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@derickflorian Our receptionist was out of the running for almost 2 weeks when she got infected 2 years ago. She got infected again about a week ago and was back within like 3 days. Vaccinations are a thing. :)

I guess it might be less terrible for you as well in this 2nd round. It still sucks of course, and the long term effects of an infection are still unknown as of yet.

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Sounds like it's worth it! 😂

@bonifartius Take care, your mental health is important. Go do some fun stuff!

@EubieDrew 'campaign', wtf? Sounds more like they're holding a campaign to slander Qoto instead. 👀

And that's why @freemo is so eager to get UFoI going. The Fediverse sounds like a very superstituous bunch at the moment. Lots of acting based off hearsay.

@derickflorian Uh oh, get well soon!

@stux The lack of a normal word wrap is awful though!

@baklavades Yeah, except that it seems a bit buggy. Have experienced that they respond to posts without a @-mention since Friendica itself apparently handles responses differently.

@shibaprasad Did he have a wife (your mother) who did *everything* at home? Shopping, cooking, cleaning, raising, whatevering?

Nowadays such a thing is impossible as both would have to work to survive.

@baklavades Doesn't surprise me. It can be easily abused for spamming.

@knuppelbeer Ik weet zeker van niet. Mijne zouden allang daaraan zijn doodgegaan.

Oh cool. My Vivaldi browser finally has a Mastodon panel. Now I'm wondering if that's just for vivaldi.social or that I can log in another instance with this?
#Vivaldi

@Squirrel I use the mobile web interface. No app needed.

@EvertKwok Ik vond nummertje 4 wel grappig voor dat nummertje 2.

@Pat And I'm just reading the news now.

All those protests are starting to have an effect. The Chinese government is starting to be more lenient with their Corona rules.

Prior there were total lockdowns if there was only one infection case found. And people were sent to quarantine hotels, even though they were very unhygienic and totally full. Now the people are allowed to quarantine at home if they have mild symptoms or if they tested positive but don't display symptoms. This is apparently considered a huge move over there.

The local governments also aren't allowed anymore to put whole regions in lockdown. They have to decide per building or even per floor what the risk factor is. It is as of yet unknown if this means the end of a zero-covid strategy.

They realized that the Omicron variation is less dangerous than its precedessors.

Also, I've seen lots of pics from China, including those protests. They all wear simple cloth masks. Not respirators.

@favus Uh, hope you can get it fixed.. Once I had my heater broken during Xmas... had to go to my parents for a nice hot bath.

@Pat China's numbers are rising now, and there is no guarantee that their old numbers were correct. Nobody can verify anything as China doesn't allow other countries to do that.

Right now there are protests going. If your idea of 'succesful' includes locking up people (including welding doors shut) so they can't spread the virus, then sure, they were extremely succesful. Except that they don't vaccinate properly (their vaccine isn't that effective I've read) and they didn't just try to 'flatten the curve' but tried to completely suppress it.. without success.

Now the virus is returning with bigger force, protests are increasing, and their leaders are starting to notice what it feels like to be between a rock and a hard place. It'll be very interesting to see how those protests unfold.

Virus-free country? Don't count on it. They just hide it. Or haven't you seen those regular city-wide lockdowns lately? (And with city-wide I mean cities of more than 1 million people).

Apparently all this didn't help and China's economy is starting to get a hit now. How do you call that a success?

@Pat Looks like that article is from 2020. It's far from succesful nowadays. Kinda funny how that turns out.