Give him a break, he just flew in from Alpha Centauri.

Well I got Pfizer this week and are already starting to finally appreciate MS Teams....

if you go to https://deb.debian.org/ you will not only see that it is, but that Fastly is kind enough to sponsor this service

If ever there is a moment to be woke it is now and have a naked woman run down the street

And start with MS Teams, if anything will make your fans spin up it's Teams

Letâ(TM)s make the subsidies a percentage of how much they paid in taxes.

thanks, I'm sure there are some typos. I did not spend a lot of time on it

Maybe, but I just created one as well on programming languages

The use case I think is quite obvious. There are many applications in the financial world that are still needed, but require not too many changes, i.e. long lasting financial products that are no longer being offered but still active. If they can run these reliably on Linux they can move this to i.e. a VM and send some old and expensive to maintain hardware like mainframes or AIX machines to the scrapheap. If it is an official IBM compiler the software is likely to behave exactly the same which means less testing and a lot less fuss if the software is subject to regulation.
This is not for new stuff, this is for old stuff that still runs fine and has no other need to be coded in a different language other than to get it of expensive hardware.

And yes I know mainframes are still awesome and have their uses, but if you only maintain them for old stuff that is idling most of the time they get to be very expensive overkill.

FIN

Oh snap

We are talking about government workers, so long breaks is not that strange

The studies are on people that are infected. Those with proper Vitamin D levels (either to begin with or given) had a much better chance of healing.

How prudent of you..

The studies mentioned are limited, however these are not the only studies. There are quite a few more, including a much larger one in Spain that all have similar outcome: Vitamin D has a very positive effect. Especially Calcifediol which is the active version. If you take Vitamin D it apparantly takes about three days to turn into the active version. There are other studies in hospitals that have shown that almost all deaths had a deficiency.

So the facts are:
- we know Vitamin D is a safe supplement. That's where this differs completely from HCQ. In fact in the Netherlands it is officially considered safe to take 2000 IU with prolonged use. Other countries have higher limits
- it is already known for much longer that it has a positive effect agains respitory infections. This not new
- the effect on controling the cytokinestorm is also well known
- in multiple studies the effects have been shown

So under normal circumstances, not yet enough to base policy on. I do agree on that. However there is a crisis. We should base policy on science. But policy makers and even doctors should not practice science... The policies that are implemented such as masks, social distancing are probably based on less solid science. They have to deal with what is known and especially what is safe.

I am not saying that they should say that taking Vitamin D is the answer and that the focus should not have been on the other measures and the vaccines. I am saying that if people are encouraged to take vitamin D with the stipulation that we don't know for sure how well that works but that it is a safe supplement anyway, it would have quickly given us the facts the data that is now missing. That is something that politicians are afraid to do: stating that they are uncertain.

So if you want to wait until the science is definitive, fine. I consider the fact that it is officially a safe supplement combined with all the positive studies as enough to err on the side of caution. And considering the seriousness of this virus, I think it is prudent to advise this.

Ok:
Of 50 patients treated with calcifediol, one required admission to the ICU (2%), while of 26 untreated patients, 13 required admission (50 %)

New studies suggest vitamin D supplements could reduce the threat of Covid-19 by 54 per cent

In conclusion, SARS-CoV-2 NAAT positivity is strongly and inversely associated with circulating 25(OH)D levels, a relationship that persists across latitudes, races/ethnicities, sexes, and age ranges.