17. Worth a read
And this:
The South African GP who first raised the alarm about Omicron says she was pressured by governments “not to publicly state that it was a mild illness”..
Dr Angelique Coetzee told Germany’s Die Welt newspaper this week that European governments asked her to portray the new strain as just as serious as previous Covid-19 variants, including Delta... “I was told not to publicly state that it was a mild illness,” she said. “I have been asked to refrain from making such statements and to say that it is a serious illness. I declined.”
Asked what she meant, Dr Coetzee said she was a clinician and “based on the clinical picture there are no indications that we are dealing with a very serious disease”...
Well we knew that, difference is that it was in news dot com oz, getting more mainstream each day.
16. Woodsy
[Chalk this one up for the smoky-drinky lads:]
[Item]1 - Nicotinic acid? The initial data from China way back pre panic suggested that smokers were less likely to contract Covid, it was one of the first things to get censored.
15. Microdave
Re the Twitter "Pop Up" - I started getting this yesterday, and found the following posted at Reddit:
"I hate this feature so much that I spent some time researching exactly how it works, and how to defeat it. If you install uBlock Origin (an ad blocking plugin for Chrome & Firefox), then you can not only remove this modal popup from twitter, you can remove it from ANY website. Credit to Alan976 for posting the uBlock Origin script to remove the modal popup.
You go to your filters in uBlock Origin, and add the following lines.
twitter.com##.r-1upvrn0.r-
twitter.com##div[role='dialog'
twitter.com##[id$='PromoSlot']
twitter.com##html->body:style(
twitter.com##html:style(
That first line is optional, and removes a hideous blue bar at the bottom of the screen. The last two lines are critical, and can be applied to any website that "blocks" you from reading the rest of the page. Often this blocking method is that they simply add a style to the body tag of the page that tells Chrome to not provide a scroll bar or render anything beyond the bottom of the page. This irritating tag is called "overflow: hidden". Those last two lines tell uBlock Origin to override this style for website's body tag. The style "overflow: hidden" is almost completely useless, so you are safe to always replace it with "overflow: visible"
I found it stops the PopUp in Palemoon (a derivative of Firefox), but somewhat annoyingly, the vertical scroll bar on the righthand side disappears after a few seconds. From then on you can only move up or down with the keyboard arrows.
So - for now - not perfect, but better than nothing!
"I hate this feature so much that I spent some time researching exactly how it works, and how to defeat it. If you install uBlock Origin (an ad blocking plugin for Chrome & Firefox), then you can not only remove this modal popup from twitter, you can remove it from ANY website. Credit to Alan976 for posting the uBlock Origin script to remove the modal popup.
You go to your filters in uBlock Origin, and add the following lines.
twitter.com##.r-1upvrn0.r-
twitter.com##div[role='dialog'
twitter.com##[id$='PromoSlot']
twitter.com##html->body:style(
twitter.com##html:style(
That first line is optional, and removes a hideous blue bar at the bottom of the screen. The last two lines are critical, and can be applied to any website that "blocks" you from reading the rest of the page. Often this blocking method is that they simply add a style to the body tag of the page that tells Chrome to not provide a scroll bar or render anything beyond the bottom of the page. This irritating tag is called "overflow: hidden". Those last two lines tell uBlock Origin to override this style for website's body tag. The style "overflow: hidden" is almost completely useless, so you are safe to always replace it with "overflow: visible"
I found it stops the PopUp in Palemoon (a derivative of Firefox), but somewhat annoyingly, the vertical scroll bar on the righthand side disappears after a few seconds. From then on you can only move up or down with the keyboard arrows.
So - for now - not perfect, but better than nothing!
14. PD
Psycho alert in Germany.
"Health Minister Lauterbach says "in Germany, it's not enough just to get on the nerves of the unvaccinated, you have to do more," in an AFP interview.
He urges the swift introduction of compulsory vaccinations in the general population."
https://twitter.com/
He reminds me of the chap purported to have died in a bunker some years ago. Just needs a 'tache....
"Health Minister Lauterbach says "in Germany, it's not enough just to get on the nerves of the unvaccinated, you have to do more," in an AFP interview.
He urges the swift introduction of compulsory vaccinations in the general population."
https://twitter.com/
He reminds me of the chap purported to have died in a bunker some years ago. Just needs a 'tache....
13. Just got back from shopping
... and the weather is highly deceptive. Inside here - very warm, snug, outside brilliant sunshine, nearly got caught by the elements. BBC forecast, which is still remarkably accurate for these parts, says rain and cold, around 6 degrees but it certainly didn't look like it. Opted for winter hat and spring jacket.
Jacket was too cold, could feel the chill coming through. That, chaps and chapesses, is why I believe many people succumb to bugs at this time of year.
12. Bill Sticker [Anglo-Canadian]
Another day and another message saying I should have a 'booster' jab. Another text message I will be ignoring, apart from writing about the experience here. Seriously people? Has no-one else got the memo that you get SARS/COV-2 regardless of whether you've been vaccinated or not?
Dr Luc Montagnier has died.
ReplyDeletehttps://usdaynews.com/celebrities/celebrity-death/luc-montagnier-death-cause/
"Luc Montagnier’s Beliefs about Vaccination
In Milan on 1/15/22 at 10:23, Dr. said shared that it will be up to the unvaccinated to defend humanity. According to reliable sources, the Italian translator translates the unvaccinated are the guardians of humanity into Italian at 12’35 of the video during a recap of Montagnier’s remarks. The organizers ask him in French if that’s exactly what he meant. Prof. Montagnier replied, “Yes, absolutely, well done”.
RIP