Reading this made me wonder if I’m just mistrustful by nature, or did growing up during the HIV/AIDS era and watching The X-Files change me? People might think they know someone at work, but do they know everyone that person hangs out with?
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They kinda think they do (but this is not on a conscious level, maybe I should say they feel they do). Because they don’t think this through.
Anecdotal evidence: my department. Currently 1 colleague tested positive, 5 colleagues in quarantine. Guess who had a little cosy Kaffeeklatsch the other week?
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I just run into too damn many people who are convinced they haven’t got it. “I was tested last Monday!” “That was ten days ago dammit.”
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I see it a bit of that in myself. I only regularly interact with two people that I didn’t wake up with. One of them I have zero difficulty treating as a shambling hypervector 100% of the time, no protocols required, and with absolutely no intellectual effort past the R-complex.
The other I am friends with, and even though I don’t trust her opsec all that much (and her spouse’s oh so much less), I find that it requires much more conscious effort to treat her as potentially dangerous. Fortunately she’s almost a foot shorter than me, so that probably mitigates my risk somewhat… I meant that last bit in jest, but ZOMGs, there probably is some truth to that, and I’m freshly horrified once more.
I am [ahem]famous for giving people the benefit of the doubt. I’m cynical and skeptical in just about all the ways, and am almost certainly in the lowest couple percentile of gullibility. But that fucking empathy does tend to betray me a bit too often for my tastes. All that to say, I am absolutely sure I am not inherently mistrustful on an interpersonal level, and yet I have come to treat every meatspace interaction as if I were at an orgy: sure I might really wanna hang out with y’all in a closer, more intimate way, but all the nope. Because biology cares not even a little bit about intent.
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Bolsonaro: ‘Isn’t it cheaper to invest in a cure than in a vaccine?’
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Of course, Maduro is exactly as trustworthy as Trump, so…
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The last time I got tested it took 10 days to get the results back. So that’s the best I’ve ever been able to say.
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If they are willing to hang out with me, who else are they willing to hang out with?
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Well, fuck.
ETA I’ve only gotten a few Amber and severe weather alerts before, plus that ridiculous “presidential” one I gather everyone got.
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Filled with sympathy.
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Thoughts and prayers…
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Anybody who can catch Maddow’s take on the Covid spike should. Terrifying.
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this could be good news for the election. if memory serves it was fox who first called florida for bush, and it was thatdeliberate ( in my opinion )miscall that allowed the supreme court to rule in favor of shrub
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H₂SO₄. Some complications concerning delivery mechanisms are arising.
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Lucifer gif incoming…
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These. Dog. Damned. Fucking. People. Somebody make it stop. 
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CGiMljkBUu9/?igshid=15dg6hpn0c3k7
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“Immunity is waning quite rapidly, we’re only three months after our first [round of tests] and we’re already showing a 26% decline in antibodies,” said Prof Helen Ward, one of the researchers.
The fall was greater in those over 65, compared with younger age groups, and in those without symptoms compared with those with full-blown Covid-19.
The number of healthcare workers with antibodies remained relatively high, which the researchers suggest may be due to regular exposure to the virus.
There are four other human coronaviruses, which we catch multiple times in our lives. They cause common cold symptoms and we can be reinfected every six to 12 months.
There have been very few confirmed cases of people getting Covid twice . However, the researchers warn this may be due to immunity only just starting to fade since the peak infection rates of March and April.
The hope is the second infection will be milder than the first, even if immunity does decline, as the body should have an “immune memory” of the first encounter and know how to fight back.
Professor Paul Elliott, director of the REACT-2 study, said it would be wrong to draw firm conclusions from the study about the impact of a vaccine.
He said: “The vaccine response may behave differently to the response to natural infection.”
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