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Die Causa Fischer zeigt gerade wieder mal, dass viele hierzulande die Covid-Jahre noch nicht verarbeitet haben. #schweiz #covid #eishockey

I know you don’t need more proof but this administration is _actively pursuing injuring pregnant people and children_.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/16/covid-vaccine-recommendation-kids-pregnant-people-data

I’m really curious with everyone in my extended family that got the flu vaccine but not Covid. You can get both together, have to go out of your way to refuse the Covid one.
Why?

“What’s exciting is that we can now point to a specific viral component that can be redesigned. It means future adenoviral vaccines can keep all their advantages while sidestepping the rare immune misfire that causes VITT”
Scientists Finally Solve the Mystery Behind Rare COVID Vaccine Blood Clots
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-finally-solve-the-mystery-behind-rare-covid-vaccine-blood-clots/

Universal-Nasenspray gegen Atemwegsinfekte: Meilenstein in Stanford erreicht
Forscher der Universität Stanford haben ein Nasenspray entwickelt, das im Laborversuch monatelangen Schutz gegen Covid-19 und Krankenhauskeime bietet.

Day 2/? without caffeine: maybe I just have COVID

Day 13 of this cold. Flu/Covid test is negative. What mystery ailment has me in its clutches?

Nach sechs Jahren - Putins Gäste müssen nicht mehr in Covid-Quarantäne #News #Nachrichten

Gerade gelernt, die #LongCovid-"Strategie" in Deutschland sei weit fortgeschritten. -
Ja, so hab ich auch geguckt.
https://www.

OECD-Untersuchung: Folgen von Long Covid belasten Wirtschaft und Gesundheitssysteme
Ein Bericht der OECD warnt vor den Kosten von Long Covid-Erkrankungen. Durch eine bessere Patientenversorgung ließen sich diese jedoch senken.

on the reality of the covid pandemic : that never ended
🔁 https://brennan.day/the-pandemic-never-ended-we-only-pretend-it-did/

The Pandemic Never Ended. We Only Pretend it Did
Six years into COVID-19, the world has moved on while the virus continues to disable millions. An examination of the ongoing pandemic, long COVID, and our collective failure to prevent a mass disabling event.

2024-25 COVID vaccine 80% effective against death, CDC estimates:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/2024-25-covid-vaccine-80-effective-against-death-cdc-estimates

Neehee. Niet doen.
De impact van covid is hoger dan die van griep maar toch prikken we griep vanaf 60 jaar en covid pas vanaf 70? Wat is daar de logica achter?
Gezondheidsraad: leeftijdsgrens coronaprik mag van 60 naar 70-plus https://nos.nl/l/2605766

Gezondheidsraad: leeftijdsgrens coronaprik mag van 60 naar 70-plus
Het aantal ziekenhuisopnames en sterfgevallen is de afgelopen jaren afgenomen, maar de ziektelast van coronabesmettingen is nog altijd hoger dan griep.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Universal-Nasenspray gegen Atemwegsinfekte: Meilenstein in Stanford erreicht

If my math is right this means if you get COVID say 5 times the probability you get long COVID goes up to more than 95%

Welp, this will be my last run until after surgery. Is there a Walkers of Mastodon, lol? 😆 I will be doing more walking and light elliptical use.
I've had multiple instances of collapsed vestibular episodes, and I'm done powering through this in the interest of not losing my hearing, or worse. I'm one stubborn son of a bitch, but I've been doing more damage to my body over the last 14 months than I should have been (under the guise of this being long covid and part of …

Federal Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/health/vaccines-covid-acip-malone-kennedy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p116#a260206p116

from my link log —
Covid-19 will never become endemic.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155
saved 2022-01-16

Why Covid-19 will never become endemic
For most of the pandemic Australia has worked to contain the virus through evidence-based public health measures such as border closures, case finding, contact tracing, quarantine, social distancing, vaccines and, at times, lockdown. Sadly, the weaponisation of lockdown as a pointscoring issue and emotional trigger has led to a conflation of lockdown with all other public health measures, most of which do not impinge on freedoms. Denial is a major theme during the pandemic.

