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    When you need more motivation to climb those hills...

    Need a training partner who'll push you to your max? https://postimg.cc/DJr9nRYr
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    How many older people have died from C19? Last time I heard, it was a bit more than 29. By the way, according to the SS actuarial tables, an 80 year old has a probability of 0.0582 of dying within one year. It would presumably be higher for someone that age in a nursing home. If 42,000 people...
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    I don't know what your one country is, but for the U.S., the rate is very similar, about 5.3% of cases, or 0.36% of the population. The total is more than 1.2 million now, The data are hard to find. Most states report hospitalizations, but about a dozen of them don't report cumulative totals.
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    So 1/3 of the subjects get a placebo? It was 50% in the Pfizer trials. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577 I assume that patients don't know what they're getting. But can't you tell from the side effects? If the placebo is just saline, the body is not going to react in the same...
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    About two dozen NH patients in Norway died after being vaccinated with Pfizer. The question is whether this many people out of a large group, 40,000, I think, would have died from that population over that time period, anyway. As has been noted before, when you vaccinate a very large number of...
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    Roger Federer - cycling star?

    https://www.insidehook.com/article/health-and-fitness/roger-federer-peloton
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/11/asia/china-wuhan-covid-consequence-intl-hnk/index.html
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    Another area the U.S. lags in: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/10/health/old-coronavirus-sequences/index.html
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    Totally false, as was thoroughly discussed earlier on this thread. Of all the pandemic myths that have circulated in the press, this is the one probably most widely accepted by liberals as well as conservatives, while also, ironically, one of the most easily rebutted by science. Another grim...
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    It really has. Just compare the police and NG response last night to that for any BLM protest, or for Trump's phony Bible outside the church stunt. Or the proportion of BLM protesters who supported looting of stores and burning of buildings with the proportion of last night's protesters who...
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    Upthread, I pointed out that masks are likely to increase crime, because they make it possible to hide your identity without being suspicious. A lot of those protesters who broke into the Capitol Building are going to get prosecuted, because they were either too stupid, or too full of phony...
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    Moe than 4000 deaths in the U.S. today, first time that number has been reached. This corresponds to the peak/top of plateau in daily cases I mentioned upthread, which occurred about a week before Christmas. Also, > 260,000 cases, another record. That is probably from a surge from New Year...
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    One positive outcome of the current riots in D.C. is that members of Congress who have previously been against wearing masks are now embracing them--gas masks, that is. Hope their freedom isn't infringed too much. But riots tend to infringe on some people's freedom. i could in fact cite some...
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    This is a very long article exploring the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in Wuhan. The author cites, but does not really discuss, the seminal Nature Med paper that concluded that the virus was not intentionally designed in a lab. He instead emphasizes the interest of some...
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    Very good news. I was going to ask you why they hadn't done a biopsy.
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    I pointed out upthread that the R0 for C19 is actually below 1 now. It's surging in the sense that daily cases are very high, but they aren't increasing, as they would if R0 > 1. They hit a plateau about two weeks before Christmas, and are somewhat lower now than they were then. The 7-day...
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    Not close to what is going on now. I'd love to expound on this, but as you know, it gets us in trouble. Really? So the three judges who sided with Whitmer on extending a state of emergency had no understanding of the Constitution? It’s not possible that they just had a different view of what...
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    There's a huge difference between executive orders which are tested in the courts, and attempts to overturn elections and deny science. Governors and Presidents of both parties (Kemp and deSantis, e.g., both lost decisions at their state SC recently) frequently test the bounds of the laws or...
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    When I was in the hospital with a broken leg very early in the pandemic, i had to listen to them working at night as they converted part of the hallway to patient rooms. You can always find some extra space, and beds are relatively cheap. It's the people to care for patients who are in acute...
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    Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

    According to a NYT study, on Dec. 5, there were 377,000 excess deaths—deaths above the normal number expected, and thus attributed to C19. That is 31% higher than the officially reported number of deaths on that day by worldometer, about 287,750. If we apply that same % to the currently...
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