There were zero deaths recorded once again today in the official #Covid19Cymru figures (total remains at 1545). There have been just 5 deaths in the past week, meaning that the 7-day average is now 0.71.
The main risk now I think is complacency, coupled with tourism (especially in rural areas).
@gemlog there are a lot of unanswered questions regarding immunity. A recent study in the Karolinska institute in Sweden suggested that T-cell immunity is much more widespread than IgG immunity. If that's the case, then we are measuring the wrong thing when we do antibody tests.
Plaid and SNP accuse UK Government of 'clear power grab' and 'con trick' over internal market bill. https://nation.cymru/news/plaid-and-snp-accuse-uk-government-of-clear-power-grab-and-con-trick-over-internal-market-bill/
@gemlog And if T cell immunity from past Corona viruses protects (it's thought that SARS 1 survivors have adequate T cell immunity against Covid) then, with a number of recent common colds having been Corona type viruses, I do wonder if the 1-(1/R0) level for herd immunity might possibly be being reached in some places.
We just don't know though, because those were mild, few people would have reported them, and there's no easy test now.
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This is very worrying.
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'Too big to fail': why even a historic ad boycott won’t change Facebook
RT @JanelleCShane
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German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23833140
Sensible.
If the Senedd believes in Welsh democracy, it should let the Welsh people decide its future. https://nation.cymru/opinion/if-the-senedd-believes-in-welsh-democracy-it-should-let-the-welsh-people-decide-its-future/
There were 2 new deaths reported today in the #Covid19Cymru official figures. That brings the daily average down to 1.0 - the lowest it's been since the very beginning (the week following the first death). Total now 1545.
Wednesday's figure is traditionally slightly higher than average.
'All our work could count for nothing:' Concerns about 'irresponsible' visitors in Ceredigion. https://nation.cymru/news/all-our-work-could-count-for-nothing-concerns-about-irresponsible-visitors-in-ceredigion/
Just three weeks since the winter solstice we are well into lambing with upwards of half our ewes having given birth. Here a small group of lambs is gambolling about while their mothers graze nearby.
It is cold, especially when there is rain and strong winds that suck the heat out of the newborn lambs and we already have three that have been rescued and under a heat lamp in the house and bottle-fed.
See video at https://vimeo.com/437406302
Every once in a while on a weekend I change my avatar to show that I'm not a kermode bear, but an old, straight, cis white guy and a couple of ppl stop talking to me. Fine! You know what? That's *why* I change my avatar - to weed out your type of hate from my timeline. Mastodon is mostly a very accepting place. I don't do folk music much, but here are some old guy tunes, because someone made me sad about being me today
https://invidio.us/watch?v=od2JV9DVx9Y
https://invidio.us/watch?v=nKrE2ziF28I
https://invidio.us/watch?v=UpgYUhgbFAk
Time to grope through /home/gemlog/bin for some python that I've already written that is almost what I want right now.
Frankly, at this point, I think that sometimes the exploration for an existing script is sometimes longer than it would have taken to just write something new.
I am a bear of very little brain...
My ~/bin is humoungess.
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