CDC delays report showing covid vaccine benefits, scientists say - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/09/covid-vaccine-report-delayed/

COVID may have killed significantly more people in the U.S. in the first two years of the pandemic than official records indicate, with as many as one overlooked death for every five recorded ones. That brings the total to nearly one million deaths just in 2020 and 2021.
That calculation comes from research published today in Science Advances that seeks to understand how many COVID deaths fell through the cracks of official reporting systems. The untallied cases show the burden of the …

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show
We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say

Während der #Coronapandemie sank die #Luftverschmutzung deutlich.
Eine Studie zeigt, dass dadurch weniger Hydroxyl Radikale entstanden, die normalerweise #Methan abbauen. In der Fo…

Treibhausgas: Saubere Luft während der Coronapandemie ließ Methananteil steigen
Als im Kampf gegen Covid-19 die Weltwirtschaft zum Stillstand kam, wurde die Luft messbar sauberer. Das hatte unerwartete Folgen für ein potentes Treibhausgas.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Universal-Nasenspray gegen Atemwegsinfekte: Meilenstein in Stanford erreicht

I've started watching *This England* on iView in Australia. I think it's a pretty good laying out of what happened in the UK with the policy decisions around Covid. While it's based on fact it is fictionalised.
#ThisEngland #TV

Der Rückgang der Kinoeintritte folgt einer Tendenz, die sich seit 2010 abzeichnete. Covid ist nur ein Unterbruch. Hauptgrund ist die Schwäche des amerikanischen Kinos. Diese Filme machen nur noch 56% der Eintritte aus.

Captain COVID
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: please don't come after me.
#satire #potus45

Domestic box office revenue is off to its strongest start since the pandemic, aided by The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which has made $191M in North America (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/07/2026-box-domestic-office-start

Theaters flex strongest run since COVID
"The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" delivered the year's biggest domestic opening.

Congratulations to Ireland's agricultural contractors and their haulier friends. Their sudden intervention is like a new COVID lockdown, and it's exactly what the country needs (six years and a month after the first version): a spring of working from home, walking everywhere (worrying about toilet paper shortages?) and not burning petrol or diesel. If it lasts long enough, our fossil fuel reserves will last until the ships from Hormuz show up again.

Looks like the rate of long COVID after a acute infection is 40% or higher...
**in young healthy adults**
https://www.amjmedsci.org/article/S0002-9629(26)00103-5/fulltext

🄸ndus🅅alley

Maybe there is hope.
"All of the death rates were higher in states where more people claimed to pray daily. Only cancer and COVID-19 were correlated significantly with Trump’s percentage of the vote."
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1…

There are two wolves inside you. You used to hardly ever get wolves, and two at a time would have been unthinkable. Covid really HAS weakened your immune system.

Happy covid-19 day to all that observe.

This is the first time I've done a grocery shop on an acoustic bike with the trailer on since before #Covid. Wish me luck getting back up the hill!
#BikeTooter

Har inte mått så här sen första covid svängen - var går man för att få ett ketamindropp där de inte släpper upp en innan kroppen mår bra igen?

Treibhausgas: Saubere Luft während der Coronapandemie ließ Methananteil steigen
Als im Kampf gegen Covid-19 die Weltwirtschaft zum Stillstand kam, wurde die Luft messbar sauberer. Das hatte unerwartete Folgen für ein potentes Treibhausgas.

“something big is happening” gushes an AI bro, comparing AI to the arrival of covid

It's almost 1 in the morning but the kid brought home a nasty cold from school (COVID negative on RT-LAMP but stuffy and sore throat and generally not having a good time) and gave it to us.
Slept a good chunk of the day and now I'm cleaning up the lab.
Every time I think I've put away all the random wafers I find another cassette buried somewhere.
Anyway, this bench is slightly less of a disaster now. Still have a lot of random samples to organize whuch might be…

Can you even buy an acoustic longtail #CargoBike these days with smaller rear wheel (ideally also with steel frame)? The only one I can find is the Yuba Mundo Lux, which has a 26" rear wheel. Terns and xtracycles are all bosch-equipped (booo proprietary frame!)
I get that covid and tariffs have cratered the US bike market, but surely someone's still out there selling a basic…

Federal Judge strikes down RFK Jr's COVID and childhood illness vaccine decisions, stating that science was not used in making them.
#covid #rfkjr #vaccines

Judge Strikes Down RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policies in Blow to Trump’s Health Agenda
Ruling on a lawsuit brought by several prominent medical organizations, a district court said the federal government did not base its decisions on science in limiting Covid shots and changing the childhood immunization schedule.

