I sometimes say, half jokingly, that I have PTSD regarding my kids being sick (mostly from stomach flu, not from a life threatening sickness thank god).
Last weekend I was told by a loved one that I might have PTSD from covid pandemic.
I'm not sure what to think of that comment. Yes, I still take precautions. The pandemic never stop in my view. And I'm definitely angry at how everything was handled. "We tried nothing and we are out of ideas".
People have moved on, but we are not in a good situation. Nothing I read shows positive signs. When I point that out I get told that such studies need to be taken with a grain of salt, for example the methodology wasn't sound enough. Sure I get this, it's never all black or white, that's how science moves. The issue I have is that I don't see positive studies at all, good or bad methodology. So all the signals are mostly negative, the question becomes how much negative. Debating how bad a situation is does not make it good.
What I find difficult is to protect my family when the world does not care. I can't put my kids in a bubble. I can't control what my spouse is doing (and I don't want to!) I know I can protect myself, but my efforts are moot if the kids catch anything at school where nobody cares.
We run a tiny 3-person instance, but because of that, our posts are not shared outside of our followers, and I can't see replies if I don't follow a person.
I have one or two relays set up, but it didn't fix the issue. Is the answer to move to a more prominent instance? #mastoadmin
The biggest difference is fewer "friends" (were they, though, really?) and fewer in-person interaction.
Having developed chronic illness, a lot of the day-to-day physical calculus has changed.
My perception of myself hasn't changed much, but my perception of others has, drastically. The desire to fit in and maintain position in social hierarchy even unto death is far more prevalent than I ever could have imagined. But I've also found a camaraderie that I never could have hoped for or expected.
Virtually everyone from TheBeforeTimes™ has drifted away.
Life is still full of roughly the same number of good days and bad. The structure of our civilization is much more resilient (for better or, mostly, worse) than I would have believed.
#SpatialComputing Here's some video from my last session. The video capture mode has a fisheye effect. The screens from my actual perspective in the vr headset seem much larger.
"Alberta won’t undertake an environmental assessment of Canmore’s controversial Three Sisters development because it doesn’t believe it has jurisdiction to decide whether such an assessment would be warranted, the province said Wednesday."
...is this a joke? Doesn't have jurisdiction? What kind of nonsense reasoning is that? Whose is it then?
@dyckron it's the responsibility of those who want to govern -- their own fault they didn't lie+cheat+steal well enough to beat the TBAUCP and get elected. 🤪
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Look, elected representatives of Alberta: if you don't wanna do the job, step tf aside and let someone who will.
I hope Albertans have a long enough memory to hold them to account for the outcomes of their irresponsible and destructive policies, no matter when they're finally evident enough for the majority to recognize.
Good evening, Shop. Past my bedtime, but the Mastodon Mothership gang has made a discovery of a very poorly behaved server out there.
Contentnation dot net appears to be scraping(? not sure if that's the technically correct term for this) profiles, and their associated followers and posts, and replicating them on their own service giving the appearance that Fediverse accounts are presenting themselves via CN's own services.
It's almost the most depressing day of the year, everyone.
It's the Pandemiciversary!
Mark your calendars for March 11 and plan to stay home and avoid social contact. Watch Contagion and laugh and cry at the layered irony about how they said governments would react to an existential threat like SARS 2.0 while eating freshly baked sourdough and drinking too much alcohol over Zoom with all your friends that hopefully won't abandon you, this time.
@GeorgiaOnMyMind maybe you can get into the @Feditext beta/testflight? It's basically a new version of Metatext, which was many folks' go-to recommendation but was discontinued over a year ago.
> Results: We enrolled 90 infants. SARS-CoV-2-positive infants had poorer psychomotor development index (PDI) scores and significantly greater mildly delayed performances (MDPs) at 18–24 months (PDI p = 0.05, MDPs p = 0.03, respectively). Delta variant showed statistically significant lower MDI and PDI scores (MDI p=0.03, PDI p=0.03, respectively). A smaller head circumference of SARS-CoV-2-positive toddlers was detected in the first year (p < 0.001), which improved at the second age.
> Conclusion: SARS-CoV-2-positive neonates revealed lower PDI scores and greater MDPs at 18th-24th months. The effect is most noticeable in Delta variant. Longer-term examination of neurodevelopmental outcomes and reevaluation of these children between the ages of 5 and 12 are critical.