Matthew Walsh@matthewwalsh91
I wrote about the bizarre move to douse #Shanghai in clouds of disinfectant as part of its “grand assault” on #Covid-19.
Why spend so much energy on a virus that rarely spreads via surfaces? The answers are more about politics than public health. -- @AFP
sg.news.yahoo.com
In a haze of disinfectant, China struggles with invisible enemy
8:27 AM · May 14, 2022
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Unfortunately the article only contains speculation, it's not like officials are going to respond to the question "why are you doing this thing we know is ineffective". Anyway, the best guess seems to be that it "conjures up the image of a heroic battle against an invisible enemy"
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
BASED
SpaceX @SpaceX
Starlink is now available in 32 countries around the world. People ordering from areas marked “available” will have their Starlink shipped immediately → https://t.co/slZbTmHdml https://t.co/CecM1pkf5D
7:11 AM · May 15, 2022
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I guess this makes me slightly less worried that Musk is afraid of angering China, given that they're counting Taiwan as a separate country. Also here's a link to the definition of 'based'
Justin@JustinLawGuy
You gonna take their land again?
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC
NEW: Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (R) just warned sovereign Native American tribal lands to not make abortion accessible in their territory if Roe is overturned: “Oklahomans will not think very well of that if tribes try to set up abortion clinics.”
10:56 PM · May 15, 2022
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I just learned that about 47 percent of Oklahoma is tribal land.
Arpit Gupta@arpitrage
- Omicron shows accelerated evolution
- Latest strain BA.2.12.1 not only has progressively higher transmission, but minimal cross-immunity to BA.1. Many will get reinfected
- BA.1 targeted vaccines will likely be less effective too
- Need nasal vaccine to limit transmission https://t.co/0L1vRS5aBq
Eric Topol @EricTopol
I wrote about the Covid capitulation
https://t.co/N5zk6WsPWB
2:21 AM · May 16, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
When mRNA vaccines first arrived it happened so rapidly that we got excited about the ability to pivot rapidly to new variant-optimized vaccines if necessary.
Now we have new, highly transmissible variants that significantly reduce existing vaccine efficacy and … crickets.
11:06 PM · May 15, 2022
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Nasal vaccines reduce spread of the virus, we should be developing these faster!