When I see The Pitt flashbacks to the mentor dying of COVID, I think about my Auntie Baby (RIP) in the Philippines dying of COVID in spring of 2020. She had the best care money could buy there (USA trained doctors and equipment courtesy of my wealthy cousin) but no anti-virals and no vaccines.

@… Das ausgezeichnete Buch "The Psychology of Pandemics" hat ein Post-Covid-19-Update bekommen. Der Preis allerdings ist *RÖCHEL*: https://academic.oup.com/book/60520

It seems like an odd choice for this piece to not note that James Cameron is not a US citizen (he's Canadian and withdrew his application for US citizenship decades ago).
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/23/james-cameron-left-…

‘Everybody’s at each other’s throats’: James Cameron says he has left the US permanently
Avatar director, who moved to New Zealand after the Covid pandemic says he will soon be a citizen of a country where people ‘are, for the most part, sane’

Fast schon so lang her, dass es nicht mehr wahr scheint: Vor sechs Jahren an #Ostern 2020 schlug die Covid Pandemie so richtig durch, Gottesdienstbesuch war nicht erlaubt.
Wir feierten den vierten gestreamten Gottesdienst mit dem gleichen Predigttext wie dieses Jahr. Er ist immer noch abrufbar:

Not Enough Workers for the Job - The American Prospect https://prospect.org/2026/03/19/understaff-workplace-business-covid-cvs-pharmacies-hotels-grocery-stores/

Not Enough Workers for the Job
Understaffing has become an epidemic in American workplaces of all kinds.

@… @… whilst I know none of you personally, it saddens me that things have become so divisive.
I think AI as a talking point has become the successor to COVID-19, vaccination, and so on.

YEAH! I have been selected for the "India-Germany Climate and Energy Journalism Programme" of @…
It'll be a great rehearsal to my 3 month stay as Media Ambassador of Uni Tübingen and #RBSG in 2019, and came back just before Covid stopped everything.
…

Baltimore Drove Down Gun Deaths.
Now Trump Has Slashed Funding for That Work.
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/baltimore-guns-community-violence-intervention-homicide-decline-arpa-federal-funds/…

Baltimore Drove Down Gun Deaths. Now Trump Has Slashed Funding for That Work. - KFF Health News
A spike in shootings during the covid pandemic propelled community violence intervention, a field that aims to stop gun deaths at the root. Baltimore used federal funds to launch a violence prevention office. But President Donald Trump has throttled such funds and instead is sending troops into cities.

Finally, #PhysicsGirl feels well enough to host a science video after years of dealing with Long COVID!
https://youtu.be/B3m3AMRlYfc

Covid and flu shots in limbo as Trump administration mulls appeal over vaccine panel (Erika Edwards/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-flu-shots-limbo-trump-rfk-jr-vaccine-panel-appeal-rcna265131
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p99#a260327p99

New Study Finally Uncovers the Molecular Trigger Behind Rare COVID Vaccine Blood Clots
https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-finally-uncovers-the-molecular-trigger-behind-rare-covid-vaccine-blood-clots/

Between 2020-2022 a lot of open source projects died, due to:
1. Covid pandemic
2. The introduction of firing for shareholder value
3. ChatGPT

Chuck Lorre Productions 780 - Vanity Cards
"Long time ago, before COVID, I lost my sense of smell..."
https://chucklorre.com/?q=780

It feels weird to me that they can estimate uncertainty to that degree of accuracy. https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116091704024541005

No where near enough parking for those who drive in. Can't get a monthly pass as they have oversubscribed and a waiting list that may take God only knows how long before we get a spot. Bus system is less than reliable. Not enough space so we have to 'hotel'. Even before COVID we were alternating weekly for remote working and at-office due to parking spaces.
<sarcasm>
I don't see any problems of more of us being at my work location.
</sarcasm>

Top Brussels official urges Europeans to work from home and drive less.
https://www.politico.eu/article/europeans-urged-to-work-from-home-and-drive-less-as-eu-warns-of-long-crisis/

Top Brussels official urges Europeans to work from home and drive less
Energy commissioner says the oil crisis triggered by Iran war will bring lengthy upheaval, in a speech reminiscent of the Covid pandemic.

