Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@kekcoin To be clear, you're criticising that?

Because that plan was the right idea. At this point a double digit % of the UK have certainly been infected. The only question was how to get there. Delaying herd immunity back in March just made the final dramatic rise overhelm hospitals in some areas. Had they spread that out over more time by not locking down early they'd have been better off. That's just the reality of the science.

@kekcoin @nvk What screwed countries over was taking too much action. Not too little.

@kekcoin @nvk That's just dumb. The scientific response was to _flatten_, not _crush_ the curve. ~Everyone is getting it eventually. The trick is to slow that rate enough to be sustainable. That's why Florida is doing so much better than California, in spite of having a much older population.

@MichaJ WTF

I really hope Parler wins that lawsuit. Just absurd.

@121 Yes, I read that. It's just not clear what the dates actually we're. You'd want to compare it on a patient-by-patient basis.

@Zachary_BTC @nvk They did that in London too.

@kekcoin @nvk Around here as far as I can tell they've literally released zero evidence or scientific explanations backing up what they're doing. The UK government actually did really early on - the initial herd immunity stuff. It's like that soured governments on doing that so they stopped.

@nvk "He said that banks, which were shutdown in the early spring, could also be closed to the public given the capabilities of electronic banking."

No-one goes into a bank unless they have too. Shut them down and someone's getting screwed over, probably poor people.

@nvk "If you said to me that short of a curfew you had to put more hours of restrictions on when you could get food, I would be perfectly comfortable with that,” he said"

WTF is this unscientific nonsense? How is making stores more crowded going to help?

They just can't admit that nothing they have the power to do will change much of anything.

@se7en that must be some weird bug, as the time keeps changing.

@nvk what is the hosting setup anyway?

@raucao @lukedashjr I have a fine arts degree, from a very left wing university, and I filed a lawsuit against someone who went by they/them. :)

@raucao @lukedashjr Correction: singular they. :)

I wonder if this is related to Ron Paul publishing the fact that a nursing New York state nursing home had a wave of covid deaths after vaccinating?

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2021/january/10/a-nursing-home-had-zero-coronavirus-deaths-then-it-vaccinates-residents-for-coronavirus-and-the-deaths-begin/

Not clear *exactly* what the timeline is on that. Could just be coincidence and the vax didn't have time to kick in. But if not, that's not a good sign re: effectiveness.

TIL Russia's government mandated GOST hash function and block cyphers are almost certainly backdoored:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/071

https://www.sstic.org/media/SSTIC2019/SSTIC-actes/RussianStyleRandomness/SSTIC2019-Article-RussianStyleRandomness-perrin_bonnetain.pdf

tl;dr: the S-Box should have been randomly chosen, and it's not.

@lukedashjr Because they hate us.