Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

After AstraZeneca clot findings, France opts for mRNA vaccines for second shot | National Post
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/health-pmn/france-opts-for-mrna-vaccines-for-second-coronavirus-shot

"Our approach is absolutely not to engage in a gigantic experimentation on the French population"

...which is why you're vaccinating the whole population with brand new vaccines that haven't gone through normal approvals? And are now proposing to mix-and-match those vaccines in ways that haven't been tested?

Sorry, there's no getting around it: this is a gigantic experiment.

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

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.

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

Gov. DeSantis on media lies, "we're punching back"

This could get interesting if he has any guts.

Background: https://reason.com/2021/04/05/60-minutes-ron-desantis-vaccines-florida-publix-sharyn-alfonsi/

Texas Rangers vs Blue Jays today. 100% full to capacity, hardly any masks.

...yet cases, deaths, positivity rate, and long-term-care cases are all continuing to go down after a month with all lockdown restrictions lifted: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas-hitting-record-low-numbers-covid-19-cases-hospitalizations-deaths-positivity-rate-statistics-april-2021/287-4723aa91-4172-4361-b90f-958f881dcb0c