Void Abyss @voidabyss@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo @Pat US collapse is no good!

@vwbusguy I wholeheartedly agree, unfortunately I see a lot of de-federation for petty reasons 😔

@podverse @dave

It's up to date now, thank you very much!

It would be great to have a Linux desktop app and have the features that are limited to the Android App like custom RSS, download episodes, OPML, etc.
A desktop app would manage it's own episodes RSS syncs and solve these kind of issue.

Anyways, I am using the web app as PWA an it's awesome and I like the live feature.
I tired different podcast apps and #podverse is the most feature packed!

Thank you again making and developing this awesome app.

@podverse

Hello, I really like your app. it's awesome, many #podcasting 2.0 features, transcript, chapters. V4V, etc.

I am using the web app, I have an issue with one podcast not updating the latest episodes!

The Asianometry Podcast
https://podverse.fm/podcast/rWSH1fKetw
https://anchor.fm/s/5d71354c/podcast/rss

Could you please help me with that?

Thank you very much!

#podcast #podcastapp

@DavidM_yeg @ritawild @detachedspork

Thanks, it's always good to read counter arguments to a scientific publication from a storyteller fact twister journalist.

- The overnight coronavirus expert
https://fortune.com/2020/08/10/the-overnight-coronavirus-expert/
https://www.removepaywall.com

- What does Covid-19 mean for expertise? The case of Tomas Pueyo
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/what-does-covid-19-mean-expertise-case-tomas-pueyo

Here is a fair and balanced tldr critique of the Cochrane study from a medical expert 👇

➡ Drop Public Mask Mandates Without Misgivings
Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group Concludes Masks "Make Little or No Difference" in Spread of Viral Respiratory Illnesses
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/drop-public-mask-mandates-without?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fmask&utm_medium=reader2

- Dr. Peter A McCullough, MD, MPH
Citations 67165
h-index 122
i10-index 492
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LzqEaOkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

If you want to rely an expert opinion on this subject make sure they have at least a publication h-index above 10.

@DavidM_yeg @ritawild @detachedspork

Cherry picking bits and pieces of a meta analysis is not "reading".

Why didn't you cherry pick this part for example:

> The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection.

Since you like "reading" so much, I would like to share with you two more research publications on this subject:

- Respiratory Performance Offered by N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks: Human Subject Evaluation with NaCl Aerosol Representing Bacterial and Viral Particle Size Range

https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/52/3/177/312528?login=false

>Most of the tested N95 respirators and surgical masks in this study were observed to perform at their worst against particles approximately between 0.04 and 0.2 μm, which includes the sizes of coronavirus and influenza virus.

- The Foegen effect
A mechanism by which facemasks contribute to the COVID-19 case fatality rate

https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/Fulltext/2022/02180/The_Foegen_effect__A_mechanism_by_which_facemasks.60.aspx

> This study revealed that wearing facemasks might impose a great risk on individuals, which would not be mitigated by a reduction in the infection rate. The use of facemasks, therefore, might be unfit, if not contraindicated, as an epidemiologic intervention against COVID-19.

@cmclase

Meta-analysis:

➡ Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full

> The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection.

Research study:

➡ Respiratory Performance Offered by N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks: Human Subject Evaluation with NaCl Aerosol Representing Bacterial and Viral Particle Size Range

https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/52/3/177/312528?login=false

>Most of the tested N95 respirators and surgical masks in this study were observed to perform at their worst against particles approximately between 0.04 and 0.2 μm, which includes the sizes of coronavirus and influenza virus.

➡ The Foegen effect
A mechanism by which facemasks contribute to the COVID-19 case fatality rate

https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/Fulltext/2022/02180/The_Foegen_effect__A_mechanism_by_which_facemasks.60.aspx

> This study revealed that wearing facemasks might impose a great risk on individuals, which would not be mitigated by a reduction in the infection rate. The use of facemasks, therefore, might be unfit, if not contraindicated, as an epidemiologic intervention against COVID-19.

Opinion articles:

➡ The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/do-mask-mandates-work.html
https://www.removepaywall.com/

➡ Does this finally put the mask debate to bed? 'Gold standard' analysis of 78 studies and 1million people finds face coverings made 'little to no difference' to Covid infection or death rates

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702865/Masks-make-little-no-difference-Covid-infections-massive-cross-country-meta-analysis-finds.html

➡ Do We Need Mask Mandates?
The science suggests that more states should consider rescinding them.
https://www.city-journal.org/do-we-need-mask-mandates

➡ The Real Science on Masks: They Make No Difference
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-real-science-on-masks-they-make?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fmasks&utm_medium=reader2

#MaskMandate #CovidLong #LongCovid #N95s #n95 #FFP2 #ffp3 #n99 #COVID #COVID19

@jq Have you seen Servant? It's a nice gem, worth the watch.
#servant

@funkybuddha