even specifically by a lab leak. chinese nationals were threatening my grandmother on facebook…
• daniellefong (2024-06-04): getting the scraps of satisfaction as some in the media and government anti misinformation apparatus are eating crow appropriately i was hit by a shadowban for covid reporting, not even specifically for discussing a lab leak. chinese nationals were threatening my grandmother on…
• mykola (2024-06-04): broke: covid was created in a lab as a bioweapon woke: covid’s origins are immaterial, it has become weaponized against civilian populations. bespoke: damn it carter stop bringing shiny objects through the stargate this one finally broke containment and now we’re cooked.
• daniellefong (2024-06-05): this point about nobody really pricing in the implications that are in front of them is a common refrain. i saw this a lot in covid, and i see it here again
• nobu_hibiki (2024-06-07): story set in covid maybe? global pandemic and you delve in by playing on twitter lmao
• algekalipso (2024-06-07): do you think 5-meo-dmt has potential as a post-covid recovery tool?
• justavagrant_ (2024-06-08): oh wow and camp covid in 2021, when i colived with ~a dozen friends for 5 months during covid - that was a 2nd iteration already - when i left i was like "i need bigger guns", and coliving was "bigger guns", but i wasn't prepared to responsibly wield bigger guns
• mykola (2024-06-08): i’ve been invited to a party tonight by a friend. we are in the middle of a covid surge. i haven’t been to a party since the before times. i am so desperately lonely i am considering going anyway.
• mykola (2024-06-10): the mandalorian not removing his helmet in front of others hits different four years into covid masking.
• m_ashcroft (2024-06-11): i cut my long hair and i can feel the final vestiges of covid times leaving my body
• yashkaf (2024-06-12): you see how submissive someone is when popular mores flip: when the queen bees announce the previously cool girl is now haram, when covid masks switch form racist to mandatory, etc. the "trustworthy" flip on a dime with the popular tide, the "untrustworthy" stay constant
• yashkaf (2024-06-13): really my dream job is joining @leopoldasch's investment company i have a track of record of outpredicting the crowd (covid, ukraine, sports gambling), experience in fin markets (two hedge funds inc. jane street), and a decade of public rationalist integrity cred hire me, leo!
• mykola (2024-06-15): this is why the paradoxical truth that long covid can actually be *worse* for people with mild/no symptoms. the hurt/harm distinction matters a lot. sometimes it’s important to hurt to avoid harm.
• christophcsmith (2024-06-15): one of the sadder economic side effects of covid was the death of the american salad bar.
• igorbrigadir (2024-06-17): covid?! i hardly cough it!
• chercher_ai (2024-06-17): ok disagreeableness discourse cancelled- turns out i just have covid
• gptbrooke (2024-06-18): (no covid here but will test again tomorrow)
• daniellefong (2024-06-18): low key i feel like my body is doing this to covid or smthing
• br___ian (2024-06-18): why don't you have covid anon? are you not deep enough in the social graph?
• slimepriestess (2024-06-18): no covid for meee
• daniellefong (2024-06-18): i would like for ai regulatory body advocates (e.g. sb 1047.) to make their case, with regards to how horribly the governments acted during covid. we're now hearing about the suspicious financing of groups pursuing gain of function experiments, of censorious regime covering up…
• daniellefong (2024-06-18): i would like for ai regulatory body advocates (e.g. sb 1047.) to make their case, with regards to how horribly the governments acted during covid. we're now hearing about the suspicious financing of groups pursuing gain of function experiments, of censorious regime covering up…
• daniellefong (2024-06-18): i would like for ai regulatory body advocates (e.g. sb 1047.) to make their case, with regards to how horribly the governments acted during covid. we're now hearing about the suspicious financing of groups pursuing gain of function experiments, of censorious regime covering up…
• blunderbussted (2024-06-18): everyone who caught covid is a pussy
• blunderbussted (2024-06-18): when i cry in public it is a masculine act i would never deign to catch covid
• blunderbussted (2024-06-18): it's okay for me to say this because i have a lot of friends who caught covid
• danielbrottman (2024-06-19): does anyone have ideas for how covid risk could be mitigated without it being a mega bummer? i wear a mask many places but they really suck for socializing. maybe even just a mandatory rapid test upon arrival would help, idk. air filters in the teahouse or somethin
• georgepunished (2024-06-19): me dodging the vc3 covid
• princevogel (2024-06-19): i have this sneaking suspicion that the latest round of covid is tanking people's alcohol tolerance
• pepijndevos (2024-06-19): vibecamp/jesscamp/pepicamp ghb: ✔️✔️❌ covid: ✔️✔️❌ trebuchet: ✔️❌❌
• richdecibels (2024-06-19): flashback to the moment we were managing a covid outbreak at an event and one of the guests sincerely notified us not to worry about them because they had been granted immunity by mother ayahuasca
• danielbrottman (2024-06-19): the ol "did i also catch covid or did i just barely sleep for a week"
• daniellefong (2024-06-19): looking at the caiso electricity price map every morning like it's the old covid dashboards...
• emergentvibe (2024-06-19): if vibecamp ain't taking covid precautions next year i ain't comin
• danielbrottman (2024-06-20): fresh negative covid test! phew
• eigenrobot (2024-06-20): holy shit no wonder media went all in on covid lockdown their existence depends on keeping boomers alive for as long as possible
• georgepunished (2024-06-21): looks like i didn’t escape covid after all. heads up for folks.
