Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@freemo @torresjrjr @NEETzsche @mkljczk @ducheng

I just visited the WHO site and right now, Dec. 11, 2021, it recommends that people "Keep physical distance of at least 1 metre from others..." to prevent COVID-19 transmission. For a disease that is airborne and nearly as contagious as the measles, and they're telling people that staying one meter away is going to help?

They are responsible for more deaths than those wacko anti-vaxer/antimaskers because people actually believe what WHO says, especially when sites put up official-looking messages that give then cred.

@tripu

Old books are in the public domain, which means publishers and authors don't make money on them, which means they don't get promoted as much, which means fewer people hear about them and read them.

Also, people may want to read about what they are most familiar with, which is recent/current events. Also, very old works are written in a style that takes more work to read or that requires more training to understand. Even English works that are over a century or so old have many unfamiliar words because language changes and things that were once familiar have now become esoteric.

Some people like that challenge of figuring those things out, but many don't and would rather just breeze through some popular novel.

@freemo

Actually, the pixels in the area within the squares are the same, it's the background pixels in the blown-up image that are different. It looks like whoever made this graphic just copied and pasted the same square pattern in the two different locations over the background.

@freemo @zleap

>"The guinea hasnt existed since 1971. I'm pretty sure no one ever understood the old English monetary system."

They just do that so taxi drivers can rip off the tourists.

@lucifargundam @freemo

Strawberry Fields Forever
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead#Premise

@freemo @zleap

Young Beatles fans might get it.

I don't watch horror films so I don't get that reference.

@zleap @freemo

If you're under about 55 years old, you won't that joke.

@freemo

I just fed the bit pattern into a .WAV file and when I play it backwards it says, "I buried Paul..."

#boomer #humor

@freemo

Actually, they are pixel by pixel the same. (my almost autistic pattern matching at work again)

@101101000

#abbreviation #disambiguation

DW = Dystopian Water

#time #scifi #scienceFiction #startrek #paradox #logic #math

Temporal loops are a common trope in science fiction. A character gets stuck in a loop and remembers each iteration. (e.g., Groundhog Day) However, if a time loop actually occurred, no one would remember the previous loops because everyone's neurons would be reset to the previous point in time along with the rest of all matter and energy. So...

Is it possible that the entire universe is stuck in a time loop?

@freemo

Both have exactly the same pattern also.

@freemo @Zerglingman @blueplanetslittlehelper @trinsec @zleap

Two weeks -- it's better than nothing.

@freemo @blueplanetslittlehelper @zleap @trinsec

We have decades of experience with respirators in industry. They've been doing it for awhile.

If people can learn how to drive cars, use computers, cook, and do the thousands of other things that people do, certain they can learn how to use a respirator. Especially when their life depends on it.

Policymakers shouldn't tell people what they think they are capable of, they should tell people the straight facts. The truth. If the policymakers think that people are to stupid, then they should say, "This is what should be done, but we think people won't be able to do it."

Then let people figure it out from there. The way they are doing it now, they are giving false information because they think, "You can't handle the truth."

The result is that people are mislead, and then when they find out the truth they no longer believe the policymakers anymore, which is much worse because then the policymakers can no longer provide any credible guidance.

@blueplanetslittlehelper @freemo @zleap @trinsec

People need to be trained on wearing them or else you'll have the situation like you have there. Just a 5-10 minute video is enough, and then maybe reminders on television and social media. But they need some kind of instruction on how to wear them and how to do a seal check.

@freemo

>"Lolol i usually see people walking with a mask down by their chin thinking its doing something there somehow lol"

I guess they want to take it on the chin.

@bonifartius @blueplanetslittlehelper @zleap

@blueplanetslittlehelper

>"Outdoors that is common here, too. And if not there are, more often then not, big gapes on both side of the nose, and/or parts of a beard can be seen. And nearly as many, even indoors, only cover their mouth, see "

What type of training do people get in wearing those respirators there?

@freemo @zleap @trinsec

@freemo @blueplanetslittlehelper @zleap @trinsec

The preliminary data on omicron is that it has a very high R0, like the measles. For a virus that is transmitted nearly 100% via the air, touching your face is not an issue, it's breathing contaminated air.

The only way to not breathe contaminated air is to not be around where other people are (or have been) or to wear something that filters the air or has self-contained air.

Touch is virtually irrelevant with such a highly contagious, airborne virus.

@freemo @bonifartius @blueplanetslittlehelper @zleap

My anecdotal observations are that people always use their masks correctly and never touch their faces.

Never.

And when they wear a respirator it's even less often than that.

#dry #humor

@blueplanetslittlehelper

>"That's not true. The name respirator includes N95 masks, too, without valve, the only type that is/was common and sometimes mandatory in Germany. They are no "cloth masks" and no surgical masks and should protect better, if they fit and are worn correctly. With they don't for most ppl, which is dangerous."

I understand that many people colloquially refer to respirators as "N95 masks", but they're not masks, they're respirators. They are completely different things.

I posted pics of two different types of respirators. There are other types also. The white one is known as a "filtering facepiece respirator" and the one the cop is wearing is known as "elastomeric respirator".

A mask just covers your nose and mouth. A respirator fits with an airtight seal. A mask is typically make of cloth fabric, while a respirator is made from a melt-blown material that uses electrostatic filtering to capture the smallest particles.

They are completely different.

Also, N95 is the lowest rating for respirators. They go up to N100 (99.97% efficiency).

@freemo @zleap @trinsec