🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@mcnado

See this is what I'm talking about. An actual review of the literature would show the prevelance of post-covid syndroms is not yet known, the studies we do have range from <10% to 30%/35% at the absolute highest end. Yet you are 1) quoting it as if its well established, it is not 2) picking from the highest end of the spectrum (fear mongering).

Couple this with the fact that there is a great deal of fear, and an impossiblity to test for this in a double-blind fashion you get a recipe for disaster one would expect highly inflated numbers due to the placebo effect alone.

As a COVID Research scientist myself, and you as a doctor, we need to hold ourselves to higher standards when we state things as fact. You cant just cherry pick a study that gives the number you want, we have to be mindful of the consensus and the body of literature and leave our personal biases out of it.

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@mcnado

> but to what end?

Largely my concern is fear mongering (perhaps unintentional). There has been a great deal of over-hyping COVID and has caused people to be dispreportionaltly scared of the disease and its consequences. While it is of course a serious disease people have heard so much disinformation to make it sound scarier than it is that people are often irrationally afraid of it relative to the risks.

Saying its common makes people think most people who catch it will start having heart problems when in fact a very very small portion of people who catch it will. So that needs pointing out.

@levisan the bigger benefit is the sound insulation

@stux

Dragon name suggestion: Modo, short for Komodo

@the_Effekt

I want to create a factually accurate RPG. It would still be filled with wizards, its just that their magic doesnt actually do anything but they are all too stupid to realize magic isnt real. So your fighters are left to fight all the battles alone while the wizards pretend to cast spells but are completely useless.

@stux Wizards are a very real part of history, or at least, people who thought they were wizards :)

@mcnado

Common? Patients who have had COVID have only a 20% increased risk of AFib post infection. Thats hardly "common" that would make it fairly rare.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-16113-6

@stux

Factually accurate? :)

@jaysonmassey

More a problem of people renting property well beyond what they need or can afford.

@NicoleCRust

As a researcher with some overlap I wonder if some of the tech I've built and am building might be of help to him...

@AT1ST

You also have to consider it isnt just about how many are up for rent. Its how appealing it is to rent at all. If the price people were willing to pay was profitable more people would put their houses up for rent. So again its an economic issue not a qty issue as there are more than enough houses to fit people.

@MisuseCase @knittingknots2

@AT1ST

So its not a qty issue at all if there are places to rent. Its a price issue. The price at which it would be worth it for the landlord is higher than you want to pay.

No landlord would go with a place not being rented at all if they wouldnt make enough money to make up for that by waiting for market-value.

@MisuseCase @knittingknots2

Ha!

@AT1ST

Oh sorry, thought you said Toronto for some reason.

But to the original point. Its still not a QTY issue, at best you can argue there is an issue with the economy in general, and I would generally agree. But the problem isnt the number of homes.

@MisuseCase @knittingknots2

I am watching the new #Disney movie The little mermaid. I am really enjoying how they used factually accurate (And in some cases not very well known) sea creatures. They also put a lot of attention into making their movements more or less accurate as well.

I was particularly excited to see the feather stars.

That said they arent region appropriate, I dont think I recall ever seeing a feather star in the Caribbean. I can let it slide :)

#TheLittleMermaid #LittleMermaid