Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@lucash_dev Yup. MMR has far more data.

"Participants in the MMR group, compared with those in the placebo group, had a 48% risk reduction in symptomatic COVID–19 (RR = 0.52; 95% CI: 0.33-0.83; p=0.004) and a 76% risk reduction in COVID–19 treatment"
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.14.21263598v1

Coincidentally, I happened to get a MMR shot in March 2020... This could go a long way to explain differences in covid rates/deaths between countries. Wouldn't be the first time MMR vaccines turned out to have "off-target" effects too.

UberEATS needs to work on their pharmacy prescription delivery screen...

@kekcoin @benis @harding Clothes don't cause myocarditis. And of course, people _have_ fought hard to wear what they want in public, even as employees of schools.

@benis @harding Lots of schools require you to enter. Also, you need to enter to sign up your kid, among many other things.

@harding You know in Italy you need a green pass to pick up your kids from school.

@lucash_dev @Zerglingman The very rare previous forced vaccination efforts in US history - which date back to small pox, segregation, and eugenics - were all mandates on people rather than passes. And people who refused were just fined in the end.

@Zerglingman Vaccine passports aren't being imposed for health reasons; how effective they are is irrelevant.

@Zerglingman No, the police have very limited abilities to protect staff. They can investigate after the fact. But catching acts of random violence is hard. Especially when it's opposition to vax passports, done while wearing masks...

@Zerglingman I suspect the reason this isn't happening is the people against mask nonsense and vax passports tend to be the saner, calmer, parts of society. Compare that to antifa, who are happy to use violence...

@Zerglingman Point is the game theory of this is that staff will stop enforcing it. The next step is either to divert a lot of police forces to protecting those staff (not likely to happen), give up (likely), or at least for vax passports, changing to a strategy of forcing the entire population to get vaxxed directly. The latter is actually an improvement arguably as it removes the privacy concerns of vax passports.

I'm actually a bit surprised that action against the store clerks and restaurant staff enforcing this nonsense isn't more common. While killing people isn't likely to be good politics, lesser actions like pepper spray that make staff afraid to ask (esp re: checking green passes) will likely be effective at making the mandates toothless.

They don't have enough police to protect everyone.

https://brownstone.org/articles/no-nail-ferguson-travel-and-trade-improved-health/

Excellent writeup on how modern life actually reduced the impacts of infectious disease, because our immune systems work.

Not surprising: we're much better at treatment. And the density of modern life means you get exposed early to lots of pathogens, giving robust immunity later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nh_vxpycEA&t=218s

"Research shows that it's not uncommon for motorcycle helmets to have carbon dioxide levels that are that high."

Now do masks. 😂

@BitBorderliner I don't mean the way he uses his left thumb to add very short notes just before his right hand does. I mean the way that in addition to that he taps on the key immediately to the left without actually pressing it.

I'm no pianist. But if I understand it correctly he's basically playing two separate patterns with each hand, offset in phase slightly to get the fast "center" tempo.