@ducheng
It's particularly insideous because I can no longer trust Fediverse applications to provide a neutral social media network. The application authors feel entitled to "speak for me" through their software, whilst using my platform's voice. Completely dishonest.

If the banner said "don't kill kittens", it would still be dishonest, because it would imply to users that the server admin actively holds that believe. Forwarding a statement from WHO implies I read it enough to know, understand, and believe it is good advice.

I will review what WHO has to say, when I want, and I'll post an announcement if I deem it necessary on *my* platform. I trust you to write code, not editorial stances.

And banners are bloody annoying.

@torresjrjr @ducheng which frontend is this? Mastodon FE?

@NEETzsche @ducheng @torresjrjr Pixelfed?

@NEETzsche @ducheng @torresjrjr looks like Pixelfed allows admins to set their own covid disclaimer to whatever they want, it doesn't have to be WHO page

@mkljczk @ducheng @torresjrjr This code has been around since June 28 when it was committed: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/commit/f2fb64ecd4b76a3c3ab406e40baca8947eb41ec2

See lines 64 to 74. The message is hardcoded into pixelfed.

@NEETzsche @ducheng @torresjrjr the message itself is hardcoded, but it doesn't have to link to WHO.

@mkljczk @ducheng @torresjrjr Sure, but this kind of hardcoding really doesn’t bode well for pixelfed in the long run. It would be like hardcoding 9/11 shit into a codebase in 2003

@NEETzsche @mkljczk @ducheng
I had voice my concern ages ago.

https://qoto.org/@torresjrjr/105640058318465539

I also remember writing a draft reply to a toot he promptly deleted, though I can't remember what he said, nor prove that that happened.

@torresjrjr

I'd be against this as well, but being optional I would personally give it a pass from a "do i want to host this software" standpoint.

@NEETzsche @mkljczk @ducheng

@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.

@Pat @freemo @torresjrjr @NEETzsche @mkljczk @ducheng those categories basically exist as part of anti-discourse shaming psy-ops.

masks have always been exceptionally situational and a lot of the 'science' behind them has been proxied off influenza or garbage (ex. a hospital claiming they did a study that showed they worked, but the study had no control group, but because their outcome matched the WHO narrative all the flaws were handwaved)

most people don't even clean them which means they're just giving each other pneumonia.

@icedquinn That they'll handwave critiques of bad science for the narrative shows that it's totally reasonable to handwave "the science" itself. Academic scientific journals are now just opinion columns.

@mkljczk @Pat @ducheng @freemo @torresjrjr

@NEETzsche they proxied early mask justifications because it works when *symptomatic* influenza sufferers wear them it controls the spread somewhat.

some credentialed folk raised complaints that covid is much smaller and so the masks will be less effective. i goalposted wanting to see plaque assays (it was originally something else but a virology nerd corrected me on this) that proved they did in fact work and the particulate sizes were irrelevant. to my knowledge this was never done. one or two attempts to prove masks work on covid did get tried but their n's were like four people and in one case they showed the masks literally did nothing.

its also been proven that they lower your blood oxygen level to below safe working conditions which was confirmed by OSHA and they were then censored because the holy fauci and cdc would have been contradicted.

other credentialed folk questioned what the point of masking is when you're in an environment with recirculated air (ex. an aircraft) and also that because all they do is halve the distance of droplets, their efficacy in places like trams is lesser. basically there was a formula that the more people the more frequently you had to clean because even halving droplet spread you still get accumulation of droplets when 400 people pass through.

they don't sterilize the bus after every stop, most if anything clean once a day. so accumulation happens throughout the day and all the masks did was make it take two hours instead of ten minutes.

there are actual things that could have been done like 222nm UV lighting which is both safe for human contact and inactivates viruses. but this was not done.

vaccinated countries are superspreading and continuing to do so with their face diapers. so what the fuck was the point?

@Pat @ducheng @freemo @mkljczk @torresjrjr

@icedquinn

One point of clarity, the co2 levels are acceptable for short term exposure but considered harmful only for long term exposure.

@NEETzsche @mkljczk @ducheng @Pat @torresjrjr