Source Global: the US consulting market is set to grow 7% in 2026, the fastest pace in the post-COVID era, as companies seek advice on profiting from AI (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3cd94803-909c-4617-99b0-a1b5061f93ad

La fraude aux allocations représente moins de 30% de l'ensemble de la fraude sociale.
#Belgique #fraudesociale

Guter Podcast vom HR zu LongCovid/MECFS/PAIS.
Aufklärung über das Thema ist so, so wichtig!
(Was mir ein bisschen fehlte war wieder mal der Aspekt Infektionsschutz, plus es werden Zahlen zur Häufigkeit genannt ohne die Unschärfen dieser Zahlen zu thematisieren. Aber man kann nicht alles haben.)
#LongCovid

Long Covid: Der Kampf um Anerkennung
Atemnot, Erschöpfung, kognitive Ausfälle. Für viele Menschen folgt auf eine Corona-Infektion die schwere neuroimmunologische Erkrankung ME/CFS, bei der schon duschen, einkaufen oder telefonieren zu massiver Erschöpfung führen kann. ME/CFS steht für Myalgische Enzephalomyelitis und Chronisches Fatigue-Syndrom. Inzwischen leben hunderttausende Menschen in Deutschland mit Long Covid - und werden dennoch oft nicht ernst genommen. Sie kämpfen nicht nur mit einer schweren, oft unsichtbaren Erk…

Looking forward to #FOSDEM this weekend but I doubt it will be a recurring event for me, with it being in peak flu and COVID season. :blobcateyes: May my stack of FFP2 masks protect me well.

Ich bin ja eine friedfertige, humorvolle Frau, die eigentlich Dinge gelassen nehmen kann. Aber was sich da besonders seit einem Jahr abspielt, international und mit der Regierung Merz in Deutschland, das setzt mir enorm zu, steigert meinen Stress und erstickt allmählich meine Gelassenheit.
Als sei ein Aggressionsvirus, ansteckender als Covid-19 unterwegs. Und was erschütternd ist, manche wie Katherina #Reiche

As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

EMA recommends approving Moderna's combined flu, COVID-19 vaccine
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5759312-ema-recommends-moderna-covid-flu/

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Treibhausgas: Saubere Luft während der Coronapandemie ließ Methananteil steigen

Kim Crawley asked to promote their COIVID-safe (not only aware, but actively avoiding) Dating site. If you've waited for that kind of a service, look here: https://covidsafedate.com/we-need-your-financial-support/

A little over two weeks, I caught a cold from one of my kids. Like his cold, it was pretty minor - about a day of sore throat, some minor congestion, and lots of fatigue.
The congestion and fatigue have remained. I figured it developed into a sinus infection (something that happens a lot with me, I have awful sinuses/ears), and a few days ago I went on antibiotics in case it was bacterial or strep or something.
Now I'm wondering if I had covid! I wish we still did testing.…

Me: "wow I have surprisingly little reaction to eating gluten this week"
Also me: "the brain fog and achiness from the COVID vaccine sucks, but why do I have all this acne suddenly"

10, 20, 200, ora si paga o si paga.
Dopo tutto è tutta colpa del covid 🤷‍♂️.

COVID masks were a defense in the virus' war on humanity.
ICE masks are a weapon in Trump's war on humanity.

I don’t like having a cold. It’s worse now than it was before Covid, because it’s “just a cold” but it’s maybe not. It’s not just a sound excuse to stay in bed all day and rest, it’s maybe the end. I’m 61 with diabetes and some lung damage from decades of smoking, so that could happen.
Gotta go test…

So many “I went to this event and weirdly I got COVID immediately following it” posts

I’m learning about the Nipah virus outbreak in South Asia.
I’m getting the same feeling that I had in late December 2019, which led me to tell my wife to start buying toilet paper.
#nipah #covid #pandemic

#MaskUp "Researchers say the strain could evade protection from current Covid shots"
New Covid variant has been identified and is already spreading in 25 states | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/health/covid-variant-us-travelers-wastewater-b2944619.html

