Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
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And so can some of @BernieTheBernie.
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@Bulb said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@BernieTheBernie said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@MrL said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Our healthcare is corrupt to the core, criminally negligent and shielded from any responsibility for malpractice.
Wait. I thought you live in Poland.
But you describe Germany.He describes many countries. In fact I am wondering whether there is any he isn't describing.
North Korea
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@dkf said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@MrL said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Also, as a software developers, I believe we should refrain from throwing any stones.
My bugs never killed anyone.
I don't believe any trains have crashed as a result of mine.
"No moving vehicle of more than 3.5 tons has ever had an accident involving human fatalities that was ruled to be related to a module that I contributed to in the software my company is currently selling?"
Filed under: suspiciously specific denials
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@remi Not specific enough. I think I can say that there have been no accidents involving a train moving at over 150 km/h in the southern half of France that caused fatalities to non-native-born citizens, where those accidents could be definitely traced back to faults in software I wrote without some other professional engineer having officially signed off on them and so it being them who is liable.
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@remi said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Filed under: suspiciously specific denials
I don't think my software has ever caused anybody to feel ill enough to vomit and has never caused a debilitating headache that has lasted more than 45 minutes. (But, damn, that one time I felt pretty queasy while exploring an idea related to stereo perception and how to abuse it.)
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@cvi said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
has never caused a debilitating headache that has lasted more than 45 minutes.
So you've never had a real horrible head-scratcher of a bug, and your boss is not excessively stress inducing?
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@dkf said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I think I can say that there have been no accidents involving a train moving at over 150 km/h in the southern half of France that caused fatalities to non-native-born citizens, where those accidents could be definitely traced back to faults in software I wrote without some other professional engineer having officially signed off on them and so it being them who is liable.
I'm starting to think we may both have worked for the same company. Would "a fractal of WTFs" be a good description of the company's culture?
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@PleegWat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
So you've never had a real horrible head-scratcher of a bug, and your boss is not excessively stress inducing?
OK, at least none of my bugs have ever induced vomiting. (To my best knowledge.)
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What about normal program operation?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
normal program operation
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@Zerosquare said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I'm starting to think we may both have worked for the same company. Would "a fractal of WTFs" be a good description of the company's culture?
Doubtful. I've only ever worked for WTF-U. But I have collaborated with a lot of other companies, and some of my code is in actually-used open source software.
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@lolwhat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Wow, those are some terrible numbers for the vaccine. You can tell because Andrew Bostom posted them, and everything from Bostom is terrible.
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@lolwhat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Would be interesting to see how that breaks down geographically, since different areas have different times when they surge and different vax rates, etc. But we already knew that kids were pretty well naturally protected already.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Wow, those are some terrible numbers for the vaccine.
I just looked at that onebox - between 2 and 30%? That's a hell of an error margin...
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@dcon said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Wow, those are some terrible numbers for the vaccine.
I just looked at that onebox - between 2 and 30%? That's a hell of an error margin...
I don't think it's so much of an error margin as looking at the differences from week to week, which probably isn't a terribly useful way to look at it due to the amount of noise in such short intervals.
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@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@dcon said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Wow, those are some terrible numbers for the vaccine.
I just looked at that onebox - between 2 and 30%? That's a hell of an error margin...
I don't think it's so much of an error margin as looking at the differences from week to week, which probably isn't a terribly useful way to look at it due to the amount of noise in such short intervals.
Well, yeah, but
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The next variant is about to take over the world. Portugal is currently world's number 2 in new infections, and has a high case fatality rate.
Let's welcome our new overlordOmicron BA.5
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(Article from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in german - prevented me from searching for an English text)
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@BernieTheBernie said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
prevented me from searching for an English text
is preventing me from running the text through Google Translate. I choose to believe that "Portugal hatte sich auf einen entspannten Sommer" means "Portugal has had a spanner thrown into their summer."
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@lolwhat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
https://susandunham.medium.com/what-we-learned-from-hating-the-unvaccinated-fc428fa0732c
I assume this is a very short article.
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@HardwareGeek The prefix+form of "entspannt" makes it more like "un-spanner-ed". But, yeah, I guess they were hoping for a spanner-free summer.
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@PleegWat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@cvi said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
has never caused a debilitating headache that has lasted more than 45 minutes.
So you've never had a real horrible head-scratcher of a bug, and your boss is not excessively stress inducing?
You're head butting wrong if it gives you long lasting head aches.
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@HardwareGeek said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@BernieTheBernie said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
prevented me from searching for an English text
is preventing me from running the text through Google Translate. I choose to believe that "Portugal hatte sich auf einen entspannten Sommer" means "Portugal has had a spanner thrown into their summer."
Close. But there is one more word in the sentence, “gefreut”, meaning hoped for. So with
@cvi said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@HardwareGeek The prefix+form of "entspannt" makes it more like "un-spanner-ed". But, yeah, I guess they were hoping for a spanner-free summer.
