I agree but it is also worth how/if the majority reacts to those kind of fringe ideas.

That's a good point.

I think perhaps the importance of that depends on how... unified the group is, you know?

If there are 3 people at a dinner table and one of them is acting badly, definitely hold the other 2 accountable.

If there are 1,000,000 people in a political party and 1% of them are acting badly, I think the 99% and the leaders are somewhat responsible.

If there's a vague concept like "cultural appropriation" or "cringeworthiness" that isn't owned by anybody, I don't know how practical it is for people using the term to really have responsibility for people that misuse it.

At some point there's just a practical limit I think.

Or you could just not go on twitter.

The idea there is a mass movement of people saying other people tan too much is beyond delusional.

>Try to discuss the surge in grenade attacks and many-fold increase in rape in Sweden.

Why would you not be able to do that in Sweden? How is it limited?

You don't think it was all the bombs in Turkey and in other countries that gave it that designation?

I don't know. I can feel a slight dependence on caffeine if I have been drinking a lot during some weeks and then stopping cold turkey (slight headache, possibly slightly more tired in a day or two) but it does not feel very addictive.

For a long period of time I only drank coffee during the week and not weekends, sometimes I stopped some summers and when I slept badly I stopped drinking coffee for a while. No problem at all with any of that.

I do like like the small energy burst in the morning when I'm working and I like the ritual when it is winter in Sweden it is dark and cold outside and you are freezing, then drinking a cup of coffee as you start up your computer is nice.

I have cycled between heavy consumption and no coffee intake at all. On the first few days I often had headaches and felt slightly depressive (I'm pretty much never feeling depressive otherwise) and unproductive. After a week or so off of caffeine I start to feel great until I restart my coffee habit (the first few days are amazing; it just tastes too good; it is social to drink coffee with friends, family and coworkers; etc.)

Taiwan did not mention in their email that person to person transmission was taking place. They said that WHO should do their own investigation.

Taiwan had no proof, they just did not trust China.

Taiwan, or its official name: the Republic of China is not a member of the UN and the US does not recognize it as an independent country either.

There is a lot of diplomatic weasel words and trade offices instead of embassies to keep that up but it suports the One China policy.

To be honest this is a novel disease that is affecting the world a lot right now and we simply don't know the best way forward.

This is not the flu, it is much worse, but we are generally not enforcing "seat belts" to protect the vulnerable even close to as much.

Yeah, but that is a small part of contact tracing (with law changes needed in some countries). The next step is to have personnel to notify suspected contacts, tell them to isolate themselves and then test them.

You need to have enough people for that, you need to have the testing capacity and you need to have people following that order.

It will work well if you have very low community spread and can start tracing on cluster level. If you are not there it can still be a good tool but you would probably still need a lot of other restrictions as well.

I read somewhere that they are not important and that is good enough source for me. It could have been written on a post-it for me to support an eradication campaign.

I hate ticks.

There is a joke that ticks and lice were crucial for human evolution, since removing them from each other helped to make monkeys spend time together:)

I think 80% for heard immunity is a pretty high count.

IFR is a guess and yours could be right. It is lower than NYC but the developing world is much younger than the west so they might have a much lower IFR unless their lack of available health care hurts them too much.

Hopefully IFR will drop as well as we learn to protect the elderly better.