But the stock prices rise on every piece of cost cutting news so these chaps pad their resumes with how their tenure at company X led to a 32% increase in stock price. Then they just trade each other around the tech industry round robin style as CEOs tanking the products and morale of the employees as they go. But, they retire at 42 years old with a zillion dollars and don't have to care about us little people.

If they have people of any age who aren't doing their jobs, they should be asked to improve or leave. Believing that productivity or innovation must be age related is stupid on their part. There are many stories of people being laid off after setting sales records in their division or training new teams on the cloud. IBM laid off older employees for two reasons: their pay rate and their pensions. Innovation problems at IBM are the fault of management who care only about cutting costs. They refuse to invest in innovation so they have none.

No idea if this law will actually fly, but I wonder if it would have the result they hope for anyway. I feel like FaceBook and Twitter have been giving conservatives a lot of leeway in order to avoid the appearance of censoring them. If they were to publish and follow guidelines, it could actually get worse for conservatives.

So no recognition of the fact that vaccinated people tend to have a much milder case and almost never die from Covid compared to the unvaccinated population? Vaccinated people are statistically having a lot easier time of "living our lives" because we have very little chance of serious illness from this virus.

There's something sad about considering a huge public health effort to save millions of lives as totalitarian. I mean, if ONLY unvaccinated people could get sick and ONLY unvaccinated people could possibly be affected by future mutations then the rest of us would really have no reason to try to protect them from themselves. But perhaps you've noticed, a few vaccinated people do get sick and do die (very many fewer than unvaccinated but not nothing) and the virus does mutate. So the rest of us are allowed to care that the unvaccinated are breeding grounds for disaster.

The unvaccinated are better breeding grounds for mutations that put the rest of the population in danger. We're allowed to care that a bunch of people are idiots and risking the health of everyone else. There may not be anything legal or ethical that we can do about it, but we're allowed to be angry at the obstinance and stupidity. It does affect us all.

The original comment said "anti-vax" not unvaccinated. There's a difference between coming up with excuses to avoid getting the vaccine when you definitely could and not being vaccinated because you don't have transportation, time off work etc. It is useful to identify the reasons why people aren't getting vaccinated and solve what we can.

Unless the remaining 64% are unvaccinated because they are anti-vax, then the original comment doesn't apply to them.

I care because I don't want to die because other people are so stupid they want to use their bodies as petri dishes to cultivate more variants and see if we can't conjure one up that's different enough that the vaccines don't protect against it, or more deadly or both.

Being vaccinated means your body fights off the infection more readily, giving the virus less opportunity to kill you/mutate/spread to others.

You're not going to persuade the hard core anti-vaxxers with anything. But mocking has been shown to slow down the "infection" of new victims. People who are on the fence might be pushed to the side of sanity upon seeing someone get smacked down for being an idiot.

I read that it's because of the length of time that the vaccine has been in use and collecting data about how long the protection lasts. They set aside a bunch of non-safety related regulations in order to bring the vaccines to market. They were able to get safety and short term efficacy information so fast because the damn virus is so contagious. Once that happened the big push was over and other approvals are happening at something closer to their usual pace.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/p...

Asshat. Wearing a mask is a mark of concern for those around you. It shows that you accept the word of disease specialists over politicians. How in the freaking heck is it dehumanizing to try to protect people around you from the possibility that you have a potentially deadly infection? It is hateful to put your own inconvenience above the safety of others. It is hateful to call a disease that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in this country alone "hysteria." Get over yourself, put away your anti-virtue signaling. Wear a mask, get vaccinated and help us all get back to normal life.

There's truth there, but there are also a number of drugs that are illegal mostly because it's politically and puritanically motivated. I think you'd need more research to understand which recreational drugs aren't any worse than alcohol and tobacco. You'd have a hard time justifying prison time for something that medically isn't worse than tobacco.

'News for nerds, stuff that matters' covers a lot of ground. Why should nerds be only interested in obviously technical stories. I'm just happy we had one that wasn't about politics.

The bigger problem with failing to achieve herd immunity and stamping out the virus is mutations. Every infection is a chance to produce a new variant that the vaccines do not protect against. New strains could be more deadly and/or antibodies against old strains might be ineffective. If it weren't a risk to the whole population, I'd say let the idiots get sick. Well, that and if they get sick and end up with chronic conditions the rest of us will foot the bill for their stupidity.