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Chetzemoka ,

The pandemic IS over. Covid has become an endemic virus just like we always expected it to.

https://www.webmd.com/covid/news/20230317/time-to-stop-calling-it-a-pandemic

https://www.lung.org/blog/epidemic-pandemic-endemic-covid

Chetzemoka ,

And we...have treatments and/or vaccines and public health campaigns for all of those endemic infections just like we will continue to do for Covid?

I'm not sure why you think endemic is a judgement of risk. It's not. It's an epidemiological definition.

Chetzemoka ,

There are already other services in place for diapers:

https://www.wpadiaperbank.org/

And other assistance including rent assistance:

https://singlemom.com/pennsylvania-assistance/#:~:text=Pennsylvania%20offers%20help%20through%20HUD,955%2D2232%20for%20more%20information.

Chetzemoka ,

Seriously. I watched both of my parents get their "good jobs" sold right out from under them to private equity firms that laid off all the older, more expensive workers immediately. I, myself, was laid off twice before I turned 28 years old.

I have zero incentive to be "loyal" to any company when they so clearly will never be loyal to me. What a load of horseshit.

Chetzemoka , (edited )

I thought it wasn't about her shoplifting? Make up your mind.

Oh, I'm sorry. It's not about any of that, is it? It's just about whatever you need to excuse a government agent murdering an American citizen without a proper trial by jury.

Do us all a favor and never pretend you respect the United States Constitution ever again.

Chetzemoka ,

Sorry, I'm just gonna repeat that for the folks in the back...

NONCOMPLIANCE SHOULDN'T MEAN EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD

Chetzemoka ,

Oh man, let me introduce you to my absolute favorite used book seller:

https://www.ebay.com/str/secondsalecom

Also, construction leftovers on eBay are a great way to get sink faucets, light fixtures, etc. for a house.

Chetzemoka ,

You're a good teacher, working around the things they find important in their lives. Thank you

Chetzemoka ,

It's an unsustainable business model for profit.

"In 2005, private equity-owned firms owned less than 1 percent of skilled nursing facilities. By 2015, they owned 9 percent; the share is likely higher today.

Purchases of nursing homes by private equity firms are associated with higher patient mortality rates, fewer caregivers, higher management fees, and a decline in patient mobility."

https://www.nber.org/digest/202104/how-patients-fare-when-private-equity-funds-acquire-nursing-homes

Squeezing profit out of the end of elderly people's lives is an extra special level of disgusting

Chetzemoka ,

No this is different, actually. The other event is the hypothesized genetic bottleneck triggered by the Toba supervolcano eruption only 74,000 years ago as opposed to 900,000 years ago for this newly proposed event.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

Chetzemoka ,

It's also pretty hard when the corporations you work for aren't interested in paying you what you're worth. People need and deserve better wages

Chetzemoka ,

Well, I like roads and bridges being fixed, and good reliable weather forecasts, and standardized weights and measures, and a functional department of justice, labor, food and drug safety, standardized phone and Internet protocols so companies can't completely lock us in their walled gardens, cars that are safe to drive, etc. So I'm happy with the taxes part of that equation

Chetzemoka ,

"Should" cost. Yeah I'm gonna need citations for that one. You really and honestly believe the libertarian nonsense that private, for-profit corporations are going to provide those same high quality services and fuck us less?

And make no mistake, those are high quality services. Corporations are perfect happy to use all the free data generated by the National Weather Service, US Geological Survey, NIH, NSF, NIST, etc precisely because it's world class. It's funny how the only things that people complain about the "government" doing are all the things that cost corporations money like product and environmental safety. Or social services that are deliberately inefficient so conservatives can keep complaining about how bad "government services" are. It would be a lot more efficient if they would just give poor people fucking cash.

Max wants to push alerts on viewers when there is breaking news on CNN. (variety.com)

CNN Max is likely to evolve over time. Among the features the company will try out are ways of alerting Max viewers to breaking news while they are watching something else on the service, whether it be an HBO series, a Turner Classic Movies selection or an old episode of Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”...