Sequential Counterfactual Inference for Temporal Clinical Data: Addressing the Time Traveler Dilemma
Jingya Cheng, Alaleh Azhir, Jiazi Tian, Hossein Estiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21168 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21168 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21168
arXiv:2602.21168v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Counterfactual inference enables clinicians to ask "what if" questions about patient outcomes, but standard methods assume feature independence and simultaneous modifiability -- assumptions violated by longitudinal clinical data. We introduce the Sequential Counterfactual Framework, which respects temporal dependencies in electronic health records by distinguishing immutable features (chronic diagnoses) from controllable features (lab values) and modeling how interventions propagate through time. Applied to 2,723 COVID-19 patients (383 Long COVID heart failure cases, 2,340 matched controls), we demonstrate that 38-67% of patients with chronic conditions would require biologically impossible counterfactuals under naive methods. We identify a cardiorenal cascade (CKD -> AKI -> HF) with relative risks of 2.27 and 1.19 at each step, illustrating temporal propagation that sequential -- but not naive -- counterfactuals can capture. Our framework transforms counterfactual explanation from "what if this feature were different?" to "what if we had intervened earlier, and how would that propagate forward?" -- yielding clinically actionable insights grounded in biological plausibility.
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COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show (Meghan Bartels/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-killed-150-000-more-people-in-its-first-two-years-than-official-toll/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p136#a260318p136

from my link log —
FAQs on aerosol transmission of COVID-19.
https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols
saved 2020-10-06 https://dotat.at/:/8RYZW.html

FAQs on Protecting Yourself from Aerosol Transmission
FAQs on Protecting Yourself from COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission Shortcut to this page: https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols Version: 1.88, 13-Aug-2021 Click here to jump over the scientific & historical details and go straight to the recommendations, Click here for automatic translation into many l...

Vancouver airport parkade might never be finished, construction halted 6 years ago
#YVR #Vancouver #airport #parking
“We see fewe…

Vancouver airport parkade might never be finished, construction halted 6 years ago
The parkade was part of a $9 billion expansion plan announced in 2018, but construction was halted in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Je wilt de mensen met long COVID die wegens ‘psychische klachten’ in de WIA terechtkomen niet de kost geven.
Asielopvang en WIA-uitkeringen komende jaren miljarden duurder dan verwacht https://www.nu.nl/politiek/6390587/asielop

Imagine turning 22 during covid, you've just finished celebrating properly entering adulthood and think (even with Biden) that things might make a turn around for the middle to late 2020s globally, it wouldn't be fun but at least the economy will manage to hold up the facade of trying to work for now.
Now it's 2026, you're pushing 30 and damn near everything seems to want me homeless and dead.

This is sort of a WTAF? moment: "and the effects of a sudden supply shock on US defense readiness have never been modeled." And we have the recent COVID SCS (Supply Chain Shock) that apparently didn't result in lessons learned. And so many discussions about rare earths and essential minerals and sourcing concerns, apparently more lessons unlearned. Somehow I think the WW II industrial strategists actually did think about these problems, but hey, it's not high tech AI-ba…

This is sort of a WTAF? moment: "and the effects of a sudden supply shock on US defense readiness have never been modeled." And we have the recent COVID SCS (Supply Chain Shock) that apparently didn't result in lessons learned. And so many discussions about rare earths and essential minerals and sourcing concerns, apparently more lessons unlearned. Somehow I think the WW II industrial strategists actually did think about these problems, but hey, it's not high tech AI-ba…

Neue Studie aus Wien - Corona-Impfung wirkt ab diesem Alter überraschend #News #Nachrichten

B2B media brand DatacenterDynamics says revenue rose 175% to £11M per year since 2020 amid the AI boom, and it hit 22.5M views in 2025, up from 2024's 17.3M (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/the-tec…

The technology news website hiring not firing with £11m turnover
Tech site Data Center Dynamics (DCD) has seen its traffic and turnover increase year on year following an AI boom and Covid.

Uncovering the evolutionary limits of the COVID-19 virus
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-uncovering-evolutionary-limits-covid-virus.html

Captain COVID
bot by @…
No laws were broken in the making of this bot: please don't torture me.
#satire #potus45

The Georgian Surrogacy
Initially created by two Australian Mum's who navigated the complicated world of doing surrogacy in Tbilisi, Georgia during Covid in 2020...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/georgian-surrogacy/…

What will people do when AI can handle most current white-collar tasks?
I don't know.
And that's the whole point.
Nobody knew what displaced agricultural workers would do, either,
-- until they did it.
The absence of a visible next chapter isn't evidence that there won't be one.
It's evidence that we're bad at predicting what humans will invent when constraints shift.

