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the main risk is long covid, not dying. exact risk of LC per infection is unclear but the order of magnitude of the figures i'm seeing for it are too high. i'm wearing ffp3 indoors in public places

forgive my off topicness but I wish someone would buy the Boosted Boards IP from Lime and open source the firmware. Boosted Boards were epic.

Huge amounts of venture capital poured into a million nonsense ideas. I'm not saying it's good or bad, but even if a tiny fraction of those startups changes the world, there will be lots of others that are completely nonsensical, or lame, or cargo cult, or clueless, ultimately producing useless products with teams of people who either don't care or can't deliver. Given how much noise the latter group produces, it's no wonder that startups aren't cool anymore. Most of them are incredibly lame, as are the people who run them, who previously went into the prestige career routes of management consultancy and investment banking.

Everyone is a rapper these days, everyone is a rockstar these days, so no-one is.

Edit: Truly disruptive technology will never stop being cool and magical. But there's another clue - even the word disruptive is cringe these days, because it's been abused by the aforementioned horde of muppets.

I don't think you're crazy or alone in thinking that way. As I said on my other comment, not only overall deaths but the frequent serious sequelae are concerning.

The high risk of serious sequelae, even in mild cases in young vaccinated people, make me think this may not be the best way forward.