Un-civil emails

From the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

The effect of un-civil emails:

https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Focp0000215

COVID-19: Danger of Obesity

 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/obr.13128

COVID-19: Ozone for Public Buildings

 From Jerusalem Post:

https://www.jpost.com/health-science/japan-researchers-say-ozone-effective-in-neutralising-coronavirus-639990

 

Useful, I should think, for offices and factories, and restaurants, if it proves practicable.

COVID-19: A/C Systems and Disease Transmission

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-53917432

COVID-19: Europe & Lock-down

 "Emmanuel Macron was the first leader to drop this little bombshell. Last week he said that France can’t cope with the “collateral damage” of a second lockdown, explaining that “zero risk never exists in any society”. Italy joined in three days later, with the health minister hinting that the country will not return to national hibernation. Meanwhile, after lauding China’s draconian lockdown, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is imploring countries to avoid battening down the hatches again.

About time. Lockdowns are officially indefensible. Sweden has won the international experiment, as its firms outperform even the German Großunternehmen while Covid deaths plummet in line with the rest of Europe. Scientists caution that it may take years to develop a vaccine. Economists warn that even the richest economies in the world cannot afford national lockdowns costing up to 3 per cent of GDP per month.

Perhaps even doom-mongering politicians have twigged that civilisation threatens to evaporate into a mushroom cloud of psychoneurotic delirium. Polling reveals that Westerners on average believe 6 per cent of their national populations have died from Covid-19. The real figure is around 100 times lower."  Telegraph

COVID-19: Anti-body Treatment

From the Guardian:

Promising Treatment for COVID-19

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/22/antibody-mix-trialled-as-potential-coronavirus-treatment

COVID-19: Interview with Larry Brilliant

From Wired, the American magazine

An interesting interview giving a good overview of where we are in relation to the COVID 19 pandemic. Some of it is pretty grim, but some of it is encouraging. (There are many references to the USA, but not only.) 

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https://www.wired.com/story/larry-brilliant-on-how-well-are-we-fighting-covid-19/?bxid=5cec23532ddf9c4e32e74d1a&cndid=57000571&esrc=bounceXmulti&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_070920&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p4

Coronacoaster

Parenting in the Wild

COVID-19: Interview with Professor Peter Piot

Dear All;
A good overview of the health situation related to COVID-19 by someone who knows what he is talking about -- in fact, he was ill with the virus for 3 months.
https://www.cityam.com/vaccine-will-come-but-not-without-huge-challenges-leading-world-epidemiologist/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Midday+newsletter+June+2019

COVID-19: Clinical Application of AI

From Cell Magazine:

Clinical Application of AI to Treatment of COVID-19 Patients

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420305511

Cyber-privacy & Cyber-crime

An unnamed woman in the Netherlands was upset that her mother posted photos of her children on Facebook and Pinterest, and demanded she take them down. The grandmother refused multiple requests, so her daughter took her to court, citing the European Union’s GDPR — the General Data Protection Regulation, an online privacy law. 

The judge in the case sided with the middle generation: the grandmother must take the photos down, or face a 50 euro (US$56) fine — per day — and if she posts any other photos of the children without the parents’ permission, those photos would also be subject to the fine. 

“I think the ruling will surprise a lot of people who probably don’t think too much before they tweet or post photos,” said tech attorney Neil Brown of British law firm decoded.legal. And if someone wants their photo taken down, then “the reasonable thing — the human thing — to do, is to go and take them down.” (RC/BBC) ...You know things have gotten bad when lawyers have to point out “the human thing to do.”

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COVID-19: Interview with Christian Drosten

From Spiegel on line

An interesting interview that gives an insight into the way the pandemic has been managed in Germany and, also, what the challenges and threats ahead are. 

You will notice the matter-of-fact tone of the interviewee, who tells it as it is. And he is not scared of the popular press and says it clearly. This is to his credit. 

I think we could do, everywhere in the world, with a bit more of all that. 

