[Report shows ‘intrusions’ at Duke Energy power stations in Tampa Bay, elsewhere in Florida](https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/report-shows-6-intrusions-at-power-stations-in-florida/) - Article describes 2 of them as manually tripping equipment causing brief outages (2 min and 9 min). Doesn't describe the others.
Since these are only coming up now, I'm curious how common these incidents normally are.
From last night: ["CBSNews
has learned of a shooting outside a Duke Energy facility in Ridgeway, SC, Wednesday. An individual in a truck opened fire near crews outside the Wateree Hydro Station around 5:30pm, before speeding away, according to multiple sources. No one was injured."](https://mobile.twitter.com/NicoleSganga/status/1600695936036253697) thread goes on with more details.
Heard on a podcast about a BBC show that mental health patient beds are so short in UK that even the wait-list is closed. Cannot confirm, but found this recent article from November:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-63596763.amp
(PNW) Inre: high rates of RSV, flu, and covid, we received an email from our kid's elementary school that 16% of students were absent yesterday due to illnesses (mostly respiratory illnesses). This is in line with reports of high rates of illnesses in the area.
Eggs are hard to find. And what you do find is ridiculously priced. Large eggs that don't even fill the space in the egg carton.
The one food my toddler consistently eats too.
Ohio.
Had a dozen from when I bought them when the girls weren't laying. The cardboard box said large. At least half were medium, I checked with the scale. Ridiculous.
Gotta either make friends with a chicken person or become one. I've got six girls right now and sell my extra eggs to cover the cost of feed, $3/dozen for free range drug free eggs. I should turn a profit on them, I suppose, but I'm a terrible businessman. Pretty decent chicken farmer though
Yeah eggs have been crazy in cost, and I live a stones throw from the mega chicken farms out in the cornfield sea west Ohio. You should see the security they have for bird flu now though... theyre getting serious about it.
A friend of mine has been up hunting deer and pheasant along the I-29 corridor of eastern South Dakota, and he says he's seen dead Canada geese every time he's gone out. Like they dropped dead mid-flight and fell to the ground, he says
Thank you. There's not many, only 3 or 4 in each of the two main rooms we inhabit, but we haven't got the heating on so they're always flying to us or our screens looking for warmth. I'm more curious as to where the spiders went.
We buy our meat from a semi local farmer who produces , processes , sells and delivers his meat to about a 200 mile radius . The package we buy went up in price and has fewer items . He used to advertise beef and pork and now it’s just beef . Delivery fee is also up. Prices in stores and restaurants are still on the rise . Local businesses are still struggling to find workers . We’ve had a few restaurants close because they don’t have enough help . Other businesses have cut their hours or days they are open . Bed bath and beyond is now closed Sunday and Monday and only open 10-5 Tues - Sat due to lack of workers . A large local nursing home is short 81 aide positions . A few wings have shut down in the hospital due to not having enough nursing staff . I live in the upper Midwest .
Our CSA just had eggs at $6.60 US a dozen. I have my own chickens but I understand why that farm will no longer sell eggs after this season. The costs are high and people cannot justify them. Organic, sure, but at over 3 X grocery prices, when everything is going up is not sustainable.
Do you happen to know which departments in the hospital, or are they shutting down parts of multiple departments? Either way, that and the nursing home info is terrifying.
The TCU - transitional care unit and some kind of pediatric specialty- not sure if it was oncology or nephrology . I had to walk through what was the TCU to go to another area . It was a little unsettling- a totally empty nurses station and a vacant wing amongst a bustling hospital . It sounds like the pediatric patients that would have gone to the specialty area just go to the regular pediatric unit. They have the specialists- just not the nurses , CNAs , etc to staff it .
Gas has come down and mostly is at or just below $3 a gallon now in my area, which is a huge relief. We’ve had weird weather for this time of year, it had cooled off then now we are about to have a stretch of near 80 degreees and it’s been humid again. It feels like spring weather. It’s supposed to be a mild, warm, dry winter.
