murrayewv @murrayewv@qoto.org

Here’s the direct link to the USPS site to order free COVID rapid tests: https://special.usps.com/testkits

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

In most states, TODAY's the deadline to enroll in health coverage that starts Jan 1 (in Idaho, today is the end of open enrollment altogether) https://www.healthinsurance.org/faqs/what-are-the-deadlines-for-the-acas-open-enrollment-period/
There are some states where the deadline for a 1/1 effective date is later, including MA, RI, NM, NJ, MD, CA & NV

Just before the invasion, #Ukraine made a deal with #Amazon #AWS to create a data warehouse for its government information and infrastructure: tax and property records, bank statements, and the like. Things that an invaded and occupied Ukraine might lose if Russia got their hands on the only copies.

They literally snuck Pelican crates full of SSDs into the country and spirited them back offshore after backing up 10 petabytes of important historic and legal records.

This paragraph, second from the end, really put a fine point on why Amazon did this: They were not beholden to, nor being held hostage by, any Russian operations...because they never had any:

Amazon didn’t have to worry about its relationship with Russia on the Snowball project. It doesn’t have one. “We didn’t have anything to turn off there,” Maxwell said. “We had never invested there. It’s a point of principle.”

Truly an amazing story from the #LATimes.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-15/amazon-ukraine-war-cloud-data

📣 NBPP 2024, Part 5: User Fees, Risk Adjustment, Agents, Brokers & Web Brokers:
#ACA #GetCovered #NBPP2024 #xp https://acasignups.net/22/12/15/nbpp-2024-part-5-user-fees-risk-adjustment-agents-brokers-web-brokers

🚨 Welp. Musk is now marking Mastodon links as being "potentially malicious.”

And yes, this is a brand new development--I've been posting the direct link to my Mastodon account on Twitter since I created the account over a month ago and clicking it directly worked fine until today.

FYI @Gargron