Thought on #COVID19 . It's still a thing, and still deadly, but it's my impression that it's tapering off and becoming our new influenza. Just like the Spanish flu killed everybody and their dog and now we just have an annual shot and relatively low risk of serious illness, so too has Covid weakened and become less of a threat. It killed all kinds of people here during the #pandemic, but my son has it right now and he's croopy, but I'm still allowed to work and nobody around here wears masks. 1/
I'm not saying we shouldn't take reasonable precautions, but my experience on the ground here in eastern Kentucky is that basically nobody takes it seriously any more. Several people I know have caught it in recent months and none of them have serious symptoms, so the need to perpetually self #quarantine and wear a mask seems to have subsided. Hell, it was a fight to get people to wear one here even when people "were" dying, and we didn't seem to have it any worse than other communities. :END:
LB: it's good that people out there are starting to do the literal math on the very real financial costs of not mitigating covid infections, using the data we have on the odds of stuff like long covid, cognitive impairment, reduced immune system function, lost productivity and people washing out of the labor force (and so needing to be replaced by businesses altogether)
Doing the right thing shouldn't be a cost saving approach but if that's the only way to get movement on this issue I'll take it
@eniko Personally, I think the 3 big mistakes that went against all scientific data and knowledge should be clasified as #democide and be prosecuted as such:
Subtoot: Hate to break it but proof of vaccination would not make return-to-office even remotely covid safe. Vaccines haven't been reliable for preventing covid infections for a very long time now and even when they do their efficacy plummets after a month or two. To make offices safe you would need both masking (N95 or better) and enough air filtration to get multiple air changes per hour. Those are the facts. That is what the science says
Board of #MedicalLicensure & Discipline found that Dr. Malcolm Kirk performed a surgery at #RhodeIsland Hospital in January while he was #COVIDpositive according to documents.
The consent order said Kirk violated federal and state #quarantine#guidelines related to #COVID19 . He was issued an order of #reprimand by the board and ordered to pay a $1,100 administrative fee to the state that must be paid within the next three months.
An ironic thing about #lockdown was I actually got closer to my friends who live far away.
We had some people over last night and did a Skype with our west coast friends, and realized that we were doing that every week during #quarantine, and have barely done it since. It was a stressful time, but there was something comforting about getting into a routine like that.
STOP CRUEL, DANGEROUS TRANSPORT IN SUMATRA’S DOG MEAT TRADE
A new Lady Freethinker (#LFT) investigation into the Sumatran #DogMeatTrade has documented apparently sick and emaciated #dogs with scars being transported 17 hours for #slaughter, getting yanked off a truck with a long snare pole, and then being shoved into burlap sacks that were tied shut.
were packed into the truck with no food or water and were surrounded by their own waste during #transport, according to LFT’s investigator.
The investigator also reported there was no evidence of the #quarantine paperwork for any of the dogs, as required by Law No. 16 of 1992 Concerning Animal, Fish and Plant Quarantine for animals entering a new Indonesian territory, which could be a risk to #PublicHealth ,
Parts of Broward County under quarantine due to giant African land snails (www.nbcmiami.com)
The snail is one of the most invasive pests on the planet, causing agricultural and environmental damage, according to the FDACS.