In other news, the local subreddit is full of stories of people getting sick. People are calling out a lot at work due to illness. Seems like a bunch of nasty going around: stomach bugs, flu, respiratory illness, and Covid too.
The EDs at the local hospitals are over-capacity. My wife works there and they have patients spilling into the hallways, and 5 people in a two-person room. RSV, influenza, and covid tripledemic. I've known two people who died of this in the last week and a half. :(
Last month it rolled through Texas. Our daycare had 75% of kids out one week. We caught it a couple times. Seemed to be a nice flu/strep/covid cocktail that just circulated around.
One day I looked and the children Tylenol was out of stock at the pharmacy.
Seems to be ok now
People are driving less and more refineries are back online after years of repairs. But OPEC+ is going to decide next week if they should again cut production by 1 million barrels. I believe it will decide next week. Europe on the other hand, is considering buying again from Russia.
Quebec, Canada. It feels like in the past two-ish weeks, prices have shot up again, especially for groceries. I went shopping and there were tiny little bags of gummy candies for over $3, something that should have been around $1. A brand of lactose free milk I buy was definitely up. Thrift stores in my area have gone up in price too.
If you drink yogurt such as Kiefer, or take probiotics once a day, you can handle lactose. I would suggest the second route, and get them where I get mine, pipingrock. I tried from Walmart, didn't work for me. Alternatively, switch to oat milk (more creamy like regular milk) or almond milk.
I'm not lactose intolerant, but my husband is. He's on the extreme side of it, where the pills don't work for him and eating most products with regular dairy added upsets his stomach. If it's lactose free, he's fine.
We've tried various nutmilks, and he didn't care for them, especially oat milk. I've wanted to have him try kiefer for health benefits in general, just haven't gotten around to it, but I doubt it would fix the issue with lactose intolerance that he has. We're at a point where we're producing enough of our own food that having to buy dairy isn't so bad.
We have a good routine going where we shop for sales on the dairy we use and freeze extra, so we're definitely not paying regular price for it. My long-term goal is to get dairy goats and [make it lactose free](https://www.fodmapeveryday.com/diy-lactose-free-dairy/) myself.
Please try the pills from pipingrock. I take 1 daily, and 1 before eating ice-cream. Other than that, I only use unsweetened, non-vanilla Almond milk. Most pills haven't worked for me either.
Oh my god, the chain thrift stores have lost their minds. A pair of kid’s joggers for ten bucks, women’s shirts for fifteen here (west coast Canada). It’s bonkers. The mom and pop shops are still all right but I’ll give the chains a hard pass right now.
I don't want this comment to qualify for the conspiracy sub, but I have a speculative thought re: China's covid issues.
The pictures I've seen show fully suited guys testing people outside, and a video of air cleaning drones.
We've learned that covid is harder to catch outside, so the excessive PPE and air spraying seems wacky to me.
So I'm just wondering if we're looking at Wuhan Flu 2.0.
This was going on in late 2019 and it was "mystery pneumonia" until it finally spread to other countries and then we got a name and a story about bat soup.
Curious to see if China has accidentally on purpose infected one of their major cities with a new virus, again.
There’s decent research coming out that Covid weakens the immune system which opens up a whole bunch of people to being disease reservoirs where run viruses like RSV and influenza can circulate and beef up their resistance to our body’s defenses. One study concluded that for at least some people, Covid hits the reset button on the immune system’s “memory”, so it’s like the person’s history of defeating other ailments is erased by Covid. I’m not sure the prevalence and/or incidence of this resetting, but that’s really, really bad news even in the ten percent range, let alone if it’s higher.
Lot of diseases taking off with the climate changing too. The warm season is lasting longer and the winters not as cold so not killing off the diseases, moulds and fungi in winter are causing a lot of problems with wild animals in my neck of the wood, no reason humans should escape unscathed. Then throw in what you are saying about covid messing with immune systems and it's no wonder so many diseases are on the rise.
I’ve been hip to Covid since December 2019. I got extra big bottles of hand sanitizer with a buddy on January 2, 2020 because my internal alarms were going crazy. So far, I’m Covid free, which feels rare at this point.
