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I am so lucky that I work from home.
Can't imagine being forced into work right now.
Wikipedia says it mutated to be come less deadly in 1920 (after beginning in early 1918), and by 1921 deaths were at pre-pandemic levels
The cognitive dissonance among my colleagues is incredible. One day talking about “yeah, Fauci is wrong to say it’s over” and then the other week, everyone went into the office for an event with people flying in out of town. Naturally, covid cases happened. And for what? A fucking meeting you could dial into from home?!
Old managers and even younger ones would rather die than accept that most meetings can be done in under 30 minutes and via a phone or zoom call in.
Also... meetings can be had outdoors. Wear a coat, make a fire, whatever. You can still hang out together pretty safely by just not being in a tiny poorly-ventilated box
I have been a backpacking guide and let me tell you, everything that happens in an office can happen in the back country just as easily.
Ha, sounds about right. I have friends that used to be raft + camping guides who said the same. Great to get paid to do fun outdoors stuff, but hard to make a career out of it.
Yeah, if you didn't count sleeping it paid about 4 bucks an hour. If you did count sleep (which you should, people wake you up for shit all the time), it was closer to 2.
I've heard that if you work for NOLS or Outward bound you can almost make a career out of it, and if you freelance as a mountain guide you can get hella tips, but without those skiing and mountaineering skills you're better off being waitstaff.
It’s fucking baffling to me, most people I know including my close friends 100% believe the government is fucking this up and has made the wrong decisions, and yet they follow the official line, some not even getting the booster shot because “The pandemic is over”
Like motherfucker just yesterday you agreed with me that this shit is fucked! Put on your fucking mask!!!
No wonder China is going all out to try and keep this out of their population.
And also why the news is full of Anti-China hitpieces about their Covid policy which has objectively a lower death rate than the USA did.
I brought up to my crewmates that the death toll in the US broke a million the other day and how to real global death toll is 15 million and they immediately started talking about how the death pronouncements are inflated by hospital officials and that the 2% fatality rate means its danger was exaggerated.
Just got over the BA.2 myself. It took 10 days to feel normal. 2 years of successful dodging this shit down the drain after going into NYC.
Do not recommend, that fucking sucked.
Some people want me to take a trip there to hang for a month. I do not understand why. It's just another city, right?
Crown Heights is a Caribbean neighborhood that stands out. The tempo is slower. People take time to talk to strangers and the partial gentrification provide some great bars. But yeah, fuck the rest of the city.
Manhattan is a Disneyfied shithole, but there are tons of neighborhoods like Crown Heights in the outer boroughs. Just gotta know where to look.
If I bow to the peer pressure I'll put Crown Heights on my list! Maybe I could stay in or near that neighborhood...
Thanks!
The Museum of Modern Art is amazing. Central Park has an obelisk. You can get pretty much any cuisine on the planet from hole in the wall expat restaurants. I can stomach New York for a week at a time, but it's a great week for psychogeography.
Cool so I'm sure the authorities that recklessly declared it not dangerous enough to worry about will be punished accordingly. Right?
Right?! :agony-turbo:
You'll be good bro, just remember to drink some warm water and take things easy
I’m stuck in the quarantine ward on campus, so I’ll have plenty of time to take it easy
My little brother has it now. He's a good kid who has struggled with chronic infection before. I'm pretty worried. I know he'll make it through (he's young and healthy), but he never got vaccinated and I'm terrified he'll have long symptoms.
Sorry to hear that comrade, solidarity. :meow-hug:
Would he be eligible for Paxlovid? I have no idea how that is being prescribed right now (which figures), but I know it’s meant to be freely available at least to some
I've managed to work construction this entire pandemic without getting it so hopefully that continues.
Solidarity with everyone who hasn't been so lucky
I've got a work conference at a hotel in Florida coming up and I'm sort of terrified.
Yeah same (different city though)
Might just end up bailing depending on how things are looking not trying to get a pulmonary embolism so I can meet a vendor in person
Unfortunately, refusing to attend will most likely cost me my job - my boss is running the show. If I attend, I might get covid but I'll still have health insurance... if I quit, I might still get covid but I'd be shit out of luck. I'm probably going to just go ahead and get another booster now and stock up on N95s.
Best of luck, Mother. Let's make a pact - we will both try our best to not get sick and die until at least July. I'll let you know I'm still kicking when the conference wraps up.
I think it will only be my third, but honestly, the whole covid timeline has been such a whirlwind that I'm not 100% sure.
Hoping the same (not in construction, but no one wears a mask around me). Good luck comrade
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It kills me every time people do this
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Here's the good news, jack. We killed off so many of the most vulnerable in the last few waves that deaths will be lower this time, maybe! :DaBiden:
Some of which are children and we basically made it policy to deliberately infect kids with it.
But I'm sure it will be fine.
They're also getting heart problems, but heart damage only makes you stronger, right?
Any journalist who wrote the word “Mild” in an article about Omicron deserves :gui:
