I have yet to buy a "smart" device that I haven't been able to control through HA. The Broadlink RF/IR bridges even makes anything with a remote automatable.
Seriously, If it wasn't for Home Assistant, the "smartness" of smart devices would be next to useless.
2/3rds of gun deaths are suicides, and so any differential in the firearm suicide rate will tend to swamp differences in the firearm homicide rate.
[1] puts CA as 3.4 gun homicides per 100,000 people per year, and TX at 3.2. Top of the list is DC at 16.5 (and then LA at 7.7), bottom of the list is VT at 0.3.
It also doesn't comport with the contemporary writings of the framers, nor the fact that the term "militia" in the constitution refers to the National Guard, which was at the time imagined as a body made up of all able bodied men between 18 and 45 years old. Additionally, at the time, only men were considered "the people".
Well, the gun control argument is that guns are inherently dangerous, far moreso than lawn darts or kinder eggs, which are currently banned for sale in the US.
A gun is far more likely to kill a member of your own family than it is to protect a member of your family in a violent altercation.
Furthermore, evidence from the lowest crime and gun death countries around the world seem to indicate the gun ownership is strongly negatively correlated with gun crimes and gun death, unsurprisingly.
It's strange that folks epistemic horizon ends at the border.
You may want to check how much of your body weight is bacterial and how easy it is to exchange samples with others. Just own the things that make us human.
You're of course free to do whatever you think makes sense, but please don't expect other people to follow. The world is full of risks, but everything is a tradeoff - it's really bad if we start thinking random people are a danger to us.
And for what it's worth, I'm not anti-mask in the context of the pandemic - I've been wearing masks indoors since the whole thing started and I'll continue to do this until most people around me are vaccinated, for their sake.
Except that field data shows they don’t because they are not used precisely as required - which means the filter doesn’t work effectively if at all and then it becomes infectious waste that isn’t treated and disposed of correctly.
Human system effects dominate - as the field data shows. It’s like HCQ - works in a lab, not in the real world.
Might be useful in tightly controlled medical settings with adequate filtered ventilation. But there’s no hard evidence beyond that at this stage.
Years ago my entire family got sick and I was determined not to contract it through distancing and frequent hand washing and sanitizing. It worked until I bent down to tie my toddler’s shoes only to look up and mid-sentence have him cough directly into my open mouth. All it takes is one mistake. Needless to say I got sick shortly after.
A few years ago I went on vacation for a week with a half-dozen friends in an Airbnb and spent the entire time miserably sick with some kind of respiratory illness. I was similarly determined not to get anyone else sick (and I was sick from the start, so avoided any asymptomatic period). I was fastidious about distancing and sanitizing, and any time I needed to cough I'd step outside of the house. Nobody else got sick. Is the sample size here large enough to determine anything? No idea, but I like the anecdote.
I'm not sure which explanation you are seeking to flip, but a sneeze can be cause by an adenovirus, which were apparently not suppressed this year as the influenza viruses and other four endemic coronaviruses were.
Objectively, it doesn’t seem to matter if an area is masked or not. The virus won’t be stopped. Just compare Florida to California or Georgia to Washington state.
I know what the models say. But my eyes deceive me.
That's because the cold virus is spread by surfaces, and you likely touched something with it, then scratched your eyes. You can be 80 miles from someone, but if you touch something he touched, you're potentially getting his cold.
> That's because the cold virus is spread by surfaces
Stop. There is no one virus called "the cold virus", and several of the viruses that do cause colds (including, for example, the other four endemic coronaviruses) are not known to spread by fomites.
I didn't say that there aren't other viruses that cause colds that can be spread by fomites. I said that:
1) There isn't a single virus called "the cold virus"
2) In addition to SARS-CoV-2, there are other viruses that cause cold-like symptoms that are not spread by fomites.
Your comment gave the impression that there's a single "cold virus" for which fomite transmission is the primary vector. That's not so. There are a bunch of viruses (in fact a bunch of families of viruses) bunch that cause cold symptoms, and only a few of them are commonly spread by fomites. None of the five endemic coronaviruses are known to be among these, nor is influenza.
Also, even though the CDC appears to be correct to my eyes in this case, I urge that, after the disastrous departure from anything resembling science in the past year and a half, we stop regarding it as a credible source.
I have read the link you posted many times. I am familiar (albeit at an arm's length, as an amateur) with rhinovirus, adenoviruses, coronaviruses, RSV, etc.
At the end of the day, you made a misrepresentation that, taken at face value, gives a false impression that might lead to bad conclusion with respect to control of these viruses.
There are dozens (some scientists believe hundreds) of viruses that cause cold symptoms. Fomite transmission has been reported in a few, though there is scant evidence at this point. In the vast majority, it has not. In some, like the endemic coronaviruses, it has been examined extensively and not found.
It's certainly worth further study!
But your assertion that suppression of fomite transmission - rather than viral interference - is the explainer of splitrocket not having contracted a cold is not well-founded, but might lead to them (or others) believe that this is a positive side effect of surface sanitization.
Now, has norovirus perhaps been suppressed by all the surface sanitization? Maybe. But not colds. The cold viruses appear to have been suppressed by viral interference (with the curious exception of the adenoviruses).
Attempts to suppress fomite transmission come at a significant cost, namely, increased antimicrobial resistance. It's important not to use this method of suppression in places where it will have no effect, such as attempts at population-level control of viruses that cause cold symptoms.
It has been a pleasant year in that regard. We finally went on a domestic trip to Atlanta a couple weeks ago, after having been fully vaccinated in the middle of April. Guess what we came back with? A cold. Dammit!
It's more plausible, at least in my view, that this is the result of suppression of several endemic respiratory pathogens by viral interference (something that has been observed in previous pandemics).
anecdotally, I have very little social contact normally anyway, I've worked from home since before winter, and always wear masks in closed public spaces - have had 3-4 colds in that time.
Anecdotally, since taking vitamin D3 supplements I haven't been getting colds. Added daily nutritional zinc supplements in 2020 as soon as they were available after I heard the anecdotal evidence D & zinc are effective in Covid prevention. Throughout winter and early spring last year you couldn't get zinc supplements for love or money.
A lot of anecdotes there :).
The American medical establishment has a long history of not getting behind nutritional disease prevention. Some of it is for good reason, but I think there is also a systemic bias.
Anecdotally I haven't had a cold in years. I work out 4 days a week and while I wouldn't call it a strict diet I have an upper limit calorie "budget" that I never exceed. While it's certainly possible that masks helped some people avoid all airborne transmissions last year, lots of people were also able to exercise more and make better food choices without the rush of breakfast and lunch commutes.
I made absolutely no changes 1 year, but because my workspace at work was in an alcove next to an air conditioning vent that pulled air from the outside, I completely dodged the office cold because I basically had my own positive pressure environment.
It's more likely your lifestyle is simply keeping you away from people and places that experience high levels of foot traffic.
You can't. Did you lose anything? Did one spoofed message have any bearing on the result?
Maybe if people came together it would be different, but whoever made the decision could say that they knew these messages were off and had no effect on the result.
I am not a lawyer, but I thought in cases like this you can sue a “John Doe” and then ask the court to compel logs and data from an entity (in this case, the FCC, to then identify the defendant.
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-a...
An app per device class/vendor is beyond useless. A centralized, single controller that mostly has no interface at all is the solution.