andrewducker | Interesting Links for 13-10-2023

1. Misery for motorists as Rishi Sunak's HS2 cut set to put half a million more lorries on the road: (tags:transport doom uk hs2 )
2. Bentham's Mugging (a short play, wherein moral purity is found wanting): (tags:morality philosophy funny )
3. WordPress makes its posts available via the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc): (tags:WordPress socialmedia )
4. 'Brahmastra Part One: Shiva' - for those people who like a very pretty religious superhero musical: (tags:religion movies trailer video india )
5. On Whataboutery in response to Hamas.: (tags:israel palestine terrorism )
6. Breakthrough in reading unopened ancient scrolls by scanning them: (tags:archaeology ai technology prehistory )
7. France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations: (tags:France Palestine protests )
8. Covid can cause our brain cells to fuse together causing cognitive impairment.: (tags:Pandemic brain Doom )
9. Edinburgh Princes Street closed due to 'incident' as buses and trams affected: (tags:Edinburgh transport buses trams )
10. Edinburgh's Princes Street closed and buses and trams disrupted after man found dead in early hours: (tags:death edinburgh )

I'd be testing near constantly. And I do not trust the home tests, particularly not for any of the variants since 2022. They seem to have an accuracy of less than 50%.

Edit: To be clear, I'd get a test kit if I got something which didn't feel like the normal cold that I've basically had constantly for the last year.

Edited 2023-10-13 14:31 (UTC)

I (famously) NEVER get colds. Not even when my most intimate of intimates does (very regularly). When I felt cold then a tad feverish 3 days after a (super rare) visit to a bar in the big city where the woman almost opposite me coughed her way through the night - I kinda knew. Test confirmed. Even though I'm never sick, I would say COVID doesn't feel 'normal'. (Though I never got a cough at all. Just 2 days light fever, 3 days stuffed nose, one week loss of smell).

Why not test? There's not likely to be a false positive and if you don't trust tests anyway, a false negative is no different from no test? But a positive test would put you in a better position to know how much to look after yourself afterwards.

Of course, regardless of what the test says, one ought to STAY THE FUCK AT HOME with any respiratory illness. Like that stupid coughing woman should have!

The last bit is basically where I am. Look after myself, don't cough on people more than I have to.

But there's no way that "having a cold constantly" for a year is normal. Please get it checked out. Maybe an allergy? In any case, see about it!

Oh, I get a few days off every so often, but with him bringing home a cold from nursery every two weeks and her doing the same from school, but on a different schedule, the times where neither has had one for at least a week are fairly intermittently spread.

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