Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Todd_is_God]

https://thecountersignal.com/study-maks-might-make-covid-worse/

 

[Loonytoons]

https://thecountersignal.com/study-maks-might-make-covid-worse/

 

Peer reviewed so likely to be horseshit.

[Loonytoons]

What the f**k are you talking about?

Jesus wept.

Am I imagining it or did someone a few weeks back not come out with some dire peer reviewed questionnaire knocking peer reviewed papers that said 70% were not reproducible?

Apologies if that passed you by.

[Lyle Lanley]

Tested positive earlier. Do you still have to stay at home for so many days or can you do what you want? 

Edited May 8, 2022 by Lyle Lanley

[johnnydun]

11 hours ago, Lyle Lanley said:

Tested positive earlier. Do you still have to stay at home for so many days or can you do what you want? 

I tested positive on Monday, work told me to stay away.

[Elixir]

 

[Left Back]

At the TMS Live show at the Usher Hall tonight.   Not a mask in sight.  Totally back to normal.

[Lyle Lanley]

9 hours ago, johnnydun said:

I tested positive on Monday, work told me to stay away.

Have no symptoms at the moment. 
 

Shame I was looking forward to heading to Dundee on Tuesday just to boo. 

Edited May 8, 2022 by Lyle Lanley

[NorthernLights]

2 hours ago, Left Back said:

At the TMS Live show at the Usher Hall tonight.   Not a mask in sight.  Totally back to normal.

I was at the Hydro tonight and cannot remember seeing a mask among the crowd at all.

There are things hanging around like ghosts or artifacts of the time of marks like before the main act came on there was an automatic announcement about face mask wearing being compulsory.

[Left Back]

14 minutes ago, NorthernLights said:

I was at the Hydro tonight and cannot remember seeing a mask among the crowd at all.

There are things hanging around like ghosts or artifacts of the time of marks like before the main act came on there was an automatic announcement about face mask wearing being compulsory.

Plenty signs at the Usher Hall saying the government recommends you wear a mask.  Still have the perspex screens up at the bar so not totally normal I suppose.

[Lurkst]

2 hours ago, Left Back said:

At the TMS Live show at the Usher Hall tonight.   Not a mask in sight.  Totally back to normal.

Bit of a short boundary there, must've been some scores racked up.

 

[Left Back]

6 minutes ago, Snafu said:

Oh FFS.

He was on the One show a few days ago plugging this pish

[Left Back]

7 minutes ago, Lurkst said:

Bit of a short boundary there, must've been some scores racked up.

 

Not with Tuffers holding the bat

[scottsdad]

On 07/05/2022 at 22:47, oaksoft said:

Be careful with this paper.

Moreover, the moderate positive correlation between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe also suggests that the universal use of masks may have had harmful unintended consequences.

Now whilst I have my suspicions that masking could potentially make covid worse, I have no proof and this guy has no proof either. He's stretching the statistics here to say the very least.

But what is really raising a red flag is the journal he's published this in.

Good covid research is of high general interest in every population and anything good should easily be getting published in good quality, high-impact journals. This journal has a very low impact factor indeed which is VERY suspicious for such important stuff like covid research.

Now I'm not one for saying that impact factors are the be-all and end-all and in fact I have little respect for researchers chasing impact factors, but this impact factor is so low that it is indicative of a dodgy journal and you can't trust the peer-review process in this case.

Impact factor of 1.15...that's low. Not a great journal.

[scottsdad]

34 minutes ago, oaksoft said:

For some highly specialised fields this isn't necessarily a problem but for something like covid it's a really huge red flag.

Their website is interesting. A guy from Stanford appears to be their editor-in-chief. They say "Cureus does not consider impact factor to be a reliable or useful metric of individual article importance."  Well, given their impact factor of 1.15 it's not surprising they feel this way (although I actually agree in principle).

Absolutely. I've published in a few niche places before with impact factors lower than this - but that's when discussing an extremely niche area (the rise of the sodium carbonate industry in 18th century Glasgow, for example, was an off-beat work of mine that ended up in a Scottish history journal; my work on cellulose structure in much higher journals)

For Covid and masks, there must be fifty journals with higher IFs. Chances are these other journals rejected the paper and he resubmitted it till he found someone to take it. 

[Captain Saintsible]

17 hours ago, Snafu said:

Oh FFS.

We need to prevent Bill Gates from preventing the next pandemic 

[gav-ffc]

On 07/05/2022 at 08:40, scottsdad said:

Wife just had to send the tattoo parlour proof of a negative test before going today. 

 

On 07/05/2022 at 16:46, scottsdad said:

Heaven and Hell. 

Bizzare as most their staff have just had covid funnily enough. Sure I posted them at the time masks were binned that they were still making them mandatory.

[Glennie]

this is an MP, in May 2022

utter clownshow

 

[Glennie]

On 08/05/2022 at 01:07, Lyle Lanley said:

Tested positive earlier. Do you still have to stay at home for so many days or can you do what you want? 

if youve no the balls to get on wi your life without the permission of state psychopaths, i suggest not doing the testing pantomime like its spring 2020

conundrum sorted

Edited May 9, 2022 by Glennie

[NorthernLights]

I see that PHS are now only releasing updates on Mondays and Thursdays now and their focus is now on weekly data/tends - https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/phs.covid.19/viz/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview