“...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.”
@trendless We're making it common. We're not making it a cold. Abundance of evidence from studies that even sub-acute "minor" infections may be taking a serious health toll on the population. The "hard numbers" studies these last few months showing cognitive impairment are particularly scary to me.
@Okanogen The vaccines are neither highly effective at preventing infection nor transmission. And yet, nearly everyone has foolishly given up on non-pharmaceutical interventions. The policy now is to let it rip. So, let's maybe temper the urge to celebrate. Saying we haven't eliminated measles, malaria or polio is drawing a false equivalence. Do we let those bugs freely circulate, as we do with covid? Do people falsely claim they're "mild" and "over," as they do with covid?
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
Why has the messaging changed to "it's fine to be infectious in public"? With the disparate variant soup out there and the immune evasiveness SARS-CoV-2's gaining, the time between reinfections continues to drop and the bosses know full well what that means for TheEconomy™
If your 'rights+FrEeDuMBs' don't permit you to stay home when sick, do they really exist?
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?
@sb@trendless Stuff like air quality monitoring, filtration and good ventilation should be long hanging fruit which shouldn't annoy the "I don't want to a wear a mask" contingent. Same with paid sick leave of a scientifically appropriate period (10+ days) following confirmed infection. Stuff like free repeat workplace testing following confirmed exposure should imo be in there too.
@sb@trendless High quality masks should also be paid for by employers for those who want to use them and formal fit testing should be part of that process.
With a deadly, disabling virus running roughshod over the entire globe, one that is dragging down individual health and well-being and impacting everything downstream of it (e.g., the economy), we don't have the luxury of focusing on the technicalities of what it isn't or may not be doing.
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. 😤
@trendless TBH I'm still dealing with my pre-pandemic mental health issues. That being said, in many ways the pandemic was clarifying and has--in limited ways--actually made me feel better. It's reassuring facing so much evidence that I wasn't wrong the whole time, I really do live in a cruel society that is extremely casual about death.