Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@drgo To be clear, when I say "filling up", I mean, there are hysterical claims floating around that give the impression that *most* people in ICU's right now are young. Which just isn't true.

Now, if they published the data like they do covid dashboards, it might reassure the public... but I don't think that's the goal.

@drgo It doesn't appear to have been "rough" recently. This is the ICU utilization for Toronto apparently, and it's been pretty flat for months. Meanwhile, COVID patients have been supposedly changing dramatically. But AFAICT the definition of "covid patient" is simply a positive test, and has nothing to do with symptoms.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=078a3d697aa245778b6a62a20320a344

@drgo Quite a few hysterical claims that ICU's are filling up with young people too... They aren't.

https://twitter.com/JeanmarcBenoit/status/1380605981705568260

@drgo It's impressive how little correlation there is between covid % and ICU occupancy. The highest occupancy has one of the lost COVID %'s!

Quite a few people have said that for Ontario hospitals, these occupancy %'s are actually lower than normal. Though both current and historical occupancy %'s aren't publicly available (you have to apply to get access, and there's apparently restrictions on redistributing the info).

https://twitter.com/JeanmarcBenoit/status/1380675367690776581

Study measuring viral particle shedding with an without surgical masks, with symptomatic people who are actually infected with influenza, rhinovirus (colds), and coronaviruses (also common colds).

Results: the masks didn't do very much for either influeza or rhinoviruses, and not enough people were infected with coronavirus to know if the results are valid.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2

@drgo For example, they've closed schools again, which probably means a lot of health care workers scrambling for child care. They're also vaccinating them, and while no-one likes to admit it, a lot of people end up having to take significant time off work because the side effects are so bad.

And covid patient numbers do appear to be rising, even though total utilization doesn't appear to be. Those likely false positives still strain care as they'll be getting isolated.

@drgo Not even close. There appear to be doctors directly lying about being overloaded, as the few official stats you can find show ICU/hospital usage is flat.

Hospital usage stats in Ontario are _not_ available to the general public for the most part. You have to apply to get access.

There is a relevant XKCD for everything, unfortunately.

Fuck you.

TFW a shitcoin uses your initials.

https://pkt.cash

Better yet, here's what they say to you if you want to try to run a mainnet validation node.

So decentralized you have to ask permission.

I'm gonna have to send them an email for lols.

On the Mobile Coin GitHub page, hosted in the US, with US developers... 😂

Ontario's coronavirus emergency brake rule bans livestreaming of concerts | CP24.com
https://www.cp24.com/mobile/entertainment-news/ontario-emergency-brake-rules-prohibit-concert-livestreams-angering-venue-owners-1.5375886

"She pointed to film and TV shoots that continue throughout the province despite the new precautions, making it unclear to her why a movie crew is deemed safe inside a studio, but a production crew isn't acceptable inside an empty concert hall."

Well the science says it's safe if you make a big enough political contribution.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/covid-funerals-assistance/2021/04/06/d7d1db20-9659-11eb-b28d-bfa7bb5cb2a5_story.html

$9,000 incentive to falsely claim you died of COVID. They're getting desperate to pump up COVID deaths.

Fact is, reported US deaths from COVID just keep falling in spite of all this hype about variants.

@lucash_dev Well remember that reactivity doesn't mean you're totally immune. But it may reduce deaths and symptoms.

As for what is causing that, most likely other diseases. Lots of evidence that other coronavirus infections have a degree of cross immunity. Which yes, the very high asian population could be doing that. Be interesting to do the same tests in Toronto.

@anita I mean, radiation poisoning from splitting atoms does destroy your digestive system, which I guess would make you hungry...

The sad thing is by committing fraud - and let's be 100% clear, MobileCoin's advertising is already fraud - they're putting Signal itself at risk.

It'll be intersting to find out just how tightly linked MobileCoin is legally to Signal itself.

lololol They're actually rolling out Intel SGX coin.

"MobileCoin is a payment network with no central authority."

That is a lie. Intel is a central authority if you rely on SGX.

https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin

Study of pre-existing antibodies to COVID in the Vancouver area:

"We determine that more than 90% of uninfected adults showed antibody reactivity against the spike, receptor-binding domain (RBD), N-terminal domains (NTD) or the nucleocapsid (N) protein from SARS-CoV-2."

If other regions are significantly less than 90%, that could explain a lot re: differences in covid case growth; Vancouver wasn't hit particularly hard.

https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/146316

@anita Careful: unlike Bitcoin, if you divide your pizza too much, really bad things start happening...☢️