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trendless, 5 months ago to random

Ah good, more elite panic. 🫠

How 'bout they stop panicking about their position at the top of the heap being threatened and get tf out of the way so we can address these threats, in a calm, cool, collected, science-acknowledging manner?

> Don't press 'pandemic panic button' scientists caution on China pneumonia report https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/dont-press-pandemic-panic-button-scientists-caution-china-pneumonia-report-2023-11-23/

trendless, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

:n95: :vflex: :aura: :auraHCW: :xplore1900:

When you use a disposable filtering facepiece respirator (eg N95, FFP2), how often do you don it before you dispose of it?

@novid #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp #WearARespirator #MaskMeansRespirator #FFR #N95 #FFP2

1/3

trendless, 5 months ago to novid

This is the kind of bureaucratic garbage that caused -- and is still causing -- the pandemic. Good on Cal/OSHA for at least trying to employ science.

> CDC rift with Cal/OSHA over when to use N95 masks could put California health workers at risk again https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/n95-mask-cdc-covid-18540474.php

@novid #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #WearARespirator #ContinuousMasking #N95

trendless, 6 months ago to random

Nice 'warm' day, COVID-safe friends, respirators all around; one pooled Lucira.. and we're good to go 👌

#CovidIsNotOver

trendless, 7 months ago to random

Too many of my fellow humans are drunk on "got mine".

trendless, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to WFH

Desperate to hold onto their ever-shrinking workforce, but still unwilling to walk back their ignorance and lose face, Dell management thinks, “hey, let's screw our healthiest, most productive employees using whatever leverage we have left,” is the way?

> Dell Workers Can Stay Remote - But They're Not Going to Get Promoted https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/movies/dell-workers-stay-remote-mdash-110401493.html

#WFH #RTO

trendless, 5 months ago to random

I don't understand why mastoadmins aren't suspending and stopping delivery to mostr.pub

This is the kind of harassment that flows through there

trendless, 8 months ago to random

Say it with me:

"SARS-CoV-2 is not the flu"

I know there's at least one person who still needs to hear this today.

trendless, 6 months ago to random

Opinions on / experiences with Aerogardens? I'd sure like to have fresh produce without having to go to the store

#n00b #brownThumb

trendless, 8 months ago to random

"COVID is back" only in the sense that media+govts are talking about it again. It never went away.

Just because you hadn't been hearing the word doesn't mean it wasn't being spoken about, knowingly or otherwise.

While the aforementioned entities don't suffer symptoms or illnesses that necessitate explanation, they do discuss delays, worker shortages, supply chain disruption, etc.

On the other hand, an individual must use euphemisms like allergies, summer cold, under the weather, out sick, fatigue, brain fog, diabetes, autoimmune disease, cancer, natural causes, etc, to gloss over new or ongoing health issues.

#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #WearARespirator #BringBackMasks

trendless, 8 months ago to random

I still haven't seen any discussion of the threat E. Coli poses in those with innate immune deficiency.

trendless, 7 months ago to random

From March 2022:

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/airborne-toxic-events-ehrenreich

> Aerosol transmission was never merely a medical question.

> Accepting it, as Dr. John Conly, an infectious disease specialist advising the WHO on its Covid guidelines, told Reuters that first summer, “would affect our entire way of life.”

> Government, Chapin allowed, should still provide clean water and regulate hygiene in dairies and slaughterhouses. The most important task of the public health profession, however, was controlling outbreaks of communicable disease through laboratory work and data collection. Otherwise, responsibility for disease prevention must be left to individuals. “It was a common saying of sanitarians of years ago that for every death from typhoid fever someone ought to be hung,” whether it be “the city councilman, the health officer, or the landlord,” Chapin wrote. “It is more in accord with present day knowledge and modern conditions to say that if a man has typhoid fever it is his own just punishment for sanitary sins.”

#COVIDisAirborne

trendless, 7 months ago to random

Hey, how's the 'got my COVID over for the season' going? Are we calling each month its own season, now?

trendless, 3 months ago to random

Holy 🤬, that's some window shifting

> From measles to colds, seven common winter illnesses and what you need to do when they strike https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/25700333/common-winter-illnesses-health-tips/

**btw, measles is airborne

trendless, 1 month ago to random

Regarding coronaviruses, circa 2017

But sure, tell me again how we'll eventually develop herd immunity?