Chetzemoka ,

I've had multiple issues with very recently released movies (like Crazy Rich Asians) not playing at all and only giving me pixelated nonsense or the aspect ratios being completely fucked up. Never happened on HBO Max. Only since the forced migration to the new app

Chetzemoka ,

But it's also about cost. Nuclear is far more expensive upfront, more expensive to maintain, and more expensive to decommission. Cheap, agile renewables will be an easier option for the vast majority of the planet

Chetzemoka ,

We *rich countries would be really stupid to worry about money when trying to save the planet.

There's a lot of world outside the US, Europe, and China.

Chetzemoka ,

Correct. Which is why cheap and agile renewables will remain a good option for less wealthy countries.

Chetzemoka ,

Oh that's wild. I recognized your username, and never realized it was suddenly coming from a different instance

Chetzemoka ,

You ever try to draw from a syringe while you're hypotensive, gasping for breath, and panicking as you're about to pass out? That's the primary innovation of the epi-pen. Remove cap, stab through clothes, press button.

Granted, syringe and vial would be better than not having epinephrine though.

Japan says seawater radioactivity below limits near Fukushima (www.channelnewsasia.com)

Tests of seawater near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant have not detected any radioactivity, the environment ministry said on Sunday (Aug 27), days after authorities began discharging into the sea treated water used to cool damaged reactors....

Chetzemoka ,

The solution to pollution is dilution ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Chetzemoka ,

(I mean, we're talking about radioactive water from one nuclear power plant. I'm pretty sure the adage applies in this case.)

Chetzemoka ,

It'll continue to be better than the long term health problems caused by actual Covid infections.

This is not going to be different from the annual flu vaccine. None of this is unusual or surprising. Get your shots, folks.

Chetzemoka , (edited )

"Worse" only in regards to increased number of cases. I haven't heard any indication that infections are more severe with this new strain. It's just that it's mutated enough that even vaccinated people are susceptible to reinfection.

All of this essentially means that Covid will be with us for a long time just like the flu, which also mutates and requires frequent vaccine boosters. We've been expecting Covid to settle into a similar seasonal pattern as the flu and RSV, but so far it's stubbornly refusing to do so.

And some experts think that Covid reinfection will decrease with successive generations who are exposed in young childhood until SARS-CoV-2 becomes just another nothingburger childhood viral illness like the other four or so endemic human coronaviruses.

EDIT: Successive generations OF HUMANS not of the virus. I think maybe that wasn't clear. As in like, in 100 years enough people might have been exposed to SARS-COV-2 in early childhood that it starts to be just another one of our endemic childhood coronaviruses.

Current generation of humans remains fucked ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Chetzemoka ,

I would also comment that a lot of this is probably a facility-specific artifact. The Massachusetts hospital where I work had a similar Covid outbreak among staff about a month ago, and we started masking up again as a result. It didn't get any worse and we're already back to not masking routinely.

Employees share breakrooms, computer stations, and often socialize together outside work. But the overall Massachusetts data like the Boston wastewater testing doesn't look like any major outbreak is happening: https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

But a big hospital like UMass or MGH has a problem and it makes the news ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Chetzemoka ,

What gamble exactly? I'm not sure what you're talking about. This is simply the pattern that experts predict will develop in the future

Chetzemoka ,

Who on earth suggested we drop any precautions? I didn't. The continued evolution of SARS-COV-2 is going to happen even with all precautions taken.

Chetzemoka ,

You're sure reading a lot of things I never said.

Chetzemoka ,

If the carbon is in my body, it's not in the atmosphere where it would contribute to climate change. Checkmate, atheists

Chetzemoka ,

Having literally been an inhabitant of a small island at one point in my life is the exact reason I have no active social media presence that is not pseudonymous. Life is different when you know you might suddenly be recognized by a stranger at the grocery store who saw your public comment on Facebook.

