You see this kind of dogma pushing in so many places where you'd expect scientific objectivity to rule the day.

For example, we all know COVID is airborne. But the WHO put the word out that it wasn't, made up a "droplets" narrative that conveniently avoided triggering workplace safety rules in most countries, and sent forth legions of credentialed people to beat back any uncomfortable questions.

Now, years later, they've been embarrassed into addressing the misinformation they put out. But instead, they've just invented new terms: "infectious respiratory particles" that "spread through the air". They won't say "airborne", again because that would trigger workplace safety laws and public health rules.

On and on it goes, in so many fields.

Bingo.

He mentions why it looks old on the home page, point number 12.

My kids and I have been sick so much this year. We had two more rounds of COVID across our family since September. Other families we know are seeing the same thing. Before the pandemic a few colds and MAYBE a stomach flu type thing were the norm in a school year.

All I can take away from this is that the pandemic isn't over and being sick has made us more vulnerable. Not that anyone cares.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Retail investors are just exits for people who've been holding for the last couple of years.

Holders need a mania so they have someone to sell their worthless tokens to.

So a few whales make the price climb and get some media coverage going, retail storms in with the FOMO craze, and the smart money happily sells to retail. Demand dries up, the price falls, the dejected retail bagholders wait a few months and sell at a loss, and the game starts again.

Don't be the greater fool. You've missed this round.

When they load you into the trains, Iâ(TM)ll be taking photos to feed my Ai so folks never forget.

Until the next generation of you calls for censorship and forced speech.

Misinformation is free expression, comrade.

Yes, rampant inflation creates jobs.

Fuck off with those data points.

I voted for no one and am glad.

Where I am (Canada), COVID-19 is categorized as a Risk Group 3 human biopathogen , along with HIV, Monkeypox, SARS-1, West Nile, Yellow Fever, mad cow, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, rabies, chikungunya.

Legally, the RG3 pathogen is "a category of human pathogens that pose a high risk to the health of individuals and a low risk to public health and includes the human pathogens listed in Schedule 3. They are likely to cause serious disease in a human." Here is the text of the law with that definition.

Notice the legal difference between "public health" and "individual health"? Public health is mostly about managing group behaviors so that society can keep on doing what it does without being wiped out by disease.

What individuals should care about is individual health.

Just because COVID presents as a cold during its acute phase doesn't mean it's not doing heart or lung damage. I personally know three people who will likely never be the same after being infected. I have zero interest in ending up like them.

The pandemic is still raging - 1 in 19 people are estimated to be infected in Canada this week ) - but public health has decided it's under control "enough." If you're happy to be fuel for the economy, go nuts, I guess. If there were outbreaks of West Nile or Yellow Fever (same RG3 classification!) at work or schools, we sure as hell wouldn't be going there. But since really sick people vanish from public view, this is easy to keep a lid on.

We know that aerosolized COVID can float in enclosed spaces for hours, and that you can get infected by walking into a room long after an infected person was present if ventilation/filtration are poor. A decent FFP2 or N95 that fits you properly will significantly reduce your chances of getting sick. It's such a simple and easy thing to do.

Everyone thinks they aren't susceptible to propaganda, but no one is wearing a mask.

Good public transportation is always empty in Chicago, and it is always a city bus clogging up streets for my Uber.

Public transportation, even if on time, takes 150-300% longer than a car.

It keeps people poor by allowing them to live 90 minutes each way from work instead of making their bosses have to pay them better to afford to live closer.

How I spend my money IS expression and government in the US isn't allowed to censor me.

My freedom of speech = freedom to spend how I want to spend my savings.

You are aware that Facebook and prior Twitter took orders from the standing administration, correct?