Saturday 31 October 2020

Familism (or familismo) is broadly defined as “prioritizing one’s family over oneself” and is probably more prevalent in Hispanic and immigrant cultures, thus also partly explaining the higher death rates in those groups

I have a very different theory as to why there are more deaths at home. The old and sick might have taken the noble decision not to seek hospital treatment so as not to further burden the NHS and to leave their estates and wills to their heirs sooner rather than later, thus sacrificing themselves for the sake of their children. Familism (or familismo) is broadly defined as “prioritizing one’s family over oneself” and is probably more prevalent in Hispanic and immigrant cultures, thus also partly explaining the higher death rates in those groups.

Saturday 10 October 2020

Predictions for 2021

Predictions for 2021 Cases to rise significantly till mid-2021 due to both better testing and people not taking virus seriously Covid vaccine trials successful and rollout will mean pandemic is over by 2022 Trump is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Death rates for all countries by covid falls significantly as the vulnerable are sadly already dead, we have better anti-virals, better isolation protocols (apparently at the start of the outbreak there was significant transmission within hospitals and care homes as we did not know extent of pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission and airborne transmission rates). Countries that don't have widespread mask wearing have significantly higher death rates from covid. Advances in technology such as AI, AR, VR, GPU, DPU and CPU development mean economies to do not suffer as much as previously predicted

Monday 5 October 2020

Difficulty putting two Ikea Besta units together to create a deeper 80cm TV cabinet

Main problem is that the 2nd unit is very wobbly without its cardboard back frame. So had to screw 20 plates to hold the two frames together. "It's not the first time we have put something into a hole and started screwing blindly"

Thursday 1 October 2020

5 tips to stop RSI and save you 100,000 of dollars.

https://youtu.be/j0SApYr3lWg

To my fellow big eaters and people with high metabolisms:

To my fellow big eaters and people with high metabolisms: When you go into a restauarant and order a meal for two for just yourself do you get strange looks from the staff or nearby customers? One time in Hong Kong an elderly gent near me said "Nei gom ging" or "You are amazing". I had to hold back and not say "That's what she said" :) (Though in Cantonese I think I would have had to say "That's what my girlfriend said" as Canto and Chinese does not have gender specific third person)