Does 
mean work?
I think so. 2nd character is “home” for sure (2nd panel, guy on the right).
Yes, but by itself it’s effectively a word stem.
工作 = work, job
員工 = a company’s workers
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There was just one literally tiny problem: “The physics of it is all wrong,” Marr says. That much seemed obvious to her from everything she knew about how things move through air. Reality is far messier, with particles much larger than 5 microns staying afloat and behaving like aerosols, depending on heat, humidity, and airspeed. “I’d see the wrong number over and over again, and I just found that disturbing,” she says. The error meant that the medical community had a distorted picture of how people might get sick.
Thinking it might help her overcome this resistance, she’d try from time to time to figure out where the flawed 5-micron figure had come from. But she always got stuck. The medical textbooks simply stated it as fact, without a citation, as if it were pulled from the air itself.
Inside Randall’s head, something snapped into place. She shot forward in time, to that first tuberculosis guidance document where she had started her investigation. She had learned from it that tuberculosis is a curious critter; it can only invade a subset of human cells in the deepest reaches of the lungs. Most bugs are more promiscuous. They can embed in particles of any size and infect cells all along the respiratory tract.
What must have happened, she thought, was that after Wells died, scientists inside the CDC conflated his observations. They plucked the size of the particle that transmits tuberculosis out of context, making 5 microns stand in for a general definition of airborne spread. Wells’ 100-micron threshold got left behind. “You can see that the idea of what is respirable, what stays airborne, and what is infectious are all being flattened into this 5-micron phenomenon,” Randall says. Over time, through blind repetition, the error sank deeper into the medical canon. The CDC did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
In June, she Zoomed into a meeting with the rest of the team to share what she had found. Marr almost couldn’t believe someone had cracked it. “It was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is where the 5 microns came from?!’” After all these years, she finally had an answer. But getting to the bottom of the 5-micron myth was only the first step. Dislodging it from decades of public health doctrine would mean convincing two of the world’s most powerful health authorities not only that they were wrong but that the error was incredibly—and urgently—consequential.
Crazy story.
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One of the last holdouts I know is getting their first shot tomorrow, after I’ve been prodding gently for two months. She’s a DACA recipient so there’s some hesitancy to do stuff like this, and she doesn’t have a big lefty social circle creating an “everyone’s vaxxed” culture. Whether I played a role or not, I’m glad to see stragglers getting on board.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/AFP/status/1397978319841370112
https://mobile.twitter.com/Mutiny32/status/1397992062738436103
https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCFergusWalsh/status/1397956564364021762
At my clients in Montana. Today guidance changed that if you are vaxxed you can lose the mask in the building. They are asking for vax cards so mine got it’s first official use!
There are some number of vaccine holdouts. The manager was making it very clear to them that they had to continue to mask in common spaces.
Made me chuckle silently. I wonder how much of this across America will drag another few percent over the finish line.
Little burger place I stopped at for lunch had no masks at all. No customers or employees. Well other than me.
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my company announced they are going to open offices in june. proof of vaccination is required. signups through an online system as well. noone is obligated back tho, except facilities staff ofc. IT is quite upset at having to jump through hoops and support management insanity
Courts in Maryland are ditching mask requirements on Monday, and also apparently judges are allowed to order witnesses to remove their mask while they testify.
Melbourne Australia back into a 7 day lockdown due to cases (total) rising to 26. All stemming from one case that got sick in hotel quarentine and carried it out.
One entertaining part of this is they are publicising all locations these cases went to.
On the one hand. One person was out til 4 am two nights in a row clubbing. Not great for contact tracing, but at least they are cool.
On the other some poor guy went to mcdonalds and spent 4 hours in “Swordcraft” some kind of adventure card game.
Looks like CDC guidance did cause a vax demand spike. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/27/health/vaccination-interest-cdc-mask-guidance/index.html
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I saw that and was happy, but then saw criticism on twitter that it just increased searches for vaccines but actual vaccinations didnt actually move at all. But giving the vax numbers would be ebbing, not sure how to interpret the data, any thoughts?
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Can we do lotto for the season flu vaccine?
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These lottos are objectively hilarious. They save lives, they save the state money, and I get a chuckle. Win-win-win.
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California thinks I never got my second dose since I split the shots between Walgreens and a county site. Maybe I’ll get a third dose to make myself ELIGIBLE
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Somebody is going to get 100 shots somehow to increase their odds.
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Next season of My Lottery Dream Home gonna be epic
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