Nate

goddamn queer [they/them] | vomits code for a living

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

It's an anti-masker tactic to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

in the new world order, there’s no sovereignty without nuclear arms

[michael @worstmichael]

I consider the use of AI in daily life a serious moral and intellectual failing. To willingly cede that which makes you human to a machine is shameful. The great threat to our species is not that automatons will destroy us but that we ourselves will become them.

[covid is oncogenic @chaitrovert]

cdc just had to say in 2021 that masks trigger & annoy govt officials & if you stop masking you'll be fine & if you kill anyone it will "only" be worthless lives like your grandma, anti-vax relatives, your cat, & kids w/ cancer. & most of y'all complied & celebrated this

[Madeline Pendleton @JeanGreige]

This is funny because horseshoe theory is a wildly debunked fascist conspiracy theory designed to make you think fighting fascism is just as bad as being a fascist and the only way to be “normal” is to just shut up and let bad things happen lol

[Nate @ProDefunctis]

@eldianangel That explains why I liked durian better than I've even been able to

[Nate @ProDefunctis]

@nerissa_en Reporting in for my kamioshi HI EVERYONE 💙

[𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍™ @Devon_OnEarth]

"I asked ch*tGPT" "I asked Gr*k" yeah well i just analysed it from a Marxist perspective and it was pretty obvious

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

30 million excess deaths attributable to COVID is a tremendous underestimate because most analyses insufficiently account for mortality displacement.

In the U.S., it's about 50% worse than people realize.

[Kill The Computer @KillTheCompShow]

oooh so it really is a slave labor camp

[AES: The Podcast ☭ Free Palestine! @AESThePodcast]

The US govt didn't fight Nazis because of their ideology. They did so because their material interests were at odds.

In fact, the USA was a major inspiration for the Nazis in terms of their domestic racial laws and genocidal program aimed at the USSR.

This is not an opinion.

[Mike from PA @Mike_from_PA]

The Chinese century is here.

And without a fight. Fascism is really a self-destructive impulse. Suicide by international coalition.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

1) The best hospitals require universal masking during Covid waves.

2) We are in a Covid wave.

3) Therefore, if your hospital does not require masking, it is ____________. (fill in the blank)

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

Timeline

[Noha Aboelata, MD @NohaAboelataMD]

Helpful new in-season estimates from CDC confirm what we already know: The burden of c19 dwarfs that of flu and RSV combined, *even in flu and RSV season*.
https://t.co/kjBrY6LA0V

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

PMC COVID-19 Forecasting Model, Nov 11, 2024

We're starting to get out 1st glimpse of the shape of the winter wave.

🔸Expected transmission a month from now: 1.3 million daily infections
🔸Best-case: 0.7 million daily infections
🔸Worst-case: 1.8 million daily infections

There's nothing in the data yet to suggest the winter will be markedly different from last year, which is very bad news. Within 3 weeks, we'll have a much better sense of what path we're on and what the peak of the wave may look like, likely around NYE.

Info for new readers:
For those unfamiliar with the PMC model, find full weekly reports for the past 14+ months at https://t.co/xmDnq5OkYl

The models combine data from IHME, Biobot, and CDC to use wastewater to estimate case levels (r = .93 to .96) and forecast levels the next month based on typical (median) levels for that date and recent patterns of changes in transmission the past 4 weeks.

Our work has been cited in top scientific journals and media outlets, which are fully sourced in a detailed technical appendix at https://t.co/xruNpynC3N

Examples include JAMA Onc, JAMA-NO, BMC Public Health, Time, People, TODAY, the Washington Post, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Salon, Forbes, the New Republic, Fox, CBS, and NBC. See pgs 10-11 at the above link.