mirimir

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721.
by mirimir 7y ago
I was wondering about that myself.
722.
by mirimir 7y ago
Thank you. I'll ask my rheumatologist about increasing the dose. In case I get infected, have trouble breathing, and can't get hospital care.
723.
by mirimir 7y ago
> After randomization, subjects take hydroxychloroquine 400mg per day for 5 days, also take conventional treatments. Huh. I'm on 200mg/day for rheumatoid arthritis. I wonder if I ought to double dose for a while.
724.
by mirimir 7y ago
Yeah, they check my retinas at six month interval.
725.
by mirimir 7y ago
Damn, another hydroxychloroquine user here. Maybe that'd ameliorate the <70 factor.
726.
by mirimir 7y ago
Thanks. Didn't know it was that bad. I also suspect that most US consumer toilet paper is fluffier than the non US norm, with far fewer sheets per roll. So the 90g per roll conversion is misleading. My favorite institutional style pa
727.
by mirimir 7y ago
> To illustrate, in the Netherlands we are in lockdown, because of the COVID-19 hazard: you are expected to only leave your house if it is absolutely critical, such as to pick up food from the food distribution centers, to get meds, to
728.
by mirimir 7y ago
Huh, so am I the only one seeing analogies to the behavior of some of my subsystems?
729.
by mirimir 7y ago
> - major lockdowns and panic (running to the store to stockpile toilet paper, for some reason) Americans use lots of toilet paper.
730.
by mirimir 7y ago
And looking for TP and other paper products.
731.
by mirimir 7y ago
Maybe in some countries. But it's a big world.
732.
by mirimir 7y ago
I was unclear. Sorry. I was wondering why we even expect persistent immunity.
733.
by mirimir 7y ago
TFA closes with an interesting proposal, but somehow I doubt that we'll get there before social collapse and martial law. > Immunity from Covid-19 is still an open scientific question but, let’s assume that is more likely to be true
734.
by mirimir 7y ago
> Put police and soldiers in the street. No one goes out unless it's for food or healthcare, on penalty of heavy fines and imprisonment. OK, but how will people without savings or adequate credit pay for food and healthcare? Also, h
735.
by mirimir 7y ago
Well then we're screwed :( But wait, haven't there been quarantines during past epidemics?
736.
by mirimir 7y ago
I think that you're missing the point that younger people are still at risk of infection. They're far less likely to die, and so make great carriers.
737.
by mirimir 7y ago
> No gun == no gun Re guns, sure. Generally, no.
738.
by mirimir 7y ago
> They actually know how to handle weapons and shoot you as soon as they see your weapon because they know how dangerous these things are. Yes, that's exactly it. It's actually quite hard to train people to freely kill others.
739.
by mirimir 7y ago
Right. Because it's not linear. The only truly exponential example that comes to mind is milk souring. But that's too slow, unless you keep notes.
740.
by mirimir 7y ago
Sure, but they didn't go back in time to test more people.
741.
by mirimir 7y ago
Dropping stuff and falling are good examples. If you're paying attention, anyway. I can still grab stuff that's fallen maybe 10-20 cm, but by 50-100 cm it's moving way too fast.
742.
by mirimir 7y ago
That's what someone in the Twitter thread said. But basically, people want guns to deal with all the other people who have guns. Most of them are dreaming, though, because they're not well enough trained to use them effectively.
743.
by mirimir 7y ago
Fair enough. It's mainly that 10-15 minutes is the minimum amount of time that gets counted.
744.
by mirimir 7y ago
> He would end up at 8am sitting in his home office in the laundry room in a full suit and tie ready for for the day, while I'm still in my sweatpants until after noon. Given that changing faces real time in video is doable now, wou
745.
by mirimir 7y ago
True. But still, maybe Italy is a worst case. Trying to be optimistic here, being >70 and all ;)
746.
by mirimir 7y ago
Maybe Italy is a worst case, both because it didn't quarantine early enough, and because greater population inversion. > It's now a well-established fact that older people and those with underlying health issues are more suscep
747.
by mirimir 7y ago
NP. I was mostly joking about the offended part :)
748.
by mirimir 7y ago
YMMV, but my diurnal cycle is >>24hr when I'm working hard. And I take frequent short naps.
749.
by mirimir 7y ago
TFA is loaded with good advice. However, there's one thing missing: Track your time, say in 10-15 minute blocks, with short notes about what you're doing. That can be integrated with your calendar. I consulted for many years, simu
750.
by mirimir 7y ago
Although I'm personally offended, being unimaginably (for me) old, this does make some sense. After all, many countries have been angsty about demographic inversion. And SARS-CoV-2 could resolve that within a decade or less.

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