Covid is Over?

It all started with a wedding a super spread event … With a year’s worth of data, researchers have amassed ample evidence of some chief ingredients of superspreading events: prolonged indoor gatherings with poor ventilation. Activities such as singing and dancing, which produce many of the tiny infectious droplets that can be inhaled by others, are also common components.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly

— Anton Chekhov, born on 29th January  in 1860

Researchers are asking why some countries were better prepared for covid. One surprising answer: Trust.

YEP:  Samizdata quote of the day.

It’s time to say No More! and Never Again!

NSW records 13,026 new COVID-19 cases and 27 deaths

Mild COVID-19 cases still lead to attention and memory issues: study Reuters. 

Covid Is Over

For those who are aware of all internet traditions.

You remember how in the second act Tinkerbell drinks some poison that Peter is about to drink in order to save him? And then Peter turns to the audience and he says, “Tinkerbell is going to die because not enough people believe in fairies. But if all of you clap your hands real hard to show that you do believe in fairies, maybe she won’t die.”

So, we all started to clap. I clapped so long and so hard that my palms hurt and they even started to bleed I clapped so hard. Then suddenly the actress playing Peter Pan turned to the audience and she said, “That wasn’t enough. You did not clap hard enough. Tinkerbell is dead.” And then we all started to cry. The actress stomped off stage and refused to continue with the production. They finally had to lower the curtain. The ushers had to come help us out of the aisles and into the street.

“The two doses, they're not enough for omicron," Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said

Had positive result on Sunday. Not too many symptoms but Husky voice and never ending sleepiness.

There is some lingering issue in the respiratory system and I hope it is goes away, but who knows what happens to a 63 year young  man with asthma.

I think that having two jabs was the main reason for  lack of high fever and violent chest pain and just strange surreal feeling of tiredness. Everybody go get the shots so you do not end up in SG.

Jane received her booster with the PM. Her fellow residents had to wait

Data released by the federal government on Friday night showed there had been more deaths from COVID-19 in Australian aged care facilities recorded in January than throughout the whole of 2021.

Covid has spread like wildfire’: 703 aged care homes across Australia battle fresh outbreaks

A Poor Knock: Colbeck carousing at the cricket amid aged care crisis just tip of incompetence iceberg

Aged care minister accused of ‘arrogant complacency’ for attending cricket match

Australian music promoter Glenn Wheatley has died of COVID-related complications. He was 74.

Music promoter Glenn Wheatley dead at 74

WHO: In 10 weeks, omicron surge causes COVID cases to soar

Where did Omicron come from? Three key theories Nature

On top of Zobor above former Czech Slovak Army Barracks

Richard Fleischer’s “Soylent Green” is a good, solid science-fiction movie, and a little more. It tells the story of New York in the year 2022, when the population has swollen to an unbelievable 80 million, and people live in the streets and line up for their rations of water and Soylent Green. That’s a high-protein foodstuff allegedly made from plankton cultivated in the seas. But is it?

The world we live in is starting to look more and more like the one in the movie Soylent Green.  “Soylent Green is people”

If fate is unavoidable, why struggle to stop or question fate when by its very definition it cannot be stopped?

The winning entries in the Environmental Photographer of the Year for 2021 highlight the ways in which our planet’s climate is changing and how humans are (and are not) adapting to those changes. From top to bottom, photos by Kevin Ochieng Onyango, Simone Tramonte, and Michele Lapini. (via dense discovery)

What you need to know about the fast-spreading BA.2 omicron variant.

Promising COVID-19 antiviral pill, Paxlovid, in scarce supply, as doctors, patients compete for access ABC

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The Coronavirus Will Surprise Us Again The Atlantic

Thank goodness we did all the work Virology Down Under. Savage irony and well worth a read. That’s Australia

Father and son die after being swept off rocks at Little Bay