Knut Wittkowski

[Knut Wittkowski @KnutMWittkowski]

#MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy
A respiratory virus disease epidemic ends when herd immunity is reached. Until then, the vulnerable need special protection (masking, distancing, ... ). If everybody does the same, the vulnerable/disabled have no advantage and (over time) more of them die.

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@arcprize In Puzzle ID: 888e7135, Ex.2 Output, is the block with the "center" horizontal line of the blue "F" disproportionally higher than in the corresponding part of the black "F" (Ex.2 Input) to confuse non-human algorithms?

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@JoannaStern It happens only occasionally. Yesterday, it was fine. Today my iPhone woke me up, but after I silenced it, 9 minutes later, it was vibrating and flashing, but there was no audible alarm
I had called Apple Support several times because of this, without them taking any action.

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@zeynep The discussion about whether masks “work” misses the point. If they “work”, universal masking is counterproductive (increasing the number of deaths), if they don’t work, universal masking has no effect.

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@LucioEastman @MartinKulldorff @DrJBhattacharya @SunetraGupta The Mar 2020 paper (https://t.co/nfP15wI3XP) in 2022 peer reviewed as https://t.co/O3d5ypLQij

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@evzulu @Phil_Lewis_ Which death data are your referring to?

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@real_legende @fpiatov @woli2017 @drumheadberlin @BILD Selbst wenn Antikörper mit der Zeit verschwinden, T-cell-Immunität hält bis zur nächsten (oder, mit Kreuzimmunität, übernächsten) Variante. Jede feste Zahl von Monaten (3, 4,711, 6, 8,2, … ) ist Unsinn.

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@cheprofessor Let me tell you a secret: The politicians realized in mid-2020 that the LDs were a mistake, but the vaccines didn’t give them an easy way out. Now they are backpedaling, but doing it too fast would trigger the question they want to avoid at all cost. So we have to be patient.

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@JamesAThurber Thanks for putting up this video that somehow evaded censorship. In contrast to other “experts”, I’m standing by every word I said a year ago (and before), except that I have now fulfilled the formal criteria for a COVID pass to go to restaurants, the opera, and other places.

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@autistikat Being immune (from exposure or vaccine) doesn’t prevent getting infected (no vaccine does that), but reduces the time to Abs from 5 days incubation period to mere hours. With fewer viruses made by infected cells, you can’t spread, won’t get ill and won’t die.

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@sigallab Since the data is paired, you may also want to change the statistical test used from “Wilcoxon rank sum” to either “sign” or “Wilcoxon signed rank” test.

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@microtherion @125OHD @viktorgiacobbo Hindsight is always 20/20. The 4K figure for the 1st wave was in the US was neither a "prediction" nor based on a "model". As stated, this hypothetical scenario was extrapolated from the complete epidemic (for this strain) in SK, which turned out not to be representative.

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@samgandy Maybe, people with mild MCI also need a mild (and safe) intervention like intermittent fasting or a mimetic thereof (COI: we are working on one,
https://t.co/UeRo8uSUXo)

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@NassMeryl Thanks, Maryl. The problem with drugs is that you can’t take them until you have symptoms, at which time most of the damage has already been done. This is why we are developing an intervention that has clinically proven effects, but is safe enough before you get ill.

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@hannahcunliffe5 If you are immune against a particular virus strain (from vaccination or previous infection), your immune system has antibodies to prevent this virus from replicating after any reinfection. Hence, you cannot spread it to someone else.

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@JamesAThurber The first projections based on the epidemic in South Korea, the only industrialized country then, were too optimistic, but the conclusion was correct: closing nursing homes instead of schools/economy would have prevented many C19 deaths (US >65K) and all recent C20 deaths (50K).

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@COVID19Tracking COVID-20 from Spain spreads like C19 in March.

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@Paul_van_Hoek @boriquagato Korber (2020) identified two strains, D614 and G614, of which G614 is more virulent and arrived first in Italy.
https://t.co/SKUEcM1m4S

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@rikvanderkant Why is there no „Play“ button? How can one watch early?