Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@mr64bit @augustus https://www.reddit.com/r/BewitchTheTaliban/

Delta’s rise is fuelled by rampant spread from people who feel fine
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02259-2

You mean when you put enormous selective pressure in a virus to spread asymptomatically by shunning anyone with symptoms, it evolves to spread asymptomatically?

Wow, I would have never expected that! I thought viruses evolved according to the most up-to-date social justice.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/17/new-case-jabs-makes-idea-vaccine-passports-absurd/

Dumb take: the US Air Force depends on the exact same contractors themselves.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/new-zealand-children-falling-ill-in-high-numbers-due-to-covid-immunity-debt

'“The lack of immune stimulation… induced an “immunity debt” which could have negative consequences when the pandemic is under control and [public health intervientions] are lifted,” the doctors wrote. “The longer these periods of ‘viral or bacterial low-exposure’ are, the greater the likelihood of future epidemics.”'

...and the more excuses public health gets to dominate our lives forever. Safer to assume bad faith here.

https://amp.smh.com.au/world/europe/astrazeneca-lead-scientist-says-delta-makes-mass-testing-pointless-in-uk-20210811-p58hpe.html

Kinda crazy for this to be in the Sydney Morning Herald.

Probably helps that AstraZeneca was developed by a university team, with less motives for profit...

@drgo 14 days to slow the spread was a perfectly good idea to try.

Extending that is where the stupidity started.

Unfortunately, political realities...

@nvk Most of those weapons were actually captured from the Afghan forces; the US gave the weapons to them to fight the Taliban.

"If there is a traffic jam, maybe there should be a traffic honey too?" @olko

@Talkless https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous

This should work.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous?s=09

Not mentioned: the vaccine mfgs have a financial interest in making leaky vaccines, as vaccination is now mandatory...

COVID-Zero: Was It Worth It? – Quillette
https://quillette.com/2021/08/09/covid-zero-was-it-worth-it/

"Sober, conservative analysis suggests that COVID-Zero costs hundreds of Australian lives each month."

"If COVID-19 was your ancestor’s saber-tooth tiger, then the lives lost every day to COVID-Zero is the cost of running away. The obvious difference is that your ancestor got away from the saber-tooth tiger. When we eventually reopen, COVID-19 will catch us."

@verretor After all, we live in the future! You can book a hotel with an app in a few seconds.

Good sign: an older man had no qualms asking to sit at the same table as me in the restaurant car on the train as the rest were full, and he took of his mask immediately. No covid distancing nonsense.

@bot @verretor I like McDonald's while traveling for being predictable. Though that's not relevant in countries with good food... Like basically all of Europe...