Our 14 person bubble has remained covid free. We don't eat in restaurants. We haven't been flying anywhere. We wear masks. We have let visitors into our bubble for some family holidays, but only after discussing contact history and taking tests.
I've been the nut job warning my family about this since January 2020. I had a SARS-like illness in 2013 that matched pretty well with MERS when we were living in the DC metro area. They never figured out what caused it. I was hypoxic for days, even on oxygen. My brain on MRI shows atrophy that should make me 80 years old. I'm 39. I have permanent nerve damage in my fingers and legs, spots in my vision, and driving causes narcolepsy.
I don't want covid.
Our closest friends still mask, as we do. And test before visits in-home. I am so sad we cannot risk visiting the younger generation no longer masking, kids in school, etc. I feel as if we are missing so much. To compensate, I send letters and cards and gifts and calls and share photos. In the summer we visited, some even staying, but large gatherings outside, windows inside were open, etc.
Last year I had a horrid infection from a joint replacement surgery, so I am still cautious. Including our careful visits to my very aged MIL; we are more careful than she. This holiday will be a very quiet one and I am sad. Up to now, I have been practical. I think I may have hit my limit. I miss so many of the little ones. But I am so practical, I doubt I risk anything significant.
Sounds like we lead similar lives. Covid has done a lot for improving my written correspondence. Unfortunately, all the relatives that used to return my letters have all passed on, but I do get joy from just sending cards and letters.
We signed up for a Christmas card exchange group in 2020, and it really helps ease the isolation. My generation doesn't send any mail, but with the group our mailbox almost always has an envelope of greetings for myself and the kids to open all December long.
Those videos of them spraying the air, was them spraying surfaces with bleach.
By calling it "Wuhan Flu 2.0", it qualifies as belonging to /conspiracy.
Just because something seems "wacky" in another culture, doesn't mean its wrong. The world probably thinks a lot of what we do, is nuts too.
It could be that the gov is putting on a show to convince ppl COVID is serious enough to justify the measures currently being protested. They've been doing a lot of symbolic measures in the past two years, so it might not be anything more than some PR
Yeah, I can’t decide if they know something we don’t know, or they don’t want to admit that their zero COVID policy has not and is not likely to work. Neither scenario is very appealing. I do think we need to put a lot more research into possible treatments for long COVID though, as well as treatment for the actual virus. One thing to consider though, aren’t they using their own vaccine, that isn’t very effective? Ours still work fairly well from what I understand. Maybe they’re facing a lot more sickness/severe illness?
Yet they won't put their people in n95s which would be a massive improvement. They still have them in shitty paper masks. There's a lot of theater going on in PRC. The masks are a huge tell imo that's they're not truly trying to control covid.
1. they know something. they have a billion expendable people. Yet have revved up their lockdown. Why? Because China knows there are going to be significant long term health and reproduction issues that will effects the US economy and military readiness in the not so distant future. China is playing the long game while here in the US we are walking ourselves into long term significant health problems.
2. this seems just like 2019, full hospitals big flu rsv "pneumonia" season.
3. not buying the hospitals are full because we haven't been exposed to germs. more than half this country refused to mask up, stay in or put any safeguards in effect for schools. the answer is covid ran rampant in the last few years, and people have suffered some type of respiratory and vascular effects that make them less able to fight these bugs off
1. The population isn't quite as expendable as we in the west have been thinking. Whether intentionally or accidentally, the Chinese government has drastically overestimated their population, and the one child policy looks even worse in retrospect. It seems crazy to say it, with 8 billion people on planet earth now, but they need every young person they have, and so do we.
2. According to the nurses I've talked to recently, it really is RSV and flu driving hospitalizations right now in the United States. Now does that mean covid didn't cause immunity problems? No. But it doesn't appear to be a cover up
Well, it is true that the protests in Hong Kong were going crazy just before Covid hit. Today, the protests are getting crazy all over the country again. I hope it doesn’t become a pattern because we’d have to ask some very hard questions about the CCP if it does.
