LB: it's good that people out there are starting to do the literal math on the very real financial costs of not mitigating covid infections, using the data we have on the odds of stuff like long covid, cognitive impairment, reduced immune system function, lost productivity and people washing out of the labor force (and so needing to be replaced by businesses altogether)
Doing the right thing shouldn't be a cost saving approach but if that's the only way to get movement on this issue I'll take it
@eniko Personally, I think the 3 big mistakes that went against all scientific data and knowledge should be clasified as #democide and be prosecuted as such:
Very interesting how international travel being shut down and places of gathering being closed ended up terminating an entire lineage of influenza. It’s almost like disease spread mitigation steps actually work.
When this Tory government is toppled, the Bojo regime must be brought to justice.
We now know that it was Johnston/Hancock policy to allow thousands to die rather than give support to the NHS. They cannot be allowed to walk away from this.
all these news reports and notices of hospitals reinstating universal masking AFTER Covid outbreaks
How about BEFORE, to prevent an outbreak, and the inevitable consequences of staff illness, absence, infecting and making patients worse, extending their stay, potentially blocking a bed and delaying procedures for other patients
Also, baggy blues just won't cut it - N95s are the bare minimum
@MatWright Politics reigns supreme. Even farther right arm of far right governing party is rattling their sabres; premier who won leadership contest and then reelection on the back of said arm's organizing is worried. Hence, nothing that could even be slightly construed as 'govt overreach' by the most reactionary of reactionaries can even be hinted at.
@croissant the fact that we neither have mandatory #ZeroCovid policies with actual Lockdowns and Vaccinations in place is #Democide by inaction and those affected will likely be targeted by #SocialDarwinism later...
@dave@BlackAzizAnansi that is very optimistic considering the fact that these people not only refuse to acknowledge they're wrong, but the fact that they've gotten so much support and attention and actively dismantled any reasonable and essential pandemic and epidemic control and regulation options and openly gaslight people and claim it never happened.
At this point I'm convinced they want #democide by killing people through forced infection AND they think 2029 as in #DXMD isn't a dystophia.
we are never going back to the world the way it was before COVID. we are not in a world where it's safe for you or people around you to stop masking, and there's no reason to believe we'll ever be in such a world again.
2023 represents a qualitative jump in all climate indicators, and the consequences we see—the wildfires, the heatwaves, the droughs, the floods etc.—will not stop. they will only accelerate.
there is no return to "normal". mourn the world that was, so that you can see with clarity the world that is, and be ready for it.
@ramonita that's because we're ruled by antisocial #Wankers that take pride in comitting #democide by inaction and refusing to enforce basic, fact-based quarantine regulations.
We could've gotten rid of this shit if we took it as serious as said #SARS infection it really is.
Instead assholed destroyed the few pandemic and epidemic protections that were codified.
And I've completely run out of spoons at this point!
These wildfires in northwestern Canada appear to be starting to trap people. Why hasn't the Canadian military sent planes to evacuate them? Or have the government pay the commercial airlines to do so where possible? This would avoid price gouging and may be the easiest and fastest option.
Not sure because of distance, but resources from the US (Alaska/Washington) could also help evacuate quickly.
We are watching and waiting. No one is proactive anymore.