• daniellefong (2024-06-21): jcal on the all in podcast being about as direct as can be about covid origins and cover up, trump going in with “i always believed it was the wuhan lab” and then blithering on and on about leaving the who funding and the deal he could have gotten… ugh. how can this be the best…
• inkolore_ (2024-06-21): another one is "nonessential worker" used during the covid-19 crisis, which implies that many jobs are so nonessential (borderline bullshit) that they suddenly aren't needed when we can't be physically close to one another
• chercher_ai (2024-06-21): working on fixing my covid smell loss using meditation and essential oils
• daniellefong (2024-06-21): people misunderstand how they were mislead by social media and mainstream media, during covid. if you were on twitter in early jan - feb or in chinese/hong kong diaspora chat groups, you would have quickly gotten the memo. it was only after ~feb 4th 2020 when the ccp emerged…
• daniellefong (2024-06-21): people misunderstand how they were mislead by social media and mainstream media, during covid. if you were on twitter in early jan - feb or in chinese/hong kong diaspora chat groups, you would have quickly gotten the memo. it was only after ~feb 4th 2020 when the ccp emerged…
• daniellefong (2024-06-22): learned less than nothing from covid: governments are useless and will get away with failing
• mykola (2024-06-22): if you’d told me how lonely i’d be at 41 after the years i spent trying to make connections with others work i’d have thought you were just being mean. i get that covid safety is a massive contributing factor i just. never thought i could feel this cut off.
• mykola (2024-06-22): trying to date has been nothing but disappointment and rejection. connecting with old friends is nice in some ways but literally nobody takes covid seriously and it’s limiting. my family is… well, i need to be extra grounded to spend time with them, that’s hard mode.
• not_a_hot_girl (2024-06-23): access to a 5-pack of covid tests for two euros
• visakanv (2024-06-23): 4. a lot of things that are valuable in hindsight seem mundane in the moment. was thinking particularly about things like, keeping a covid diary. “who cares?” if you care, that’s good enough. so much of the value of these things is non-obvious, non-apparent until much later
• paul_melman (2024-06-23): is there anything you can do if you think you might have been exposed to covid? took some nattokinase and zinc and got a good night's sleep
• pepijndevos (2024-06-24): on the positive side i managed to not get covid for over 1500 days, and hopefully my choices will lead to an uneventful case. fever peaked on the first day and feels like i'm getting better. i'm more worried about lingering issues.
• mr_samosaman (2024-06-26): weirdly, delivery services keep coming back as a thing in my life. i started a nonprofit once that built 20k face shields in first 5 months of covid thru the power of home delivery. we’d deliver a construction kit to volunteers on fri and pick up the finished shields on mon.
• christineist (2024-06-26): me: *dying in bed* oh nooooooo am i sick???? covid test: no me: oh, okay🥰 *gets up and goes about day normally*
• mykola (2024-06-28): maybe someone who isn’t a committed zionist, someone who isn’t going to expand fossil fuel investment, someone who isn’t a covid denier?
• daniellefong (2024-06-29): in my estimation, as with covid, the binary question with this h5n1 bird flu thing is, in human to human transmission, is r reasonably > 1+, is it's transmitting to many; once it is, ~it will be a pandemic. we don't know any of that right now, but i sure hope we don't give it…
• daniellefong (2024-06-30): the un is completely fucking cooked, man taliban executing women for speaking out agains this & you acquiesce to these requests?? un absolutely covered for chinese covid cover up efforts, it’s basically a subverted, corrupted institution and i’m tired of ppl pretending otherwise
• daniellefong (2024-06-30): “oh don’t prevent flights from china during a pandemic we refuse to announce! it will make it harder to investigate covid origins delays the trip _ two years _ and doesn’t even visit the wuhan institute for virology
• nathanpmyoung (2024-07-01): my rough sense is covid is underrated. even .1% chance of long covid seems awful. and a week of sickness is annoying too. it is comparatively cheap to wear a high quality mask in confined spaces, take a test if i'm sick and eat outside sometimes.
• pepijndevos (2024-07-03): smell is coming back, metallic taste gone, generally feeling better, covid test is negative, still coughing a bit. i'm reading conflicting things about how long you're contagious. i have family coming over and they're weird about masks. they'll tell me don't bother but... idk.
• cxgonzalez (2024-07-03): some theories: -people are touching grass/covid phenomenon -successful post-ratification of people, fewer insights -elon killing links->less cross pollination with blogs
• iaimforgoat (2024-07-03): this comment is unfortunately *very* relatable too... but this goes way behond covid, i've felt this kind of wonky lagged memory retrieval lag many times and at different degrees of impact. i do not know what modulated it tho
• justavagrant_ (2024-07-04): any 4th of july recs for someone testing positive for covid
• elodesnl (2024-07-05): a friend of mine is hoping to do mdma soon, but is suffering from intense long covid — headaches every evening, and whenever she misses a 10-minute rest every two hours. is it safe for her to take mdma, or has anyone heard of this going wrong?
• nunosempere (2024-07-05): here is a case study of a german doctor who developed a covid vaccine fast, but then got stopped by the german state. full link in next tweet.