Chetzemoka ,

Never. Leave. This baby. Again. Lol

Chetzemoka ,

Oh, almost nothing gets pulverized when galaxies collide! Our Milky Way galaxy is currently colliding with a couple of small satellite galaxies. There's so much empty space between stars that almost none of the stars themselves impact.

It's more a matter of the gravitational orbits of the stars inside the galaxies changing dramatically. But those changes caused by a galaxy merger take millions of years. Plenty of time for life to adapt.

The biggest danger to life would be the possibility of getting blasted by radiation, if you ended up too close to a supernova or something like that.

https://phys.org/news/2016-10-galaxies-collide.html

FDA approves first RSV vaccine for pregnancy to protect newborns (www.cbsnews.com)

Expectant parents could soon have another new option this fall to protect their newborns from RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, the most common cause of hospitalization in American infants, after the Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it has widened its approval for Pfizer’s Abrysvo vaccine to include...

Chetzemoka ,

Why do you say bad one? I wasn't aware this was approved already

Chetzemoka ,

Hahaha, ok I was like, "Holy shit I'm happy even for an ineffective RSV vaccine for babies" lol

Chetzemoka ,

All of that as revenge for Saddam Hussein humiliating an insecure cowboy's daddy, let's be honest here.

Chetzemoka ,

It doesn't recognize kbin.social? Maybe I input the url incorrectly. Just curious

Chetzemoka ,

It's the energy of the quantum fields that permeate space. They're less "particles" per se, and more just the random jiggles in the quantum fields that aren't coherent enough to be a full-on normal particle of that field, so the ripple starts and then dies out.

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/virtual-particles-what-are-they/

Chetzemoka ,

This shit right here. We need to completely overhaul the medical residency system. Corporations are literally killing these workers for profit and the hazing culture of medicine continues to ignore that fact.

Chetzemoka ,

Find a country where medical residency doesn't work like this. It's an archaic holdover from the 1800s era when student doctors were trained by apprenticeship

Chetzemoka ,

Same here. I worked overtime 45 out of 52 weeks in 2020. Only to come out of the pandemic and still have hospitals trying to push too many patients on us, understaff us, supply chain shortages... And they wonder why so many healthcare professionals have burnt out and quit the field.

Chetzemoka ,

I mean, yes. That's why medical residencies need to be reformed. There's zero reason they should be paid so little and made to work so many hours. None whatsoever.

And, in fact, I often make the argument that the current structure of medical residency actively harms patients because it filters out people with disabilities or even just normal smart people. Because the types of individuals who can tolerate and succeed in long, drawn-our, deeply abusive working environments are very, very, very different from the populations that they are then tasked with serving.

We wonder why physicians are so often out of touch with the struggles of their patients, and I think the structure of their training contributes a lot to that problem

Chetzemoka ,

It's absolutely hazing. So is a lot of nursing school, though much tamer. I point this out to my colleagues frequently.

Chetzemoka ,

Haha, I have a blanket burrower too. Bedtime = "you're letting me explore the blanket cave now, right?"

Chetzemoka ,

Yeah, this is my takeaway as well. I'm willing to bet teens aren't opposed to Android itself, but rather "oh your mom only got you the $200 budget phone lol"

Chetzemoka ,

Hey, remember the part in 1984 where one of the party's primary means of control is the suppression of sexual freedom? I remember.

Chetzemoka ,

Learn to swim, my friend. Learn to swim.

Chetzemoka ,

Seriously, the handful of times I've checked back in on Reddit recently just made me think, "Wow I hate it here."

I'm so much happier on the Fediverse.

Chetzemoka ,

Without this feature, I wouldn't have known that Yeah Yeah Yeahs and PJ Harvey released new albums. So I'm torn. On the one hand, I'm happy artists I already love can still reach me; on the other hand, I hate that smaller artists I don't know about yet still have to pay to play

Chetzemoka ,

Living long enough to realize light speed travel is possible 👍

Living long enough to realize just how slow light speed really is 😭

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