Breaking: The June ECMWF update has trended *even stronger* with this year's El Niño.
Almost every scenario now reaches past +3˚C, with a cluster of high-end scenarios in excess of +4˚C.
This outlook now depicts the strongest El Niño on record.
These basic facts should’ve assured Covid mitigations and resulted in warp speed Long Covid research.
Instead, you got played by NOTHING NEW propaganda, diagnosed yourselves with a govt psyop, and celebrated $2B spent on digging graves.
TWO. BILLION. DOLLARS.
We must be crystal clear about a few points. Long Covid is not a "poorly understood neuroimmune disorder" with no biomarkers. It is a widely studied biological medical condition. Pathology spanning basically all body systems is well documented, with damage in situ across organs
See also an economy built on forcing workers into workplaces full of a deadly, disabling disease with no cure. Mass denial of the ongoing pandemic has the entire political spectrum defending the rejection of public health, even as it maims and kills them.
AI has done absolutely nothing to make the lives of just about anyone I know better in any meaningful way, and in fact has mostly made life far more fucking miserable. And yet we're forced to endure insufferable jackasses around every corner forcing it down our throats.
If they are going to "psychologize" post covid sequelae, remember you can do the same right back.
Unrealistic optimism, aka optimism bias, is a cognitive bias where people think they will be less impacted by negative events than similarly at risk peers.
So in the end I paid over $300 for telehealth level care, and had to pass through a gauntlet of health care workers asking me to take off my mask to get it.
But at least I didn't catch any bonus illnesses, because I wore a 3M Aura and firmly refused to take it off.
Story time.
I had to go to the urgent care last week.
There were about half a dozen people in the waiting area. Two of them were visibly ill and coughing.
Hand sanitizer stations all over the place. Everyone was aggressively using them.
Nobody else was wearing a mask.
He declined to do a physical exam, said they couldn't do the panel I requested.
That was the reason I was there, instead of doing a telehealth appointment. I had called ahead and asked if they could do it, and been told yes.
He only gave me some advice, and a prescription.