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When I say "Good Morning" in my meetings, I'm being passive-aggressive to the offshore team that my company is replacing me with.
Anyone need a Linux systems engineer?
A related thing I wish would stop being repeated in COVID-realist spaces is that the "disabled need to be protected" from the virus.
NO! EVERYONE NEEDS PROTECTION!
Nobody is immune to COVID. Nobody is immune to Long COVID. There is no cure for Long COVID.
Most people are catching COVID between 1 and 4 times per year.
Everyone infected with COVID develops some new health issues that began shortly after their first infection. That COVID might have caused these issues is a foreign concept to many folks suffering from COVID-induced issues. These same folks do not see themselves as disabled, vulnerable, or even as having Long COVID, and will not think to consider themselves as needing protection when we talk about "protecting the vulnerable" from (further) harm.
To say that the language we use to discuss this ongoing public health atrocity is "lacking" would be an understatement.
I'm appalled at claims I've seen in various supposedly COVID-realist circles that the virus has apparently "evolved to become milder" despite the fact that there is no evidence for this. None whatsoever.
The reasons why fewer people appear to be dying from the virus are:
• No one can die twice (vulnerable populations have already been culled by fascist governments worldwide who used the virus to save money on long-term care)
• No one tests anymore (medical care providers have effectively stopped testing altogether)
• Vaccines (which do significantly reduce the chances of dying even though they don't significantly reduce the odds of becoming infected or developing Long COVID)
• Deaths are being misattributed (50-year-olds dying of heart attacks? NotCOVID™! Healthy and fit seniors experiencing swift decline after a bout with COVID, only to die shortly after? It's just old age!)
Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children.
"Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health"
"So many children are getting Long COVID because COVID causes Long COVID, and children are not “immune” to COVID, they are not becoming healthier with each infection, and the adults around them are doing nothing to mitigate the virus."
"So if COVID is a virus that can disable them, damages their blood vessels, raises their risk of heart failure and cardiac arrest, causes autoimmune disorders, diabetes, and a range of mental health and cognitive problems, then we’d be doing something really awful by failing to deal with, or even acknowledge it. Maybe even unforgiveable."
Source: https://archive.md/c8aSv
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Denis - The COVID info guy -