Manic of a panic is geopolitical

[Nick]

Want to travel around Europe?
Still confused about "onboarding" or "backend to backend communication"?
The full gory details are here and here!.

[kriesel]

How Isaac Newton spent his lockdown: https://www.biography.com/news/isaac...ue-discoveries
I wonder what the effect of the past year's relative physical isolation on our contemporary scientific community's productivity will turn out to be. (Other than multiple COVID19 vaccines in wide use and related advances.)

[a1call]

Originally Posted by kriesel

All that social distancing and handwashing etc. is reducing development and maintenance of immunity by reducing propagation of mild pathogens.

Originally Posted by a1call

It is in a way parallel in operation to use of antibiotics to destroy bad-bacteria and in the process destroy the Healthy/Beneficial-Bacteria-Cultures of the digestive tract.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0926082539.htm
But we still have to use antibiotics (the full course of) when needed since the alternative can be worse.
Social-distancing is to viruses/bacteria, what is antibiotics to bacteria.

Study finds serious bacterial infections on the rise in newborns

MONTREAL (CityNews) – The Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (MCH-MUCH) has found a spike of serious bacterial infections (SIB) in newborns and young infants, in a study conducted through the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The study also shows the number of emergency hospital visits for infants up to three-months-old decreased by two-thirds, despite SIBs doubling for the age group.

“The spike in serious bacterial infections that we observed during the pandemic is concerning. With fewer viruses circulating because of public health measures, fever is now more often a sign of a serious bacterial infection,” says the study’s principal investigator, Dr. Brett Burstein, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at the MCH and a Junior Investigator in the Child Health and Human Development Program at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), in a statement.
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The study also noted life-threatening invasive bacterial infections (IBIs) tripled in proportion during the same period.

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2021/07...e-in-newborns/