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Yeah, people are still dying at an alarming rate from COVID, but it's no longer headline news so that's tantamount to it being a cured illness, right?
Yeah, exactly.
Out of sight out of mind.
As long as we all act like it can't get us, then it can't get us.
From personal experience, masking indoors almost all the time (I've had to make some exceptions like dentistry, and I have forgotten my mask a few times, no one is perfect) and getting my flu and pneumonia vaccines every year has actually meant *no* multiple respiratory illnesses per year.
Like, I got covid at the start of this year (would NOT recommend, even vaxxed it sucked and I think I have some long term issues)
but I used to regularly get at least two colds/flus a year
The Spanish paper El Pais reports that the US quietly withdrew two staff workers at the request of Spain's government.#Espionage #Politics #Europe #Spain
Spain expels two US embassy staff for allegedly bribing intelligence agents
Do you watch the YouTuber Zorro? He does some great compilations. Just watch the first five seconds of this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UKufBuG2Z8
The Most Unbelievable CoincidencesHello! Today, we are going to see some of the most unbelievable coincidences caught on camera. One in a million moments, th...YouTube
https://popular.info/p/the-report-at-and-t-didnt-want-to
#RepealCitizensUnited: But, from 2018 to 2021, AT&T donated at least $574,500 to the politicians behind Texas' voter suppression legislation. Over the same time period, AT&T donated at least $99,700 to the Georgia politicians behind that state's new law to restrict voting.
#JohnLewisVotingRightsAct
Last Friday, AT&T quietly published an extraordinary document. For the first time ever, the company released a "political congruency report.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
She is the most famous Palestinian child in the world right now and millions of people following her life on social media since her first video with Palestinian flag drawn on her face was shared on #TikTok, #Instagram and #Twitter.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe8SGbT1/
#Gaza #Childrem #Invasion #Palestine #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
The Anthropocene began quickly, but will last deep into the geological future.The Conversation
The billionaires behind California Forever (utopia city that tech plutocrats want to build in norther California) are suing local landowners for allegedly jacking up their prices.
The billionaires -- BILLIONAIRES -- accuse the landowners of ... "endless greed."
ENDLESS GREED.
I mean, they'd know.https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/06/billionaires-utopia-ceo-defiant-in-face-of-loud-calls-to-drop-lawsuit-against-solano-county-property-owners/
Investors group raised hackles in Solano County through secretive land purchases, legal action against residents.ebaron@bayareanewsgroup.com (The Mercury News)
Gabriel Attal a annoncé une série de mesures pour relever le niveau global des élèves Français : des classes de niveaux, le redoublement décidé par les enseignants mais aussi la création d’un Pôle Emploi junior, bientôt renommé en France Travail Junior, une succursale de Pôle Emploi (futur France Travail) censée accueillir les mineurs que l’Éducation Nationale aura décelés comme futur chômeur.
Toute l'information selon des sources contradictoires.La Rédaction (Le Gorafi.fr Gorafi News Network)
It's important to note the RSA didn't turn into a vengeful slaughterhouse without Apartheid, but the petty bloodthirsty throngs are still convinced everyone else is going to be genocidally punitive rather than seek peace and justice.
What a tragic and terrible way to go through life. Forever trapped by their own soulless projections. Fearing others after they are free, instead of fearing for others when they are not, shows a deficit of intellectual and emotional development.
Even the most remote place on Earth is beginning to crumble as the planet’s warming woes continue.Candice Marshall (Australian Geographic)
A little segue, my sister just last week returned form a cruise to Antarctica, I was simultaneously envious and disgusted, if that's a thing.
It's something I long wanted to do myself but decided years ago never to do becase of the CO2 emissions, the enviormental damage and the high potential for introduced bacteria and contaminants etc (I know they take precautions but the risk is still high)
Tourism fucks most things, so no reason to assume it won't make Antarctica worse.
Imagine this: humanity in its time on Earth has already come up with two distinct ways of destroying this planet and everything on it. The first is, of course, nuclear weapons, which once again surfacedAndy Kroll (TomDispatch)
So far as we, the physicists, are concerned, we are no politicians and it has never been our wish to meddle in politics. But we know a few things that the politicians do not know. And we feel the duty to speak up and to remind those responsible that there is no escape into easy comforts, there is no distance ahead for proceeding little by little and delaying the necessary changes into an indefinite future, there is no time left for petty bargaining.
-- Albert Einstein, 1945
As a California-based biolab with ties to the Chinese government posed a national security risk, FBI shutdown the investigation while CDC did not cooperate.The Sharp Edge (Corey's Digs)
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Surely the camps won't be used for me, right? Momma said I was special!
I spend my days in a library and nights in a homeless shelter, and they both sound like tuberculosis wards.
There appears to be zero social disapprobation to constantly choking out giant wet coughs without even covering one's mouth, let alone masking.
*sigh*
..... and Meanwhile....
From a statistical study at UCLA:
“This is the United States’ largest decline in annual life expectancy since World War II,” Heuveline said, adding that Americans who have died of COVID-19 lost an average of 12 years from their expected lifespans.
And THAT is why nobody cares.... only "old people" die from it.
Ageism is alive and well, however.
What enrages me is when people compare it to colds and flu and RSV
When literally we learned the very precautions to prevent COVID (masking whenever possible, cleaner air, vaccination requirements, time off when sick, things being remote if they could be)
actually are even MORE protective against colds, flu, and RSV
we could have gotten rid of them ALL, and we still could if we just put some effort into that