Interesting Links for 06-02-2021

[andrewducker]

Jeremy Hunt says Covid restrictions should stay until cases fall to 1,000 a day

(tags:pandemic UK )

"How King's College Hospital Cured My Depression" (psilocybin works!)

(tags:psilocybin mentalhealth depression research )

The graph of unintelligible languages is acyclic

(tags:visualisation language )

Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders

(tags:cancer faeces immune_system )

Denmark to build world's first wind energy island in the North Sea to power millions of homes

(tags:Denmark windpower )

American Mothers, On the Brink (I assume British mothers are much the same)

(tags:work pandemic stress women mother children parenting )

Indyref2 case dismissed as 'hypothetical' by court

(tags:Scotland independence law )

iPhone's Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything 'Asian'

(tags:OhForFucksSake porn iPhone censorship epicfail )

On sport, endogenous testosterone, and transgender participation in sport

(tags:sports olympics testosterone transgender LGBT )

The sound that connects Stravinsky to Bruno Mars (and dominated the 80s)

(tags:video music history viaSwampers )

An eloquent takedown of people who try to hide their bullying behind "Only joking"

(tags:sexism video jokes humour bullying )

Cambridge Analytica psychologist advising Covid19 disinformation network

(tags:pandemic lies OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[cmcmck]

The testosterone thing amuses me.

The only T I produce is via the adrenal glands same as any other woman!

For which I am duly grateful! :o)

If we play fight, he wins. For why? Because he's taller than me, bigger than me and more muscular than me.

[lilysea]

Jeremy Hunt says Covid restrictions should stay until cases fall to 1,000 a day

*makes a face*

Melbourne, Australia set the threshold for lifting restrictions to less-than-70 new cases per day.

[andrewducker]

That's about the same level, per capita.

[lilysea]

That's about the same level, per capita.

less than 70 new cases in a population of 5,078,193 ? [population of Melbourne, not population of Australia]

[andrewducker]

Population of the UK is 66 million. So 13x that of Melbourne. 13x70 is 910. Which is very close to 1000.

[calimac]

Is the rate for one urban area really comparable to that of an entire country?

[andrewducker]

It's going to vary. But if you're saying that 70 is a reasonable threshold for Melbourne to unlock then saying that that level, per capita, isn't reasonable for the UK to unlock, seems at least a little odd and worthy of some discussion of why.

[errolwi]

One of the variations is rate of compliance with the rules, which I understand has been poor in the UK (at least partly because of poor support for the real economic cost of compliance).

[andrewducker]

And also how good the track and trace setup is.

[davidcook]

A bit late to this discussion, but just wanted to note that "lifting restrictions" probably means different things in Melbourne vs UK.
At peak, Melb lockdown was: Only allowed outside of the house for one of the "four reasons" - 1 shopping trip by one person only, caring for someone, 1 hour of exercise, and work/study (but only if essential/couldn't be done from home), and all of the above restricted to within 5km of home (unless an exemption granted). Schools/childcare closed, restaurants closed, cinemas closed, weddings and funerals heavily restricted. No visits to anyone's house. Night-time curfew 8pm-6am or so.

"lifting" meant moving to: 2 hours of exercise allowed. One nominated visitor allowed for singles/single parents. Exercise up to 2 hours, still within 5km. Curfew was eased slightly - 9pm-5am. Schools, restaurants, cinemas etc were still closed. Workplaces were WFH where possible.

... have the restrictions in the UK been anywhere near that level at any point ?

(source: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhMtaR8VoAI8Y59?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

[andrewducker]

At the moment the cinemas, restaurants, etc are all closed. You can have up to 5 people at your wedding. Childcare has been closed for ages, and we're looking forward to that opening again on the 22nd. Schools currently closed, will open back up a bit soon, but only some years and only some purposes.

[aldabra]

I was on the list for that psilocybin trial when everything shut down 8-(

[andrewducker]

I hope it starts back up soon and it really helps.

(And I'd be fascinated to hear more about it!)

Mothers on the brink

[rmc28]

"But who really has the energy to be angry — or even to advocate for change — when they’re just trying to get through the day?"

I feel this so much right now.

Just hanging on until things get easier.

Re: Mothers on the brink

[andrewducker]

Yeah. I am so glad that we are both off work just now and Sophia doesn't require homeschooling of any kind.

[darkoshi]

The video about the Stravinsky orchestra hit sound was interesting, as well as the next one about the gated reverb drum sound.