• daniellefong (2024-07-05): academia can afford this, but they won't stanford has an endowment of more than two million dollars per student. princeton has almost 4 million per student. during covid, afaict they weren't investing vs covid, the nih wasn't investing, it was down to fast grants and scattered,…
• daniellefong (2024-07-07): this is the natural way of things. if you try to suppress the 100 bro scientists you also suppress the cracked anons you get covid denialism from the institutions and a scholastic priesthood keeps all the hanky gain of function research they did quiet
• mattdsegal (2024-07-08): covid handed a golden opportunity to weebs everywhere and we blew it... we fucking blew it
• daniellefong (2024-07-08): back in the 20 teens i would rant about the enbubbled dysfunction of our institutions, and people were like, you're crazy, you're actually crazy. post covid and post this absolute leadership debacle by democrats, you know, we had tens of millions dead, we lost years of our…
• daniellefong (2024-07-08): back in the 20 teens i would rant about the enbubbled dysfunction of our institutions, and people were like, you're crazy, you're actually crazy. post covid and post this absolute leadership debacle by democrats, you know, we had tens of millions dead, we lost years of our…
• daniellefong (2024-07-08): still tripping that i posted this pretty much exactly when the 2020 financial crash started "on 20 february 2020, stock markets across the world suddenly crashed after growing instability due to the covid-19 pandemic. it ended on 7 april 2020."
• workflowsauce (2024-07-08): sort of reminds me of when i had covid and i was interviewing for a job. i could feel my brain not working, but i just showed up and tried anyway, and somehow i got the job. it’s like…the part of my brain that evaluates its own performance and abilities is actually broken.
• alcentian_one (2024-07-09): 3. they will remind you of what you are 4. children are a true constant in life & u likely will be around them in the future i reckon a lot of people are scared of children, perhaps men in particular i know i was after covid tbh, hadnt interacted w them in years
• ultimape (2024-07-09): gf's mom got a positive covid antigen test and now gf has a fever and is coughing. i got a sore throat. so i guess i'm making a thread on bluesky about how we are treating it. i am not a doctor.
• daniellefong (2024-07-09): 1984 has been read as an instruction manual read this, and watch manufacturing consent, and try to dig into the history of narrative control around covid
• mykola (2024-07-12): twitter you’re basically my best friend. get on this. i need a covid-safe neurodivergent cutie in ohio by the end of the year. she has to challenge me but also appreciate me, and expect same. *gestures vaguely* you know what i mean. get on it. don’t let me down!
• alexkrusz (2024-07-12): based on the best current research, what are the risks that an _average_ case of covid will affect the heart and brain longterm? it's annoying sifting through stuff that's either pre-omicron, or motivated by a desire to believe that covid is over or that it's airborne aids.
• mykola (2024-07-12): this motherfucker was worse on covid than trump and if you’d told me that that was going to be the case four years ago i wouldn’t have straight up not understood how that was possible. he was genocide joe even before the ethnic cleansing in palestine.
• daniellefong (2024-07-12): outdoor dining was one of the only positive development from covid, and city governments rolled it back, like idiots
• visakanv (2024-07-13): many people have already forgotten things like what it was like when trump was running for president, and what covid was like while we were living through it full of unknowns, before there was a vaccine available, etc. many ppl forget sexism before 2017, homophobia before 2015,
• sunriseoath (2024-07-14): it feels like something broke in my brain ever since thursday. i wonder if this is some effect from long covid or something. it honestly feels like i am no longer the same person. i missed so many cues during that concert. things i never missed during practice, that i winged.
• mykola (2024-07-18): if we want people to take covid seriously we need things like: 1) a collective public memorial, that acknowledges the grief and loss. 2) public conversations that give people permission to feel the pain and fear. 3) models of people changing their hearts, celebrated by others.
• mykola (2024-07-18): but that’s what i think about with covid. the neurotypicals require permission to act as if covid is real, and our society’s leaders are choosing not to give it to them. we need a memorial, not to mark the end of covid but to give people permission to face it.
• alightcone (2024-07-18): with covid and it’s going to be my excuse to drop out of the race and let some other sucker take the l.
• eigenrobot (2024-07-19): what are the odds someone or someones among the dems infected biden with covid deliberately
• goblinodds (2024-07-19): it's funny how things work out, this only happened bc covid pushed me to move out of my mom's place and in with my then-bf (who was reluctant af about it) so my mom decided to move to florida, so when we broke up i had to move in with my dad to be able to stick around ca
• goblinodds (2024-07-19): it's funny how things work out, this only happened bc covid pushed me to move out of my mom's place and in with my then-bf (who was reluctant af about it) so my mom decided to move to florida, so when we broke up i had to move in with my dad to be able to stick around ca
• algekalipso (2024-07-19): covid should have been the universal rallying flag to get rid of factory farming. as it stands, factory farms are not only perhaps the largest source of readily preventable suffering, but also a ticking bomb for future novel pandemics and antibiotic resistant bacteria.
