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Post by miscmisc on Nov 2, 2021 13:28:56 GMT 1
This man really is the definition of cringe.
This guy has absolutely no idea what he's doing. I know where he's from, how he grew up, and LARPing is all he knows since he got into politics. It's hilarious to hear such a LARPer bitch about "video games". Can't make it up, really.
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Post by Fox on Nov 2, 2021 13:34:52 GMT 1
In my country business owners are not at liberty to make that decision without breaking the law, though I wish they could. The right to be a stupid fuck is a right, I guess. These anti-vaccine fools think they are cute. You encounter this incessant display of snowflake-ism and stupidity at every corner, and you'll start pining for a feudal society. Not sure about mandates in other countries, but here "unvaccinated" includes the many Asian and East European immigrants who got a vaccine unapproved by our government, and also people who got one shot, had an adverse reaction and refused the 2nd on those grounds. I'm speculating but I think those type of signs are motivated by anti-mandate sentiments more than they are by anti-vax sentiments. |
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Post by Fox on Nov 2, 2021 13:42:01 GMT 1
New Covid cases began to skyrocket in Russia and Eastern Europe around early September, and those countries have been engulfed in a huge wave since then. They have been absolutely battered largely because of their low vaccination rates. People are dying over there, on a massive scale. And now it seems to be Central Europe's turn. Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium (particularly the Eastern half of the country) seem to be on the cusp of another mountain. The vaccination rates in Czechia, Poland, Austria, and even Germany and the Netherlands, although not nearly as low as in Eastern Europe, still seem too low given the possible magnitude of the next wave. In terms of new cases, what do you make of the data from Israel where 40% of people are triple vaccinated but their new cases are still soaring, while Sweden has fairly low vaccination but has very manageable new cases? Vaccines obviously help, but it seems like the social equation for stopping covid is going to be more complex than that. |
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 2, 2021 13:44:36 GMT 1
The right to be a stupid fuck is a right, I guess. These anti-vaccine fools think they are cute. You encounter this incessant display of snowflake-ism and stupidity at every corner, and you'll start pining for a feudal society. Not sure about mandates in other countries, but here "unvaccinated" includes the many Asian and East European immigrants who got a vaccine unapproved by our government, and also people who got one shot, had an adverse reaction and refused the 2nd on those grounds. I'm speculating but I think those type of signs are motivated by anti-mandate sentiments more than they are by anti-vax sentiments. You think so because you are a good person. Unfortunately a clear majority of these signs in America are put up by simple anti-vaxxers, or to be more precise, politically anti-vaccine crowd. They hide behind the "no discrimination" slogan in that annoying way, as if the vaccination status belonged in the same category as race, gender, age etc. And yes, they typically use smaller fonts for what they really wan to say, "Vaccinated or Unvaccinated". It's all just part of the "All Lives Matter" gimmick, and nothing more. You see those signs typically in places where the discrimination against the unvaccinated is a non-issue in reality, like Texas, where I live in the US. It's just a political gesture, a cowardly one. |
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 2, 2021 13:50:20 GMT 1
New Covid cases began to skyrocket in Russia and Eastern Europe around early September, and those countries have been engulfed in a huge wave since then. They have been absolutely battered largely because of their low vaccination rates. People are dying over there, on a massive scale. And now it seems to be Central Europe's turn. Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium (particularly the Eastern half of the country) seem to be on the cusp of another mountain. The vaccination rates in Czechia, Poland, Austria, and even Germany and the Netherlands, although not nearly as low as in Eastern Europe, still seem too low given the possible magnitude of the next wave. In terms of new cases, what do you make of the data from Israel where 40% of people are triple vaccinated but their new cases are still soaring, while Sweden has fairly low vaccination but has very manageable new cases? Vaccines obviously help, but it seems like the social equation for stopping covid is going to be more complex than that. I'm absolutely incapable of analyzing those things here or anywhere else, and at the other end of the spectrum, Japan only had 85 new cases on Monday. That's an absurdly low number considering every conceivable factor, so yes, there are a whole lot of unknowns about this virus, or any virus for that matter. |
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 2, 2021 14:09:46 GMT 1
Speaking of that, it's a bit funny to see the Japanese spooked rather than delighted by the steep decline of new cases. The test positivity rate is nationally around 0.5% now. It's all Delta in Japan of course, but Monday's was the lowest case count _since July 2020_. The Covid wards at hospitals are quickly becoming empty.
