annirun

I feel like I wouldn't be able to find good contracts but it might be imposter syndrome?

MSFT employee, most of what I need saved up but could use a bit more. I'd love to quit and just do some seasonal work but I imagine competition for the contracts you're talking about is pretty stiff and I don't have a huge professional network

Accurate body fat tests either require expensive equipment or training to use. The inaccurate method those cheap bathroom scales use would probably be good enough to detect trends but if we're just going to detect trends: why not stick with BMI that's accurate enough for that purpose and way cheaper/easier to use? There aren't that many people with overweight BMIs that aren't overweight. Maybe it could be slightly better to change methods, but it's not like it would be orders of magnitude better.

-Someone with a BMI of 28 (smack in the middle of overweight) and a 6pack

I'm not sure the authors of that article would still support it on new information.

The argument they're making is "assume a vaccine is 50% effective at an immunity response, and that before an immunity response kicks in there is still a brief period of time where you are contagious with a small viral load. (50% * infectiousness of immune person) + (50% * infectiousness of an unprotected person) = a lot of infectiousness"

sub out that 50% for 95% (information that has come out more recently than the published date for that article) and the math looks very different. Still not "CORONA EXTINCT BY APRIL"... but much better than what you're implying