Coronavirus meme/panic/fear mongering general thread
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Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Was this the face that launched a thousand slaps,
And burnt the topless towers of the NHS?
Sickening Hancock, Take my mortality with a cough:
His lips sucks forth my soul, see where it flies!
Come Hancock, come, give me my soul again.
Here will I dwell, for hell be in these lips,
And all is dross that is tory!
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
I’ve been able to train kittens shit in a litter tray faster than “some members of the most advanced species on the planet” have still not learned how to wear a fucking face mask (correctly)
sat in a pub
sat in a pub
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
He normally gets on a plane more often than he sees his family?
elbows
Well-Known Member
Have you seen the vaccine heatmap for both first and second doses in Sheffield on the official dashboard? It seems like a poor fit with the data source you've seen.Just got stats for vax’s in Sheff. Overall only 4% of over 50s haven’t had their jabs. But in the ward I live in (which has the highest death rates in the country for a couple of weeks last year) it’s 23.5%
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I have taken my facts from The Star, so I wouldn’t be surprised to find they’re a bit full of shit.
elbows
Well-Known Member
OK I checked and in this case its not The Stars fault. They are using NHS vaccine data.
The problem is the population estimates used. The NHS vaccine percentages use ONS 2019 population size estimates which were created using 2011 census data. The UK government dashboard uses different population estimates depending on the exact vaccine stats in question, I think they use ONS for some stuff but for others they derive percentages using stuff such as the number of people in the National Immunisation Management Service system (NIMS). The ONS estimates of population are considered by authorities to be an underestimate of populations (and indeed some of the NHS percentages go over 100% as a result!) whereas the NIMS ones are considered likely to be an overestimate of population size!
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I also love the insistent hectoring tone followed by the polite "I'll delete no problem kthxbai".
prunus
Tick tock.
Described like that it sounds silly but variations in the operation of VMAT2 (technically a protein rather than a gene, but common parlance often elides a protein’s name with that of ‘the gene encoding…’) is associated with different performative levels of ‘religiosity’ and ‘spirituality’ - ie at some level one could see it as a gene for religious fervour, which might include wanting to read more about it, in eg scripture.
So that bit of the posted rant is actually based in good science. It’s the bit where it says the vaccine ‘shuts off’ the gene for VMAT2 where it goes a little awry.
There are so many leaps between “a protein [which, of course, may or may not be coded for by a gene depending on environmental factors] that has been observed to be more common in religious populations” and “a gene that causes religiosity”. Even leaving aside the whole correlation/causation thing, the codified types of religion these people are referring to are very, very recent phenomena that are constructed sociologically, not things that spontaneously exist in the environment. The number of leaps it takes to get from one to the other is a bit overwhelming.
prunus
Tick tock.
Oh absolutely - I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek with the scientific support for the original postulation; possibly with hindsight I shouldn’t have included the qualifier ‘good’ in the last sentence
