Subjacent Banana

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2024-06-13 20:11:39

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Really depends on where you go in Canada, imo. I've been all over, 100% masked.
In Ontario, Ottawa has the most masking. In Toronto you won't see masks outside of the Asian areas like Markham and Oakville. Quebec is Zero Masks but people have been kind.
Northern Ontario (Where I live) = No Masks whatsoever and you're gonna roll the dice. People scream at or threaten my family about once a year right now.
Have not been West of here since I moved here, so can't tell you. I would expect AB is rough and coastal BC is casually mean about it. (Because they're casually mean about everything.)

2024-06-13 04:22:41

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Nose wire is on the bottom. They thought it was her chin. :holdthepain:

2024-06-13 01:01:37

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https://media.zeroes.ca/media_attachments/files/112/606/609/096/230/156/original/730bb241cd15ad25.jpg

2024-06-13 01:01:19

Upside down KN95 photoshopped onto patient along with "N95" photoshopped onto it upside down.
I think the CDC is just fucked now.
(from Lazarus Long on Twixter)
https://media.zeroes.ca/media_attachments/files/112/606/604/063/430/490/original/ddd372b146881573.jpg

2024-06-12 03:24:32

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It is a totally awful violation of your civil rights, I completely agree, but the Gov't and corporations already do this to us.💀 Had to de-mask for a mandatory ID photo where they refused accomodations.
A lot of stores in Alberta are now posting signs saying that you have to show your face to get in. Not sure on the legality but they'll kick you out if you don't. Related to massive shoplifting problems now happening...
I'm still having trouble figuring out how to get my daughter a US Passport, and have not been back over the US border since 2020 because up here they make us go inside and de-mask.

2024-06-08 23:25:35

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I use an earloop with an "ear saver" band on the back because up until now, black masks were less likely to get me physically attacked. 😆
The seal is quite good, tbh. I can't smell paint or soap with it on. Even in a closed room for 2 hrs.
On an airplane or in prolonged bad ventilation, I would go with the duckbill, which doesn't look like a duckbill on me because I am related to the Rammstein lead singer (literally). (tldr Huge Face)

2024-06-07 04:12:01

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I would expect what they mean by "medical grade mask" is one that includes N95s, etc.
I've been considering switching to an obviously medical mask (like an Aura) because of these issues. My black KN95 looks too much like the ones shoplifters and political people are using...

2024-06-04 18:03:49

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My parents, who were hardcore RW in the 80s & 90s, never ever ever ONCE suggested AIDs wasn't HIV or that HIV was fake. I had not heard of this concept until the early 00s, and all from "Left Wing" people.
But something very strange started happening abt this in the 2000s, that I think nobody has really noticed?
There's been a "horseshoe" style fusion of "Leftist Hippies" and "Right Wingers" when it comes to Vaccination and disease denialism, etc.
When the Convoy Truckers came through my area (I live in far nothern Ontario), they were hosted by the "Forest School" Hippies, who are all "Meditation" and "Thai Healing Centers" and "Chakras." These people are all hard core Left voters. Whole Foods types...

2024-06-04 04:03:17

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The Foo Fighters got away with this garbage, too.
https://medium.com/the-monthly/the-foo-fighters-aids-denialism-should-be-on-the-record-6e33666fdc3c

2024-05-28 04:03:26

My friend appears to have StageIV metastatic small cell lung cancer.
One lung, brain, liver, pancreas, GI, bone in arms & skull.
She has never smoked.
She is going to be the third person I've lost to lung cancer since 2021.
Only one of them ever smoked and only one of them was over 50.
Related:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9124879/

2024-05-25 15:33:44

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The hostility ramps up when the weather gets nice. All winter they stagger along deathly ill and now they think they've "beaten" it so they get less scared - and therefore more mean.
It's been like this since 2021 up here.
I'm beginning to hate nice weather.💀

2024-05-24 22:05:43

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Yeah I don't think it goes back in either. We've had so many Djinn get out in my lifetime, I think I was born living on borrowed time, tbh.