• cocadonv (2024-07-20): what you notice 100% creates reality, because attention wants to be captured, and wants to be justified. covid, dating shit, politics. close your eyes
• archived_videos (2024-07-21): from sushi leader towa to making japanese people not respect rules around cheering (covid times) during the 3rd holofes
• ken67547214 (2024-07-21): boeing's problems were caused by ignorant middle-managers trying to cut costs. supply chain issues during covid, as well. crowdstrike's entire existence is due to the same managers. dei does not cause these problems. it's just another entry on this list, a way to churn labor.
• danielbrottman (2024-07-22): hey yall, a dharma friend of mine is struggling with long covid and in need of support, please consider pitching in 🙏🙏🙏
• eigenrobot (2024-07-23): read the dossier story and they make a bunch of easily testable claims about biden having a medical emergency, almost surely not just covid if the number of witnesses is like they're claiming, zero chance the lid stays on, right?
• eigenrobot (2024-07-23): so one easy alternative hypothesis is that las vegas just hyperreacted to a positive covid test because that's how the emergency system for presidential medical care works
• ultimape (2024-07-24): remember when we had good covid surveillance data? now we just get some weird chart. and if i click thru to the map it just links me to healthvermont[dot]gov with no additional data. fucking useless.
• ultimape (2024-07-24): new york times' covid tracking charts haven't been updated since march and tell you to go look at the cdc, linking to the useless weird chart.
• mykola (2024-07-24): public health initiatives were sabotaged and so many people literally don’t know the real dangers of covid because they were told “vaccinate and you’ll be fine” and stopped thinking about it. we need to relaunch public health broadly.
• mbateman (2024-07-25): the @patio11 interview on @dwarkesh_sp, mostly but not exclusively on his covid project, is simultaneously one of the most infuriating and inspiring things i’ve ever listened to. here’s my favorite bit, on ad hoc army colonels.
• eigenrobot (2024-07-26): i pulled a few thousand in cash before covid lockdown and stored it interspersed across a few books i have a lot of books i think ive found it all by this point but maybe the kids get lucky someday and find a vintage $100 bill and they'll be able to afford a happy meal or smth
• cxgonzalez (2024-07-29): my cofounder (who benches more than you btw) got covid and has been out of commission for almost 3 weeks now bc of stomach issues. apparently this is now common??
• maxdiffusionrl (2024-07-29): every university bookstore i've seen post-covid is way shittier than they were pre-covid (mit's is far worse, harvard's is worse, same with brownu and uwash...) i used to use them so much to discover new books
• the_wilderless (2024-07-30): still insane to me that the best decision of my adult life was to get addicted to twitter right before covid hit
• c_harwick (2024-08-01): imagine if covid hit and the response was to set up an agency dedicated to destigmatizing and normalizing it
• mbateman (2024-08-01): very strange feature of the political landscape that everyone’s covid takes got so fucked—the left wincing over various regrettable mandates plus de facto redlining, the right wincing over trump on vaccines—that no one on either side wants to relitigate or discuss it, ever
• mbateman (2024-08-01): in 2020, i would not have guessed that the most likely retrospective political outlook on covid would be “we will, on the basis of mutual embarrassment, reach universal bipartisan agreement to learn nothing, memoryhole everything, and not even attempt to score political points”
• mykola (2024-08-02): i’m just not interested in anyone’s outrage about how people advocate for covid safety when they don’t wear a mask in public indoor spaces. the whole message is “it’s a systemic problem (so never hold individuals [like me] accountable)” and that misses every point.
• mykola (2024-08-03): i honestly don’t know a single other musical act i’ve heard of consistently communicating well about covid. thanks, @deerhoof.
• leonbacud (2024-08-03): post convention covid: it never fails!
• leonbacud (2024-08-03): post convention covid: it never fails! should have wore that mask the whole time.
• leonbacud (2024-08-03): i'm getting #summerslammed with post-convention covid this year: it never fails! should have wore that mask the whole time.
• nido_kween (2024-08-04): watching the olympics is better when you don't have covid actually 🙂‍↕️
• daniellefong (2024-08-05): the vibepression: it’s the new covid
• mykola (2024-08-05): sometimes i think about how at this point in my life almost every person i see in meatspace is humoring me and trying not to say out loud that they think i’m a hypochondriac for taking covid seriously. if yall had any idea. any idea.
• mykola (2024-08-05): anyway, covid cautious people? i see you. and i want you to know that i know that you’re stronger than anyone around you can begin to understand. 💜💜
• mykola (2024-08-05): anyone got a source on the 1-in-37 americans have covid stat going around?
• leonbacud (2024-08-07): this #paxlovid is some good shit. it cured my covid in two days.
• daniellefong (2024-08-08): making your own pickled red onion is my fav covid era cooking hack. such useful contrast w color, texture, flavor, costs ~nothing and you can spice it any way you like
• patio11 (2024-08-09): funny enough, zvi was actually something of a childhood hero of mine due to his exploits in magic: the gathering. and so the internet has a funny way of bringing geeks back together. (i re-encountered him some 30 years later when he was on the covid beat.)
• alightcone (2024-08-10): jo jo siwafication i wish i could use glossolalia to come up with a new mouth sound to touch the nature of reality. but this is what i got. i have covid btw.
• ultimape (2024-08-11): "accelerated epigenetic aging is associated with the risk of sars-cov-2 infection and developing severe covid-19. in addition, the accumulation of epigenetic aging from covid-19 may contribute to the post-covid-19 syndrome" [2022]
• ultimape (2024-08-11): "inflammation is a key common player in covid-19 and [the acute radiation syndrome], and drives the multi-system damage that dramatically alters biological homeostasis." so, what do we do about inflammation?
