Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@cowanon

This must be a sine.

@ProtoOfSnagem

Oh, I got mixed up. Thank you for correcting me.

Well, I'll follow you, too. Now you got two.

People here are pretty nice. When you get oriented, you can post an # introduction if you'd like.

@trinsec

I'm doing fine. Just logged on a few minutes ago. I've been kind of intermittant here myself lately, also.

@ProtoOfSnagem

Welcome to qoto.

How did you get 23 follows with one toot?

#mind #psych #science #language #brain

@al1r4d

Get a bigger video display.

#inflation #wealth #stock #bitcoin #crypto #money #economy

Who is affected more by inflation?

@trinsec

We get a lot of things right, but I guess pandemics is not one of them.

@trinsec

Lockdowns are not a viable option in a free country, certainly not the way China did it. In the US, we could have eliminated the virus (eliminate, not eradicate) if just 40% of the population had worn N95 respirators at the beginning of the pandemic. Then after the virus is eliminated do continual surveillance testing to detect outbreaks and let people know where the outbreaks are so they can once again wear their respirators.

Instead, in the US the White House COVID-19 Task Force and the CDC actively suppressed information about the effectiveness of respirators – they fooled people into wearing cloth masks instead and then when our strategic supply of respirators was finally released, they told people not to wear them. They are sadistic. They wanted millions of people to die.

Now they are fucking with numbers, the data about how many people have died from COVID-19 to further trick people into thinking that the “pandemic is behind us”.

@trinsec

Shanghai is a recent phenomenon, just the past few weeks out over two years of the pandemic. Shanghai is less than 2% of the population of China, and last I heard they were only shutting down half of the city at a time to continue business. So a tiny fraction of the population down for a fraction of the time of the pandemic. That’s certainly worth it to save millions of lives.

@trinsec
>"nobody's going to accept it anymore with those low hospital numbers."

People are much less concerned about hospital numbers than they are about deaths. In the US we've had close to one million deaths by following the "flatten the curve" strategy. Nobody should accept that, under an conditions.

China eliminated the virus and reopened business and people were able “get back normal” without having to worry so much about the virus. But here in the US we’ve had a worker shortage and supply chain disruptions because everybody is sick or dead, or too worried about the virus to go back to work.

@trinsec
I haven't flown on a commercial airline since the pandemic began.

The most effective strategy is to eliminate the virus, like China did. "Flattening the curve" creates a lot of needless suffering and death.

@freemo

And structual mechanics is an app.

@worldsendless

N95 masks = 95-99% effecient at preventing infection

vaccine = 44-50% effective at preventing infection (and it diminishes over time)

@soundwave @trinsec

>"...they fully believe that that vision actually IS reality."

Actually, you don't know what they believe, because you can't get inside their heads to know what they are thinking. Do you believe that all those actors who play those characters on Star Trek believe that they are actually flying in a space ship? They say that they believe it, they say it's real in the show.

People use their religion to justify all kinds of things -- some good, some bad. What about people who say that their religion wants them to be good, to help the Earth. Doesn't that mean that religion is a good thing?

You need to assess people's actions based on the morality and consequences of those actions, not necessarily based on their professed motivation for those actions, because you never know for sure if their stated reasons for those actions are sincere or not, all you know is what they do. (Although for crimes, for example, sometimes intent is examined.)

@trinsec @Amikke

Looks like more Russian psyhops trying to stur up division in the west.

True critique of racial bias focuses on the bad deeds and how to improve relations, not the race of those who commit those deeds.

@dev_nadine

#latex

I can't get it to work, either. I just create it with something else and then screen shot, post an image.

@trinsec

#social

Yes, your death rate there is very low for the number of infections. I think they are getting better at treating it. But for every one that dies, there are 10-20 who have serious chronic illness or organ failure.

The virus is now completely airborne, like measles. It doesn't matter much how close you are, if you are in the same room with someone (or you enter a room where someone was recently who is infected) you can get it.

Also, vaccine and prior infection doesn't seem to prevent reinfection anymore. Also, the second (or third) infection seems to be much harder on people, maybe because of previous damage from the prior infection.

Also, people can still be asymptomatic and spread the disease, so just going by fever/sniffles doesn’t work. It’s best to wear a respirator all the time when you are indoors or around others.

Because it’s so contagious and virulent now, an N95 (FFP2) may not be enough, you may need an N100 (FFP3).