Very rough estimate of Nu variant mortality is 8X original variant based upon the current rough estimate of transmissibility, assuming they track each other.

Corrections welcome.

(Figure type labeled Nu) pic.twitter.com/PlTPgFArc9

— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) November 26, 2021

I hesitate to even put this up lest some of you think it’s in any way valid. But this is pure garbage alarmism, based on no data. It’s gutter trash analysis…and I’d say that even if it “demonstrated” lower mortality from Omicron.

It’s utter shit.

This performance, post-transition, is only 4% slower than best pre-transition time. Over 500 yards, it’s 6%. With further improvements likely. So, as per science, male advantages are retained, but the IOC have told us not to presume advantage as we trade fairness for inclusion. https://t.co/ADWR6ayOR6

— Ross Tucker (@Scienceofsport) November 30, 2021

I really like women’s sports, so it’s sad to see them destroyed by an absurd ideology.

Funny how all those “superspreader events” the libs were predicting didn’t pan out, due to vaccines, ventilation and masking. And the ones that sort of did were really a big nothing because of few to no hospitalizations and no deaths.

There’s caution, and there’s the “completely safe” hooey. Get vaccinated. Live your life. You’ll be ok.

That word has been in use in the completely modern sense from the 14th century on, and the Romans pretty much used it the same way (except it referred to areas near Rome).

(Screenshot from kottke.org.)