Readit NewsI should be a able to put a few drops of each of my bodily fluids into a set of disposable receptacles or strips and it should be able to test for hundreds of thousands of issues initially and millions of issues in the future. A pocket fictional Dr. House so to speak. This would distribute the testing workload to the people at home or work and give doctors something better to start with than only perceived symptoms and would allow prioritizing patients during triage. It should find everything from the obvious emergencies to the most obscure anomalies that could be addressed at a later time. It should also be able to tell me what to start or stop eating.
There should also be a high-risk-accepted mode where the device can make guesses about what is occurring based on all the data it gathered even if it does not have 100% of the scientific data to do so. All this in a sub $1000 device I can buy online without a prescription. This device must not have any way to leak patient data. Connect it to a printer via USB and it just makes a hard copy to hand to a doctor or they could just read this device with their eyeballs. No cell phone required. No wifi or bluetooth. No dial home. No uploading to LLM's. No cloud. Patients can download an updated OS and firmware image for updated medical data and update using a thumb-drive or micro-SD.
The European mind can’t comprehend that most Americans think EU regulations are oppressive and unnecessary. The EU can’t comply with their own regulations isn’t a good indicator. Neither is the fact that the EU still displays cookie banners on their own website, despite that being everyone’s favorite jab at American companies.
Ugh. The news media never learns [1]:
1) The IFR for Covid-19 was not 2.6%. Less than a tenth of that, actually (yes, even for the ancestral strains).
2) "CFR" is a made up number, because it depends on what cases you count. If you count only a sample of people in the ICU, you can make the CFR look horrible for pretty much any illness. We made this mistake during covid!
3) You can see the same mistake in progress here, because you can't just take this sample of deaths you looked for, divide it by the cases you know about, scale it down by a random factor (that you pulled out of your butt), and then panic about the result [2].
[1] or more likely: never wants to learn, because fear drives clicks.
[2] for those who wonder: the right way to do this is random sampling -- you at least have to sample the population randomly to estimate seroprevalence correctly.
> I have a huge text on my sat nav in my car where, among other things, your email address can be seen?
> Can you tell me what this is all about?
Given the degree to which Trump benefits from anti-establishment sentiment, I'd like you to ponder if putting politics absolutely everywhere might very well be what got Trump elected twice. I find the idea that there just isn't enough political message completely incompatible with current reality.
Politics is everywhere and it has to be everywhere but politics is not Joe Rogan or Fox news. That‘s propaganda.
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