herid @herid@qoto.org

https://t.me/United24media/3498 ‼️🇵🇱"Either we will immediately receive Germany's consent, or we will do it ourselves," said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki about the delivery of Leopard tanks to Ukraine. "Poland will do the right thing and deliver Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine even without Germany's consent. Consent is secondary here. We will either get this consent immediately, or we will do it (more) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

https://youtube.com/watch?v=y37woMqeXFs&feature=share ⚡️🇩🇪Why has Germany still not decided on Leopard 2 tank supplies to Ukraine? (DW - German News in English VIDEO) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

Pregnant?
#WearAMask

Alive?
#WearAMask

#GetVaccinated
#COVID19
#CovidIsNotOver

https://fortune.com/well/2023/01/19/pregnant-women-covid-more-likely-to-die-pneumonia-ventilation-prematurity/

Your occasional reminder that Stalin was, in fact, a super bad guy and you wouldn’t have liked life under him.

For fuck’s sake people! Why are 2-3 million people missing from the US workforce? Well, hundreds of thousands of working adults died of COVID, millions developed long-term disabling health problems, and someone has to care for those folks. Remember — over 150,000 kids lost their primary caregiver in the first year of COVID alone. Someone has to leave the general workforce to care for those kids. COVID. The answer is COVID.

How antivaxxers monetize misinformation.

Some of these grifters are making tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars per MONTH on substack.

https://derekberes.substack.com/p/how-anti-vaxxers-monetize-misinformation

Very telling that the world's richest investors, business leaders, political leaders, economists attending the World Economic summit this week in #Davos will be protected with stringent #Covid controls including onsite PCR testing.
A positive test result automatically deactivates their entry badge. Masks are freely available and being worn in very well-ventilated venues.

👉​ But we send millions of children to school every single day with zero Covid mitigations.

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/AM23_Health_and_Safety_Measures.pdf

So...1 in 24 Canadians has Covid, XBB1.5 (kraken) variant is projected to be at 22% in Ontario by the end of the week, people are still dying of Covid (279 in Canada in the first week of January), and though voluntary mask wearing is low, 69% of Canadians support mask mandates if necessary.

Public health in many regions recommends or strongly recommends mask wearing.

But no mask mandates?
Not even in education and the workplace?
Nothing?

Mandates would make it so much easier for the caring majority to normalize wearing a mask again. Many people understandably don't want to #WearAMask unless it is clearly necessary. #MaskMandates are necessary to get mask wearing in public up to >80%, which IHME estimates would halve deaths from covid with a month.

In the absence of clear direction from public health, #MaskUp and protect yourself and those around you as best you can.

https://maskevidence.org/why-masks-matter

#SystemsApproaches #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid #BetterMasks

Tara Moriarty's lab's estimates of current infections and risk: https://twitter.com/MoriartyLab/status/1614737208602230784

Incomplete count of deaths from Covid in Canada: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/current-situation.html?stat=num&measure=deaths_weekly&map=pt#a2

CTV/Nanos Nov 2022 poll of Canadians: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/majority-of-canadians-support-return-of-face-masks-in-indoor-public-spaces-if-deemed-necessary-survey-1.6144419

IHME projections: https://covid19.healthdata.org/canada?view=daily-deaths&tab=trend

Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

https://youtu.be/Soa3gO7tL-c

#SongOfTheDay
#FavoriteMusic 63/

Ukrainians, man… 💙💛

Kyiv’s Teatralna metro this evening.

Started listening to this gem again…

https://youtu.be/ejzzO51e4xI

Even the new HomePod is tweeting less these days.

#Presentation

N. Bourbaki is now on Mastodon.

This account will mostly serve to announce the Bourbaki Friday seminars, the N. Bourbaki seminars, as well as to inform of the publication of new volumes of the Elements of mathematics

#bourbaki #SeminaireNBourbaki #ElementsDeMathematique

http://www.bourbaki.fr

Physicist Yoichiro Nambu (南部 陽一郎) was born #OTD in 1921.

He developed a theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking to explain superconductivity, paving the way for electroweak symmetry breaking via the Higgs mechanism in the Standard Model of particle physics.

Image: AIP Emilio Segre Archives