The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus is intrinsically as severe as previous variants, , according to a preprint version of a large U.S.studythat counters assumptions in other studies that it was more transmissible but less severe.

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  • mazdak
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    1 year ago

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    • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      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?!

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        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.

      • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        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

        • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          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.

          • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            That sounds pretty neat! Do you like being a backpacking guide?

              • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                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.

                • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  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.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        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!!!

    • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      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.

    • LeninsRage [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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.