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/virologist-christian-drosten-we-managed-to-stop-a-pandemic-wave-with-relatively-mild-measures-a-39a8ea77-ec87-4b34-9996-c94ff07c5659?sara_ecid=nl_upd_1jtzCCtmxpVo9GAZr2b4X8GquyeAc9&nlid=bfjpqhxz

Lockdown

Staying home for too long:

COVID-19: Projecting Transmission Post Pandemic

Projecting COVID-19 Transmission Post Pandemic
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/early/2020/04/14/science.abb5793.full.pdf

Free Kindle Books

As of today - 05/12/2020 - the Kindle editions of these books are priced at $0.00.

The Everyday Life of an Algorithm

https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Life-Algorithm-Daniel-Neyland-ebook/dp/B07LFXZF3C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Everyday+Life+of+an+Algorithm&qid=1589305933&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

C Programming: Language: A Step by Step Beginner's Guide to Learn C Programming in 7 Days Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Beginners-Guide-Learn-ebook/dp/B01H0LBF9Q/ref=sr_1_8?crid=1LOCFVUYRVQOQ&dchild=1&keywords=python+programming&qid=1589306207&sprefix=python%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-8

PYTHON: PROGRAMMING: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO LEARN PYTHON IN 7 DAYS Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/PYTHON-PROGRAMMING-BEGINNERS-GUIDE-LEARN-ebook/dp/B01GSODGZC/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1LOCFVUYRVQOQ&dchild=1&keywords=python+programming&qid=1589306207&sprefix=python%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-4

Python Programming For Beginners: Learn The Basics Of Python Programming (Python Crash Course, Programming for Dummies) Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Beginners-Basics-Dummies-ebook/dp/B07GXZMYWC/ref=sr_1_7?crid=1LOCFVUYRVQOQ&dchild=1&keywords=python+programming&qid=1589306207&sprefix=python%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-7

Python: Programming: Your Step By Step Guide To Easily Learn Python in 7 Days (Python for Beginners, Python Programming for Beginners, Learn Python, Python Language) Kindle Edition

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Python for Informatics: Exploring Information: Exploring Information Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Python-Informatics-Exploring-Information-ebook/dp/B00K0O8HFQ/ref=sr_1_12?crid=1LOCFVUYRVQOQ&dchild=1&keywords=python+programming&qid=1589306207&sprefix=python%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-12

Programming for Computations - Python: A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Simulations with Python 3.6 (Texts in Computational Science and Engineering Book 15) 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Computations-Introduction-Simulations-Computational-ebook/dp/B07ZT1WR22/ref=sr_1_13?crid=1LOCFVUYRVQOQ&dchild=1&keywords=python+programming&qid=1589306207&sprefix=python%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-13

Solving PDEs in Python: The FEniCS Tutorial I (Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing Book 3) 1st ed. 2016 Edition, Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Solving-PDEs-Python-SpringerBriefs-Computing-ebook/dp/B078YHFGMQ/ref=sr_1_15?crid=1LOCFVUYRVQOQ&dchild=1&keywords=python+programming&qid=1589306207&sprefix=python%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-15

From BBC:
Coronavirus: Robot dog enforces social distancing in Singapore park
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-52619568/coronavirus-robot-dog-enforces-social-distancing-in-singapore-park?intlink_from_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Fasia&link_location=live-reporting-map

COVID-19: Bats & Viruses

How Bats Carry Corona-viruses without Getting Sick Themselves
https://www.labmanager.com/news/how-bats-carry-coronaviruses-without-getting-sick-themselves-22625?utm_campaign=NEWSLETTERS_LM_Monitor_2020&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=87603383&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--NW-jAblqCbNP_eqbu_fSsEIVU3HTZnbEda0lYfelQcDMLegDZyh1lR1_aVQuMayuF2lj1RJTKefBFrAppl5N0lLcd8yEp1Opd1p_EPkTvZgcTo8g&_hsmi=87603831

COVID-19: More on Chloroquine

Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS corona virus infection and spread

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/

This is from Fauci's institute back in 2005. Their research showed it had "both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage."

COVID-19: How to Re-open Society

How to reopen society using medical science and logic:

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/495833-how-to-open-society-using-medical-science-and-logic?fbclid=IwAR2nEYTdayVhhU47mmrIZ9FawIw9M6I2yTtOAyKhNvv0wLdSv_R4Xw6vhFI