"And the aggressive responses from people (friends or strangers) about my prevention activities are strong reflections on their own mental state. If #covid were truly over, then they wouldn't care if I was wearing a mask in public... they'd mind their own business and move along. But my mask (and other precautions) is causing them dissonance, and the easiest thing to do is to lash out in one way or another."

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/14xvpls/comment/jrq42jx/

"Peter J. Hotez and Maria Elena Bottazzi began development on the vaccine, known as CORBEVAX, in 2020 and currently are awaiting the final results of Phase Three clinical trials to determine its efficacy rate with respect to the Omicron COVID-19 variant.

In sharp contrast to the four dominant vaccines globally, CORBEVAX is protected by no patents or other intellectual property protection."

#RachelThrasher

https://www.bu.edu/gdp/2022/02/06/open-source-covid-19-vaccine-offers-potential-pathway-for-vaccinating-the-world/

#COVID #vaccines #CORBEVAX #DrugPatents

Sadly, a new study in JAMA includes data on more than 38K young people diagnosed with diabetes during the pandemic. The authors found a"substantial" rise in diabetes cases during the pandemic vs prepandemic.

-a 14% rise was seen during the 1st year of the pandemic
- a 27% rise was noted during the 2nd year.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66054946

I discussed this rise in childhood diabetes cases with experts ~15 months ago. Some of the proposed mechanisms as to

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS