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Payday today, so made first donation. Another one in a fortnight. :thumbup:

What, no mention of his baby, the thing he made his name on, ME/CFS? Wouldn't be trying to avoid attracting attention to that, would you, Sir Simon Says?

Updated 9th April. https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-face-mask-virus/

No sewing or cutting.

con artists There are actual books on this, on sales techniques and how to turn a mark into a sale. What a lot of people don't understand about con artists is that the con is not in the mechanics of the trick, the pea and thimbles. That's just a distraction. The con in a con-job is...

:mad::mad::mad: At least they admitted it, I guess.

That would be fraud.

'We need to lie better to patients.' For example: Functional somatic symptoms refer to physical symptoms that cannot be (bio) medically explained. Oh wait,... Contextual research in the field of somatic symptoms has (irrespective whether these symptoms can be medically explained or not), In...

Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrgghh. :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

From that excellent article: Some have claimed that making (or strongly encouraging) people to wear masks will encourage risky behavior... (...) However, real-world research on these topics found that even though some individuals responded with risky behavior, at a population level there was an...

I am genuinely shocked at how long it is taking for this to be understood. It is Infection Control 101.

RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor On the bright side, he made it to 79, and had a full and good life by all accounts. Still sad though. The Goodies and ISIHAC are part of my life.

Any nation that can secure its borders should be able to eliminate the virus within its borders in no more than 6 weeks, if done properly. Which would make concerns about sustainability of lock downs irrelevant. (Though the borders will have to remain very tightly controlled, and strong...

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/11/21173187/coronavirus-covid-19-hand-washing-sanitizer-compared-soap-is-dope