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Lasting Covid-19 symptoms

vendredi 1 octobre 2021 à 02:00

A study of around 270,000 Americans after they had Covid-19 found that 37% of them had a symptom over three months later.

Some fraction of them may have developed the symptom from some other cause by coincidence, or already had it before catching Covid-19. It may be hard to distinguish those cases.

Urgent: eliminate filibuster

vendredi 1 octobre 2021 à 02:00

US citizens: call on the Senate to eliminate the filibuster and pass the Freedom to Vote Act.

Urgent: Line 3 pipeline

vendredi 1 octobre 2021 à 02:00

US citizens: call on Biden to shut down the Line 3 pipeline and stop local thugs from using "pain compliance" against protesters

Debate on crude language

jeudi 30 septembre 2021 à 02:00

Angela Rayner, deputy leader of Labour, called Tories "scum". Now half the scum in Britain are distracting attention from their policies of cruelty by rebuking her crude language.

What Rayner said was totally justified, but the way Aneurin Bevan (also working class) said it was more effective and harder to attack superficially: "The Tories are lower than vermin." Be using a less common word to condemn them, and putting it inside a comparison, he made it sound incisive rather than crude.

Rayner should not even hint at apologizing, but rather than defending her insult, she should press the attack with varieties of brief but substantial condemnations.

Relevant comic.

Drought and hydroelectric power

jeudi 30 septembre 2021 à 02:00

Drought could shut down hydroelectric power from Lake Powell and Lake Mead. This would be a big loss in US non-fossil-fuel generating capacity.

As the years go by, this will become more and more likely.

This is an example of the sort of positive feedbacks that can lead to global heating worse than models have predicted.