I think she also started calling for homeless people to be locked up or something, and after receiving pushback for that she started moving right.

Scratch a liberal…

It’s essentially like we gave 20% or more of kids a concussion. What would we expect to happen after that?

Teachers are reporting behavior problems in kids who weren’t even old enough to go to school during the lockdowns, including some who were newborns at the time.

The last study I saw showed the effects of lockdowns depended entirely on where the child was. In some places student scores came out ahead, some came out behind. Different states and cities handled it differently. The ones who went back to normal sooner, red states, didn’t necessarily do better than those that had longer remote learning.

Let’s just not mention the trauma of having over a milliion people die, and a million or so more aquiring debilitating health problems.

And the fucking virus causes brain damage, ffs. This is not a controversial statement. It’s well proven at this point, and so many people were convinced kids weren’t effected by covid (because they didn’t die very much) that a lot of them have been repeatedly infected. It’s nuts.

Theres been an increase in cases in the USA, too, and news articles like this blame refugees.

But then if you look at the latest CDC report:

During 2023, tuberculosis case counts increased among all age groups, among U.S-born and non-U.S.–born persons, and in most reporting jurisdictions. Overall, cases increased from 8,320 in 2022 to 9,615 in 2023, an increase of 1,295 cases. The rate also increased from 2.5 per 100,000 persons in 2022 to 2.9 in 2023.

Still relatively low, but a bad sign.

I know, “just jokes, don’t be so serious you nerd”, but that was pretty dismissive of the Black Panthers. It’s not easy to organize within a genocidal apartheid state, ffs. I’m not sure what kind of left wing political project could survive the extensive subversion faced by the Panthers. Wtf.

They typically coat your nasal passage in with stuff that makes it hard for virus/allergens to survive. Betadine has something called iota-carageenen, which comes from seaweed, and it envelops small particles like a virus before it interact with your nasal passage and infect you. Other sprays have different formulas and do slightly different things, but essentially attempt the same type of thing. Betadine helps my allergies so in my experience I can tell it’s intercepting allergens at the very least.

Not foolproof, and not a good sub for masks, but it helps your odds a bit.

And one of the ways covid can enter your brain is through the olfactory bulb in your nose, which is why so many people have long term problems with smell, so protecting that is probably a good idea.

Covid can hang in the air like smoke, so basically any public indoor space, and any busy outdoor space. One sick person shedding virus, whether they present as sick or not, can fumigate a small area with covid for a while. It’s best to assume there’s covid around even when cases are low.

A small room with a few people? I don’t worry about it that much outside of covid peaks, personally, but it kinda depends on how much you trust them to not lie about symptoms or recently being around someone sick.

If peer pressure or malaise of not doing stuff gets the best of you (this happened to a few people I know who are otherwise pretty covid aware still), at the very least look into nasal sprays like betadine.

That used to be called terrorism, but I guess the definition changed to “when our enemies do stuff”

I guess they just really really want to genocide and ethnically cleanse palestinians.

Democrats suspect Netanyahu attempting to tilt Trump-Harris race.

Democrats increasingly suspect Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to interfere in U.S. domestic politics by ignoring President Biden’s calls to negotiate a peace deal in Gaza and by confronting Hezbollah and Iran weeks before the U.S. election.

The fate of the free world lies in the hands of the these fucking people. Most important election of our lifetime. Not impressed? Well guess who else is on board: Dick Cheney!

This had to be kayfabe, right? How could they not know this from the start? Can they actually be this guillible?

I didn’t notice any more pain then last time, and got covid+flu. I had more body ache last time. It’s weird how the effects vary so much between people.

Anti-sinovac stories were popular in a lot of western media.

Eelco steps down

Is the fork still going to happen?

I’ve been looking for stuff to install and ran across this list, it’s pretty comprehensive. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Right now I only have jellyfin and pi-hole with unbound.

Pop or mint like everyone else suggests.

There are only a handful of major distros that are significantly different from each other (debian, fedora, opensuse, arch, nixos) that all other distros base themselves on. Apart from that, for the most part, the difference is basically what desktop environment they install by default, what apps get bundled, and maybe a few more tweaks here and there. It’s easy enough to change all of that regardless of what distro you end up on.

Pop and Mint are based on Ubuntu (which is based on Debian) and will probably have the most resources for support for new linux users. They come with default programs and custom software which makes the new user experience easier.

If you have a problem in either one of them, or want to do anything more complex than install software or tweak settings from a gui, and you can’t find what you are looking for in pop or mint forums, you will likely be able to find the solution in ubuntu forums, or even debian support groups. If you are using a computer that’s relatively new and wasn’t built with linux compatibility in mind, it’s not unlikely you will run into an issue that you’ll need to search out a fix for so it’s good to have those resources.

If the distro you choose doesn’t handle your monitors right, it might be a problem with the desktop environment you are using and it’s typically easy to install an alternative to try out before you nuke the whole thing to try again.

Apparently there is a lot more interest in the vaccines this year than last, which is good. It’s only just over half, but that’s way better than last year.

Maybe a lot of people who skipped it last year got knocked down by covid over the past year and don’t want a repeat?

The patchwork system of coverage and billing is pretty typically awful and lets people slip through the cracks, but that’s just the US healthcare system working as designed.

Every time you prescribe it you roll the dice. You might be selecting for a strain that is resistant to Paxlovid.

Lol. Our entire approach to covid is causing covid to mutate rapidly and become more and more contagious and immune evasive, while rapidly making obsolete treatments we’ve developed over the past two years.

The Ba.2.86 variant they started detecting worldwide, while not as contagious as current circulating variants, is one of the most immune evasive ever seen.

The “let it spread for herd immunity” fuckheads turned the entire world into a big gain of function experiment.

Some doctors are just ignorant and bought into the"it’s just a cold, bro" bs, or think covid is only dangerous if you’re over 65, because thats the messaging we are getting from the media and health officials.

The only reason you wouldn’t want to take paxlovid is if you are on a medication it can negatively interact with.

Considering there is no cure for long covid, why would anyone not try to decrease their chances of getting it?

The new shots that just got approved should work against everything floating around at the moment.