Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

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...

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

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."

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.

Arrivals at Zurich airport does however have this going for it.

Looks like you get this useless message automatically via SMS when entering Switzerland. It applies to no-one right now as no countries are on that list.

#CovidTheater

I probably could have convinced the security guard to let me stay with Canadian and maybe US (CDC) "proof" of vaccination. But pretty lol that the staff don't know the rules at an airport.

At the airport I just sat down anyway. Someone called security and I eventually convinced them to go away by showing the receipt for the antigen test I had done an hour prior (flying to Switzerland).

I spent a bit over a week in Italy, and got asked for a green pass (Italy's vax passport) in three types of locations: McDonald's, Starbucks, and the dining are at Rome airport.

The latter was particularly funny as you're still allowed to eat without one. You just have to stand up at tables provided for that purpose, located in tbe same area.

In all three cases the staff said _only_ green pass was accepted. _Not_ proof of vaccination from non-EU countries. Which is supposed to be accepted!