2024-05-24 19:20:36

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I think the darkest part is the animal population tbh. You could eradicate it in humans (maybe, depending on antivirals to destroy reservoirs, fingers crossed)
But it's in the deer here. It's in all kinds of animals. How're we gonna even try that one? My damn dog is sniffing shit the moment I turn my head.
I honestly don't know how to put this djinn back in the bottle.

2024-05-24 03:51:48

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Yeah tbh I'm not much of an optimist about Clean The Air and all that.
We've never succeeded at doing that. We've literally never beaten an airborne virus by Cleaning the Air. They're too infections.
So I can't sit with someone outdoors and talk without a mask on. I will suck in their plumes. There's just no way I won't. no amount of ventilation at close range for extended periods would achieve that...

2024-05-20 02:26:48

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Yeah some people are born to be leaders and other people seem born to be Cassandras.💀 😆
I think the "Plume" dynamics upset Covid Aware people because it sounds like droplets to them. It sort of is and it sort of isn't. I think, in the early days at least "airborne" meant "Spreads everywhere in the air" and "droplets" meant it "falls out of the air eventually."
Plumes are kind of like some of one and some of the other.

2024-05-20 02:20:06

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There's a good ted talk on plumes and transmission of disease (2018ish). I posted it awhile back (forget when). Related to your post here.🥳
The best way to understand Covid transmission imo is plumes. It's not popular with the Zero Covid crowd, I guess(?), but idgaf. :catjam:

2024-05-19 23:09:13

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Typically amygdala problems show up as an inability to recognize threats. USUALLY this produces psychotic behavior where the person is unable to interpret someone as non-threatening.
I guess it's possible damage could also suppress threat awareness? I don't know of lit on that tbh. I'd have to dig around...

2024-05-19 22:55:17

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There is no arable land in Singapore. Singapore imports almost all its food and water. It is as self-sustainable as Las Vegas.💀

2024-05-19 22:50:52

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What part of "One Party Hyper Capitalist Banking State Off-Shore of Indonesia" would make anyone think it's a sunny place there?😆

2024-05-19 22:47:10

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Singapore is Really Dark, tbh. Things are Not Good wrt Covid.
Singapore is dark enough that I'm concerned about saying anything about Singapore online at all.
So I don't.

2024-05-19 22:43:58

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Yup I think so. It was in the early 1900s so I don't know if they knew the biological changes, but yeah it was "Brain" and "Paralysis" as I recalled.💀

2024-05-19 16:52:47

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Yeah unfortunately the "pea" part in "beach pea" isn't as optimistic as we might've hoped.💀
There was an attempt to eat them in the early 20th century because, well, food up here ain't so plentiful. But it doesn't go well.

2024-05-18 05:02:03

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Right now, we're in the phase of the 2008 CDO collapse where the mortgages were starting to default but the S&P rated everything AAA anyway.
We're in the "Inflate" part. The Stakeholders (politics, business, gov't) are pumping up a huge balloon, full of cheap foreign labor and "inexplicable productivity losses" and "hybrid immunity" and empty, fake metrics.
It's complete fraud.
The funny part is that I think the same thing is happening that happened in the CDO collapse; they faked the securities ratings so hard that they don't even know what reality is now. They are just as blind as we are.
But this isn't money they're playing with - they can't just get Uncle Fed to print them more...

2024-05-18 04:58:40

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What is Prevalence?
Well, it's a claim about how WideSpread something is. The idea being that if Something is Bad, but it Isn't Widespread, then it's Okay.
Q1: IS it okay if it's rare? If only 8 Black men are lynched by the KKK every year, should we point out how many Black men aren't and be satisfied? "Rare" isn't useful as a moral argument at all.
Q2: Does "rare" mean it won't happen to YOU or someone you love? No. Not even close. Prevalence has no use there. If it's very rare for a bullet to fall out of the sky and hit a child - but it hits YOUR kid, you can't plead "Prevalence". Your kid is still dead.
Q3: Does Prevalence tell us what to do? No, because prevalence would only - at best - tell you about the past (or, if your metrics are good - the present. More on that in a minute). It doesn't tell you anything about the future. If you've flipped a coin 800 times and it's always been tails, don't bet your life on it being tails for # 801
Q4: Even granting those three as "Okay". Where are our metrics? WE HAVE NO METRICS NOW TO SEE IF THESE THINGS ARE ACTUALLY PREVALENT. WE HAVE NO ACTUAL DATA. The stakeholders stopped testing, they stopped reporting, they didn't report to begin with, they shut down sewer testing, they make hospitals not report, they don't record Covid in hospitals & deaths, etc. etc. And they intentionally stick to a definition of "Covid" that keeps most "Prevalence" off the books. WE HAVE NO VALID METRICS TO TELL IF HARM FROM COVID IS EVEN PREVALENT, SO HOW CAN ANYONE USE PREVALENCE AS AN ARGUMENT FOR ANYTHING.
Conclusion: The Go Long Stakeholders are either a) high on their own farts or b) pushing the biggest, most devastatingly destructive fraud in - maybe ever.

