Interesting Links for 15-01-2022

[andrewducker]

An interesting take on a simple time management tool

(tags:time )

Covid: Are Scotland and England's isolation rules different?

(tags:scotland england pandemic rules )

Operation Save Big Dog: Boris Johnson draws up plan for officials to quit over partygate so he can keep job

(tags:politics BorisJohnson Pandemic party )

Any geneticists out there able to tell me is this is paranoid nonsense or a reasonable take on COVID?

(tags:genetics Pandemic virus conspiracy )

Old stone toilet reveals Jerusalem's wealthy elite had intestinal parasites

(tags:parasites Israel archeology )

We don't know why, but being in space causes us to destroy our blood

(tags:blood space disease anaemia )

Boris Johnson's 'wine time Fridays' - No10 staff held drinks EVERY week during pandemic

(tags:BorisJohnson Pandemic Party )

How to make friends around the world

(tags:uk history food funny comic )

Some thoughts about the Sue Gray investigation into Johnson's parties

(tags:party Pandemic BorisJohnson investigation )

Countries that have managed to almost completely suppress Covid have difficult choices ahead of them

(tags:Pandemic viaDanielDWilliam )

Comments

Any geneticists out there able to tell me is this is paranoid nonsense or a reasonable take on COVID

[jack]

I don't understand the CONTENT of what he's saying, but I have the same response as to previous theories: if this was anywhere near as obvious as he was saying, it would already be common knowledge amongst biologists, and he would be explaining some existing discussion between biologists, not deducing it from scratch.

I can't put into words when I think that test works: there's definitely times when the professionals do know and don't tell anyone because their default is not to talk about it, but it doesn't feel like that'd apply here.

[cmcmck]

Question is whether those he wants to sack will go quietly.

He's notoriously bad at giving folk the shove (think of the Cummings business).

And some of his boozegate buddies will know where the bodies are buried.

So I suspect not.

[dewline]

1. Like your source, I'm sure that Excel and its competitors have been repurposed as time management devices. It seems to lend itself well to that, among many other tasks.

2. Interesting!

3. No, PM Johnson should resign. So, of course, he objects to doing the right thing.

6. Space anemia? That's something else we're going to have to work on, then.

10. *winces at those thoughts*

[calimac]

"Operation Save Big Dog: Boris Johnson draws up plan for officials to quit over partygate so he can keep job"

Because that strategy worked so well for Richard Nixon.

helminthic therapy

[mellowtigger]

Hearing some people explain it, humans are supposed to have parasitic worm infections to properly balance our immune system as our (co-)evolution intended. Though what kind and how much is a detail that no one seems willing to say yet.

[zlyuk]

(i'm not a genetisist, but do some maths for biology and clinics)
in addition to support for all that the better experts on genetics said, i'd like to add that the cited probabilities are also meaningless, because they assume all the sequences are equiprobable and independent of one another. that's unlikely - the dna and nucleotide sequences are selected for their effectiveness. if some sequence helps HIV virus to rival the immune cells, no reason why another strand will not stumble upon it. we're also searching under the streetlight - we look on sars-2 because it succeeded, so the convergence can be indeed random - if it has adopted one of the successful strategies that helped other viruses.

apart from this, too much rhetoric phrases even for a blog, to my taste. does not lend credibility, when the author hints from the start what will the conclusion be.