A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org

@iowacovid19tracker

I didn't honestly believe that anyone thought that China abandoning zero-COVID would solve supply chain issues. I really believed they were being disingenuous. To find out that they really believed that, and somehow still do, is baffling on a whole new level.

@AmyTanMD

Many studies, PhD theses and books will be written attempting to answer that in the coming years and decades.

@empiricism Thanks for sharing! If anything I read too many studies and papers about COVID :)

@iragsdale @BetaBoyTV @philip_cardella@historians.social @dcjohnson

My parents always taught me exactly this growing up. At a certain point you can't go any higher up without doing something morally wrong.

@fitterhappierAJ

Did you happen to see the WaPo piece earlier this week?

https://news.yahoo.com/viral-siege-making-people-sick-003840162.html

Blows my mind that they can quote Colin Furness calling immunity debt "idiocy" and then let Bhattacharya say that immune system problems post-COVID infection is a "fringe" idea with no scientific backing in the same article.

I guess, as always, it's a mystery!....somehow....

@auscandoc @irenetosetti

I feel like maybe I was just naive prior to COVID, but I never thought it was socially acceptable to get on a plane with the flu and I used to fly quite a bit.

Why is it suddenly OK for the person next to you on the plane to be hacking up a lung the whole time?

@DrPsyBuffy

I will readily admit that I did not, in fact, score a 96% on any Organic Chem final, ever. Congrats to her!

@rhtunstall

This reminds me of that parody COVID-19 account on that other site. Everyone knows COVID can't infect you during the holidays! Or when you're eating! lol

@lexfri

I don't know if this helps answer the question or not, but, on Zoom this morning people were chatting about the latest going-ons before the meeting started, as people do, and there was a lot of negative talk about Musk. One guy then spoke up and said(quoted as best I can remember):

"You all have this all so wrong. Musk is probably the most forward thinker on the entire planet right now. He sees it all so clearly on a level that no one else does."

I think for a lot of people *they* don't necessarily see "it" either, but the guy says things they like and so they're willing to just go along with the rest and assume he knows better than they do.

@adamdavidson

Just replace "free speech" with "free from listening to things I don't like" and you get what they actually mean.

@Westernesse

Hillsdale is helping DeSantis "restructure" Florida's school curriculum now, too.

@jann

You just brought me back to my childhood! My grandmother used to make this all the time and chicken enchiladas are not only my favorite, but always how I test any new Mexican food place I try out.

Enjoy!

@Henwhen

Thanks for sharing that one, I'd not seen it before. Professor Jimenez has done a lot of great work, particularly during the pandemic. I know he pokes his head into Mastodon a little bit(@jljcolorado). I'm hoping he becomes more active here.

Now is the time to push for better indoor air quality. They understood this in the 1918 pandemic and we largely forgot about it. It will also likely be what gets some of the hardest pushback, too, as it'll cost business and public places money.

@ZeroCovidColin @noleli

You're right on almost all of that. It's a travesty and I'm pretty sure the NIH is smart enough to know that practically no one's going to be self reporting, even if they manage to do the test correctly.

They just have it up so they can say it's available. That said, I certainly recommend everyone report their tests and perhaps I'll be wrong and some sort of useful data will come from it.

I'm fairly certain the reason for tracking negative tests is just to compare all reports(positive + negative) to total test sales so they can see what percent are being reported.

@ryanschultz

It was a really great show! A bit of a hidden gem as I don't see many people talking about it. The soundtrack was awesome, too. Particularly noticeable was watching it in the dark and during "The Storm" all of the ship's sounds were incredibly immersive.

@Resister2022

I could very well be wrong, but from a distance she reminds me of Lindsey Graham. She'll be whatever the rich and powerful tell her to be.

@luckytran

I don't think they're going to undercut the NIH and do another one. That would just get confusing, would it not?

https://makemytestcount.org

@fitterhappierAJ

And, yet, the US is moving towards a once a year booster in a desperate attempt to make it more like a yearly flu shot to the general population.

@pixplz @milkman76

I think this is really interesting because after a hardcore anti-mask stance the Governor's office is now saying that requiring masking, when requested, is a reasonable accommodation. I'd certainly like to see how it plays out there, and hopefully some other states will see similar outcomes.

@milkman76 @pixplz

That all mirrors our experience so much, just with the added viewpoint of being married to someone who taught in the local classrooms for over 15 years and left after the same "get back to the classroom" push after 3 weeks.

Out of curiosity, how do you like K12? It was on our shortlist for our kids, and we ended up going a different route, but the one we chose is locked-out of the area we're moving to next year. K12 is a possibility there, though.