@trendless 💧️ pseudoscience like "immunity debt" will easily spread because it lets people believe that their communities and leaders aren't harming them. that's it, really. the more the evidence points to the wanton harm, the more others will need to believe that this is for their own good
“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.”
Historically, we have rightly enshrined 'rights+freedoms' when we cannot otherwise guarantee people the ability to do good things and rightly suspended them when we cannot guarantee people the ability to avoid bad things being done to them
> It turned out these demands have been in place since before the January update; customers have only just noticed them now. Given Vultr hosts servers and storage in the cloud for its subscribers, some feared the biz was giving itself way too much ownership over their stuff, all in this age of AI training data being put up for sale by platforms. In response to online outcry, largely stemming from Reddit, Vultr in the past few hours rewrote its ToS to delete those asserted content rights.
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.
But, like, this problem is new to 4.2. In 4.1, this didn't and couldn't happen, because of how cards/previews were handled. They somehow managed to unsolve it.
Every time I see the 'Post published' notification in the bottom left corner of the 4.2 webUI, I panic for a second -- prior to its addition, that corner was reserved for 500 errors and the like 😬