Everything is awesome (why I'm an optimist)
February is the month the internet decided we're all going to die. In the span of about two weeks, Matt Shumer's Something Big is Happening racked up over 80 million views on X with its breathless comparison of AI to the early days of COVID, telling his non-tech friends and

If you're running a conference, please have a COVID policy that includes mandatory indoor masking for everyone but active presenters.
I, and many people like me, cannot participate in indoor events without _everyone_ masking.
Thank you.

Lit-dropped Noe Valley in defense of Prop I and got a solid workout 😅 This is how we're gonna win and preserve funding for social housing. #sfpol
- If you live in SF and haven't sent a letter yet: https://dsasf.org/protectpropi

Save Prop I and Affordable Housing Funds
On Wednesday February 25, billionaire Mayor Daniel Lurie and Supervisor Bilal Mahmood announced a tax cut for wealthy real estate investors. They propose to repeal 2020's Proposition I, which has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for rent relief and affordable housing. Although Prop I revenue has never been fully dedicated to social housing as intended, it has funded over $200 million to help San Franciscans afford housing as of 2024, including $42 million for the strongest Covid rent re…

Studie Arzneimittelhersteller: "Der Studie zufolge gab es einen Sprung beim Krankenstand von 2021 auf 2022, der maßgeblich auf Atemwegserkrankungen wie Grippe, RSV und Covid-Infektionen zurückgehe. Seitdem habe sich der Krankenstand zwar etwas verringert, bleibt aber erhöht."
(Die Arzneimittelhersteller plädieren für mehr Impfungen, ich plädiere zusätzlich für Luftfilter und Maskennormalisierung.)
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Effekt über vier Jahre - Hoher Krankenstand kostet Wirtschaft bis zu 160 Milliarden
Sind Beschäftigte in Deutschland zu oft krank? Eine neue Studie stützt Kritiker. Die großen Arbeitsausfälle haben demnach erhebliche Auswirkungen für die deutsche Wirtschaft.

Study finds more than 150,000 uncounted Covid-19 deaths | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/18/study-finds-150000-uncounted-covid-19-deaths-early-pandemic/?utm_campaign=rss

Gefährliche Gerinnsel - Forscher lösen tödliches Rätsel nach COVID-Impfung #News #Nachrichten

Looked into VCFEast.
I cannot find any sort of policies on code of conduct, COVID, etc. Like none at all, not even "we don't have that". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Captain COVID
bot by @…
No laws were broken in the making of this bot: let's not get carceral over comedy.
#satire #potus45

The Spectator has 113K subscribers, a record, print is its fastest-growing type of subscription, and it is offering its subscription service to external clients (Freddie Sayers/The Spectator)
https://spectator.com/article/the-spectators-record-subscriber-numbers/

The Spectator’s record subscriber numbers
Something remarkable is happening at the world’s oldest weekly magazine. After years of relatively flat subscriber numbers, The Spectator has surged past its Covid-era peak and now has more paying subscribers than at any point in its 198-year history. Today’s ABC circulation figures show that, while most of our competitors have been on a downward trajectory

Step 1, order covid test yesterday on Amazon for overnight delivery so I can quickly test
Step 2, Amazon telling me after the delivery window is over that “it now arrives tomorrow”
😒

from my link log —
What if the Flu isn’t “just the Flu?”
https://theair.substack.com/p/what-if-the-flu-isnt-just-the-flu
saved 2021-12-27

What if the Flu isn’t “just the Flu?”
The true death toll of flu points to the vast challenges of endemic Covid.

Trump somehow got worse on public health after covid (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/rfk-jr-moderna-vaccine
http://www.memeorandum.com/260217/p24#a260217p24

Earth is hotter than at any time in the last 125,000 years,
but the news media is moving on,
trying to keep on top of a fire hose of pressing news
—from the daily chaos of the Trump administration to the breaking developments in the war on Iran.
The shift in attention started during the COVID-19 pandemic and,
despite a temporary rebound,
has gathered pace in recent years:
Since its peak in 2021, global news coverage of climate change has dropped 38 p…

The Planet Is Overheating, But You Might Not Know It From the News - Inside Climate News
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos and Jeffrey Epstein.

An ME/CFS erkrankt - Samuel: „Mein Tod soll nicht umsonst gewesen sein“ #News #Nachrichten

Religion Clause: Supreme Court Denies Review of RFRA Claims by Military Who Refused Covid Vaccine
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2026/02/supreme-court-denies-review-of-rfra.html