Sandbox (4)

Sometimes very active discussions about peripheral issues overwhelm a thread, so this is a permanent home for those conversations.

I’ve opened a new “Sandbox” thread as a post as the new “ignore commenter” plug-in only works on threads started as posts.

5,915 thoughts on “Sandbox (4)

  1. Tom English: Nowadays, how do you specify where the fold goes?

    If you are using the “Block” editor, there should be a “more” block that you can add. I think you have to search the blocktypes available.

  2. Tom English:
    Heartfelt thanks to whomever it was that got the site to render embedded LaTeX again. I put a ridiculous amount of work into some of the posts containing that stuff.

    I think Pavel Holoborodko deserves the thanks. 🙂

    It seems only fair to contribute a brief post in return.

    Great news. I’m looking forward to it.

  3. J-Mac: So, does it mean I can post a post without censorship if the evidence comes form Pfizer, CDC, FDA etc?

    I suggest you offer a post for publication, including the evidence for any claim.

  4. Alan Fox: I suggest you offer a post for publication, including the evidence for any claim.

    What kind of evidence are you willing to accept?
    Are you, or DNA_jock, willing to accept the evidence from WHO from 2020 that clearly indicates covid-19 had the same morality rate as influenzas?

  5. J-Mac: Are you, or DNA_jock, willing to accept the evidence from WHO from 2020 that clearly indicates covid-19 had the same morality rate as influenzas?

    Well, let’s see the evidence! Although I am curious as to the metric they used to measure the morality rate — was it the CFR (case fornication rate)?
    ROFLMAO.

  6. DNA_Jock,

    I expect my morality rating will be weighed in the balance but hope my eventual death will not be too excessive.

  7. DNA_Jock: Well, let’s see the evidence! Although I am curious as to the metric they used to measure the morality rate —was it the CFR (case fornication rate)?
    ROFLMAO.

    We included 77 estimates of the case fatality risk from 50 published studies, about one-third of which were published within the first 9 months of the [2009, flu] pandemic. We identified very substantial heterogeneity in published estimates, ranging from less than 1 to more than 10,000 deaths per 100,000 cases or infections.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809029/
    The cherries are ripe for picking.

  8. DNA_Jock: Well, let’s see the evidence! Although I am curious as to the metric they used to measure the morality rate —was it the CFR (case fornication rate)?
    ROFLMAO.

    We included 77 estimates of the case fatality risk from 50 published studies, about one-third of which were published within the first 9 months of the [2009, flu] pandemic. We identified very substantial heterogeneity in published estimates, ranging from less than 1 to more than 10,000 deaths per 100,000 cases or infections.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809029/
    The cherries are ripe for picking.

  9. Oops. The old plug-ins blocked double posting.

    I don’t know anyone who’s been tested for flu, so I’m suspicious about case fatality rates. Also, fatality rates vary by age. I think the 1918 flu was an exception.

    When covid started up, it seemed obvious to me that the extreme symptoms were a result of novelty. Naive immune systems overreacting. This was an informed guess, but it seems to have been about right. After recovery, or after vaccination, people still get infected, but don’t get as sick.

    I think this is true of flu, also. I’ve read that there is some cross immunity to flu variants.

  10. Alan Fox:
    DNA_Jock,

    I expect my morality rating will be weighed in the balance but hope my eventual death will not be too excessive.

    Have you made up your mind to go down with the ship, Alan???
    Please tell me it ain’t so? Are you siding with dna_jock_corrption because of what?

  11. DNA_Jock: Well, let’s see the evidence! Although I am curious as to the metric they used to measure the morality rate —was it the CFR (case fornication rate)?
    ROFLMAO.

    Mortality rate? Are you on drugs? We are talking about human lives and not chickens… Do you get it? Why would you laugh about such an important issue as human lives? What is so funny about people dying unnecessarily?

  12. J-Mac: Have you made up your mind to go down with the ship, Alan??? Please tell me it ain’t so?

    With climate change predictions of an inevitable 3°C, there’s no escape. We’re all in the same boat, though rowing in different directions.

    Are you siding with dna_jock_corrption because of what?

    Did you not get the joke? Your typo “mortality=>morality” is pretty funny.

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