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by robbiep 6y ago
There is some weird sort of logic with 2. For example, when I worked in Cairns (cape York Australia, which serves a massive area with a large indigenous population), aboriginals have a belief that people going to the hospital go there to di
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by robbiep 6y ago
This is correct and well established; prone positioning and non invasive ventilation was shown fairly early on to have a significant survival benefit. Not that I agree with the rest of the OP’s attempt at making some sort of statement
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by robbiep 6y ago
A ‘heart attack’ is an episode of myocardial ischaemia (restricted blood supply to the heart) usually through a blockage of an artery. Angina is a pain associated with myocardial ischaemia of a usually temporary nature. A cardiac arrest is
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by robbiep 6y ago
Starship and SH are (AFAIK) meant to be able to hover (more thrust/more throttle-able than F9) so the suicide burn shouldn’t be an issue
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by robbiep 6y ago
I’m pretty sure there was also a couple of B’s in Die Hard 4
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by robbiep 6y ago
The full response here requires a deep dive into the immune system and self tolerance but basically, yeah, the immune system learns how to know what is ‘self’ and what is ‘else’. And this is specific to a person’s actual body (ie the reason
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by robbiep 6y ago
There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning - yes, as an RNA virus, there is a high rate of mutation. However because of the redundancy of amino acid encoding most mutations will be preservative (ie produce the same protein).
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by robbiep 6y ago
If may have been detected in Australia in returned travellers but it is not in Australia in the community. Yesterday Australia had 15 community acquired cases (yes, 15 in total, with a further 11 from international travel in hotel quarantin
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by robbiep 6y ago
By suck up the costs I believe the parent is referring not just to the economic pain but also the cost of the extensive and unprecedented government support that Australia and NZ (and even in fact the UK) made. Unemployment benefits and the
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by robbiep 6y ago
During Melbourne’s winter, Melbourne was reporting the same number of cases a day as the UK in summer. [0] https://twitter.com/drdeannechiu/status/1322834922269073408?... [1] https://twitter.com/dr
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by robbiep 6y ago
So Australia (Melbourne at the time) and the UK had basically the same case reports per day in July. One place crushed it, the other didn’t. [0] https://mobile.twitter.com/drericlevi/status/132282229786701... [1]
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by robbiep 6y ago
That’s correct per GAAP principles but as they say in the blog you can report on both
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by robbiep 6y ago
Very few would be unaware of the consequences... it’s a basic tenet of medicine - after all, along with alcohol withdrawal (and because of similar mechanisms) it’s one of the few withdrawals that can actually kill you (along with steroids).
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by robbiep 6y ago
No doctor is ever going to prescribe steroids that do not end in a tapering dose (necessary for initial durations longer than 5 days). It literally kills and is negligent
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by robbiep 6y ago
My apologies
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by robbiep 6y ago
That’s not really true about smallpox - it’s R is somewhere between 5-8, SARS-CoV-2 is about 2.5. Higher R0 means you need a greater percentage vaccinated population to achieve herd immunity
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by robbiep 6y ago
My brother, sister and I inherited a lot of Lego from older cousins. No real sets, just masses of pieces. We built an entire city, rudimentary economy rules, I wrote my first computer program to balance the cheque book stubs that we wrote e
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by robbiep 6y ago
Fun fact for the biochemically naive: Krebs described both the TCA and the Urea cycle, which are sometimes (jokingly) referred to as the Krebs bi-cycle
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by robbiep 6y ago
It’s hard to see why Talley was quoted, it seems like it might be a reprint perhaps of a daily mail article or something by the way of the reference to another UK newspaper in there? Dr Talley is widely regarded in Australia - there wouldn’
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by robbiep 6y ago
Allopurinol is as old as the hills. However it cannot be taken during an acute episode of gout or it will worsen it. Ie it is a preventative not a treatment. I’m presuming you went to your family doctor rather than the emergency room so you
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by robbiep 6y ago
I had a similar experience, I loved it, I had a great 20 odd hours several years ago, but experienced the realisation that the greater ‘game’ out there was a better use time and have not gone back (compared to civ or stellaris, or prison a
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by robbiep 6y ago
Oh mate - definitely something that the dopamine dealers need to confront at some point. ‘Want’ vs actual material benefit to life
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by robbiep 6y ago
Using your phone as a remote is awesome. If your HDMI has CEC/ARC you can switch the TV in just by pulling down the remote widget and pressing the screen. And you can fill password and search fields. And anyone can use it once they’ve
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by robbiep 6y ago
I think that if we were to be able to bring up a magical data box and interrogate the world's actual data, the US incidence numbers will be an extrapolation of the CFR of nations that have done a reasonable job of keeping their infecti
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by robbiep 6y ago
You have to call bullshit in those numbers. Take a country with good surveillance and reliable death statistics. NZ and/or Australia will fit the bill. The case fatality rate there is a touch above 3%, mostly in aged care deaths, but w
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by robbiep 6y ago
Thanks for the follow up information
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by robbiep 6y ago
Interestingly I was reading about this this morning whilst reviewing my old crackpot hero Graham Hancock (reading fingerprints of the gods at a young age had me fascinated about this mythical ancient civilisation for which exceptional claim
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by robbiep 6y ago
To follow up a bit more, there isn’t really any data on the time required for a mobile MRI, but we already have ambulances fitted out with ct for stroke detection operating in many cities https://www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/str
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by robbiep 6y ago
The same argument could essentially be applied to the resurrection
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by robbiep 6y ago
The lancet error bars are 456 - 1499.

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