• ultimape (2024-08-11): what could be happening here? "researchers of a new letter are highlighting the rare potential of acquired hemophilia a (aha) following covid-19 and covid-19 vaccination."
• ultimape (2024-08-12): if you got long covid, its like you are trying to survive being irradiated by depleted uranium? b a n a n a s
• igorbrigadir (2024-08-13): this is super interesting to me too. deeply ingrained behaviour on dublin bus, but huge decrease recently post covid measures with stricter “no exiting from the front” change in flow 🤔
• qiaochuyuan (2024-08-14): last time i took this long a break from twitter and came back it felt like it took me a month to reconnect to my twitter neurons but it doesn't feel like that at all this time so i think last time i must've been dealing with some post-covid brain fog or some shit
• ultimape (2024-08-14): now the weird idea... the reason this thread is here on the mousu~ is because at the time, a covid variant was identified as likely stemming from a mouse and this meme road that wave of energy and attention.
• ultimape (2024-08-14): am i scrying for more information about covid, or is my brain thinking of something else.
• lithros (2024-08-15): how much alcohol should you drink when you have covid? asking for an enemy
• ultimape (2024-08-15): is it any wonder that we are seeing accelerated aging in people with covid?
• tasshinfogleman (2024-08-16): tomorrow: - participant-led workshops - local volunteering (although our plans for this need to change... we were going to volunteer at a local elderly facility but they have had a covid outbreak and are on lockdown) - movie night!
• transkatgirl (2024-08-16): they aren’t entirely sure what the fuck was wrong with me, but all of the tests were normal enough that i could go home oh, i also now have covid, on top of my other non-specific mystery issues
• ultimape (2024-08-17): there's a lot of complexity here, and a lot of the species of butyrate producers aren't well understood, but some of the fundamental ones that seem to go missing after covid seem to love acetate and lactate as a fuel source.
• justavagrant_ (2024-08-17): the latter half she spoke to more in a way that i could connect to, like escaping during covid. however i don’t actually know her later music so rip 😅
• transkatgirl (2024-08-18): day two of covid: my sense of smell is a lot weaker than normal and everything tastes like shit
• pepijndevos (2024-08-18): i think i'll give peter's book a critical read. i'm open to other suggestions. may i remind you i'm the only person in my family who got the covid vaccine after extensive study. i'm actually open to being convinced either way. i'm not open to blindly trusting the government.
• transkatgirl (2024-08-19): day three of covid: i think things are slowly getting better? maybe???
• mykola (2024-08-19): 2020 was going to be my year. i had a whole big plan. i know some people don’t think covid is a big deal, but like. it not only destroyed that plan it broke the board and then the table. it destroyed the underlying concept of my plans, nullified that future entirely.
• mykola (2024-08-19): these days i’m past being mad about it. it happened. the damage it did was done, and is ongoing for various people, including me in some ways. but also, covid became a great teacher of mine. it has taught me… so much. every aspect of covid has been a whole-asa education.
• transkatgirl (2024-08-20): fuck it, after i recover from covid i'm going to go back to wearing n95s on public transit / when traveling this shit is not worth it
• transkatgirl (2024-08-20): also, getting covid has made them way more fucking frequent for some reason uhhhh i hope this goes back to normal after i get better
• transkatgirl (2024-08-20): day 4 of covid: huh, the symptoms are mostly over now. i don’t remember it being this quick last time. i still have a cough and my nose occasionally becomes stuffy sometimes, but that’s about it.
• billiamfrances (2024-08-21): i started working with @findradiance back in june and so far the results have been stellar for dealing with long covid (me/cfs). my physical energy returned first, within a couple weeks i was walking 6k-10k steps a day without crashes (impossible before) and spontaneously got 1/
• ultimape (2024-08-24): s/gene/meme/ memetic parasitism. ergo... i can research covid by looking up cute videos of japanese mouse girls and finding out where they are trending.
• iaimforgoat (2024-08-26): covid nostalgia will be such a huge thing. humans are funny.
• gptbrooke (2024-08-27): you can also access her content (she’s phenomenal) thru her portal if you’re just curious & want to learn what you can in a self-directed way (less than $40/month iirc) her 12 mo program is half off until the end of the year though! she’s just picking it back up after covid
• johnsonmxe (2024-08-29): suggestive evidence that nattokinase would help reduce brain inflammation in covid and long covid —
• mykola (2024-08-29): this is actually what i expect. the covid denialism comes from the fact that the truth is too difficult, and you can't accept just parts of it without challenging your entire just universe fallacy and holding all of the pain. so the worst it gets, the harder people will resist.
• ultimape (2024-08-29): if you pull on the web of ideas, you'll see that this is all predicated on solving biofilm formation tied to covid.
• mykola (2024-09-01): more of you than last week, in fact, because covid is a mass disabling event and you’ve been convinced to ignore it. so like. hmm.
