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fullmoonon Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left

After the admission that cloth masks don’t do anything, we don’t need to speculate about N95 masks at all, we can just look at the countries which had a N95 (FFP2) mandate, namely Austria, or at the single German state which enacted a N95 mandate: Bavaria.

If we compare Austria to it’s neighbors, or Bavaria to it’s sister states we see no effect.

fullmoonon Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left

We don’t have this data, because this is such an outrageous experiment, who would have thought to mask children for hour son end before 2020? I’d wager that no IRB board would have accepted such an experimental setup anyway.

But we really should have the data before engaging in real-world experimentation on children.

The closest we have is some data in macaques. https://massivesci.com/articles/facial-recognition-patches-b...

fullmoonon Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left

RSV is surging right now in the south.

https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/nrevss/rsv/region.html#sout...

fullmoonon Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left

But the diseas isn’t Covid, but RSV.

- https://eu.oklahoman.com/story/news/2021/07/30/oklahoma-chil... - https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/nrevss/rsv/region.html#sout...

fullmoonon Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left

> If you underestimate this pandemic, you are a fool. I don’t, but fortunately, it’s just a little factor for children.

> If you advocate others to underestimate this, you are a menace. If you advocate for interventions that harm children, which are barely affected, you are a menace.

Your 1 and 2 just point towards Delta being the most dominant variant, which surprises no one.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2782164

Long Covid in kids. No significant difference between seronegative and seropositive children.

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.11.21257037v...

Long Covid in kids. Simular conclusion. The paper poses the question: “suggests that Long-COVID19 might be less common than previously thought and emphasizing the impact of pandemic-associated symptoms regarding the well-being and mental health of young adolescents.”.

[3] https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-01...

Invasive ventilation by itself leads to neurological symptoms.

fullmoonon Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left

Adults are already very bad with correctly using N95/FFP2 masks when mandated to do so, I can’t imagine how kids would do.

fullmoonon Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left

Yes, it does since for some reason the U.S. media (almost exclusively in the world) is pushing this theme, and does so in a very shallow manner.

People will think that the PICU beds are full of Covid patients, which will cloud their judgement about the real-risks for their children.

fullmoonon Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left

The downside isn’t zero, as we can see right now: NPIs in children -> immune deficit for other common viruses -> off-season surge -> PICU capacity issues concurrent to a Covid-19 surge.

fullmoonon Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left

Yes.

The off-season RSV surge is both coming at the worst possible time, and is a paradoxical effect of (amongst other measures) masks, which led to a “immune deficiency” in kids.

Influenza isn’t gone either (although except for some regions in China there is very little signal so far). Knock ok wood that it takes a bit longer.

fullmoonon Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left

I have young kids and see nothing wrong with the posting.

Bad outcomes from Covid in kids are extraordinarily rare.

fullmoonon Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/unusual-rsv-summer-s...

It’s mostly RSV, a virus more dangerous to the young than COVID, which has been suppressed by Lockdowns and other measures.

fullmoonon Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health

Controlled breathing is essential during strength training

fullmoonon The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic could have been prevented

You imply that people dismiss vegan diets out of habits and not because of the shoddy science, bad health outcomes, and all of the lies coming from this cult.

fullmoonon Life as a cancer patient: ‘it feels like dying from the drugs meant to save me’

The _exclusively_ claim is incorrect - the brain can and will use ketone bodies when they are present.

fullmoonon Sperm Count Zero

But consumption of animal products have dropped since the 70s.

fullmoonon Body parts “fall asleep” in English. What about in other languages?

Ameisenlaufen is used in Austria quite a bit. Never heard pelzige Haut.

fullmoonon “Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course on Coursera

Which of her books are you referring to?

fullmoonon Show HN: v0.1 of my book "Why programmers work at night"

I think that’s pretty obvious, the people that wrote that passage down, I assume some time ago, were also of the same species and as such experienced the same circadian rhythms.

fullmoonon A Close Reading of Two Apple Apologies

fullmoonon Rescuing Resque: Let's do this

Why do you feel that a queue is inherently unpeekable?

fullmoonon Yahoo Removes Registered Trademark (R) From Logo

Running NextStep

fullmoonon Prisoner's Dilemma Solved

Richard Dawkins framed Game Theory in a perspective of evolutionary stable systems as early as 1976.

fullmoonon I bet you over-engineered your startup

Sure, but how can you fearlessly refactor the code without having automated tests in the first place for example?

Technical debt accumulates interrest.

fullmoonon Chromebox

Yeah, nobody needs an OS

fullmoonon What's That Programming Language?

The Lisps sure aren't easy

fullmoonon Yahoo CEO might have lied about having CS degree

It is a thought experiment

fullmoonon Why Erlang?

There is http://elixir-lang.org

fullmoonon Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript

Your assumption that I have no experience, and have therefore based my statement on hearsay is incorrect.

fullmoonon Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript

I'd go further and say, that it will be very hard to have a good MVC framework with Node before the async callback mess is brought under control. Maybe we'll even need something like Iced CoffeeScript for this.

fullmoonon Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript

Node is a web framework because it has a HTTP server built in? By this logic, EventMachine is also a web framework