There are a few explanations offered by scientists, such as the fact that younger people in Japan have been vaccinated relatively recently compared to their American and European counterparts, universal mask-wearing (not mandated, though), and most interestingly this particular variant collapsing spontaneously due to the corruption of the enzyme called nsp14 (which is like a genomic error correction algorithm), possibly caused by another enzyme found more frequently in East Asians and Oceanians than others etc. But the last explanation, albeit interesting, rings the "this sounds a bit fishy!" alarm bell in my brain.
So the conclusion is the same old one: We don't really know.
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Post by Fox on Nov 2, 2021 14:45:06 GMT 1
Interesting stuff. Perhaps the recent vaccination becomes exponentially helpful when compounded by those other factors, and also I imagine by Japan's near total lack of obesity. Just speculation of course but interesting indeed.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 2, 2021 16:16:50 GMT 1
To be honest, I've grown suspicious of any theories/hypotheses made at the peak or bottom (particularly the bottom) of a Covid cycle in any context as there has been a fair amount of post hoc ergo propter hoc and its variations involved in them even among the experts. But the thing is, admittedly it's kind of fun to speculate these things and mouth off about them in places like this.
It's a sort of guilty pleasure, but I do try not to play up one or two anomalistic examples and pretend that they somehow disprove the clear general trend. Unfortunately that's like 40% of Covid Twitter, you know.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 2, 2021 16:18:33 GMT 1
Oh, Larry.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 2, 2021 16:39:17 GMT 1
This is a typical Silicon Valley tech brain at work.
LOL
This person has never heard of "land owners" or "feudalism", apparently.
I blame this particular case on pop postmodernism for dummies and specifically that of Gilles Deleuze, although I'm sure he'd absolutely resent that.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 2, 2021 17:29:40 GMT 1
What upsets me about this video clip isn't how mad Macron seems to be at Australia/Morrison or how unnecessarily complicated the whole issue has become, but the fact that the French president casually speaks English fluently like that while responding to reporters, on camera no less.
La France is dead.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 3, 2021 13:42:28 GMT 1
Nearly 300 deaths in a day, 7,000+ hospital admissions in a week. By any standards those are huge figures.
Yes, the deaths and hospitalizations are STILL more or less decoupled from new cases thanks to the vaccines, so the problem is the sheer volume of new infections in the society. In other words, people are spreading the virus left and right, casually, freely, everywhere. People are testing the viruses, and they are answering the call. It's a dangerous game.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 4, 2021 7:33:41 GMT 1
How well the excess deaths graph traces the Covid deaths chart ought to be some kind of a benchmark on how functional the government/bureaucracy is.  At this point we all know that Russia has been a world-class failure on Covid, so it's no surprise that a huge number of Russians have lost their lives, but the question is why the hell there is consistently such a huge gap between the two graphs. I know many would scream "Because Putin! Autocracy!", but no, that makes no sense since it's the same Russian government that publishes those excess deaths. It seems that everything is so profoundly broken over there that there's no wonder the vaccination rates are remarkably low. |
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 4, 2021 9:08:51 GMT 1
Facebook has been so blatantly socially destructive with its pathologically ad-hungry algorithms that I'm now convinced that it's perfectly fine to single out the company in the most aggressive way possible.
I don't know how you could describe the way they have been playing old people like a fiddle and semi-deliberately driving them mad en masse other than calling it anti-social. It's not simply a logical consequence of the SNS business model, but something a hell of a lot worse.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 4, 2021 12:22:18 GMT 1
I've recently read four papers/articles whose theme is what the Chinese government/Xi Jinping is most afraid of, and none of them spent more than one paragraph on the psyche/social structure of today's Chinese general public.
The answer to the question of "What is the Chinese government most afraid of?" is always, always "Chinese people". If you don't even understand that, why are you writing about China at all? What's the fucking point?
Jesus Christ.
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