I’m 2+1 and just tested positive for COVID yesterday. I had COVID previously in 2021 as well. Symptoms are mild with runny nose, headache, fatigue, and a light cough.
Catching it again has me comparing the environment then and now and made the COVID apathy more apparent. Most co-worker responses have been either “That’s still a thing?” to “Throw a mask on and come back into the office.” I’ve elected to isolate to not be responsible for more spread. The frustrating thing is looking for guidance and most articles are dated in 2022. The pharmacy had fewer stock of masks and COVID tests were in the back now.
I’m all for continuing to receive regular vaccinations like I do for the flu. If anything to continue to keep the symptoms mild.
Many of the free COVID tests are all expired now. They issued an extension but finding an at-home test has been really difficult. I went to 3 different pharmacies/grocery stores before I was able to find a test.
Make sure you take time to rest. I had a mild case last December and went back to work in the like 5 days they say. I ended up with long covid and I’m still not all the way better. Not resting is a big risk factor for long covid.
Thanks, appreciate your concern. I’m trying to rest, but unfortunately soundly sleeping has been challenging. My nose is congested but still dripping if that makes sense. My mouth dries out and I’m waking up constantly. I’ll try to get some reprieve beyond the 5 days.
HONG KONG, Aug 15 (Reuters) - China’s fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said on Tuesday, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country’s declining number of new births.
China’s fertility rate is already one of the world’s lowest alongside South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Concerned about China’s first population drop in six decades and its rapid ageing population, Beijing is urgently trying an array of measures to lift the birth rate including financial incentives and improved childcare facilities.
China has said it will focus on education, science and technology to improve population quality and strive to maintain a “moderate fertility” level to support economic growth in future.
Gender discrimination and traditional stereotypes of women caring for their children are still widespread throughout the country.
Authorities have in recent months increased rhetoric on sharing the duty of child rearing but paternity leave is still limited in most provinces.
BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - China’s statistics bureau said on Tuesday it had suspended publication of youth jobless data, citing the need to improve methodology in the way it measured unemployment among young people, which has hit record highs in recent months.
The decision announced shortly after the release of weaker-than-expected factory and retail sales data sparked a rare backlash on social media amid growing frustration about employment prospects in the country.
Young Chinese are facing their toughest summer job-hunting season after regulatory clamp-downs in recent years left traditional sources of graduate employment – including the property, tech and education sectors – bruised.
The most recent NBS data on youth unemployment, published last month, showed the jobless rate jumping to a record high of 21.3% in June.
The NBS’s decision was immediately mocked on Chinese social media, with a related hashtag receiving over 10 million views on microblogging site Weibo.
A Chinese professor last month said the country’s true youth jobless rate may have been closer to 50% in March, in rare public comments about the matter published in an article for financial magazine Caixin.
His lead over Republican presidential rivals has widened since the New York charges were filed in April, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling. But in a July Reuters/Ipsos poll, 37% of independents said the criminal cases made them less likely to vote for him, compared to 8% who said they were more likely to do so
How can someone see Trump been charged again and again, as something that makes him more compelling to vote for. I know the Republicans have put their egg in that basket(case), but as an independent, seeing all those charges, and think “Well, that works for me!” I don’t get it…
Remember the time Sony Music installed a rootkit on peoples' computers via commercially purchased CDs because hacking paying customers' computers seemed like a good way to combat piracy?
That schema was popular for a while. That weird format was probably Windows Media Audio (wma).The audio data was still there and was accessible with the right software/firmware combo. But sometimes those disks would auto run and inject malware. This was usually the Sony root kit. Sometimes that malware would disable your system’s ability to access the audio tracks. Because for way too long windows machines would autoplay anything that was plugged into it and EVERYTHING ran as administrator. Most CD drives back then had firmware that could play the CD audio directly from the drive to your speakers, bypassing the OS entirely, so most people would never notice a difference until they tried to rip the tracks themselves.
Some older games worked this way too, without the malware. The software would be on the data portion and instead of copying big wave file to your PC (because mp3s weren’t really a popular thing yet and drive speeds were slow), they would just play the audio from the audio track portion of the disk. You could sometimes pop those disks into a dumb CD player and listen to the audio directly as long as you skipped the data track at the beginning. You could burn your own disks like this around the same time. I remember making a few mixtapes on CD that stored a CD label/envelope tracklist as a PDF and mp3s of the CD tracks themselves on a data track at the end. Putting the data at the end allowed you to play it in a dumb CD player without having to skip the data track.
Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits were harmful. It then released an uninstaller for one of the programs that merely made the program's files invisible while also installing additional software that could not be easily removed.
And then they just paid some settlements, recalled some CDs, and continued to operate as if nothing has happened. Bloody hell.
I remembered there was a Part II to the story that made it even worse, but did not remember those details. Should have read my own link! Thanks for highlighting that because it truly is the icing on the cake.
The worst part was the response from someone high up at Sony was “most of the people who [had the rootkit installed on their PC against their will] dont know what a rootkit is anyways, so why should I care?”
Really was the tip of the privacy era iceberg if you ask me.
I still miss my mini-disc player! I loved using it to record songs from the radio. I felt like I was truly living in the future, having such vast storage space (like, 50 low-quality songs, lol).
I always wanted one, but by the time my disposable income and the price of a player met, they were on their way out. Always seemed like a really cool bit of personal tech to me though.
I loved my minidisc player. My first was a Sharp but that was stolen in a robbery. So I replaced it with a Sony NetMD which I loved even more. Due to the new compression, depending on the length of the albums, you could fit 3 or 4 onto one disc. Also it docked with the PC, so labelling and ripping was really easy. I bought a compatible in line remote which had a backlit LCD display which I loved. The chewing gum stick battery lasted ages and if it did run out of power, I could screw on a little compartment that’s held a AA battery and keep me going.
I remember Sony forcing everyone to use their proprietary SonicStage software and proprietary ATRAC3 audio file format with their Mini Disc players. Nothing else would work on their products. Thank goodness big industries don’t influence governments worldwide, or we’d be heading into some kind of dystopia DRM-laden in every aspect of our lives. Oh wait…
I hate when you need to install different software for whatever camera, music player, whatever that you had. Luckily that is pretty rare that proprietary software is required nowadays.
I worked for a startup that had as main investor a company called InterTrust. Our office was inside their building.
InterTrust was a patent portfolio that belonged to Sony and Philips. All they did was sue people. One day they were able to sue Apple on some stupid patent, and there was much rejoicing at the office.
“In recent years, the number of university students has continued to expand,” Fu said. “The main responsibility of current students is studying. Society has different views on whether students looking for jobs before graduation should be included in labour force surveys and statistics.”
This issue, as well as the definition of the age range currently set at 16-24, “needs further research,” Fu said.
This is not only completely and utterly reasonable and rational, but this is also a really pleasing amount of transparency in explaining their decision making process
WARSAW, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Poland’s biggest military parade since the Cold War takes place in Warsaw on Tuesday as the NATO-member country flexes its military muscle in what the government hopes will be both a message to Moscow and to voters ahead of elections in October.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made boosting the armed forces a priority for Poland’s ruling nationalists Law and Justice (PiS), and with the election campaign in full swing the immense display of military hardware provides a chance to burnish their security credentials.
“This parade will be different from the previous ones; we will be able to see how the process of modernising the equipment of the Polish Army is progressing,” Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Sunday.
Polish-made Borsuk infantry fighting vehicles and Rosomak armoured personnel carriers will also take part.
The party has vowed to double the size of the army and spend around 4% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence this year.
PiS remains the largest party in most opinion polls, but its lead is narrow and it looks unlikely to win a majority.
One of the biggest failings in Western economics is the prevalence for across the board percentage pay rises. People getting paid £40k get double those on £20k when both get an equal amount in pay percentage increase. This has been part of the reason why top bands in large companies have gained such huge pay scales. Percentage rises are nothing like an equal pay rise. It is way past time unions recognised this.
Kind of Kudos to the Chinese for this. I hope they see fit to roll it out among some of the more powerful families in China also, and not just use it to claw back some money from the middle class.
The other half of the problem is if a CEO ever said “We’re going to have lower profits this quarter because we started paying everyone more” that CEO will be locked out and that’s if the people making those decisions aren’t sued first by the board
They will argue. Pay rise for everyone. Will nject huge amounts of money into the econ. Raising inflation. While this means the low earners gain or lose little. Amd the rich lose much.
It will totally destroy those that cannot work or earn at all. IE retired poor or unemployed.
