I just had to chuckle at this! [ATTACH]
Its taken me ages to work out the entire point of this paper. Erring on the side of generosity, I've decided to interpret it as a demonstration of...
Yes this. When calculating the economic cost of maintaining vs. loosening lockdowns, people need to factor in the cost of long term care for those...
:(:banghead: This is total madness!!
I think our govt has done well, but to be fair, we had the benefit of time - we were able to learn from what was already happening in the Northern...
Today's results from NZ (comparing NZ to others at the corresponding timepoint). I added in Australia, looks like you guys are turning this around...
Sad too to see Mattie putting it all down to placebo, which might not be the entire story. A few people on this thread have mentioned that some...
It sounds very reasonable to me. Yes, there is lots of evidence to suggest that people's perceptions of their level of cognitive fatigue and...
Well, quite, and Sarah's narrative - which he inserts right there in the chapter - doesn't mention an urge to stop, but rather hard-earned...
I am really stunned by this, and have to share with you a few excerpts. Look at this bit where Eccleston slides so seamlessly between the...
@Hutan, I did this one by hand on excel, from the worldometer spreadsheet, which you can download (but I used our official figures, which include...
Its an old chart, so the line for each country stops on the day the chart was made. Its value is that is plots number of cases relative to the...
NZ growth curve (log scale) to today: [ATTACH]
We already know this from the southern hemisphere data. Temperatures in most parts of Australia were high at the time the infection took off (now...
This is absolute GOLD!
You misunderstand - my purpose was not to map the "true cases" of COVID in NZ (of course these aren't the total "true cases" in NZ). The set of...
Great find, Michiel. I think the problem with a lot of the psychology on human judgement and decision-making is that Psychology loves a story....
[ATTACH] updated NZ growth curve. Were are now on our sixth day of lockdown, and the curve already seems to be flattening a little. While there...
This is actually worth a look. Its a group of UK psychiatrists trying to claim as much of the pandemic space as possible. Despite their expertise...
That's interesting, but I'm wondering whether we might see some small turnaround in a week. Siouxsie's lag model assumes only symptomatic people...
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