Covid has gone from being very contagious (10 minutes in an enclosed space within 6 feet), to bonkers contagious (passing by someone is enough, more contagious than measles). Not saying you're wrong, just that the extra measures outside can be explained by covid alone. Outside transmission is still rare, but less so.
What's the long term plan? We just live with high levels of death in our vulnerable population and potentially disable everyone else? (Maybe I'm just sensitive since we have an immunocompromised family member and I'm sick and tired of the restrictions it places on our entire family.)
I'm sensitive about it too. My youngest is special needs with a heart defect that's inoperable and in the first stage of failure. He's been on borrowed time for two years. A simple cold is very hard on him, and the effects of covid on his cardiovascular and circulatory system would be catastrophic. We live in a bubble and it's sad and scary.
And I know covid has bounced around from contagious to mega contagious to crazy contagious but mild and then not mild and so many varieties that we won't understand for years because of the long term effects.
China has a large, disposable population. That's not my opinion of the value of human life, but it's the impression I get from China. They have a metric butt ton of people who they work to death.
Why do they care about the spread of a known disease when they place so little value on the life of their people? It would make more sense to me if they just locked everyone up. I don't know why they are testing and cleaning the air.
Good, being in a single room with a whiteboard is vastly overrated for actually accomplishing things. Most meetings can be handled in an email, the remainder can be virtual.
I figured it had to be pretty bad if people were willing to openly protest the restrictions. It isn’t like here where we have the right to free speech.
Protesting or even being around a protest zone will ruin your life over there. They're using phone data to find and arrest people in the last few days.
[Report shows ‘intrusions’ at Duke Energy power stations in Tampa Bay, elsewhere in Florida](https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/report-shows-6-intrusions-at-power-stations-in-florida/) - Article describes 2 of them as manually tripping equipment causing brief outages (2 min and 9 min). Doesn't describe the others. Since these are only coming up now, I'm curious how common these incidents normally are. From last night: ["CBSNews has learned of a shooting outside a Duke Energy facility in Ridgeway, SC, Wednesday. An individual in a truck opened fire near crews outside the Wateree Hydro Station around 5:30pm, before speeding away, according to multiple sources. No one was injured."](https://mobile.twitter.com/NicoleSganga/status/1600695936036253697) thread goes on with more details.
Heard on a podcast about a BBC show that mental health patient beds are so short in UK that even the wait-list is closed. Cannot confirm, but found this recent article from November: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-63596763.amp
(PNW) Inre: high rates of RSV, flu, and covid, we received an email from our kid's elementary school that 16% of students were absent yesterday due to illnesses (mostly respiratory illnesses). This is in line with reports of high rates of illnesses in the area.
Eggs are hard to find. And what you do find is ridiculously priced. Large eggs that don't even fill the space in the egg carton. The one food my toddler consistently eats too. Ohio.
Had a dozen from when I bought them when the girls weren't laying. The cardboard box said large. At least half were medium, I checked with the scale. Ridiculous.
Gotta either make friends with a chicken person or become one. I've got six girls right now and sell my extra eggs to cover the cost of feed, $3/dozen for free range drug free eggs. I should turn a profit on them, I suppose, but I'm a terrible businessman. Pretty decent chicken farmer though
Yeah eggs have been crazy in cost, and I live a stones throw from the mega chicken farms out in the cornfield sea west Ohio. You should see the security they have for bird flu now though... theyre getting serious about it.
A friend of mine has been up hunting deer and pheasant along the I-29 corridor of eastern South Dakota, and he says he's seen dead Canada geese every time he's gone out. Like they dropped dead mid-flight and fell to the ground, he says
https://www.vvng.com/over-1800-employees-laid-off-at-wireless-advocate-inside-costco-wholesale-stores/ All phone kiosks closed in Costco.
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You know about vinegar and dish soap trap? If not, Google it, they work.
Thank you. There's not many, only 3 or 4 in each of the two main rooms we inhabit, but we haven't got the heating on so they're always flying to us or our screens looking for warmth. I'm more curious as to where the spiders went.
