Also nice to see John Lurie back with Painting with John. I wish he still could play music- love The Lounge Lizards.

Dead man has a pretty good minimal NYoung film score.
Seen it in cinema back when we used to go to cinema. I remember also Iggy Pop playing.
One of JDepp’s serious movies.

JK47: Scarlett Johansson… She’d make small talk and I couldn’t even hear the words. I’d just nod.

That’s a hell of a story, i envy you! 😉

Early Bird: You should watch Broken Flowers if you haven’t seen it already.

Jarmusch is one of my favorite directors, he’s fantastic. So after you’ve seen Broken Flowers, when you can watch the rest of his movies, you won’t be disappointed. I love all of them, but if i had to select a few, then Only Lovers Left Alive would be one, and the first one of his films that i’ve seen in a theater where the audience was me and some girl on the other side of the room (lol)… it’s called Dead Man and it’s one of the best movies ever (oh, by the way, it’s a western, but not in the style westerns usually are, and it’s in black & white).

The first show we did was on French television and she got bad stage fright, and started sweating bullets right before we went on, started fanning herself with a magazine. It was next level adorable.

Also, there have been some mathematical models and theories out there that herd immunity would be reached sooner than conventional wisdom because of flaws in the generally accepted model.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/herd-immunity-coronavirus/614035/

it was gomes… and i’m pretty sure that has been put into the dustbin by now…. considering they claimed that herd immunity would be reached at 20%….

which is especially laughable since we already had nyc antibody results that showed nyc was way over 20% back in april… which meant nyc was already at herd immunity….

suffice to say… not true…

I verified this to see if it’s accurate, and it in fact is. The email registered to the possible burner is el************@gmail.com

so it could be elfridpayton63@ gmail.com (or elfridpaytonxx, where ‘xx’ is presumably a number)@gmail

This is either Elfrid Payton or a master troll. Either way, it’s fucking hilarious

Here’s the one article I may have posted here early last year. The author eventually elaborated further by saying some of his assumptions were dependent on the conditions in that location (population density etc..) and behavior of people but stuck by the his view that the conventional math was wrong. I’m not sure what he thinks now that way more data is available.

He talks mostly about HIT which I “believe” is the point it stops growing exponentially .

https://www.nicholaslewis.org/why-herd-immunity-to-covid-19-is-reached-much-earlier-than-thought/

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I don’t remember any kind of ferocious condemnation of differing herd immunity estimates from mainstream media sources, nor do I remember hearing about any serious estimates that were far off from the consensus. Can you link to either of these things, or did you just kind of make this up?

I’m pretty sure I posted at least one article here last year. It was written by a guy that was more familiar with global warming/climate change issues, but he pointed out the problems with the assumptions in the conventional math and what a more reasonable expectation might be given various assumptions (lower).

One guy was a Nobel prize winner that was supposed to be the key note speaker on his expertise (modeling of some sort) and a bunch of people threatened to boycott if even spoke because of his views and models on Covid.

One was a woman I was following for awhile (I forget her name and actual expertise but it was primarily a mathematical argument she was making similar to the climate math guy). Some people were saying it was a brilliant paper and others savaged her, She was even tweeting about it how it was impacting her career even though they weren’t addressing the math.

Rand Paul argued in congress that NY was doing better than the rest of the country because so many people were infected early on in NY so it was seeing the beginnings of herd immunity (based on these other models) and it wasn’t anything that Cuomo was doing right. Fauci trashed the hell out of him for suggesting that herd immunity might be lower and it was covered throughout the news that night.

Obviously, I have no idea who is right, but I was following a lot of sources and was focusing on people with serious credentials and not whack jobs. There’s a mainstream view and another minority view.