The USA has "Labor Day" in September instead of May because of fear of Socialism. It's not coincidence that we also have the weakest social safety net and weakest worker protections in similar economies.
1. Assign rights to a folder to several people. 2. Create subfolders, and everyone inherits rights to them. 3. Decide to remove all but one or two people from one of the subfolders. The Google UI DEFAULTS to removing them from the entire tree!
And that's how most of an event planning committee lost access to all shared files, until I found the person who had accidentally not noticed the little checkbox, and they re-shared things.
DeSantis lied to migrants to get them on a plane to Massachusetts as a political stunt. Because they were victims of that crime, they were eligible to apply for legal status as the victim of trafficking. They can now live and work legally in the US!
"Although hospitalizations and deaths involving COVID-19 have declined substantially since 2022, rates of infections with the virus have not".
Chart shows COVID deaths high in 2020 through 2022, then dropping below 5,000 people dying per week -- while the rate of COVID infections stays pretty much at the same level from 2020 to today.
I’d like to see this chart going back to 2015 or so. Would it tell the story “COVID isn’t causing more hospitalizations than the flu, but we’re now getting sick a whole hell of a lot often in general”? That's certainly the way it seems to me. :-(
"COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk of symptomatic disease and hospitalization by about 50% compared to people not up to date on vaccination. Over 95% of adults hospitalized in 2023-2024 due to COVID-19 had no record of receiving the latest vaccine. Treatment with nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) in persons at high risk of severe disease has been shown to decrease risk of hospitalization by 75% and death by 60%"
"Ventilation and related strategies to improve indoor air quality can reduce infective viral particle concentrations in indoor air. In 2023, informed by accumulating evidence, CDC issued recommendations for using ...(MERV) 13 or greater and getting at least 5 air changes per hour of clean air in occupied spaces through air flow, filtration, or air treatment."
Get yourself an Aranet CO2 monitor to check your office, and the places you go! MAKE SOME NOISE!
On a regular basis, someone (usually a straight, cis, white man) says that we can solve the problem of people being nasty online by using real names. It doesn't work, and it hurts people who can't risk using their real name.
"Results show that in the context of online firestorms, non-anonymous individuals are more aggressive compared to anonymous individuals. This effect is reinforced if selective incentives are present and if aggressors are intrinsically motivated."
"Covering long Covid solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force it is often misconstrued as. It is instead a human endeavor, relentlessly buffeted by our culture, values and politics. As energy-depleting illnesses that disproportionately affect women, long Covid and M.E./C.F.S. are easily belittled by a sexist society that trivializes women’s pain, and a capitalist one that values people according to their productivity."
"Calculations with an indoor air transmission model showed that if an infected individual with this emission rate entered a room, a susceptible person would inhale an infectious dose within 6 to 37 min in a room with normal ventilation. Thus, our data show that exhaled aerosols from a single person can transmit covid-19 to others within minutes at normal indoor conditions."
Jenn Wenner of Rolling Stone wrote a book, profiling 7 musicians -- all white men. In an interview by David Marchese about the book, Wenner defends this saying that there weren't any women or Black men who were "articulate enough on this intellectual level."
Did you know that you can put a Freeze on credit checks with the 3 big credit bureaus, for free? If someone tries to apply for a loan or credit card using your identity, the application will be refused because they can't run a credit check.
You can create a login with each of them on their respective websites, and put on a freeze.
No matter how careful you are with your data, scammers can get it all.
The original "Stockholm Syndrome" was a lie. The bank teller hostage realized that the police were worse than the robbers, and likely to get her killed.
"The tally of people infected with the coronavirus after attending a high-profile Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conference in April has risen to at least 181"
The CDC did not require masks, or do anything to keep the air clean.
Meanwhile, a science fiction con called Wiscon requires masks, puts an air purifier in every room, limits eating & drinking (because masks). With those measures, they only had 13 cases out of 407 attendees.