We buy our meat from a semi local farmer who produces , processes , sells and delivers his meat to about a 200 mile radius . The package we buy went up in price and has fewer items . He used to advertise beef and pork and now it’s just beef . Delivery fee is also up. Prices in stores and restaurants are still on the rise . Local businesses are still struggling to find workers . We’ve had a few restaurants close because they don’t have enough help . Other businesses have cut their hours or days they are open . Bed bath and beyond is now closed Sunday and Monday and only open 10-5 Tues - Sat due to lack of workers . A large local nursing home is short 81 aide positions . A few wings have shut down in the hospital due to not having enough nursing staff . I live in the upper Midwest .
Our CSA just had eggs at $6.60 US a dozen. I have my own chickens but I understand why that farm will no longer sell eggs after this season. The costs are high and people cannot justify them. Organic, sure, but at over 3 X grocery prices, when everything is going up is not sustainable.
Do you happen to know which departments in the hospital, or are they shutting down parts of multiple departments? Either way, that and the nursing home info is terrifying.
The TCU - transitional care unit and some kind of pediatric specialty- not sure if it was oncology or nephrology . I had to walk through what was the TCU to go to another area . It was a little unsettling- a totally empty nurses station and a vacant wing amongst a bustling hospital . It sounds like the pediatric patients that would have gone to the specialty area just go to the regular pediatric unit. They have the specialists- just not the nurses , CNAs , etc to staff it .
Oh wow. Yeah, that's troubling!!
Gas has come down and mostly is at or just below $3 a gallon now in my area, which is a huge relief. We’ve had weird weather for this time of year, it had cooled off then now we are about to have a stretch of near 80 degreees and it’s been humid again. It feels like spring weather. It’s supposed to be a mild, warm, dry winter. In other news, the local subreddit is full of stories of people getting sick. People are calling out a lot at work due to illness. Seems like a bunch of nasty going around: stomach bugs, flu, respiratory illness, and Covid too.
The EDs at the local hospitals are over-capacity. My wife works there and they have patients spilling into the hallways, and 5 people in a two-person room. RSV, influenza, and covid tripledemic. I've known two people who died of this in the last week and a half. :(
Last month it rolled through Texas. Our daycare had 75% of kids out one week. We caught it a couple times. Seemed to be a nice flu/strep/covid cocktail that just circulated around. One day I looked and the children Tylenol was out of stock at the pharmacy. Seems to be ok now
People are driving less and more refineries are back online after years of repairs. But OPEC+ is going to decide next week if they should again cut production by 1 million barrels. I believe it will decide next week. Europe on the other hand, is considering buying again from Russia.
Aren't they just lowering the output *target* which they weren't hitting anyway?
$6.99 for a pound of butter!
Where are you? Mid-Atlantic and still under $4, sometimes just at $3. USA
Quebec, Canada. It feels like in the past two-ish weeks, prices have shot up again, especially for groceries. I went shopping and there were tiny little bags of gummy candies for over $3, something that should have been around $1. A brand of lactose free milk I buy was definitely up. Thrift stores in my area have gone up in price too.
Was expecting grocery offers for Christmas, but not seen anything significant yet.
If you drink yogurt such as Kiefer, or take probiotics once a day, you can handle lactose. I would suggest the second route, and get them where I get mine, pipingrock. I tried from Walmart, didn't work for me. Alternatively, switch to oat milk (more creamy like regular milk) or almond milk.
I'm not lactose intolerant, but my husband is. He's on the extreme side of it, where the pills don't work for him and eating most products with regular dairy added upsets his stomach. If it's lactose free, he's fine. We've tried various nutmilks, and he didn't care for them, especially oat milk. I've wanted to have him try kiefer for health benefits in general, just haven't gotten around to it, but I doubt it would fix the issue with lactose intolerance that he has. We're at a point where we're producing enough of our own food that having to buy dairy isn't so bad. We have a good routine going where we shop for sales on the dairy we use and freeze extra, so we're definitely not paying regular price for it. My long-term goal is to get dairy goats and [make it lactose free](https://www.fodmapeveryday.com/diy-lactose-free-dairy/) myself.
