Just found out a co worker tested positive. They were in office Thursday.
They are fully vax so they are coming back Monday
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I’m just wondering about what kind of budgeting reasoning led them to choose exactly 15/16 of $1000 as the sweet spot.
it’s probably some multiple of an hourly, probably 93.75.
Well, the flu actually does kill hundreds of thousands of people every year, so it’s pretty easy to point that out. I have no idea if Gorush was talking worldwide or in the US, I’d have to look at the transcript. And even then it probably wouldn’t be clear.
He’s specifically talking about the OSHA regs in the USA. Thanks for your contribution.
re: COVID-19: Chapter 9 - OMGicron - #10533 by ChrisV
i finally finished reading that Lab Leak 2.0 substack. it is much more alarmist than what could be reasonably considered parsimonious. like, the s/ns ratio of 3.5 sounds kinda arbitrarily chosen, and if environment can change the frequency of silent mutations, e.g. a vaccinated population, than it would also be reasonable to see whether the ratio is different for omicron to begin with, since its mechanics appear to be different.
the lab leaks they claim are delta or omicron are not really lining up with what we think are the start of delta and omicron waves. it almost like the easiest explanation there is that the tech caught delta outside the lab, and they make a huge deal about improper safety precautions like double gloves and removing of goggles, they took should at least try to corroborate it by some evidence that omicron (and delta) can in fact spread via surface exposure like that. or that there’s evidence the tech passed the infection to someone else.
then the comments section immediately raised a flag.
all of this hoopla about banning GoF research, even though they say it would be trivially cheap to do right now in secret or in some jurisdiction where it’s allowed. like their claim is that any phd can just buy some mice, infect them, and start selecting, eventually arriving at a leaked virus. banning the research in controlled environments like universities and labs doesn’t seem like it would actually prevent ambitious people to try.
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I mentioned my friends mom was in the hospital since Thanksgiving a week or so ago with Covid (unvaxxed) she finally passed away last night. Ignorance is tragic.
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I understand that’s what the case is about.
stop it
in other news, two more people down as of this morning. We won’t have an ER if this keeps up.
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Yes sir, sorry thread captain sir.
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I got to work with anthrax spores as a grad student. Supposedly they were a special deactivated strain or something like that. Always kinda spooked me out.
We’re running into crisis mode here in Ontario too. Hearing stories like 911 can’t dispatch ambulances because ambulances are tied up at hospitals with nowhere to drop patients in the ER. Could all be BS I guess but if not this could get really wild. People are going to die that otherwise would have gotten emergency treatment.
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You better put your phone on DND.
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Not going to lie, I’m worried.
I may be a sucker, but I volunteered for what was thought to be an extremely high risk covid job with little pay (about 20 bucks per hour at the time) out of a sense of duty. That sense of duty still is a big part of who I like to think I am, but fortunately that’s mainly focused on the daughter right now.
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in my younger grad days, i got to play with online bidding algorithms that would eventually be used to cause genocidal pogroms in poor countries. it’s just that it never made sense to me to ban something anyone could do from their garage.
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“Reply with YES to confirm receipt…” is a modern day “Please respond”
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Plus $937.50 is only $634.78 after taxes. Makes you think.
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THAT’S SOCIALISM!!!
That’s if you’re lucky and it doesn’t push you into the 78 percent tax bracket. You could end up losing tens of thousands.
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