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.

A spy device they couldn’t steer and wasn’t spying. How devious.

Lol. Lmao.

She earned it

I think that’s what the UK is doing. You’re “booster” is to get infected.

In the US there’s one guy on the advisory board, Paul Offit, who is skeptical of the vaccines benefit and every year before the vaccines are approved he makes the rounds telling people to not get vaxxed unless they are old or immune compromised. He seems to be an outlier because the fda just approved the new boosters for everyone.

It seems bonkers to me. We’ve never rationed flu shots this way, and covid is several times worse than the flu.

Peace: The highest stage of lawless tyranny.

Yeah, by helping I mean the acute phase is generally less severe and deadly. Also treatments have gotten better since the start.

Long term consequences are being ignored.

Oh, I just saw this pointed out:

On 21 August 2023 UKHSA was notified of an outbreak in a care home in the East of England with reports of an increased number of cases and increased severity compared to previous outbreaks at the home.

It was more severe than previous outbreaks.

The new boosters are looking like they will help with this new strain, if they approve them.

Yeah, they’ve just stripped away the ability to know what’s going on outside of wastewater monitoring, anecdotes from social media, or checking hospital capacity. If they aren’t stacking bodies in refrigerated trucks we aren’t hearing about it.

My impression is that over the past year it hasn’t been as devestating as before, less deaths and vaccines and immunity from previous exposures are helping, but it’s still causing hospitals to max capacity when covid is peaking, and it’s still several times more of a problem than the flu, with much greater risk of long term health impacts, and the waves aren’t seasonal.

The wastewater for my city shows a wave starting every three months, and it seems to match covid outbreaks in the long term care home my friend ended up. Less hospitalizations and death, which is great, but it’s still a huge problem, especially if repeat infections accumulate damage and increase risk of… everything, like a lot of data is showing. And the amount of variants out there, still being detected, and with crazy mutations, is troubling.

When I visited my friend who was stuck in the hospital around this time last year, where similar covid rates were happening, they were constantly at capacity, and that was before they dropped mask mandates in hospitals.

must have forgot to wash her hands.

The comment section is pretty good on this one.

microsoft forced a security update while he was in the middle of a press conference and he needed rebooting

“I’m as left as they come, but I trust the CIA and support every US foreign policy position”