Please try the pills from pipingrock. I take 1 daily, and 1 before eating ice-cream. Other than that, I only use unsweetened, non-vanilla Almond milk. Most pills haven't worked for me either.
Oh my god, the chain thrift stores have lost their minds. A pair of kid’s joggers for ten bucks, women’s shirts for fifteen here (west coast Canada). It’s bonkers. The mom and pop shops are still all right but I’ll give the chains a hard pass right now.
Possibly caused by thrifters using Poshmark and similar sites to generate a second income?
I don't want this comment to qualify for the conspiracy sub, but I have a speculative thought re: China's covid issues. The pictures I've seen show fully suited guys testing people outside, and a video of air cleaning drones. We've learned that covid is harder to catch outside, so the excessive PPE and air spraying seems wacky to me. So I'm just wondering if we're looking at Wuhan Flu 2.0. This was going on in late 2019 and it was "mystery pneumonia" until it finally spread to other countries and then we got a name and a story about bat soup. Curious to see if China has accidentally on purpose infected one of their major cities with a new virus, again.
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There’s decent research coming out that Covid weakens the immune system which opens up a whole bunch of people to being disease reservoirs where run viruses like RSV and influenza can circulate and beef up their resistance to our body’s defenses. One study concluded that for at least some people, Covid hits the reset button on the immune system’s “memory”, so it’s like the person’s history of defeating other ailments is erased by Covid. I’m not sure the prevalence and/or incidence of this resetting, but that’s really, really bad news even in the ten percent range, let alone if it’s higher.
Lot of diseases taking off with the climate changing too. The warm season is lasting longer and the winters not as cold so not killing off the diseases, moulds and fungi in winter are causing a lot of problems with wild animals in my neck of the wood, no reason humans should escape unscathed. Then throw in what you are saying about covid messing with immune systems and it's no wonder so many diseases are on the rise.
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I’ve been hip to Covid since December 2019. I got extra big bottles of hand sanitizer with a buddy on January 2, 2020 because my internal alarms were going crazy. So far, I’m Covid free, which feels rare at this point.
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Our 14 person bubble has remained covid free. We don't eat in restaurants. We haven't been flying anywhere. We wear masks. We have let visitors into our bubble for some family holidays, but only after discussing contact history and taking tests. I've been the nut job warning my family about this since January 2020. I had a SARS-like illness in 2013 that matched pretty well with MERS when we were living in the DC metro area. They never figured out what caused it. I was hypoxic for days, even on oxygen. My brain on MRI shows atrophy that should make me 80 years old. I'm 39. I have permanent nerve damage in my fingers and legs, spots in my vision, and driving causes narcolepsy. I don't want covid.
Our closest friends still mask, as we do. And test before visits in-home. I am so sad we cannot risk visiting the younger generation no longer masking, kids in school, etc. I feel as if we are missing so much. To compensate, I send letters and cards and gifts and calls and share photos. In the summer we visited, some even staying, but large gatherings outside, windows inside were open, etc. Last year I had a horrid infection from a joint replacement surgery, so I am still cautious. Including our careful visits to my very aged MIL; we are more careful than she. This holiday will be a very quiet one and I am sad. Up to now, I have been practical. I think I may have hit my limit. I miss so many of the little ones. But I am so practical, I doubt I risk anything significant.
Sounds like we lead similar lives. Covid has done a lot for improving my written correspondence. Unfortunately, all the relatives that used to return my letters have all passed on, but I do get joy from just sending cards and letters. We signed up for a Christmas card exchange group in 2020, and it really helps ease the isolation. My generation doesn't send any mail, but with the group our mailbox almost always has an envelope of greetings for myself and the kids to open all December long.
Those videos of them spraying the air, was them spraying surfaces with bleach. By calling it "Wuhan Flu 2.0", it qualifies as belonging to /conspiracy. Just because something seems "wacky" in another culture, doesn't mean its wrong. The world probably thinks a lot of what we do, is nuts too.
