There only being that one playbook is the exact reason why I have a patch on my backpack that reads: “Evil is boring”

Oof, yeah. It’ll be time to break out my N95s again

Anticipation of surge? We’re already on the downslope of a recent tiny surge up here in the Boston area:

https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

Yeah I have no idea how this was arranged, but it’s a very cool thing to have happened. God bless Mo and his family.

This is why antimaskers are extra fucking dumb. We were always fairly certain all the cardiac effects we’ve seen in people right after a Covid infection were because of the virus, but they chose to go out there and throw themselves in front of the train anyway.

That’s a nice looking Nebelung you got there. They’re such beautiful cats

They can buy themselves a few years at best without a functioning supply chain. We all depend on society, no matter how much they like to deny it

They think they do. No amount of money will protect a person from the collapse of a civilization. Never has, never will. Their plans are very much predicated on the assumption that markets will somehow magically continue to function after the general populace has lost all faith in them

AirBNB was great back when it was just a viable means for finding a room in someone’s house to crash for a few days. Then the profiteers found it and AirBNB sacrificed their entire reputation for short-sighted greed. Add with everything in the past 20 years

Except no one pushed for business as usual? Quarantines and higher level pandemic interventions are not appropriate for an endemic infection. We should be vaccinating and masking when there’s an increase in Covid infections. But we should also be doing that for influenza and we don’t.

I’m not arguing semantics. Pandemic vs. endemic is a factual epidemiological definition. The problem is that we routinely choose not to deal with dangerous endemic infections like influenza. We should always have been doing more.

Also fascinating to watch so many self-proclaimed “leftists” parrot Fox News talking points. I swear I think some of these people want the fascists to win so they can get their chance to cosplay revolutionary.

Zero acknowledgement that every revolution in history has violently decimated the working class and only replaced one power hierarchy with another. Oh, but their revolution is gonna be totally different…

And we…have treatments and/or vaccines and public health campaigns for all of those endemic infections just like we will continue to do for Covid?

I’m not sure why you think endemic is a judgement of risk. It’s not. It’s an epidemiological definition.

The pandemic IS over. Covid has become an endemic virus just like we always expected it to.

https://www.webmd.com/covid/news/20230317/time-to-stop-calling-it-a-pandemic

https://www.lung.org/blog/epidemic-pandemic-endemic-covid

There are already other services in place for diapers:

https://www.wpadiaperbank.org/

And other assistance including rent assistance:

https://singlemom.com/pennsylvania-assistance/#:~:text=Pennsylvania%20offers%20help%20through%20HUD,955%2D2232%20for%20more%20information.

Seriously. I watched both of my parents get their “good jobs” sold right out from under them to private equity firms that laid off all the older, more expensive workers immediately. I, myself, was laid off twice before I turned 28 years old.

I have zero incentive to be “loyal” to any company when they so clearly will never be loyal to me. What a load of horseshit.

Sorry, I’m just gonna repeat that for the folks in the back…

NONCOMPLIANCE SHOULDN’T MEAN EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD

It’s also pretty hard when the corporations you work for aren’t interested in paying you what you’re worth. People need and deserve better wages

I’ve had multiple issues with very recently released movies (like Crazy Rich Asians) not playing at all and only giving me pixelated nonsense or the aspect ratios being completely fucked up. Never happened on HBO Max. Only since the forced migration to the new app

But it’s also about cost. Nuclear is far more expensive upfront, more expensive to maintain, and more expensive to decommission. Cheap, agile renewables will be an easier option for the vast majority of the planet

You ever try to draw from a syringe while you’re hypotensive, gasping for breath, and panicking as you’re about to pass out? That’s the primary innovation of the epi-pen. Remove cap, stab through clothes, press button.

Granted, syringe and vial would be better than not having epinephrine though.