• danielbrottman (2024-09-02): they should invent a covid where you're not contagious until 12 hours after you first have symptoms
• danielbrottman (2024-09-02): anywhooo i've got covid. farewell, carefully laid september plans! if anyone has recovery/easing symptoms advice, i ask for it
• danielbrottman (2024-09-02): when u have covid, the other ppl on twitter who have covid become ur little covid cohort and u understand each others very tired tweets
• danielbrottman (2024-09-03): i recommend against getting covid
• danielbrottman (2024-09-03): covid silver linings: i’m supposed to lay in bed all day on my computer, , reading books, taking naps. it's my job
• danielbrottman (2024-09-03): started watching rings of power for my covid show but i feel like it gets my heart rate up and that's the opposite of what i'm trying to do. might stick to chess/scrabble and reading etc but if anyone has cozy not too high energy shows to rec lmk
• danielbrottman (2024-09-03): covid tweets, or, "cweets,"
• nunosempere (2024-09-04): with $100k i can run pour my soul into an emergency response team with $10k i can tell you the next covid a month beforehand 10% of the time with $1k i can make a loan to a talented person down on their luck with $100 i can analyze your life's problems in an hour with $10 i can…
• ultimape (2024-09-05): how common is this? how likely is it that the spike protein we find in long-covid feces a sign of a systemic problem tied to clots and inflammation?
• ultimape (2024-09-05): "a number of studies have indicated some people with long covid do not fully clear sars-cov-2 from their body. viral “reservoirs” show up in the gut, blood, and elsewhere." [apr 2024] wake up
• danielbrottman (2024-09-06): my body has vanquished covid get fucked, covid
• danielbrottman (2024-09-06): not 100% better yet for *sure,* but the fever has been gone for 36 or so hours, and other symptoms drastically improving. might get a bit worse again during the night, we'll see also i think long covid symptoms can set in long after the acute phase ends but shhhhhhh 🤞🤞🤞
• danielbrottman (2024-09-06): some people seem to be of the attitude that covid is no big deal - it sucks but hey, i got over the worst of it in like 4-5 days, right? i mean i hope that's all it is. but i think i've read that it can have damaging effects on various organs throughout the body,
• danielbrottman (2024-09-06): and these can compound with repeat infections. sorry i'm not finding a succinct ideal source for this atm and i need to go to sleep here. does that really add up to anything? idk. maybe it's not that big a deal to get covid every other year. or maybe it is actually a big deal
• danielbrottman (2024-09-06): alright time for my post-breakfast covid-recovery nap
• mykola (2024-09-06): the way i am going to have a month-log sobbing fit out of pure relief if we find a way to actually prevent covid.
• mykola (2024-09-08): you’re so afraid and so angry. i get it. it’s just that you are confused about what you’re afraid of and angry about. i get that too. i watched covid destroy the life of the person i loved most. your wishful thinking and performative rage mean less than nothing to me.
• maxdiffusionrl (2024-09-09): visited olin for the first time since covid! the campus is totally open and a giant makerspace and just has more room for anything than other campuses. auglab should visit sometime
• mykola (2024-09-10): covid is bad.
• forthrighter (2024-09-11): covid wasn't our only pandemic in recent memory; in that time, hiv (leading to aids) was too. granted hiv has been around longer, but for scale, hiv/aids has killed about 40 million so far; covid maybe 3 (both numbers worldwide)
• daniellefong (2024-09-11): covid really fucked us up
• thezvi (2024-09-13): i have covid and can't think straight today so i get to analyze gpt-4o1 while it plausibly is flat out smarter than me.
• ultimape (2024-09-17): sorry for being snarky. my gf has a thrush flair up again after catching covid and its reminding me of how her lung medication gave it to her last time. thankfully this time it's not causing her 180/96
• mykola (2024-09-18): any e know how i can find a covid safe psychiatrist in ohio? actually asking for a friend, needs someone who won’t treat their precautions as a symptom.
• archived_videos (2024-09-19): trying to figure out if the company that makes these ads is publicly traded and/or if they grew during covid
• zencephalon (2024-09-23): has anyone here already done a lot of research on long covid and how to recover from it? i've come to understand that a few people in my community suffer from it and i'd prefer that they didn't
• mykola (2024-09-24): any autistic folks in columbus ohio interested in a covid-cautious hangout? we’ll ask folks to test before hand and meet in a park?
• easoncxz (2024-09-24): oh no. i saw the possibility, didn't think it would happen, but it seems to be happening: i think i likely picked up an infection from this friend. ☹️☹️☹️ not sure if cold, flu, or covid. feels like covid actually. an entire week's of my scheduled plans might all be cancelled. ☹️
• ken67547214 (2024-09-26): in high dimensional spaces, covid is more contagious.
• nobu_hibiki (2024-09-27): anyway another path also got highlighted by listening to epic the musical, it's what i would have spent my life if... if... probably if covid didn't happen and i doubled down on the dance-theater-boardgame life i was fully embodying.
• pastaraspberry (2024-10-03): the fact that covid did actually impair cognitive abilities explains a lot about the current state of the world, right?
• mykola (2024-10-03): blargh i saw a friend without a mask, something i rarely do but i needed a social interaction, and two days later i hear that their partner's coworker has covid and like. god damn it.
• daniellefong (2024-10-03): is this the “don’t allow anyone else to test for covid except the fda, and by the way no tests are approved” and “you don’t need masks, leave these for medical professionals, and covid isn’r airborne, don’t fall for misinformation” or what
• mykola (2024-10-03): i've got a few folks in the skew north community call today talking about experiencing brainfog. not sure if autistic burnout or long covid or something else, but - what remedies have y'all found help with brainfog?