> Why Don’t We Ever Develop Immunity Against the Common Cold? https://www.technologynetworks.com/immunology/news/why-dont-we-ever-develop-immunity-against-the-common-cold-294551

#CovidIsNotOver

trendless, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

In 2023, during a surge of infections, a school of public health offers a seminar on making spaces safe from airborne pathogens and no one masks.

trendless, 6 months ago to random

Just in case you forgot the real reason we can't have nice things..

"Keeping ventilation at the proposed values reduces energy consumption and improves passenger comfort in contrast to the use of higher ventilation rates."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/10/231031111429.htm

It's always about money+comfort and never about safety or protection.

trendless, 3 months ago to random

:DumpsterFire:

FCA employee ordered back to office, judge rules WFH is detrimental to her work
https://fortune.com/europe/2024/01/22/uk-fca-regulator-employee-back-to-office-judge-work-from-home-wfh-detrimental/

> a judge in the U.K. has pointed to clear benefits of working in-person in promoting “rapid discussion” and “non-verbal communications” in a recent ruling. :DumpsterFire:

> judge Robert Richter ruled that the financial watchdog was “right to identify weaknesses with remote working.” :DumpsterFire:

> “It is the experience of many who work using technology that it is not well suited to the fast-paced interplay of exchanges which occur in, for example, planning meetings or training events when rapid discussion can occur on topics,” Judge Richter wrote in his judgment of the case, which itself was heard remotely with evidence given in video :DumpsterFire: :DumpsterFire: :DumpsterFire:

trendless, 5 months ago to random

Little by little, they're coming for anyone who refuses compulsory [re]infection

“Gabe Newell has been ordered to attend an in-person deposition relating to Overgrowth developer Wolfire Games' antitrust lawsuit against Valve despite his request to do it remotely.

As reported by GI.biz, the Valve CEO had requested the remote deposition due to concerns regarding COVID-19, but the court said he presented ‘insubstantial evidence to suggest that he is at particularised risk of serious illness’.”

> Valve CEO Gabe Newell Ordered to Attend In-Person Antitrust Lawsuit Deposition
https://www.ign.com/articles/valve-ceo-gabe-newell-ordered-to-attend-in-person-antitrust-lawsuit-deposition

#EveryoneIsHighRisk #JudgesArentHealthExperts

trendless, 6 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Wait, this isn't what you mean when you say 'double-mask and a faceshield'?

#MaskUp #CovidIsAirborne #SarsCov2IsAirborne #BetterMasks #N95 #P100 #PAPR #PositiveAirPressureRespirator #EyeProtection #SourceControl

trendless, 10 months ago to novid

Infection is not inevitable.

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp #RespiratorOrBust @novid

trendless, 6 months ago to random

:thisisfinefire:

> The Alberta government is proposing changes to the Public Health Act to allow politicians to make final decisions in public health emergencies.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10067536/alberta-government-public-health-act-covid/

trendless, 5 months ago to random

Weaponizing hanlon's razor has long been a thing in politics -- particularly North American ones -- but it's really come into vogue in the business world in recent decades. It's much easier for malice to succeed when masquerading as stupidity. Underestimate at your peril.

trendless, 6 months ago to random

> It is the position of the AASM that the United States should eliminate seasonal time changes in favor of permanent standard time, which aligns best with human circadian biology. According to the statement, evidence supports the distinct benefits of standard time for health and safety, while also underscoring the potential harms that result from seasonal time changes to and from daylight saving time.

> "By causing the human body clock to be misaligned with the natural environment, daylight saving time increases risks to our physical health, mental well-being, and public safety. Permanent standard time is the optimal choice for health and safety."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/10/231031161926.htm

trendless, 5 months ago to novid

Which High-Quality Covid Test Should You Buy? https://medium.com/@dibellatron/which-high-quality-covid-test-should-you-buy-3f2cd38f6e3c

@novid #NAAT #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver