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>As for the sin of being fat that you find so unforgivable
Simple cause and effect. The study you linked said so - if you're obese, you're much more likely to go to the ICU with Covid. It is strange that all of the public messaging designed to "keep us safe" did not include any component to look after our bodies, which would have significant benefits when it comes to fighting disease.
"Ease of communication" - I now consider that a downside. I don't want to be distracted by the possibility of getting a notification at any second, with information of any level of severity.
"Develop profitable businesses" - yes, there is a lot of money to be made selling people shiny things.
Without absolute numbers, your "analysis" is meaningless. We're talking about seven deaths amongst teens.
>The study noted that about three-fourths of the teenagers in the study had other medical conditions, such as obesity
Not being fat is an excellent way to avoid having a bad time with Covid. Shame that the official advice caused many people to spend the last two years sitting on the couch, eating pizza.
It is undeniable that the vaccine kept the most vulnerable out of the ICU. It is also very true that healthy people under about 45 were at minimal risk from Covid.
When was that true? Snap currently makes about $3 per user. You can't be talking about US users, because there are only 330 million people in the US.
Back to the idea that public servants are indeed servants to the public, and their entire purpose is to spend the public's money in a way that benefits the public.
MS have done a fantastic job of getting developers everywhere hooked on VS Code, whether they are writing for the Windows ecosystem or not.
1. Electronic devices have varying degrees of embodied energy and resource usage - it is incumbent on the end user to justify that usage
2. Electronic devices are designed as attention-sucking devices for selling advertising, and as such, have more negative uses than positive, which makes controlling them as an end user more difficult.
That's....wrong
(or at least, not necessarily true).
The torque curve for an electric motor is strongly dependent on the technology used.
Induction motor (as used by Tesla): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_motor#/media/File:To...
I do think that NHS staff did their very best to follow protocols (one of my parents went into great detail about all of the steps they had to go through in between seeing each patient). However, the idea that disposable plastic smocks and perspex screens will do much against an infectious airbourne respiratory virus is just silly on its face.
Really, given the sheer amount of people who caught Covid in hospitals, they should have shut the hospitals and let almost everything else remain open.
GD I hate what "tech" has done to us.
The biggest difficulty has been the Covid policies put into place, both inside and outside hospitals. It's difficult, time-consuming, and stressful to follow those policies (both parents work for the NHS, btw), not to mention the number of staff who had to isolate. The social services that would receive many patients after their hospital stay are also overwhelmed/falling apart (probably for similar reasons), so many patients cannot be discharged.
I'll say it again - it all makes sense, if avoiding Covid is the absolute number 1 priority, and if "letting it rip" would have made things worse than they are now.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare
The UK has around 150k hospital beds, and 5k mechanical ventilation beds, so its never been about the absolute numbers of Covid patients. It's always been the additional workload due to Covid policies (and that includes staff isolation). Those make sense, if it is deemed that catching and/or spreading Covid is worse than any other healthcare outcome.
It's hard to see how it would be worse if we hadn't "Saved the NHS".
Given the rise of TikTok-style endless scrolling through short video content, there is a surprisingly apt comparison - channel-hopping through hundreds of channels when you know it's all crap.
It's a shame, because I've learned so much. I have also wasted a lot of time and attention there.
Edit: I should clarify "learned so much". I learned a lot by watching knowledgable and skilled people share their experiences and wisdom. However, there comes a point where you are just watching someone else lead their lives, instead of leading your own.
>social platforms have a utility for most people
Hard to tell if you're serious!
I quit all social media and gave up my smartphone. I don't miss that brief "huh, that's nice" moment when being seeing an acquaintance's random photo they felt they had to share, and moments when visual imagery are shared now feel much more special.
It just shows the power of ideology to crush dissent, when obviously poisonous and destructive statements like these are accepted.
If more people thought like that, then Jews would still be shovelling Germans into ovens.
>After vaccination, cycle length had increased by only .02 days for individuals who received one dose per cycle, and .85 days for individuals who received two doses in one cycle, compared to participants who were not vaccinated.
I don't know how this conclusion has any weight, given the tiny time-scales of the data analysed. Was this data picked from the same period of time across all participants? Otherwise, you could just pick any 4 weeks from each participant and weight the result any way you wanted.
Probably due the narrative that privileged, young white men control the world with their computer programming. The reality is, ironically, that programming is how well-meaning people with a certain type of smarts find themselves grinding away to perform other people's wishes.