Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@drgo @lucash_dev Similarly I've been hospitalized for what was probably food poisoning once. That was awful... for two or three days, and I didn't actually need any treatment beyond fluids and reat. I didn't respond to that by getting worried about all the undercooked steak and fish I like to eat. Getting worried about cooking healthy meals would be a much bigger threat to my health than a few days of feeling awful.

@drgo @lucash_dev Personal standards in the context of overall health vary a lot. I wouldn't say flu is a big deal for me personally. Last time I got it a few years ago I was pretty sick for two weeks and didn't feel right for another month. But I'm not concerned about that happening again - that's just a short term annoyance. By contrast my so-so fitness and excess weight concerns me a lot and I've put quite a lot of effort into improving it.

“Sun Yuan and Peng Yu: Can’t Help Myself”
https://youtu.be/ZS4Bpr2BgnE

This would have been so much better if the robot moved more efficiently; even a panicking robot shouldn't be flailing about.

https://communityoperatingsystem.wordpress.com/2020/06/20/is-folic-acid-an-effective-treatment-for-covid-19/

tl;dr: one of the HCQ trials use folate tablets as the placebo... Which is a real WTF: why would you use something that potentially has a benefit rather than a true placebo with no active ingredients? Purpose-made placebo tablets are widely available.

COVIDSafe: Australia’s digital contact tracing failure
https://ghuntley.com/covidsafe/

Interesting read. But frankly, the real lesson to be learned here is these systems are evil. This researchers should have never helped the government make them better. By doing so they just enabled the next result: even worse, mandatory, contact tracing schemes not protected by privacy legislation.

"'Relax, we are double vaxxed': Hundreds of Dalhousie students attend street party" https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6189860

Fucking anti-vaxxers. 😂

@lupyuen I've been using btrfs for years. Finished enough for me. 😂

@lucash_dev @drgo that's what I'm wondering too... Read this thread. The raw data is quite concerning as the study failed to capture most vaccination of young people: https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1441600854168154114?s=20

@drgo @lucash_dev ...and of course, dosage may be an issue as actual mRNA dosage depends on conversion rate in your body, adding another unknown to the equation. That might even be influenced by things like the exact type of tissue the vaccine ends up in, and general metabolic activity (does using a muscle after injection change that? Maybe?)

@drgo @lucash_dev But I mean, if injection directly into the blood causes problems, say, 1/10th of the time, random bad luck ok needle placement 1/500th of the time could result in a, say, 1/5,000 side effect.

@drgo @lucash_dev Note the example I know of personally of someone with poor health and an existing heart problem whose heart problem got worse *both* when they were infected, and when they got vaccinated. Likely the same basic mechanism in both cases.

@drgo @lucash_dev Notable there's been a fair bit of resistance to people filing FOIA requests to get data on where the vaccines actually end up in the body. And some data indicating that it can end up everywhere, unlike the "standard" safety claims made in the popular press.

@drgo @lucash_dev Yeah, my guess is we'll find out that basically getting vaccinated makes clear sense if you're old/fat/etc, and not if you're healthy/young. Sounds like the spike protein is inherently toxic, so it's just a matter of how much is generated in the blood stream. And probably this didn't show up in clinical trials as they were careful to only inject into muscle by aspirating to make sure they weren't in a vein, which most places aren't doing.

@lucash_dev @drgo ...if not the #'s may be even higher due to undiagnosed cases.

Heck, I personally had a friend who got a heart attack while he was with me
While we cancelled the caving trip we were on, he didn't get actual medical help immediately as he quickly started feeling better again. When he finally did go to the hospital scans found it to be a genuine heart attack and he died a year later from a second heart attack. :/

@lucash_dev @drgo Anyway as you say, assuming the denominator was simply wrong and the correct one is 800,000 doses, or 400k male doses, the rate per vaccination is 29/200,000 or 1/6900, which as you say, is still crazy high. It'd probably be even higher if you adjusted the denominator by age. And that's in line with other estimates.

Hopefully everyone with chest pains got help rather than assuming it was nothing...

@lucash_dev @drgo Hmm, I wonder if the issue was them mistakenly using the chart of non-residents vaccinated? That's about 60,000 over the study period. Or ~30,000 if you assume it was over one month rather than two.

@lucash_dev @drgo I think the ugly thing about this is in the circumstances we're in they'd make excuses for even a 1% myocarditis rate...

@lucash_dev @drgo Re-reading it I think you're right re: them not doing that correction, as they point out they picked the only cardiac center.

@lucash_dev @drgo ...and "as bad on average" means a lot of people are at much more risk, because covid's risk is dominated by the unhealthy.