One. Lets face it. No econ can handle such a huge raise in income. Without it seriously effecting the internal market.
And that huge increase will slowly if at all move to those not currently earning. IE retired or disabled etc.
But even if the econ could manage it. By for example borrowing to raise unemployed incomes while things settle.
Those making the decisions will worry more about the effect on their econ and currency compared to other nations. Not doing the same thing.
In genral governments tend to ( to some extent rightly) value their currencies buying power with other nations. More then the internal markets.
At this time in history. No nation is truly 100% self sufficient. Mainly most nations over the last 50 years have not tried to be. So it can be seen as governments own choice.
But huge changes in the value of a currency has a huge negative effect on the ability for any nations citizen’s to thrive.
This not only effects the poor drematically. But often more to the worry of governments. The rich and government spending power overall.
The later is a death blow for democratic nations. But even more so for a nation that has been using its buying power to position itself in the world for decades. Such as China.
Did you even read the article? The article says the plan includes raises for the lower and middle paid employees that is being paid for by cuts to the upper executives. So they’re doing exactly what you proposed
Under the plan, the salary package for employees below mid-level managers was raised by about 10% to 15%, and salaries for higher-level managers were reduced by a similar range, a second source said.
Why is this news, from the article this looks to be a fairly “routine” event? Not that I support Russia, but I imagine NATO forces are also engaging in similar behaviour somewhere else?
Ya this is one of those, it’s routine and a big damn deal at the same time. Russia technically did nothing wrong. But at the same time they aren’t exactly being good neighbors
If I had to do it all over again, I’d skip the shots and rely on my immune system. Something definitely wasn’t right with these shots, in my view.
There have been sane scientific reports about impurities and traces of foreign DNA being found in samples of the vaccines from all vendors and a study implying that two shots caused cancers in mice (www.frontiersin.org/journals/…/fonc.2023.1158124) doesn’t inspire confidence either. I know all the “fact checks” around the topic, no need to link me to it. They’re all written by people with no medical expertise.
The entire reporting about the pandemic was (in my opinion) highly unscientific, excluded critical voices (real doctors, not some snake oil salespeople) and came basically down to “just have faith in the science” and I feel terribly stupid for having participated in the sharade (not implying the entire pandemic was fake, but the way it was handled) and I hated myself for quite some time for having given into the pressure instead of listening to my intuition.
These vaccines definitely screwed with my health. My heart didn’t perform as well for about a year (confirmed by a doctor), I felt fatigued despite having been active and fit despite the lockdowns (also confirmed by a doctor), I definitely had some issues with blood flow/clotting and my lymphatic system is definitely still trying to get rid of something.
I’m not giving health advice here but please be aware that even if we accept the official number of 1/10000 likelihood of the vaccines having severe side effects (and I don’t think that’s true anymore based just on observations in my family and social circles, like women having screwed up periods, several miscarriages of otherwise healthy women, sudden appearances of cancer in people under 50) - if you’re the 1, it’ll fuck you up and no one will give damn. After talking to a few people who now can no longer work after having taken the shots, prepare for massive gaslighting, especially from doctors. Don’t trust in whatever is left of social security systems to care about you. They’ve all been told they’re imagining things or that they just had a genetic predisposition and would’ve had these issues even without the shots.
My trust in the medical establishment is at an all time low. And now they’re planning on dumping mRNA into everything, like animal vaccines and crops. This doesn’t seem right. I have a real bad feeling about this.
I’ll accept the risk if getting COVID from now on.
I was never anti vaccines, btw. But there’s been so much suspicious shit going on around this whole topic that my trust “in (capitalist) science” is in shambles. Just the appearance of “sudden adult death syndrome” right after the vaccinations started was highly suspicious and should’ve warranted at least a pause of the vaccinations. At the very least, I’ll have to assume that it was more important for people to get back to work as quick as possible and to “return to normal” was a terrible driving force behind the way of this pandemic was handled.
I’m sure people will come at me for all of this. I’m not (alt) right, I’m not anti science, but I worry that the rushed rollout of these shots was a big mistake. That doesn’t mean that the extreme anti vaxxers were right either.
Edit: Not to mention how my girlfriend’s migraines have increased severely and that her Astrazeneca and Moderna batches are known for having headaches as a side effect according to VAERS.
To the first 2 downvotes: Thanks for proving my point.
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