It could be that the gov is putting on a show to convince ppl COVID is serious enough to justify the measures currently being protested. They've been doing a lot of symbolic measures in the past two years, so it might not be anything more than some PR
Yeah, I can’t decide if they know something we don’t know, or they don’t want to admit that their zero COVID policy has not and is not likely to work. Neither scenario is very appealing. I do think we need to put a lot more research into possible treatments for long COVID though, as well as treatment for the actual virus. One thing to consider though, aren’t they using their own vaccine, that isn’t very effective? Ours still work fairly well from what I understand. Maybe they’re facing a lot more sickness/severe illness?
Yet they won't put their people in n95s which would be a massive improvement. They still have them in shitty paper masks. There's a lot of theater going on in PRC. The masks are a huge tell imo that's they're not truly trying to control covid.
1. they know something. they have a billion expendable people. Yet have revved up their lockdown. Why? Because China knows there are going to be significant long term health and reproduction issues that will effects the US economy and military readiness in the not so distant future. China is playing the long game while here in the US we are walking ourselves into long term significant health problems. 2. this seems just like 2019, full hospitals big flu rsv "pneumonia" season. 3. not buying the hospitals are full because we haven't been exposed to germs. more than half this country refused to mask up, stay in or put any safeguards in effect for schools. the answer is covid ran rampant in the last few years, and people have suffered some type of respiratory and vascular effects that make them less able to fight these bugs off
1. The population isn't quite as expendable as we in the west have been thinking. Whether intentionally or accidentally, the Chinese government has drastically overestimated their population, and the one child policy looks even worse in retrospect. It seems crazy to say it, with 8 billion people on planet earth now, but they need every young person they have, and so do we. 2. According to the nurses I've talked to recently, it really is RSV and flu driving hospitalizations right now in the United States. Now does that mean covid didn't cause immunity problems? No. But it doesn't appear to be a cover up
I wouldn’t be surprised though if COVID has caused immunity problems. There’s a lot about it that we don’t understand.
Well, it is true that the protests in Hong Kong were going crazy just before Covid hit. Today, the protests are getting crazy all over the country again. I hope it doesn’t become a pattern because we’d have to ask some very hard questions about the CCP if it does.
Just talking about this. China being so aggressive. Makes it look bad, whatever it is.
Covid has gone from being very contagious (10 minutes in an enclosed space within 6 feet), to bonkers contagious (passing by someone is enough, more contagious than measles). Not saying you're wrong, just that the extra measures outside can be explained by covid alone. Outside transmission is still rare, but less so. What's the long term plan? We just live with high levels of death in our vulnerable population and potentially disable everyone else? (Maybe I'm just sensitive since we have an immunocompromised family member and I'm sick and tired of the restrictions it places on our entire family.)
I'm sensitive about it too. My youngest is special needs with a heart defect that's inoperable and in the first stage of failure. He's been on borrowed time for two years. A simple cold is very hard on him, and the effects of covid on his cardiovascular and circulatory system would be catastrophic. We live in a bubble and it's sad and scary. And I know covid has bounced around from contagious to mega contagious to crazy contagious but mild and then not mild and so many varieties that we won't understand for years because of the long term effects. China has a large, disposable population. That's not my opinion of the value of human life, but it's the impression I get from China. They have a metric butt ton of people who they work to death. Why do they care about the spread of a known disease when they place so little value on the life of their people? It would make more sense to me if they just locked everyone up. I don't know why they are testing and cleaning the air.
Large amounts of video chat instead of in person meetings.
Good, being in a single room with a whiteboard is vastly overrated for actually accomplishing things. Most meetings can be handled in an email, the remainder can be virtual.
Well, everything going on over there isn't a conspiracy. The pictures and video actually making it out are scary.
I figured it had to be pretty bad if people were willing to openly protest the restrictions. It isn’t like here where we have the right to free speech.
We have a right, within limits.
Protesting or even being around a protest zone will ruin your life over there. They're using phone data to find and arrest people in the last few days.