2024-05-18 04:48:42

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Basically, the Short position is supported by:
1) All the Scientific evidence. There are more papers saying Covid Fucks You Over and How Covid Fucks You Over than there are farts in a Lumber Yard.
2) All the Non-Stakeholders support a Short. The Big Journals publish clear papers on Covid Fucks Us Up. Cell, Nature, Science.
3) Only the Stakeholders support a Long position. And their support is based exclusively on PrEvALenCe; Go Long on Covid because Covid May Be Bad but it Isn't Happening to Many People.
So let's fucking look at Prevalence.

2024-05-18 04:46:29

One way to think of Covid is like economics.
If you're Zero Covid, you're Shorting Covid. You're betting Covid turns out to be bad and does significant damage.
Minimizers and Return to Normals are going Long on Covid.
What's really weird, in this case, is that all the evidence and all the traditional authorities support the Short Position (This wasn't true in 2006 btw). But everybody is Going Long.
To me, that makes it the worst fraud of our lifetimes. Maybe of many lifetimes.

2024-05-14 19:25:50

One of my favorite plants of the North Shore:
The Beach Pea. Lathyrus japonicus.
(Yes that's right: Japonicus. Japan.)
A coastal beach plant that is all over the temperate northern hemisphere's coasts.
AND the depths of Lake Superior.
A reminder that I may be thousands of miles from the coast, but I technically live on the ocean.
https://media.zeroes.ca/media_attachments/files/112/441/071/695/763/436/original/c6acbe543c08d119.jpg

2024-05-10 17:15:55

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Yeah temp foreign workers are very easy to take advantage of, which is why they're well-preferred.
When I was on a student Visa here, I was in a pretty tight spot @ one point because the Professors in my department wouldn't stop screaming @ the American students about U.S. politics (during class time, btw), demanding we literally vote for their preferred candidates.
I decided to throw my cards on it, and the dept. caved. But I had to be willing to be deported to have the argument. And Deportation for me meant a) the end of my grad work, b) the end of employment, c) the loss of all health care, and d) the loss of a place to live.
Stakes are very high when you're on a visa.

2024-05-09 19:54:51

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Elites always use immigration as a direct assault on worker's wages. Always have! Ever since my great-great grandfather was brought over from Poland to break an Italian coal miner strike, after they were brought in to break the Black and Irish strikes.
It's just fucking supply and demand. If you are bleeding workers, you need to either increase supply or increase pay.
They are currently bleeding workers real bad.
Solution: increase supply of workers.

2024-05-09 19:46:20

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My municipality currently pays ~$400/night to house refugees and immigrants in hotels.
We have a whole tent city down by the marina and there are two tents in the woods by my house.
A kid froze to death two blocks from me and two men died in the park where my daughter used to play.
Why is it like this?
Because the dead men and the tent dwellers aren't functional enough to load groceries @ Loblaws for rock bottom wages and they can't be put in seats @ the local diploma mill.
But these refugees can.
That's why.

2024-05-09 19:39:08

EU estimates it's losing 1 million fulltime workers/year to Long Covid.
This is why Immigration policies are like they are in Canada since 2020, btw.
https://www.ft.com/content/bb09a03d-4a87-4cea-ae87-986769fd4680
https://media.zeroes.ca/media_attachments/files/112/412/769/549/210/284/original/a41006199eb5dfb3.png

2024-04-17 23:36:32

Q: What's
7% per event X
3/a year X
your entire life
work out to?
*counts on fingers*
Oh. Fuck.