That's how much capitalists value the promise of AI decimating labor costs.

But this was how I became the public-health official who, very early in the pandemic, instructed people not to wear a mask.

This was a supposed "white lie" to try to preserve ppe for medical professionals, which was stupid because a lot of nurses and doctors took it to mean they didn't need ppe, and as far as I know the government didn't even try to secure any ppe for medical professionals or make sure they were available.

We knew it was airborne by how quickly it was spreading. The WHO knew it was airborne and immediately started upgrading their offices to filter the air, even while they told the world it wasn't airborne. The reason they didn't say it was airborne was because it would mean hospitals would have to take more strict measures to protect everyone, and it would cost a lot and make the job harder.

It's insulting to be told that the evidence at the time showed that it wasn't warranted to take airborne measures.

Good advice in this thread.

Also: get rest and try not to push yourself physically for the next month or two, even after you feel better.

I had to work the whole time in a busy store. Didn't get any time off. It was nice eating lunch outside and not having to listen to traffic for a few weeks, though.

It would be nice to know if the flu shots they give out have any crossover protection. Oh well, I guess we'll find out.

The anti vax campaigns people and governments have been running are doing damage, for sure.

In the UK at least, vaccination rates are at a 10 year low. With something as infectious as measles that might be enough to see the huge outbreaks we are seeing.

Then you have Dtap vaccines, which are down a couple percent in the UK over the last few years, but is that enough to explain things like this:

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And we are also seeing a rise in rare cancers and other diseases that are usually only associated with immune disorders like AIDS.

Anti-sinovac stories were popular in a lot of western media.

It was the Wuhan military games. It took place October 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Military_World_Games

Its pretty good. Totally worth $3. More enjoyable than the sequel.

If he has respiratory symptoms then he can probably infect other people... Right?

I guess I'm lucky. There are still a few people who mask where I work, and a lot of our customers still mask, and seem to appreciate how many employees are still masking. I would guess like 10% of people mask during the spring/summer, and 20-25% in the fall/winter.

I haven't been sick in nearly two years, it's great. Before covid it was roughly once every two or three months, and most of winter. At this point, even if covid went away I wouldn't stop. Work isn't worth getting sick for.

I prefer pilots who don't crash their planes

I got the feeling the president was meant to be a trump like figure, but then they made changes to obfuscate that by making it politically incoherent.

"It's mild"

I thought it was implied the US sabotaged them

I trust this system to tell authorities who to arrest and which foreigners to murder.

Meanwhile they are finding that mice who drink raw milk from infected cows have their organs infected with bird flu, and people are now trying to get raw milk specifically to infect themselves with it.

I love the mall. The album before this is also really good.

Also this performance from the main singer's bedroom kicks ass.

His fifth infection did it. Awesome.

Once again, every study that has tried to measure the risk of reinfections shows that risk of long covid goes up with each infection.

And since most people have had "mild" covid infections at this point, survivorship bias kicks in and people think it's no big deal.

Not great.