Meteorology PhD student, OU Master's class of 2022, NC native, for professional tweets follow me @srfoskey_wx, pro-tech, transit, and housing, opinions mine
@NickOnRipple@suchnerve What I am curious about is the degree to which this happens in covid versus other illnesses. I have heard speculation that a lot of chronic illness is disease related. But the situations like you describe are still a smallish minority of cases AFAIK
@suchnerve@NickOnRipple I am much happier getting sick once and being lazy at home for a week than I would've been if I'd had to mask for four years
Plus, I do get the covid shot annually and test myself if I feel sick
@suchnerve@NickOnRipple Aren't most reinfections more minor than the first time around?
Also aren't most infections post-vaccination more minor than in unvaccinated people?
I stopped following covid precautions in most cases in 2022, got covid once, and it just felt like a bad cold
@NickOnRipple@suchnerve Masks are annoying, and most people have some degree of covid immunity by this point. I'll wear one in a hospital, on a plane in the winter, and a few other cases, but for the most part I'd rather not deal with it
I have been reading some of the major biographies of Theodore Roosevelt lately (our modern imperialist moment drew me to them) and one of the backdrops of that era is the controversy over lynching. I think a lot of people have never really learned the lessons of that history.
@phl43 I think it has to do with renewable energy getting cheaper and becoming more widespread, so a technological solution to climate change seems more feasible than in the past
@ngelfond@2024dion@JupiterKunt Michigan lost seats because they were growing more slowly than the US as a whole, not due to population loss in absolute terms (excluding maybe a decade or two)
if we cut aid programs that save the lives of more than a million human beings every year because 'we can't afford to do that anymore' and then get into another war in the Middle East I'm going to become the Joker