Once, workers had "#DefinedBenefitsPensions," where employers promised to pay a certain amount every year from retirement to death. #JimmyCarter swapped that out for #401Ks, "market" pensions where you have to guess which stocks will be valuable or starve in your old age:
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Capitalism's Big Lie in four words: "There is no alternative." Looters use this lie for cover, insisting that they're hard-nosed grownups living in the reality of human nature, incentives, and facts (which don't care about your feelings).
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Die #Influenza-Aktivität geht zurück, ebenso sinkt die Zahl der Arztbesuche und der Hospitalisierungen wegen akuter Atemwegserkrankungen.
Neben Grippeviren und RSV zirkulieren aktuell Erkältungsviren wie Rhinoviren oder humane Coronaviren.
📉 Die Aktivität akuter respiratorischer Erkrankungen #ARE ist in der 44. Kalenderwoche im Vergleich zur 43. insgesamt gesunken, in einigen Altersgruppen jedoch stabil geblieben.
↗️ #Influenza: Aktivität nahm in der 3. KW nochmal deutlich zu. Alle Altersgruppen sind betroffen.
➡️ #RSV: Aktivität weiterhin hoch, bisher kein deutlicher Rückgang.
↘️ #COVID19: Geht kontinuierlich weiter zurück.
19,7 Millionen Mal wurde aufgrund einer akuten respiratorischen Erkrankung #ARE seit Anfang Oktober in 🇩🇪 eine Arztpraxis aufgesucht.
Diese Zahl basiert auf Meldungen von Arztpraxen ans #RKI im Rahmen der syndromischen #Surveillance.
#UK#Healthcare#NHS#Privacy#Anonymity#Palantir: "Opensafely has its own database query language, built on SQL, but tailored to medical research. Researchers write programs in this language to extract aggregate data from each NHS trust's servers, posing medical questions of the data without ever directly touching it. These programs are published in advance on a git server, and are preflighted on synthetic NHS data on a test server. Once the program is approved, it is sent to the main Opensafely server, which then farms out parts of the query to each NHS trust, packages up the results, and publishes them to a public repository.
This is better than "the best of both worlds." This public scientific process, with peer review and disclosure built in, allows for frequent, complex analysis of NHS data without giving a single third party access to a a single patient record, ever. Opensafely was wildly successful: in just months, Opensafely collaborators published sixty blockbuster papers in Nature – science that shaped the world's response to the pandemic.
Opensafely was so successful that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care commissioned a review of the programme with an eye to expanding it to serve as the nation's default way of conducting research on medical data:
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This approach is cheaper, safer, and more effective than handing hundreds of millions of pounds to Palantir and hoping they will manage the impossible: anonymising data well enough that it is never re-identified."
Die Zahl der Infektionen mit dem Influenzavirus geht seit einigen Wochen zurück.
Auch bei den RSV-Erkrankungen zeigt sich inzwischen ein deutlicher Rückgang.
Es deutet sich ein Ende der Grippewelle und der RSV-Welle an.
🔵Aktivität akuter respiratorischer Erkrankungen insgesamt leicht gesunken, aber weiterhin hohe Zahl an Hospitalisierungen.
🔵#Grippewelle und #RSV-Welle halten weiter an.
🔵#COVID19-Fälle weiter rückläufig.
🔴 Der Rückgang der Influenza-Erkrankungen hat sich nicht fortgesetzt. Aktuell zirkulieren vor allem Influenza B-Viren. Ende der #Grippewelle deutet sich aber an.
🔵 Die #RSV-Welle endete mit der 10. Kalenderwoche.
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