Health Medicine COVID

So You Want to Live to 100? http://bit.ly/8dqqOp

Why Are the Effects of Marijuana So Unpredictable? http://bit.ly/bqI8g3

Gold in the gray zone between legal and illegal drugs. – http://bit.ly/bc0hFa

RT @SLSingh: Robust quackbusting by @RichardWiseman – http://tinyurl.com/6c2fpgx

New drug could cure nearly any viral infection – http://t.co/lnNHGnJ

96% of people with addictions actually function quite well most of the time http://t.co/Q93GTmDz

Pro-reason bloggers are doing a better job than scientists at challenging alternative medicine – http://t.co/hQOSVBmQ

Unofficial confirmation that the United States was behind the Stuxnet virus #tcm http://t.co/rPfAATCS

@ArglesJon My theory is that hospital parking is a good use case for smart contract blockchain tech. Patients can be allocated specialised credits based on status & can distribute them as required. No market or secondary market permitted but a general pool where unused credits revert 1/2

No clue if a med- term herd immunity strategy is optimal approach but assuming you probably will get #COVID19 eventually & you're in a low risk category, wouldn't you rather get it sooner than later? Avoids extended isolation/anticipation, allows you to be more useful..?

North Somerset Coronavirus / Covid-19 Dashboard – Updated with Town & Parish Council Links and Resources for Charity Sector – https://t.co/7r4d9vdhl4 #Covid19 #coronavirus #northsomerset

RT @LockdownZine: Call out! Lockdown Zine is a new collective of cultural workers putting together a response to living through covid19 tim…

Abjectly failing to get a #COVID19 test for Jr in #NorthSomerset. Apparently if you don't get tested within 5 days of symptoms, you CAN'T then get a test AND you have to isolate. So test window is small before a potentially pointless isolation for the bubble & zero tracking.

@JustMe90935419 @MummySmiler @Specneedsmom4 That one's a global number of 650k flue deaths vs 1.52mill Covid deaths reported to WHO this year: https://t.co/tVRtPBbzMW

Maybe numbers don't matter tho. If you found a source you trusted that told you Covid was 5/10/15 times as bad would it change your mind about precautions?

I'm quite interested in how the idea of #empathygap might play into attitudes about #COVID19.

https://t.co/AOKN60Ictn https://t.co/XHEtAY5JJL

Also, the #IdentifiableVictimEffect – https://t.co/eKj3n8Z22g

Which other cognitive biases are impacting peoples' attitudes to #COVID19?

@EnervateShadow @HeaneyrP @GarryC1204 Well, I'd be a case in point if you'd shown me some evidence that H1N1 or Covid was a hoax. As it is the best information I can find suggests neither of them is. I guess you must have some more reliable sources I'm not aware of.

I'm quite interested in the Intellectual Property status of the various vaccines. Any clues?

People who are hostile to revising their beliefs in the face of new information are more likely to hold anti-vaccination sentiments.

https://t.co/doJeeA3NLk

"A new longitudinal study provides evidence that belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories is prospectively associated with a variety of negative outcomes, including contracting the virus."

https://t.co/DDTjfTHk7O

Cutting 20% of the civil service gets you £3.5bn less £X in unintended consequences due to lost services, false economies and 60k additional unemployed.

Estimated loss to fraud and error across all Covid-19 response measures. £15bn

https://t.co/UOzcDLZHRe

RT @DrAaronB: There’s an epidemic. It’s psychological, not biological, but it spreads like a virus. It appeals to what is most base within…