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I'm a dad that cares about my kids & the world I am leaving them. Clean air enthusiasts. Pro human rights, pro precautionary principle. He/Him
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I will never forget a conversation I had with a long time friend about climate change. He had all the lies that we've all heard memorized. I cared about this person quite a bit, so I spent an entire weekend in the back country debunking every single lie he had ever heard.
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He is captured by it exactly as Carl Sagan had predicted.
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After the trip was over we went home and he never spoke to me again. That was maybe 15 years ago. On other social media sites, I see that he is still posting the same old rubbish. He knows it's a lie. I proved it beyond any doubt. He wants to believe the lie.
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I completely upended his entire world view. Laid it bare. I was doing this because I cared about him and respected him as a human being. At the end of it, he basically asked me so what are we supposed to do. I told him point blank, if we don't transition off fossil fuels as
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rapidly as possible. It will doom my children,your children & are eventual grandchildren to a dystopic future the likes of which you can't even imagine. I could see the pain on his face because he knows I'm right. I thought I had made real progress, I was happy.
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I'm honestly baffled that people can't connect the dots between constant sickness & not masking. Wearing a mask sparks all sorts of conversations. Overheard a pretty strange one this morning between 2 people that are currently ill caused by seeing my mask.
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Holy cow, there are so many studies coming out now showing bad long term impacts of SARS-CoV-2 infections. π¬ This is EXACTLY why the precautionary principle should have been followed.
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I'm a father. I love my children. To save my children or anyone else's from unknown disability, I would wear a mask for the rest of my life.
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I'm finding it increasingly difficult to be shallow & "normal" in the accelerating dystopia we are living in. People want to chat about literally meaningless nonsense while the world crumbles around us & I stare into the eyes of my children with no plan.
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So I think a mistake that a lot of COVID cautious people make is to assume that people would behave differently if they just "knew". They won't. They are just as capable of absorbing knowledge as you are. I have run this little experiment personally & pumping information at
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I honestly can't understand why anyone who has kept up with the literature isn't absolutely terrified by long COVID. There is absolutely nothing that I can find that makes me feel even remotely comfortable with being repeatedly infected.
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Watching all these videos of tourists trying to still "holiday" in areas that are literally being destroyed around them is amazing to behold. Same thing is/was true with COVID. We have set up such a bizarre world where the "reward" for surrendering your life to a job is a brief
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So got news this morning that a family friend has passed away 3 weeks after having a reasonably significant case of covid. The last time I was talking to this person was strangely enough at another funeral. They were asking me why I'm wearing a mask. I told them why &
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"Do you expect people to mask for ever?"
This is probably the largest objection among people that are capable of rational thought. I don't have a fantastic answer.
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This is the really bizarre part. The business case for limiting the spread of respiratory viruses is solid. The social case for limiting the spread of respiratory viruses is solid. The scientific case for limiting the spread of respiratory viruses is solid. Why aren't we doing it
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Had such a disturbing conversation tonight. People, please if you want to wear a mask, if you understand you should, just do it. None of the people that you are worried about judging you will be there when you're sick.
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I hope people truly and deeply understand, that when they are reading stats like this, this was not an oopsie doopsy, this was a deliberate choice with full knowledge of the fallout.
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So this is going to ruffle some feathers, but people are actually behaving correctly. They are not listening to anonymous Twitter accounts & random blogs, etc. They are waiting for health authorities, pediatric associations, doctors, etc to tell them that SARS2 is something they
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One of my daughter's teachers has had COVID 4 times, she's totally convinced that he is experiencing cognitive decline. He went from being super competent to being very forgetful & struggling to function with tasks that he used to be proficient with. π¬
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I still see people posting that "we never masked before 2020". The part you are missing is that the world changed forever in 2019. That old world, it's gone.
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I have to say with either the climate crisis or covid I REALLY don't understand the whole "most people will be okay" logic. I read a climate scientist saying that he's going to have to spend the rest of his career telling people that humanity isn't going to go extinct.
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I used to wonder how "dark ages" happened, now it disturbs me to see how easy it is. All it takes is a handful of people that are willing to pretend that reality isn't reality & a ruling class that sees benefits in it.
