LessWrong 2.0 Reader

I expected most people to be very skeptical of his strict claim so I wanted a more realistic hypothesis.

Meta note: the costs of being isolated are roughly linear in how long you're isolated, but the costs of being in public are exponential in the regime where your chance of getting infected is small and proportional to the number of people who are infected. As a result, you'd rather self-isolate one week early than one week late. Given the model uncertainty in any modelling attempt like this, this means you probably want to be a bit more paranoid than the model suggests.

Magnesium and Potassium, mostly.

While working at home while doing laboratory research is not doable, my hours are flexible and I am able to shift my workload between writing/theory work and wet-lab work. So, I am in the process of closing down several of my ongoing time-intensive wet-lab experiments, shifting my daytime to writing up existing research in my apartment, and moving my labwork to be more nocturnal when fewer people are around and I am not tempted by open eateries on the campus I work at. As one of the globetrotting academic class I am way fewer degrees of separation from so many places on Earth...

Similar things could be relevant to those fortunate enough to have flexible work arrangements.

It includes potassium in right proportion.

If one becomes ill, he needs foods which he could eat without cooking and which are very nutritious. For around one month. One can't eat raw rice, but dry bananas are great.

Regarding smoking, it of course damages your lungs making you more vulnerable to lung problems, but there is new evidence that it may increase the expression of the protein the virus uses to gain access to your cells, making you more easily infected.

At least there is some evidence that the lung fibrosis that you were seeing in a lot of SARS survivors is not happening at nearly the same level.

I also spray all deliveries with disinfectant and put them for a waiting room for days. Also disinfect floor where they were and the bottoms of my shoes.

One thing that felt a bit sad to me was that the schelling place (in my circles) to have smart conversations about covid-19 was a FB group. It seems like an achievable goal (but perhaps requires a few more features than we can easily develop quickly) for LW to be the best place on the internet to consolidated good discussion on that.

(we have a tag feature that isn't quite ready for LW primetime, but has been partially rolled out to admins. You can actually check out a 2019-nCov tag page [LW · GW] here. It's still somewhat janky but I think could be workable without too much extra dev effort)