Interesting Links for 04-09-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Is My Blue Your Blue? (Hue 177 for me, bluer than 76% of the population)

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2. Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant for maths problem do worse on tests

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3. Rail nationalisation takes a step closer under Starmer's first major public reform

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4. Labour won't ban dynamic pricing despite Oasis tickets anger, but will make it more transparent

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5. New coastal neighbourhood masterplan unveiled for Seafield in Edinburgh

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6. What British women really fantasise about

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7. I'd love to see some science-based discussion on this piece about whether Covid is something worth stressing about.

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8. Grenfell disaster - key points

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Comments

[redbird]

We've been getting regular "it's time to stop worrying about covid" articles since some time in 2020, many of them saying "only X thousand people have died" even as they had to change that to "only X hundred thousand" and then as the numbers reached a million deaths in the US alone. And they keep telling us that we have tools to handle it, and then they took away the monoclonal antibodies, and testing hospitalized patients for covid, and reporting how many people are hospitalized with covid, and free vaccines for people without insurance, and almost every protection other than staying at home.

But somehow it's "scaremongering" to point out that at least a thousand Americans died of covid in a recent week. Yes, she says she "supports my right to wear a mask," which I suppose means that she doesn't think the Nassau County police should be able to demand that I unmask because they don't believe I have a good enough reason to want to avoid infection.

When someone starts an article by admitting that they're afraid of death and disability, and my masking, or asking my doctor to mask, or turning down invitations is a reminder that covid is still deadly, I might take them seriously.

I know that's not a science-based discussion, but frankly at this point I'm not just afraid of this still-deadly virus, I'm afraid of people who would rather I died quietly than be out there in a mask, trying to live my life, as people keep saying I have to.

[melchar]

I'm still worried, still masking & vaccinating. I've avoid it thus far & am immune compromised, so I desperately desire to continue this state. That's not even discussing 'Long Covid', for that matter.