herid @herid@social.cleverlibre.org

Covid reinfections are bad for your health. Big @DeptVetAffairs study published @NatureMedicine today. #LongCovid
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Chebyshev polynomials are used all over math and physics. Draw a cosine function on a strip of paper, wrap it around a cylinder, then look it the projection. You get a Chebyshev polynomial! #visualization

-Russia withdraws from Kherson
-No GOP “red wave”
-Positive data on the economy
-Trump slammed by Fox
-No negative reaction after my Covid/Flu booster shots
-Survived hurricane Nicole
-Going to see Hamilton (again) this weekend

Pretty good week, I’d say…and it’s only Thursday!

Network Effect: #Birdsite

For those planning to leave Twitter because of Elon Musk, a word of caution

Past experience shows that communities that call Twitter home are unlikely to be able to completely reconstitute themselves elsewhere.

https://scroll.in/article/1036613/a-word-of-advice-for-those-planning-to-leave-twitter-because-of-elon-musk

Anyone else going through the extreme whiplash of witnessing doctors report on the collapse of ERs and hospital care in real time because of #covid …

… and logging into insta to see all their friends indoors at bars, restaurants, classes, parties etc. unmasked with crowds of strangers? #BringBackMasks

Coca-Cola has patented a bottle coated with a layer of "diamond-like carbon" to increase its strength.
Patent no. 11472590

For fellow legally-minded folks, I set up this instance (esq.social). Feel free to sign up and/or migrate over. Usual good behavior practices will prevail (no hate speech, being a jerk, etc. -- will flesh that out later).

Climate change will force #farmers to reshuffle what is grown where.
#climate #climatechange
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/11/10/climate-change-will-force-farmers-to-reshuffle-what-is-grown-where

Whenever things are going badly for Russia, check in on Margo Simonyan. The worse things are, the more she'll chat total shit. Voila:

Their absolute shameless hypocrisy knows no bounds.

The EU continues to stand in solidarity with Ukraine.

We propose an €18 billion support package for 2023.

Funding in regular tranches to help recovery in the short-term and strengthen institutions.

Preparing the ground for a reconstruction of 🇺🇦 progressing on the EU path.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/vonderleyen/status/1590320854147207168

20/ fin
In conclusion, we’re learning how to stay in safe water

👇fig below
 
Reduce your risk of disabling #LongCOVID by…

📌 Getting vaccinated - benefits outweigh risks for most people
📌 Take antiviral meds quickly
 📌 Mask indoors
📌 Enduring effects of #COVID are not over

12/ SO…
What are the data on risk of Long COVID in vaxxed vs. unvaxxed?

I will review 4 studies.

Bottom line: there’s about a 30% to 50% risk reduction (though the range across studies is 15% to 80%)

✔️ btw I’m paid $0 to share these data & have no stocks in pharma companies