Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

It's not hard to use that vaccine safely either: just give it to people who have already been infected. Then it does a perfectly good job of reducing the risk from further infections. That's exactly how the US now uses it.

I'm amazed that the WHO wouldn't recommend the obvious in favor of getting more vaccines in more arms, even though they knew a selective approach would save more lives. Smells like corruption frankly.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions

On a botched Dengue Fever vaccine, that actually _increased_ your risk of hospitalization/death by about 45% if you hadn't contracted Dengue Fever before.

The craziest thing is this _was_ known, but the WHO recommended all children be given the vaccine anyway, regardless of infection status.

"'No, you can't give a vaccine to a perfectly normal, healthy person and then put them at an increased risk for the rest of their lives' Halstead says. "You can't do that.""

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210323-where-people-go-to-bars-to-drink-milk

http://scripts.farmradio.fm/radio-resource-packs/package-89/breeding-cows-in-a-zero-grazing-system-can-be-a-dual-environmental-solution/

So turns out that Rwanda has been discouraging traditional cattle grazing in favor of intensive factory farming because "climate change".

Basically, trading off a bit of methane emissions - which are _not_ a permanent problem - for increased long-term, permanent, emissions from all the industrial infrastructure required for intensive farming.

This smells more like corporate corruption than environmentalism...

https://archive.is/G9RTg

"AstraZeneca is manufacturing an epic failure around its COVID-19 vaccine"

This article makes it sound like we have a perfectly safe and effective vaccine, and all the issues are just bumbling incompetent management...

You expect the public to believe that? Because the alternative is a much simpler story: AstraZeneca management are competent. But the vaccine has safety problems, hasn't work as well as expected, and they're trying their best to spin that positively.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/mall-cops-and-messiahs

"A whole nation of writers over at Vox dot who gives a shit spent the last decade writing niche “everyone is evil” hot takes under the delusion that such things were popular. But they were never popular. They were just impossible to look away from."

"I am probably always going to click on the latest, unhinged “We Need to Talk About Spider-Man” hot take. But I will die before I pay [Vox] ten dollars a month."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJb9RnAVDuE

Pretty sure I figured out how this works from the video - see if you can too!

"Just for a minute, I will suspend judgment and believe BBC is reporting the right thing. If TRUE then: social distancing affect more the viruses that are already endemic, allowing SARS-Cov-2 to thrive without competition."

Oops...

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56483445

TIL the Amazon Rainforest is being deforested much slower than I thought.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/22/candace-owens-democrats-border-hispanics-victim-voters/

"victim voters" is such a great term.

TIL my microwave uses 100% of the 15A a North American plug can provide.

The voltage on that circuit doesn't sag appreciably from 120V under load, so it's using 200W more than the nameplate says it should, 1600W.

I'm a bit surprised that Black & Decker used such close margins; my kettle draws a more reasonable 13A.

It's no wonder they changed the building codes here to require 20A outlets in kitchens... 😂

"SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme"

I think you mean, startup once compared to Theranos, again compared to Theranos.

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/ubiome-richman-apte-sec-filing-charges-fraud-16042042.php

So why would elderly security guards end up doing this you might ask?

Simple: there's tons of security guards, retail clerks, etc. on various levels of disability because they can't stand/walk for full shifts. So sitting in a chair doing next to nothing is a great way for management to give them something useful to do while they (hopefully!) recover.

Hence the least healthy people end up with jobs that if we were following science would go you young teens. But this isn't about science...

The local malls are now required to "screen" people. So an elderly security guard sits in a chair by the door with an ill-fitting masks, and asks you if you have any covid symptoms or have been travelling. They have no way of verifying any of that.

Something tells me this is getting more elderly security guards infected than anything else...

Public health is a scam. I mean that quite literally: they know this nonsense is harmful. But theatre fools the voting public into paying their salary.

No such thing as a 100% vegan diet.

I used to have pet rats. Wonderfully smart and sociable animals. Also, a pest that farmers need to exterminate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Pyu-Cj0gg