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> The sole reliance on vaccination as a primary strategy to mitigate COVID-19 and its adverse consequences needs to be re-examined, especially considering the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant and the likelihood of future variants. Other pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions may need to be put in place alongside increasing vaccination rates. Such course correction, especially with regards to the policy narrative, becomes paramount with emerging scientific evidence on real world effectiveness of the vaccines.
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> In summary, even as efforts should be made to encourage populations to get vaccinated it should be done so with humility and respect. Stigmatizing populations can do more harm than good. Importantly, other non-pharmacological efforts (e.g., the importance of basic public health hygiene with regards to maintaining safe distance or hand-washing, promoting better frequent and cheaper forms of testing) needs to be renewed in order to strike the balance of learning to live with COVID-19 in the same manner we continue to live a 100 years later with various seasonal alterations of the 1918 Influenza virus.

Increases in -19 are unrelated to levels of across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/

Battling misinformation with censorship is like battling over population with nuclear bombs.

Don't go along to get along. Don't dim yourself for anyone. Don't be afraid of who you truly are. Be the best you, be all the you, you can be. You are worth it.

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@pthenq1 @NurseRatched it is a good question but often drastically exaggerated in terms of how much change it would make as it makes good headlines. Also, I think his point is coming more from a "Big-O" point of view. Meaning, if currently the spending factor of our current government is O(2^n) for example (hypothetical), where this represents the amount of tax money spent as a function of, say, number of government officials then it doesn't make much sense to complain because of a small number of people, say, a 200b factor to account for the few billionaires in society multiplied by how much tax they pay on average + 150,000,000p to account for the number of "average" tax paying normal citizens then we get that 2^n> 200b + 150,000,000p for values n=50, b=1,000,000,000 , p= 25,000 so even if the billionaires pay their fare share the government spending would still outpace it

Of course, this is a hypothetical scenario there are many simplifications and variables not taken into account. But ultimately the point is to showcase that the more fundamental question is how to lower the spending rate of government compared to the tax on citizens.

Trigger warning: hot take 

Is it bad that I'm kinda into the whole metaverse idea? Like, I love the idea of being able to truly blend the physical world with the digital and don't necessarily hate it just because FB are the ones pushing for it. If it ends up being as and as they are currently claiming then what is the issue? Am I supposed to hate a cool concept just because of who came up with it? Now if they end up selling people's data to make profits of course I'd be pissed but currently they're claiming this won't be the case. Alternatively, can we make a ? Where would we start? Mozzila Hubs?

Applied to a job and got rejected the next day without explanation and without having answered any questions. Literally just submitted my CV which shows relevant qualifications+ experience. This feels odd.

@freemo @Science you clearly have never seen chimpz pulling people's limbs like it's a crappy McDonald's toy

txti.es/covid-pass/images long blog but certainly worth the read. In fact, I'd say it's one of the best blogs I've ever read. The extreme mandates in the Baltic countries are no longer about protecting people but rather about bringing out the worst in humanity and subjugating people to discriminatory practices by creating a two tier society of the 'good' and the 'bad' when there is no data to support said practices.

This makes me sad. I think this situation will go in the history books for sure as an example about how we don't learn from history. In their case it's worse than most other countries since they had crazy levels of authoritarianism until the 90s when Soviet union left. So, you'd think they'd be more anti-authoritarian, right?

Wooootttt after a 4 month wait since backing it on kickstarter my Storm2 Liquid finally arrived (2 of those months was shipping time). Cant wait to plat
Y with this sexy beast.

RT @Jose_A_Alonso@twitter.com

copy-as-org-mode: A Firefox Add-on (WebExtension) to copy selected web page into Org-mode formatted text! github.com/kuanyui/copy-as-org #Emacs #OrgMode #Firefox

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Jose_A_Alonso/stat

@trinsec @2ck sometimes but even if it's a quick dirty solution oftentimes I need to document it well otherwise future self won't understand why I did something and get confused.

@janriemer@mastodon.technology @kubikpixel pretty sure that Haskellers have been saying this for at least 20 years.

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