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Eh, not really.. we're at around 90% vaccination rates... most truckers are annoyed/embarrassed by the whole situation, as it really has nothing to do with them. This is as much ab…

Incubation period varies, and is probably best modelled as a Gaussian function. Some cases will incubate nearly right away, and others will take more than the 2-3 weeks that are of…

"For comparison, today's human genome is 96% similar to our closest ancestor, the chimpanzee. Humans and chimpanzees are thought to have diverged approximately 6 million years ago.…

In BC, secretly engaging in tracking would be both illegal and contrary to public policy. The system was reviewed by https://www.oipc.bc.ca/ as part of the rollout, and it's privac…

Where is your data to support your extraordinary claim that "a lot of people have already had COVID and pose a lower risk than someone who is vaccinated"? https://arstechnica.com/s…

Vaccine passports in Canada are implemented using the https://smarthealth.cards/ standard. The QR codes are verifiable offline using digital signatures. The app used in BC is open …

It's almost a myth that Israel is highly vaccinated, and the vaccine is far more effective in Israel than first meets the eye. A significant % of Israel's entire population is curr…

Some BC hospitals are overwhelmed. Most of them are not. We want to keep it that way, and we also want to allow society to continue to re-open and move on from all this. https://ww…

This makes it clear "nobody successfully proved" really means "I didn't bother to listen". The messaging on masks has long been "they reduce transmission by infected people", not "…

How certain of this are we (for the flu)? When I've looked into it, I've found it difficult to assess the degree to which we are looking at "behavior changes between seasons" vs "t…