Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

...and now New Zealand...

Amazingly there are extreme left NZ politicians who want NZ to go back to their zero covid strategy. All the vulnerable have been vaccinated. Give it up.

tl;dr: zero covid was a gigantic waste.

Singapore is very close to 100% vaccinated; the remainder is almost all children too young to be vaccinated.

A friend of mine went to a festival a few weeks ago where over 100 people were infected out of 400 total. Only one hospitalization, and that person was in poor health. All the same, they got better quickly. Covid just isn't very dangerous to anyone young and reasonably healthy, vaccinated or not.

...though even more awful to wear than normal... Huge amount of dead space trapping CO2; kinda scary that the pilots are wearing this nonsense.

Funny enough, not all the flight attendants are. Some have simple cloth masks.

"Please dispose your mask when it becomes moist." - Austrian Airlines boarding announcement

Weird to see an attempt at a bit of, like, actual science rather than virtue signaling.

Seed word schemes should use a dictionary containing only swear words, insults, and racial epithets to encourage people to keep their seed secret.

Full-RBF after an expiry time, and the expiry time gets shorter and shorter as a deadline is reached.

"Ontario’s online proof-of-vaccination portal inaccessible outside of North America | Globalnews.ca" https://globalnews.ca/news/8260193/covid-travel-vaccine-passport-ontario-abroad/amp/

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

It's a website. And they geoblocked it. WTF.

Of course the water fountains are still shut off, so you'll buy^H^H^H for your safety.

Toronto Pearson International Departures.

They had to remove all the seating in the food court because of the vaccine passport nonsense. Meanwhile all the other seating is full of people eating.

#clownworld

https://www.alberta.ca/assets/documents/health-myocarditis-and-pericarditis-following-covid.pdf

Notice how Alberta Public Health doesn't actually quote the rate of myocarditis in young males. They just vaguely say it's more common, and that benefits outweigh the risks with no actual numbers. They even say young males can still get moderna!

...but the grovelling unvaccinated are fine.

California moves toward ban on gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-09/california-moves-toward-ban-on-gas-lawnmowers-and-leaf-blowers

"The new law applies to any engine that produces less than 25 gross horsepower, including lawn mowers, weed trimmers, chainsaws, golf carts, specialty vehicles, generators and pumps."

"...[California] state requirement that portable generators be zero-emission."

How the fuck do they expect to get zero-emission portable generators? The energy density of batteries doesn't even come close.

Lebanon left without power as grid shuts down - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-58856914

You know, if solar actually works as well as many people think it does, this should be a good time to showcase it's potential...

"The Insurgent Sleep Cycle"
https://youtu.be/iNDfOlN8Eoo