Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@social.cleverlibre.org

@Pat Well, we don't either. No country did it great.

@Pat I guess I'm just glad not to live in the USA.

@Pat I'm not really sure what you're arguing for. Getting rid of the virus 100% is impossible, there'll always be outbreaks and you'll always need lockdowns here and there.

@Pat We have worker shortage here as well.

US is a special case, there was so much mismanagement and I don't think the vaccination numbers were up to par either.

China isn't going that well, seen the situation in Shanghai recently?

@Pat I didn't mean the literal form of fly. 'It's not gonna fly' type of fly. As in, it's not going to work to put in new mandates, nobody's going to accept it anymore with those low hospital numbers.

Eliminating the virus like China tried turns out not to work very well. You keep having outbreaks and keep having lockdowns.

@2ck Some people don't really want to be followed and have locked accounts. Maybe for some reason or whatnot you can't subscribe to them the normal way. I dunno. Whatever it is, the feature's there in case you want it.

It's not a default Mastodon feature by the way. It's added here on qoto.

@2ck Yeah, it's something that lasted 7 days, and whole groups worked together to get their logo/symbol/favorite thing/whatever displayed on there. There was even a Linux group because Tux was also there with various Linux distro symbols. :)

It's just amazing to see groups of various interests placing their stuff on there, trying to 'defend' their space (because grieving is easily done), and to show their interests. I loved watching it. There is a video somewhere of the timeline of r/Place, showing which images came into existence, and which ones disappeared, to be replaced by other images.

@2ck They could've done so anyway, even if outside Mastodon, as every profile here has an associated RSS feed. They could've used any RSS reader, but now it's simply in the convenience of inside Mastodon. Or rather, inside qoto.

@lydiaconwell Both, honestly. That's why both words are in the name.

@coaxial "I am superblockmaaaaaaan! Wheeeeeee!"

@2ck If for some reason you can't follow them you can subscribe to them (they won't get notified either) and see their public-only toots in one of your timelines/lists.

@lydiaconwell Heh, I know ibb & obb as a funny co-op game. :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/95400/ibb__obb/

@sean That's why I always go through a lot of effort to set up notifications the way I want so I won't get pestered by this non-informative bullshit.

Neat. Just checked. King's Day we might have this huge flea market again in town after a 2-year hiatus. I might go, never know what fun stuff you can find there. It's the perfect moment to buy rubbish for home!

@sergeant@mstdn.social 😁

@sergeant@mstdn.social It's so blocky, I probably could recreate that in Minecraft. ;)

@Sphinx 'Good morning, if you are awake.'

I sorta am. I'm bound for an afternoon nap soon. :P

@Sphinx So am I... meh.

@Pat Not gonna fly with new rules. We're going for endemic now. We only undertake action when our hospitals gets overcrowded, that's actually the whole point of our rules. It's about 'flattening the curve' not 'eliminating it'. Never been.

@Pat Many infected here, not many deaths, and hospital occupation is getting less and less. We seem to average 10-20 deaths a day. Hence why in 3 days all rules will be gone here.

At this point, my job is probably like 75% 'has been infected or is recovered'. Besides that we don't quite hug each other yet, we don't really have much of a rule anymore. Just that if you're infected, stay at home for a few days.

Coughing? A cold? Usually you're asked to stay at home. Sensible, because even a cold I wouldn't want to wish upon others.

Omicron seriously was the game changer for us. So long the pressure is off the hospitals, there's no reason to have draconic precautions anymore. And a lot of people are vaccinated here, which helps. For a large part, life's back to normal here.