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UK case-fatality-rate right now is 0.1% mostly because so many ppl are getting infected but not dying.
young ppl + vaccinated older ppl sI aumes
USA cfr's dropping for same reason
Following up on yesterday's item about where things are headed, the UK provides a clear indicator. Seriously, if you havenât seen it already, please check out the thread by Will Hoenig.
If 95% of a population is fully vaccinated and vaccines reduce hospitalizations by 90%, you'd expect ~2/3 of hospitalizations to be among vaccinated people.
Bayes theorem is unintuitive sometimes, but the math is pretty clear. Although some other situations are more clear-cut.
Humanity is on the cusp of practically limitless energy via nuclear fusion and basically nobody is talking about it, which is nuts.
I left working in fusion because I was skeptical of the field's ability to progress, but my mind has totally changed (1/n)
This is wild, I had no idea Fusion was so far along. Obviously solar is so cheap that it may not end up mattering, but at least Iâm not worried about running out of helium anymore!
I think the challenge is not âhow do you devise conservative-friendly pro-vaccination rhetoricâ but âhow do you persuade Rupert Murdoch to put these arguments on his US-based properties the way he does he UK-based onesâ? https://t.co/UqMf2hZ8Go
Patrick Ruffini @PatrickRuffini
Rupert, pls halp. Coincidentally, Hannity made a pro vaccine statement the same day.
New estimates of TV advertising effectiveness across 288 CPG brands show that advertising generally has little effect on sales and most brands earn a negative ROI. The results cast doubt on the sustainability of financing TV content markets with ad revenue econometricsociety.org/publications/eâŠ
Just tax all ads per impression, let the market sort things out.
According to the Kaiser survey, one of the 3 major reasons why vaccine-hesitant folks finally got vaccinated is when they learned not being vaccinated will prevent them from doing some things.
Vaccine mandates will work.
I wonder if California can enact vaccine mandates unilaterally. Maybe businesses could do it?
