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Following those who have experience w/ chronic illness, those who are keeping up with the literature, and those sacrificing to keep us all safe; wearing P100 respiratory PPE, pursuing personal zero SARS-CoV-2

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No matter how hard it is keeping the feathers in the bag, getting them back in is harder.

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“Immunity Debt Means SARS-CoV-2 Is Good For Your Health, Actually”

-- The New York Trying Times

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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1775607000174383323.html

“I think if someone’s going to make a claim like ‘Covid doesn’t harm your immune system’, that’s a bold claim.

The claim itself is contrarian, as it flies in the face of the established science. It’s beyond meaningful debate at this point that some cases of Covid -even mild ones- lead to depletion of immune system components for months.

The people who would have us believe that this is no cause for concern base their argument on the fact that it (a) only happens to some people, (b) only happens for a little while or (c) happens with other viruses as well. All three statements are true. And irrelevant here.

This is a disease that most people can expect to get multiple times in their lives (our modeling suggests 1-2x/yr, in the absence of precautions), cumulative damage is well documented for other organ systems. Some -very nonzero - fraction of infections is persistent as well.

There’s no evidence suggesting that some people are uniquely vulnerable to immune depletion while others aren’t. It’s a Russell’s teapot to make the claim, and those who make it should produce the evidence to support it.

If you get the disease once a year and your immune system spends 6 months recovering each time, you are functionally immunocompromised- on average- when you look at it across the entire year.

Repeated infections cause cumulative damage & intrahost viral evolution during persistent infections leading to immune evasion is well documented. Those who make the claim that such intrahost evo during persistent infections is rare should produce evidence to support it.

False analogies to other viruses have been used by minimizers to confuse the issue from the get-go. Covid is not HIV, the flu or a cold. It’s an unprecedented public health threat, and the claim that there is no cause for concern is speculative.”

-- @arijitchakrav

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Client: "Will you mask for me?"

Service Provider: "I'm not required to."

What hath public health wrought?

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Adherence to cultural norms/expectations is not the same as being considerate of others.

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Sanity check:

2FA via SMS was already risky and unsafe, but hey let's make it even worse by adding the ability to have the code sent to a friend?!

:mastomindblown:

Is it really that hard to setup an authenticator app like Aegis or use the one built into keychain?

#2FA #MFA #Security #Telegram #Authentication

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Mastodon-4.2-WebUI-Improvement-Of-The-Day: when viewing an account profile, "Posts and replies" no longer includes boosts 🎉

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:GeordiSaysYes:

> Work-from-home working for you? Feel free to keep doing that, 3M says https://m.startribune.com/work-from-home-working-for-you-feel-free-to-keep-doing-that-3m-says/600353886/

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Biggest disappointment with :mastodon: 4.2 webUI thus far: can't hide link previews. At the very least, the card should be blurred (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29431), but I'd still like the option back to not show it at all.

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Are. You. Kidding. Me.

> Canadian Banks are Pushing for the Bank of Canada to Remove Shelter Costs From CPI https://thenorthernaccount.ca/canadian-banks-are-pushing-for-the-bank-of-canada-to-remove-shelter-costs-from-cpi/

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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

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> We Had the Tools
https://guinesspig.ghost.io/we-had-the-tools/

October 2, 2023

“...anytime a government or health officials says we have the tools to deal with Covid-19.

No we don’t.

We had the tools. All we have now are the memories of those tools.

We (and by we, I mean collectively, societally we) blew it. We threw the tools away. We traded them in for something we believed was so much better.

Why? Because the very leaders we are supposed to trust to look out for our best interests, like General Manager Tim, told us to. They gave us permission. They told us it was more important to get back to normal than to rely on those tools.”

@covidisnotover

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If regularly re-experiencing the acute phase of a condition, at what point does it begin to include the symptoms of the chronic phase?

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:auraHCW: :n95:

Vitacore's having a RIDICULOUS clearance sale on a few 3M respirators; in particular, a case of Aura 1870+ is as cheap as I've ever seen it (or any other Aura, for that matter) -- works out to $0.70/ea

https://shop.vitacore.ca/collections/clearance?mc_cid=ffaa239e69

🇨🇦 @covid @covid19 @covidisairborne

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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

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Then stop carrying water for the powerful interests who continue to force it on us and acknowledge it's causes are [state-sponsored] denial and neurological damage. 😤

⛔⛽🔥

#CovidIsNotOver

> We need to take our post-pandemic mental health crisis seriously
https://thehill.com/opinion/4534908-we-need-to-take-our-post-pandemic-mental-health-crisis-seriously/

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Register to be a 🇨🇦 FluWatcher

https://cnphi.canada.ca/fluWatcher/register

Currently <500 in :flag_AB:

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Fascists 🖤 a police state

> Alberta government proposes new ‘police-like’ agency, will operate independently https://globalnews.ca/news/10357553/alberta-new-independent-police-agency/

#ABPoli #ABLeg

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An excellent article decrying the lackadaisical response to all our current and burgeoning catastrophes.. except COVID

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/mlk-vietnam-war-speech-gaza-democracy/

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Yet another reason why your private messages should be stored on a server you control or e2ee (ideally, both): it's likely the pseudonyms and accounts you use can be linked back to your IRL identity... and sold to anyone willing to pay

> This Global Identity System Tracks Everything You Do Online https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/global-identity-system-tracks-you/

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00431-024-05503-9?s=09

> pediatric patients with long COVID have an imbalance of cardiac autonomic function toward a relative predominance of parasympathetic tone, as already reported in adult patients with long COVID

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Entirely unpredictable 🙃

> Teacher shortage has staff across Canada working 'in survival mode' https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/teacher-shortage-has-staff-across-canada-working-in-survival-mode-1.7140253

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00372-5/fulltext?s=09

> We propose that prolonged detection of WI-CL-001 in wastewater indicates persistent shedding of SARS-CoV-2 from a single human initially infected by an ancestral B.1.234 virus. The accumulation of convergent omicron-like mutations in WI-CL-001’s ancestral B.1.234 genome probably reflects persistent infection and extensive within-host evolution. People who shed cryptic lineages could be an important source of highly divergent viruses that sporadically emerge and spread.

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And the roads get more dangerous: the deceitfully named "full self driving" is coming to Canadian Tesla m̶a̶r̶k̶s̶ drivers

https://mobilesyrup.com/2024/03/11/tesla-full-self-driving-subscription-coming-to-canada

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A few things on this list stuck out to me..

> What are the symptoms of frontotemporal dementia? Symptoms of FTD start gradually and progress steadily, and in some cases, rapidly. They vary from person to person, depending on the areas of the brain involved. These are common symptoms:

[excerpt]
• Impaired judgment
• Apathy
• Lack of empathy
• Decreased self awareness

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/dementia/frontotemporal-dementia

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