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Told my son to take sewing as an option, his friends were bugging him because sewing is for girls. π΅βπ« So I lent him my uncle's WW2 sewing kit complete with metals & original needles & buttons to bring to school. Now all his friends want to sew. π€£
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When I read about the wealthy & powerful protecting themselves from COVID, it doesn't surprise me at all. Why wouldn't they? What has constantly surprised me is that we so easily & quickly gave up. Perhaps one of the bigger disappointments in humanity in my life. Right beside
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Something that I've likely always known but just couldn't allow myself to accept is that we very much are likely living through some form of collapse. I think that we are at the point where governments can no longer respond to crises because the response would cause a crises in
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Son comes home tonight and tells me about a conversation he had with one of his friends at school. Her brothers good friend died from a stroke at 14 recently (yes had a semi-recent SARS-CoV-2 infection). Tells me she is worried about covid & wants to mask, but her parents won't
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Some infectious disease doctor a couple of weeks ago posted something along the lines of people that are still taking precautions against covid just can't adjust to the new reality. I like to chew on things for a while & he is actually partly correct, but not in the way that he
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The next 5 years are going to be filled with people finding out the hard way that they probably shouldn't have treated SARS2 like a cold & that they probably should have gotten the vaccine & all the boosters & that they absolutely should be wearing a mask.
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So there is plenty of evidence of SARS2 viral persistence in multiple tissues now. As far as I'm aware, there has never been a treatment that successfully clears viruses that are capable of setting up persistence in multiple organs. What this leaves is the outside chance of
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I can't believe that we abandoned data collection. We can't even say with certainty how many infections per year somebody is having. We can't even say with certainty what an infection actually is. I'm sure people that are taking no precautions and are public facing have
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In Costco this morning the woman at the checkout is complaining to her coworker that she was so sick she was bed ridden for 4 days. Today is her first day back at work. She has sweat dripping off he face & is visibly shaking.
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In case anyone needs to hear this. ALL evidence points to it being correct to limit the number of infections you will have. ALL of it. π―
There is NO evidence that it is a rational choice individually to expose yourself to SARS2 infections repeatedly.
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Living in 2024 is like being on the Titanic and knowing exactly where the iceberg is, but everyone's too busy ballroom dancing to listen.
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@ClarencePicard
10/10 you don't have a clue what you are talking about. He was the one that brought it up.
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Had a surreal conversation with someone in the US today that is currently being hammered by wildfire smoke. The amount that the public has been misled by previously reputable institutions about masking has compromised people's ability to reason.
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It's so incredibly frustrating to me to watch intelligent people argue the same flawed arguments over and over and over again.
1) masks absolutely are capable of filtering out the particles carrying viruses.
2) if masks are less effective at a population level than they are
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I think the thing that a lot of people need to wake up to is that there is no amount of truth or symbolism or actual horror that is going to change the direction we are heading. Fossil fuel companies have known exactly what they were doing for decades, so have governments. There
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I was out shopping today and I saw about four or five other people masking. All of them had high quality masks on. ππ All of them were wearing them correctly. ππ The part that made me upset was that they all looked shell shocked.
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So what people like the ones in this video haven't quite figured out yet, even though it's been obvious for decades, is that we are not gods. We do not possess either the financial power, the actual energy or the raw resources to prevent the damage from the climate catastrophe.
The level of delusion in this video is astonishing
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I've been reading about TB recently and I have to say it's incredibly depressing to see exactly the same nonsense repeated in 2024 that was happening in 1900. I mean exactly the same nonsense with exactly the same groups involved. We haven't progressed in the slightest.
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was indicating. It's not the new reality of having constantly a circulating disabling and deadly disease that I can't adjust to. As a matter of fact I've made lots of adjustments. What I can't adjust to is the callousness and willingness to disregard hardship from professions
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A virus has killed tens of millions of people, more than every war combined since the mid 1700's & much more have become disabled & there are people who's primary concern is not "being afraid" of it. Honest question, are you stupid?
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If we do end up with a H5N1 pandemic, I think outside of the death and disability that it will cause it will likely break society fully. I don't think we have the capacity to go through another fresh pandemic.
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I have an adequate (but not perfect) solution for just about every aspect of SARS2, except my children. The idea of sending them into another school year to be bathed in SARS2 again is just about impossible to reconcile, but there really doesn't seem to be a solution that
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The disinformation is so bad. Partners coworker had COVID 4 weeks ago, took 2 weeks to "recover" & now can't smell or taste (at week 4). They are totally baffled because they are vaccinated & are wondering how long it will take to come back. π’
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should be concerned about still. It's actually correct what they're doing. The ones that are failing are those "authority" groups.
So what's going on with those groups?
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This is to stop you from spitting into somebody's wounds.
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This is like watching a freight train slowly move towards somebody stuck on the tracks. π¬
Another 36 house mice in New Mexico have tested positive for H5N1 bird flu, taking the total to 47, according to USDA.
Only few details have been released. The infected mice were found at a poultry farm in Roosevelt County.
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There is a lot of people talking about why the WHO or other science or medical bodies purposefully denied the aerosolized nature of SARS2. For me the answer is that we mistakenly took these organizations for science organizations & they are actually political organizations.
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So I will be attending yet another funeral. Also in a mask & I expect people there will also be questioning why I'm wearing one. Such a bizarre world we are living in.
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Just sitting here and watching the predicted outcomes of lack of action on both SARS2 & the climate crisis play out right in front of your eyeballs while there is almost nothing you personally can do to prevent it is pretty surreal.
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Dear woman that was following me around the superstore yesterday recording me because I'm wearing a mask, first wow creepy, second ... yep, that's me caring about my fellow humans, I hope your FB post is a raving success.
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If there is either an effective pan-coronavirus or mucosal vaccine developed in the next couple of years there will be a mass switch in messaging. It will suddenly become undesirable to repeatedly infect yourself with a BSL3 pathogen.
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I don't really have a 20 point check about whether to put a mask on inside or not, I just do it. Seems to be pretty simple and effective.
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So I'm really trying to figure out what the expert advice here is. Clearly if you are trying to avoid SARS2 infections in any way, you are paranoid or crazy. So what is the optimal number of infections to get a year? When getting an infection should I look for somebody to
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that I previously regarded as compassionate that I'm having a hard time adjusting to. The disregard and reframing of reality to suit a narrative that makes cruelty seem rational. It's taken me a long time to accept the casual cruelty and the
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Okay so the thing that's starting to annoy the hell out of me a lot right now is people saying that respirators need to be perfectly fit to be effective. This isn't exactly true. People need to start looking at this as a system. You need to look at system wide efficiencies.
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The human rights issues surrounding SARS2 are clear & everywhere. I had to attend a doctor's office on the weekend & the waiting room was densely packed with all sorts of openly sick people hacking and coughing. In the corner with an oxygen tank and a baggy blue was an old person
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So what's that now, 4 countries with unusual mycoplasma pneumoniae outbreaks? China, Vietnam, South Korea & France ... any I'm missing?
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People should be incredibly & deeply angry at the absolutely stunning & deadly incompetence that has passed for a public health response.
Just great...
"Thus, our data show that exhaled aerosols from a single person can transmit covid-19 to others within minutes at normal indoor conditions."π·
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Story time.
So a lot of people are counting on a great "come to your senses" event. I'm not as certain. I say this because in my personal life I see no evidence this is happening. Quite the opposite.
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When H5N1 completes zoonosis, it will wreak havoc and once again cause millions of deaths and even higher numbers of disability. We will repeat exactly the same mistakes that we are with SARS2 & there will be exactly the same people telling you to infect yourself for immunity.
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It's so amazing how so few people seem to have considered the absolute civilization destroying capabilities of long covid given the logical conclusion of the statistics that are being presented.
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they didn't believe they were high risk even though they were in there 70's. At that time they were still quite fit and mobile and mentally acute.
Such a shame.
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I grew up in a lower middle class house. I can count the number of times we ate in a restaurant or even had fast food on my hands.
Apparently now if you aren't constantly eating in restaurants you are missing out some indispensable part of life. π€£π€£
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One of the criticisms of masking is that it only delays an infection. The thing is I don't think people understand the massive benefits of delaying infections. You can skip entire variants & make sure that you have the best possible matched vaccine if you do have a infection.
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My wife's work has a very modern building. They have EXCELLENT ventilation. It is monitored closely. They have taken lots of precautions to mitigate the spread of indoor viruses. They still have on site contact tracing. They track sickness stats both pre & post pandemic.
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office each day to borrow a baggy blue. Plenty of kids tell my kids stories like these because they are some of the only kids left masking.
I'm really struggling to explain to them what is going on in a way that won't leave them horribly jaded.
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Something that I just can't shake is that I am 100% certain that public health agencies and government agencies are all reading the very same studies that we are. Probably even more. There is no way that they couldn't know about the myriad of health issues from repeat covid
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The casual cruelty isn't a product of the virus. That's us. That's the reality we either choose to embrace or reject. It has nothing to do with the virus.
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The absurdity of living in a world where you have a continuously circulating BSL3 pathogen & then actually having credentialed people argue against using the mitigation strategies that are required by law in BSL3 labs is like living a non-stop episode of The Twilight Zone.
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It's absolutely ridiculous that not a single "adult" in a position of authority will talk about masks in school even though children's hospitals are full. Total and complete failure of responsibility.
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Why is it so hard for so many intelligent people to understand that this is still a new virus that is absolutely behaving differently than any virus that is currently circulating. It literally baffles my mind. We don't live bathed in any other virus that is a serious as this one.
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If you:
1) can't identify who is at risk of long COVID
2) have no treatment for a long COVID
3) have no diagnostic test for long COVID
But
4) are telling people that it's totally safe to infect themselves.
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It does absolutely nothing. These aren't dumb people, highly functional, etc. They simply just don't care & they are completely convinced that it will not impact them.
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Oh since I'm sure someone's going to ask, he died of a heart attack no prior history of significant cardiac events.
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I don't like bringing this uninformed person up over & over, but he keeps exemplifying what is going on so well. You will notice that at no point has he presented ANY data to support his position. NONE. It's all his feels.
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It's pretty clear that there was a deliberate shift from protecting citizens to on boarding a new life shortening disease. The only real debate is why.
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life long therapeutics (which don't currently exist). How people can so calmly accept this possible outcome is simply mind-blowing to me.
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So I've been scouring the literature looking for any documented incidents of "immunity debt" among astronauts that have stayed on the ISS. This is a extremely well studied and monitored population. Surprise!!! There isn't anything described in the literature
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Long before the pandemic N95 manufacturers already knew and openly published that if you wanted to control "respiratory particles" you needed to wear an n95. They made this explicit very early. The fact that this was not transparent and publicized during the pandemic, is not a
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That Washington Post article about 1:100 kids having long COVID. My daughters friend is one. She has left highschool & is trying to complete it at home. Her hopes of university are dashed. This isn't trivial & it's not rare.
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Ok so this is maybe the most bizarre thing I've read in a while. So much bizarre it's hard to even tabulate it all. First there's the people wondering if they've been exposed to covid, yes you have. Then there's the bit about an unknown virus. Then there's the bit about
US: Dozens of flight passengers headed to Houston fall ill after international cruise
βHey, in my 25 years of flying, Iβve never seen anything like this. We have been quarantined by the CDC. Nobody can exit the plane until the CDC lets us off.β
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Every time I speak with someone who has not been reading the thousands of papers that have been released in the last couple of years, I have a little freak out internally because of how little most people actually understand about this virus & the risks associated with it.
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reframing of reality because it deeply bothers me. I'm getting there, to the point where I have reframed my view of these professions, but I'm still not going jump on board with the casual cruelty, because that isn't a reality I can accept.
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People will often ask me to point out a definitive paper or something like that, but this is actually way more complicated. It's a body of evidence, it's dozens and dozens of papers.
This is why organizations like the heart and stroke foundation, pediatric associations, etc
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exist. They are there to read and absorb the body of evidence and then come up with a statement or a recommendation. That gives you your "document" you can point to people to.
So why haven't they come up with simple recommendations like effective masking?
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let her. This is not the only story like this I've heard. My daughter has a friend that had COVID once already & had a hard time with it (PASC). She also has significant comorbidities. Her parents believe she is immune now & won't let her mask. So she goes to the school
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So I've been getting all sorts of strange and alarming comments from my children about kids that cannot stop themselves from falling asleep. Had a really bizarre experience with it on the weekend.
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Here are some quick stats for people that think they will run out and hunt deer or something if society collapses. I'll use the US as an example but it's basically the same everywhere. There are 30 million deer in the US. If you take more than 30% in one year the population
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I should add that yes some of the organizations have talked about some of the realities of unmitigated SARS2 transmission, but they need to go further. They need to explicitly say wear a high quality mask in situations of high transmission, ventilate, filter, etc.
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Some people may get lucky and their immune system may eventually clear it, but that absolutely isn't going to be everybody.
How many actually understand the kind of risks that are happening right now?
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I REALLY wish people would stop looking for magical reasons that children are not impacted by long covid at the same rates as adults & start looking at reasons why it may present differently in children. This latest paper about cortisol levels is a good starting point.
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Reading guidance for dealing with H5N1 is a real study in created problems. After pumping out tons of PPE doesn't work propaganda, now apparently farm workers should embrace that very same PPE. π΅βπ« Good luck with that.
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I can't believe that 2 miracle technologies (N95's & HEPA filters) that have saved countless lives are being pissed away by junk science & the ignorant. It boggles the mind.
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I don't love wearing a mask, but I actually feel pretty fortunate that they exist. At least we have a solution that will work. This is more than people have had for most of recorded history.
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I've spent a long time being baffled by people that are willing to suspend their intelligence to accept lies they want to hear. Decades of it. Everything from denial of evolution to denial of climate change. It wasn't until I watched people do it while millions were dying &
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There is a mistake that I've made & I suspect a number of the COVID cautious make. It's to assume that there is some data point or metric that will change anything. There isn't. They know, better than most. They just don't care. They've literally said so.
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The thing is the alternative which is just to try to pretend that millions of people becoming disabled isn't happening isn't really all that fantastic either.
So if you cannot envision a world where you wear a mask in high density settings, what is your solution?
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capable of and proven to perform in a laboratory setting, this is not because of masks not working, this is because the apes wearing them have not been properly trained.
3) this is not an insurmountable task, I have trained both my children how to properly wear masks in less than
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