They’re “research use only” and hard to get your hands on if you’re in the US, but if you’re outside the US (or have a friend outside the US willing to help) it should be easier.
I’m willing to help.
TheSimplestExplanation
Karma: 172
From the white paper:
Antibody can be measured in nasal wash, however this is less quantitative and reliable than measurement in serum.
She didn’t have a friend all along!
Luna stepped out of the Forgotten Library. She held the Sword of Gryffindor in her left hand and Wanda in her right. She buried Wanda in Hagrid’s pumpkin patch.
Ow. I feel stupid now. I didn’t expect that. Great foreshadowing.
Summer. Seasonal change doesn’t make sense because infections ought to go down, not up.
AFAIK seasonality works different in the tropics. It’s worst in the rainy season.
Complete breakdown of society on the scale of a civil war. If this happened I would have heard about it.
Weren’t there religious & political events that may have contributed?
I predict with 98% confidence that the exponential growth is caused by a new strain,
Yes I came across this graph
Wasn’t there something about to much antigen possibly reducing immune reaction in the white paper?
Clippy gives good advice, where can I hire him?
The “Ministry of Truth” part was interesting. Particularly if you’re less familiar with the epistemic environment in the US.
fanfic^2
Luna felt around for the unconscious Wanda, who she stuffed in her pocket. Luna stood up and held her wand high.
Nice, i take that as proof.
Wanda exists.
I had an unstated assumption that even if direction of the effect was inverted the change wouldn’t be significant enough to account for the data.
I agree.
or a change to the measurement
Given the apparent under reporting, I’d say no.
95% confidence that India fails to get B1.617 under control before it burns through the population.
It seems like people will panic and isolate. Don’t know how much that could or will change in India though.
According to OWD the reproduction rate is 1.5 . So non pharmacological interventions might make a difference, conversely abandoning non pharmacological interventions might have contributed to the current outbreak.
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Right. They try not to present people with fantasy worlds more attractive than reality. Respectable fantasy novels will generally start the protagonist off with a disadvantage and force them to reform some awful place, for the same reason.
Wait a minute...
Also, where is the handshake !!??
Hah! Great!
Of course you do.
Well i assume he lost most of his episodic memory, but probably not much more.
Yeah it doesn’t make sense that he would be that easy to ambush.
Well technically we only know that she spoke not Parseltongue, not that she couldn’t speak Parseltongue.
“Are you about to invite me to join a secret organization full of interesting people like yourself?”
She doesn’t have to touch the wand. She is just that good.
That is the Professor Quirrel we know and love.