🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@realcaseyrollins At this point I kinda welcome a civil war. It would be a hell of a lot better than whatever the fuck we are currently doing about this nonsense.

@pthenq1

It is as valid an interpretation as any :)

@crackurbones

@crackurbones Consciousness is just a made up term to make us feel special, an illusion of evolution. I dont think the universe is anymore conscious than us humans.

Though if we assume humans are conscious then one could argue the universe is conscious as we are components in the universe. The universe literally evolved overtime to have consciousness in that sense.

@amerika looks like an FFT but isnt.. pretty though.

@Pat

> The point is that with 50%+ of the population vaccinated, the rates should be falling drastically, but they aren't

But they are, a 62% drop in infection rate in less than a month 38% drop in death rate is absolutely huge.

You also fail to address the fact that the infection rate AND death rate dropped at a **faster** rate after the CDC announcement revoking the mask mandate than it did before.

> CDC let down their guard and stop wearing masks and gathered without social distancing and now more people are dying because of it.

The above data suggests not only is this untrue, but the exact opposite is true, that the CDC's choice has in fact saved lives, not taken it (or at the very least had no negative effect).

> Also, what kind of fools stop fighting a war (or stop using their most effective weapons to date) while people are being killed at a rate of 500 people per day? That's insane.

This isnt a war in the usual sense (obviously). The big difference here is that the people who die in a war are real time, when it comes to a virus there is a delayed effect. People will continue to die and be infected even once the war is won. In some cases the numbers can never be expected to reach 0.

To give you an idea at current numbers COVID deaths are only 3x higher than influenza deaths and still dropping rapidly. At the current rate within another month or two the death rate from covid should be no higher than that of influenza.

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The biggest take away from this is the death toll is going down **very** fast, and is going down **faster** since the mask mandate was rescinded... everything contradicts your fears and assertions stated here.

@amerika Yea, I have never appreciated a formatted site so much... I hope he has the CSS opensource somewhere I'd love to use it somehow.

@icedquinn as i am currently trying to tweak my emacs org-mode expiernce, particularly my time management and todo management this link you just shared comes at a perfect time, thanks.

The CSS on this article post is absolutely beautiful in its simplicity. I love simple CSS that still is feature rich and doesnt look like a plain text dump. This is lovely!

https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/GTD/index.html

@crunklord420

Not true, but I have no interest in arguing conspiracy theory nonsense today.

@Pat

@cjd

Thats not really true. I will admit our public transport in rural areas isnt as good, and the dutch barely have rural areas. So if you live out in the country then yea you'd need a car. But for many in the US getting by with just a bike wouldnt be a huge issue. Most just arent willing to bike long distances in bad weather, if they were they would have pretty good range in any suburb or city, particularly if they use public transit for the big gaps.

@stux

@Pat So off the cuff lets do some real numbers (im looking up the numbers as I write this so I dont know what the outcome will be)...

May 13th was the change from the CDC re: mask mandate. The 7 day moving average of COVID deaths right before the change in mandate was 622 people per day.

As of yesterday, June 10th, the death rate for covid has plummeted in less than a month to only 387 deaths per day.

So if anything the mask mandate being revoked **saved** lives, didnt cause them. Though to really verify this we would have to look at the effect of vaccines, so its not necessarily the masks are the causative agent. But thats the whole damn point of removing the mask mandate, with vaccines they are simply not needed anymore, and the numbers show this to be true.

What also is telling is that the rate of decline of COVID deaths actually **accelerated** significantly after the mask mandate was lifted. In other words, it doesnt appear to be decreasing just because of the vaccine, but by removing the mask mandate it may have actually **saved** lives directly, though again we would need more in depth data to really verify that. But as I've presented many times int he past the data is highly suggestive that mask mandates result in more deaths not fewer. So this certainly seems possible, if not likely.

@Pat Well thats just bad statistics right there.

People were dying with masks too, to assume that 100% of people who died not wearing a mask would have lived with a mask is obviously debunked by historic figures that clearly show people still died who wore masks.

If you really want an accurate answer you have to look at the rate people were dying before the CDC mask mandate was lifted and after. Did it go up? By what amount? thats your real figure...

@stux can't disagree really

@stux You are dutch, your opinions dont count on this matter. Even adult dutch people dont have cars, you all bike :)

@stux Why are you just taking random pictures of a backpack and rug, I dont understand, I thought this was a post about your cat?

@icedquinn ahh i see

@icedquinn I use org-brain, which at first glance seems to try to fill a similar function. I'll look into org-roam now that you made me aware of it and see if it might be worth me trying it out.