• ultimape (2024-10-04): thinking about my dad's weird diabetes spiking after he finally caught covid, and complications it brings to stroke resilience.
• mykola (2024-10-05): hey there was a study a while back that showed that covid rapid tests have about a 28% reliability, and that as such you need to test five days in a row to be sure - anyone got a link to the best source for those claims? is that still best wisdom?
• mykola (2024-10-05): is there a covid testing kit i can buy that’s like, reusable and reliable? a well-regarded at-home molecular test or similar?
• daniellefong (2024-10-07): natural brainpower deficit post covid :(
• ultimape (2024-10-08): gf got thrush again thanks to catching covid a few months ago.
• ultimape (2024-10-10): i don't make idle jokes. this place currently has a "buddhism for ai" program. attached is a screenshot from my email from before covid. @dthorson can confirm (he replied) i still want to do this.
• mykola (2024-10-10): taking a covid test, i feel like crap and it seems to be getting worse.
• daniellefong (2024-10-11): governments might have succeeded in containing covid if they weren't spending so much effort gaslighting the population, and themselves; now bringing back mask mandates? are you serious
• ultimape (2024-10-12): "mount sinai’s department of rehabilitation and human performance has been awarded a $2.6 million grant from polybio research foundation to support its work on “long covid,” the syndrome that can linger for months or years after an acute case of covid-19."
• igorbrigadir (2024-10-12): covid lockdown in the village damn.
• maxdiffusionrl (2024-10-15): uwaterloo people are so impressive: reminds me of the mcgill webring crowd that formed around the time of covid...
• imitationlearn (2024-10-15): (covid and flu) shots shots shots shots shots shots
• goblinodds (2024-10-17): my favorite part is like i used to always ride up front with uber drivers bc i get carsick but it seems like bad form post covid i dont have to worry abt that here
• goblinodds (2024-10-17): my favorite part is like i used to always ride up front with uber drivers bc i get carsick but it seems like bad form post covid i dont have to worry abt that here
• mykola (2024-10-20): every covid infection destroys your body in permanent ways. you probably recover from the chronic infection, sure. but you have accumulated damage that will inform your health for the rest of your life. in a few years it’ll be too much to deny. it’s already turning.
• mykola (2024-10-20): covid isn’t over, it’s not gone. people are starting to realize that they’ve been misled. how long are you going to wait until you start masking again? one more infection? two? five? what do you need to see? is the research not enough?
• ultimape (2024-10-24): the dual-use of monitoring for racism using large scale data tracking regimes (using the kind of data that the cdc hoovered up during early covid)... is not a good one.
• daniellefong (2024-10-29): emh post covid crash is like amazing ignorance imo
• mykola (2024-11-02): maintaining equanimity about the election by remembering that if trump does somehow win at least i get a society that suddenly starts opposing atrocity again, purely on in-group/out-group dynamics. hey maybe y’all would even take covid seriously again. do we need captain bleach?
• mykola (2024-11-06): looking forward to blue maga suddenly coming around on genocide and covid and like. i’m tired.
• _ceeeeeeee_ (2024-11-06): just imagine if both of his terms are marked by covid and a covid super-variant lmao
• mykola (2024-11-06): honestly this. if you don’t think you’re on team leopards-eating-faces but you’re ignoring covid and justifying genocide i have news for you. you just lack self-awareness imo.
• adic_9 (2024-11-06): number of women i personally know with post-covid autoimmune illnesses at an all time high. just putting that out there.
• maxdiffusionrl (2024-11-09): i can't believe that one of the smartest ppl on the planet (stephen hsu) is... maga [i mean, he's pretty fucking close with domenic cummings, so there were some signs] [also how can you forgive a president who managed covid so disastrously and whose first term was largely a…
• ultimape (2024-11-11): the grant? i wanted know if wiggly bois impact brain health factors tied to long-covid and monitor for vaccine/virus related fertility issues. that's right, got funded by a dog shitcoin (shiba inu).
• defenderofbasic (2024-11-14): this is kind of lame because i was hoping for something spiritual but it's just covid. sorry guys, back to the drawing board
• insidenima (2024-11-15): we will soon need memetic rehab clinics for crypto folks w memecoin mind viruses 🦠 the next covid-19 is already here and it's a social mind virus
• defenderofbasic (2024-11-15): we were against geoengineering our planet, until we had a natural experiment (with covid). we were against memetic engineering until we realized it's already happening, just not intentionally
• cocadonv (2024-11-18): all they know is how to lean in to the culture, so when the culture changes they either go through psychotic breaks because their identity collapses ("i don't know how to convince you to care about others"), or they mindlessly adopt the new norm as if nothing happened (covid).
• chrischipmonk (2024-11-23): what other examples of opportunities like this have there been since covid?
• pastaraspberry (2024-11-25): challenge for 2025: live whole year without ever learning a single thing about us, trump, elon, war in ukraine, russia, gaza, us-china relations, covid and ai safety while still being on top of what's happening in tech, ai/ml and human progress overall. maybe i'd go to instagram.