… that's about right.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@lolwhat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
https://susandunham.medium.com/what-we-learned-from-hating-the-unvaccinated-fc428fa0732c
I assume this is a very short article.
Short but good. He actually figures it out.
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@lolwhat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
https://susandunham.medium.com/what-we-learned-from-hating-the-unvaccinated-fc428fa0732c
I assume this is a very short article.
Short but good. He actually figures it out.
Except for the fact that she doesn't call for the (figurative) heads of those who, as she puts it, "ma[d]e life unlivable for the unvaccinated." She didn't make one smidge of atonement, either, for her participation in this parade of evil. Never forgive, never forget.
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@loopback0 Um, how reliable are the PCR tests?
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@loopback0 said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@lolwhat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@loopback0 Um, how reliable are the PCR tests?
Throwing rocks on a street is just as reliable and you don't need a dog for that.
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@lolwhat Look on the bright side. It's a lot more pleasant to be sniffed by the dog than to take the nasal swab. Or anal swab, if you happen to be in China.
Besides, it's a lot more reliable than the body heat cameras for screening for COVID at the airports.
Low bar? You don't say?
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Also
These findings are evidence that dogs could be effective for mass screening efforts...
Auschwitz selection ramp?
at places such as airports or concerts...
Uh huh...
and may provide friendly alternatives for testing people who balk at nasal swabs
Oh, it's all friendly. That's great to hear. Do carry on, please.
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@lolwhat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@loopback0 Um, how reliable are the PCR tests?
That there is a chemical signature that a dog can detect isn't that surprising. Dog noses are extremely sensitive, and it is known to be the case for quite a few other diseases too. All sorts of substances in the body can present themselves in perspiration, usually at low concentrations.
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@lolwhat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Last year they were writing how to request Social Security benefits for long-haul Covid-19 because that might have been the moment that president Joe Biden allowed Social Security to assist in these cases:
The horizontal scale doesn't seem to be labeled in your screenshot, could it correspond to that?
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@JBert said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
The horizontal scale doesn't seem to be labeled in your screenshot, could it correspond to that?
The upward trend started in July 2021, according to the right side picture. (And the end of the data is May 2022, from the left, assuming the same dataset for time axis.) That news is dated August 2021. So, assuming that the news was relatively timely, it doesn't correlate.
Also, it mentions "insurance", so I'd assume that the graph is about insurance claims. Which people will file immediately if the disability keeps them from going to work. So I'd assume that whatever happened to people, started happening between June and July, 2021.
A lot of assumptions, but it's a single screenshot, so...
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@JBert said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
The horizontal scale doesn't seem to be labeled in your screenshot, could it correspond to that?
I'd assume that the grey vertical bar corresponds to the start of the pandemic (at least as experienced in the US); there's a labelled timestamp too.
There appears to be a drop in claimants to start with (which might be due to the elevated mortality for some conditions in the first phase, but that's just a guess) but then there's a very large uptick after that; the #1 guess for that has got to be long covid. Much more breakdown of the data would be needed to be sure. (I've been seeing this brewing for a while, as I follow on Twitter a former colleague who's part of a team studying this.)
I know from the news that long covid is also worrying to the people thinking about macroeconomic forecasting (in the UK, but I don't know why not elsewhere too), precisely because it both reduces people's ability to work and makes them more keen to seek public support (much as any long-term disablement does). Long covid is the absolute stinker in the tail of this disease.
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Anyone having Borna Virus on their 2022 Bingo Card?
Here it comes: one man dead in Bavaria due to this almost always deadly infection.
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@JBert said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@lolwhat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Last year they were writing how to request Social Security benefits for long-haul Covid-19 because that might have been the moment that president Joe Biden allowed Social Security to assist in these cases:
The horizontal scale doesn't seem to be labeled in your screenshot, could it correspond to that?
The number of people with disabilities always spikes when the economy is shitty, though.
EDIT: I replied to the wrong post and it looks like you're making the same point that I am.
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Paywall free: https://archive.ph/ZJS5U
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@loopback0 big news now when people catch colds. I will grant you, it's out of season, but still.
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@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
big news now when people catch colds.
Maybe it should be. Put The Disease of Unknown™ Origin in perspective.
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@loopback0 eh, people still gotta die of something.
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@boomzilla for sure, I just wonder if society would make less of a drama out of COVID if more people saw the death rate compared to similar things we don't excessively worry about.
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@loopback0 you'd think, but it's been tried in the past and it doesn't work. Similar to other moral panics regarding particular causes of death.
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@loopback0 said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Paywall free: https://archive.ph/ZJS5U
In parallel with Germany, Here, BA.4 is said to be some 2% of Corona infections, and BA.5 some 17% (both doubling weekly), and overall cases raising just now also.
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@BernieTheBernie just look at Portugal. It’s pretty certain that it will be dominant here in a few weeks.
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And Finland joins the 5th round of vaccination, although only for the severely immunocompromized.