With a superspreading pathogen like Covid combined with zero epistemic flexibility on the part of health authorities to recognize its airborne nature and take the necessary precautions, it's impossible to see how a lockdown was avoidable.

Congratulations on this award! This is wonderful news for the field. I'm currently working on a smallpox paper drawing on previously unstudied medieval sources, so I'll be following this project's developments with great interest.

Wonderful! I'm working on a big smallpox paper using unstudied medieval sources, so this Rhazes retranslation is perfectly timed. Too many dismiss medieval medical texts without reading them (cf. this article).

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ah, England. England England England…

Jeg må sige, at jeg er bekymret for mine døtres fremtid i en by, hvor Enhedslisten agerer nyttige idioter for patriarkatet. Hvorfor i alverden stemte de for kønsopdelte foredragsarrangementer i Kbh!?

Thanks, I didn’t realise that! I guess I’ve taken the Danish system for granted, where anything old is automatically danefæ and belongs to the state. I assumed the same principle applied in England as well.

I grew up after the fall of the Berlin Wall and before 2001, a time that felt much more peaceful compared to today. Now, my Jewish friends struggle to live in peace in Denmark, and my daughters face the risk of being drafted into a potential future war with Russia.

0-18: Care for family and the future.
18-30: Care for peers (in-group orientated).
30-50: Focus on family and the future again.
50+: Self-care.

So the period you experienced as 0-30 is percieved as good.

I am constantly worried for my kids so I dont find our current time "the best of times"

I don't understand. Thousands of fascinating discoveries like this have been made in Denmark due to metal detecting. No archaeologist would have uncovered these, as they are often found on private fields. They would have been hidden forever.

There appears to be a relationship between having a symptomatic infection and being infectious?

The wildest part is that most people will scroll past this, because we instinctively assume no one could publish a study that excludes almost all the relevant evidence.

We tend to miss the glaring flaws and only notice (since they are more believable) the minor ones.

"We also excluded cases caused by transmission from vectors, such as fleas."

It sounds like they are applying the teaching methods compelled on secondary schools years ago with mixed results, to universities?