• billiamfrances (2024-11-27): 1 thing that saved me from getting worse from emotional strain as i was getting sicker with long covid was having lots of practice sharing in other people’s joy. friends sharing about good things didn’t feel like a reminder of my illness, it felt like love i could share in.
• ultimape (2024-12-06): > "he notes that butyrate, one of these metabolites, has been found to suppress inflammation and that gut bacterial species that produce butyrate metabolites, such as f prausnitzii, are less abundant in people with covid and long covid." [may 2024]
• blunderbussted (2024-12-07): hr was the first to go, then the concierge role. eventually they fired the head chef. covid hit. i became all of food and beverage for a bit while working the front desk too. we hired more people, but a couple renovations went through that were mid. things became worn out.
• ultimape (2024-12-12): > "a 2022 study present a theoretical framework of how covid-19 could influence the development of blood cancers. according to the researchers, an abnormal immune response to viral infections can indirectly trigger gene mutations that promote leukemia."
• mykola (2024-12-24): shout out to everyone spending christmas eve and christmas alone as a covid mitigation. i see you. you are not crazy, you are doing the right thing. treat yourself to some port if that’s your thing, and let’s all toast to better days.
• voooooogel (2024-12-24): i'm worried about h5n1, but people really need to stop uncritically quoting that 50% fatality rate number, *especially* if the cdc is bottlenecking testing like they did in early covid
• mykola (2024-12-25): tfw people react more to news about h5n1 infecting cats than covid (and h5n1) infecting humans. i see the defense mechanisms in play, universe, but it’s mean, ok? do better!
• mykola (2024-12-26): the trolls have found this post. sigh. look bud, if reading this makes you angry, or makes you feel sorry for me, or compels you to assert publicly that it’s unreasonable for anyone to care about covid, can you do me a favor and just, like, block me instead? please?
• mykola (2024-12-28): i had my first covid infection in january, finally stopped getting fevers in february, and got winded to the point of needing to go to bed after eg a grocery store run until may. other than that, zero. but like. that was enough? i mask and isolate so rarely been sick since 2020
• mykola (2024-12-28): i got covid because i made the choice to take a risk and saw people christmas eve unmasked where someone turned out to be covid positive. i was sick for 4-5 months and to this day don’t feel 100%. blargh.
• mykola (2024-12-29): oh. oh the covid denial and the climate denial and the genocide denial - lol oh, it’s the first stage of grief, playing out at scale. oh shit this is going to get ugly. i urge you to hasten your processing, we need critical mass at acceptance fast.
• mykola (2024-12-29): after denial comes bargaining. some folks are there. covid: “i’ll wear a mask if there’s a surge”, “i got vaccinated (and refuse to listen to anyone saying it doesn’t prevent transmission)”. climate: “i drive a hybrid.” genocide: “two state solution!”
• mykola (2024-12-29): then there’s anger. (it’s important to realize that these stages don’t always come in order, btw, but they do all come) covid: often projected at people still taking precautions. climate: anger drives a lot of more naive activism. genocide: a generation has been radicalized.
• mykola (2024-12-31): 2020 was going to be my year. i had such plans, and covid and everything downstream of that swept them away. but those plans were… well, they were aspirational and ungrounded. but i feel like 2025? this might be the year i settle into my final form, or at least my next one.
• mykola (2024-12-31): one of the last pieces for me was around dating. i’ve really struggled as a covid cautious divorced autistic man to even find people i’m interested in, let alone make something happen, and it was driving me nuts for a while. now? ok. maybe i find someone, maybe not? point is:
• mykola (2024-12-31): the covid-19 pandemic, y'all.
• mykola (2025-01-02): hey cc twitter, what’s the best resource to demonstrate to someone that repeat covid infections cause compounding brain damage?
• mykola (2025-01-03): covid is five years and counting of ground hog’s days when everyone else stopped 3-4 years ago and what is the lesson i have to learn? it feels like cursed knowledge at this point.
• mykola (2025-01-03): i’m mostly recovered from my one covid infection that started about a year ago today. even my alcohol intolerance is gone, i don’t have the lactic acid feeling mornings after i drink anymore. but i was sick for six weeks, then weak for four months, with lingering shit long after
• mykola (2025-01-03): people range from kindly tolerant to skeptical to angry if you try to talk to them about covid. i forget that almost nobody is reading the findings, nobody *knows* about the damage it does. and so i seem like a hypochondriac at best.
• mykola (2025-01-03): maybe i need to explicitly focus on finding covid-conscious community in ohio?
• mykola (2025-01-08): this insomnia i've been dealing with comes with a sore throat now and general full-body fatigue and like. god damn it. taking a covid test.
• princevogel (2025-01-09): covid? mdma? just getting older? subtle misalignment from my destiny? who knows, but regardless of the cause, i will get them back
• mykola (2025-01-14): it’s time for that long overdue haircut. i’ve still got hair on my head that predates covid. it has kept me tied to the past, and there’s no ritual i can think of that better defines this transition than cutting it off.
• blunderbussted (2025-01-15): haha i'm so high right now haha i'm so drugnk this crowd is so tight aaaaayyyyyy -sent from my covid test
• zencephalon (2025-02-04): climate change ended with covid. covid ended with ukraine. ukraine ended with palestine. palestine ended with trump. and so it goes