Chris Torgalson

@[email protected]. Hint, hint...

[Tinaud @M_Tinaud]

Only in Belgium ^^

[Voices for Vaccines @Voices4Vaccines]

One common objection to vaccination goes like: "I'm healthy. I'll overcome disease naturally."

People believe that because we evolved to deal with viruses, we don't need to immunize.

Turns out this isn't true. Today you face viruses a caveman would never dream of. 🧵 (1)

[Chris Torgalson @bedlamhotel]

@bugcounter Teams is bad even when its model *does* match the work you do.

It's so half-baked that if it was a food, you and @benjaminchapman would have no choice but to call it "Risky".

[Chris Torgalson @bedlamhotel]

Possibly--just hear me out--it's not such a good idea to abandon all preventative measures and just let COVID rip?

[Dr Satoshi Akima FRACP 『秋間聰』 @ToshiAkima]

There is now little doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is neurotrophic. It infects the brain: “neuroinflammation, microhemorrhages, brain hypoxia…including neuron degeneration and apoptosis [is] seen among animals that do not develop severe respiratory disease” https://t.co/GATm7WIwUn

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Covid-19 is airborne. Hand sanitizer won’t protect us from inhaling it. And the “unease” many of us rightly have with the ill-advised premature removal of protective measures is a result of listening to the advice of actual qualified experts.

This is a shockingly bad answer.

[Chris Torgalson @bedlamhotel]

A must-read.

https://t.co/WEgTsVeWf6

[Chris Torgalson @bedlamhotel]

@FollowRevo my Superconnect powers down every 15 or 20 minutes when using "Audio In".

Can that be adjusted somewhere in the settings?

[Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D. @KatherineJWu]

another surge seems on its way. the magnitude and timing are unclear - but what I'm most worried about isn't the offense the virus will hit us with. but the lack of defense we'll mount to meet it.

I wrote about how America is woefully unprepared. 1/

https://t.co/0Z0AXXaQmx

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

In fall 2020, Facebook went to war against Ad Observatory, a NYU crowdsourcing project where users capture paid political ads through a browser plugin that santizes them of personal info and uploads them so disinformation researchers can analyze them.

https://t.co/qJINvhE10V 1/

[Chris Torgalson @bedlamhotel]

@kaelle76 Hard "agree" to the whole thread.

[webchick @webchick]

Just a reminder that as of tonight, we enter INTERNATIONAL MEETING CHAOS. Here’s the sitch:

- North America moves ahead 1 hour tonight
- Europe doesn’t move 1 hour ahead until March 27
- Australia moves *back* an hour April 3
- India doesn’t move at all

Godspeed everyone. 💜

[Hannah Davis @ahandvanish]

There's a big reality gap right now between people who are actively staying on top of COVID research & those who just trust the current guidelines. There's no judgment here, but I'd like to try to communicate the worldview of the former based on what we know about COVID now:

1/

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Those of us with roots in Ukraine and Russia have a somewhat different picture of events as they unfold. In addition to viral videos, OSINT, pundits, and even sensible commentary, we're also part of heartbreaking conversations with our families. 1/

[Chris Torgalson @bedlamhotel]

Brilliant.

Though if things carry on like this, I worry we'll all need graduate degrees in art history just to understand the memes...

[kae 🇪🇺 🌍 @kaelle76]

A great resource to give help to the #Ukrainian people
https://t.co/p7Ed86d58q

[quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu,quinn social.circl.lu at mast @quinnnorton]

I mean also you, hospital administrator, high school IT, teen with a phone, septuagenarian on Facebook, black community activist, and so on. Back up your phones, computers, everything. Go to software updates, and make sure everything is updated.