Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

"The largest decrease in hesitancy between January and May by education group was in those with a high school education or less. Hesitancy held constant in the most educated group (those with a Ph.D.); by May Ph.D.’s were the most hesitant group."

https://www.upmc.com/media/news/072621-king-mejia-vaccine-hesitancy?s=09

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/566367-boston-mayor-compares-vaccine-passports-to-documentation-required-during

"There's a long history in this country of people needing to show their papers," Janey said during an interview "During slavery, post-slavery, as recent as you know what immigrant population has to go through here. We heard Trump with the birth certificate nonsense. Here we want to make sure that we are not doing anything that would further create a barrier for residents of Boston or disproportionally impact [Black, Indigenous or people of color] communities."

Toronto man does all the right things when crossing the Canada/U.S. border — but still gets stung with a $6,200 fine! - Rebel News
https://www.rebelnews.com/toronto_man_ari_kleiman_crossed_canada_u_s_border_6200_dollar_fine

tl;dr: he was in the US for less than four hours to get a medically necessary MRI. But even though he got a COVID-19 test in Canada, they wanted him to do a second one in those four hours to come back. Even though he's double vaxxed.

That makes _zero_ sense scientifically.

Australians Getting Ready To Overthrow Tyrannical Government—Wait, Nevermind, Seems They Gave Up All Their Guns | The Babylon Bee
https://babylonbee.com/news/australians-getting-ready-to-overthrow-tyrannical-government-oh-wait-they-gave-up-all-their-guns

Accurate.

@jeffcliff Ebola is a very, very, serious problem in places resistant to education, esp with strong cultural practices around handling dead bodies that are dangerous like the practice of family members washing bodies. But once that's overcome and you get a chance to train professionals it's really not that scary.

@jeffcliff wtf is that graph? Ebola is notoriously hard to transmit. Requires direct personal contact with bodily fluids after someone is obviously extremely sick. That's why it isn't considered a serious threat to the developed world: a bit of education about what to avoid and the availability of cheap PPE and disinfectants, and the risk drops dramatically and it stops spreading.

Success!

No issues getting into Mallorca. They didn't even check that I'd actually done a covid test (Spain itself doesn't care).

@drgo @excellion@bitcoinhackers.org I like how I knew exactly who you were talking about with no context.

She really is the craziest "Native American".

@verretor Fuck if I know. 😂 Like the Indian variant media stopped calling it that when cases fell without vaccination...

@verretor IIRC Alpha is what was detected in china, while Beta is (roughly) what spread around the world. Not sure how gamma and delta are time wise. Likely they _are_ in order, and conditions for gamma have only been recently advantageous.

Amsterdam Schiphol airport seems relatively lax re: covid. Decent number of people not wearing masks without a clear excuse and they don't seem to get hassled.

Of course, the customs officals weren't wearing any, including one standing out in the open in front of the automated passport lines; authorities get to do what they want.

Hopefully Spain is the same...

@verretor That's a retroactive name for the original main strains.

@drgo have you tried reindexing from scratch?

I'd also want to check if the exact inconsistencies are repeatable. Probably some debug log option to output exactly what is wrong.

If they're not repeatable, it's probably bad hardware.

@drgo got a high-res version of that log output?

@drgo It might be necessary make refusing government handouts a precondition to voting. :/ Not clear if society is stable otherwise.

@drgo You are making the fatal assumption that the proof has a basis in science...