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The Most Likely Timeline for Life to Return to Normal
Een artikel uit The Atlantic van februari dat tot nu redelijk on point is:
Beyond next winter, experts’ predictions are blessedly simple: Life in the warmer months of 2022 should be normal, or at least whatever qualifies as normal post-pandemic.
Dat we nog niet aan de nieuwe patatjes zijn.
The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class
The more you have committed to being seen as interesting within your particular area, the more you detach from reality and move into a construct of your own creation. As this evolution takes place, more of your and your peers’ language will become Posturetalk, and more of the language that gets spoken to you by outsiders will become Babytalk.
Extreem herkenbaar.
‘Earthrise’
Amanda Gorman, ja die, in 2018:
Morning Call van The New Statesman
Stephen Bush, political editor:
That’s why the biggest longterm barrier to a return to ‘normality’ are not whogets a vaccine passport first, but the pace of vaccinations in the global south. (The African Union’s current timetable is to have vaccinated 60 per cent of the continent in three years’ time.)
Een element in het debat dat vaak ontbreekt, voor mij. Deze week ook in De Kamer de discussie of we nu wel of niet in het Europese peloton zitten qua vaccinaties. Terwijl in Brazilië en Afrika nieuwe varianten ontstaan.
Ik hoorde FVDB zeggen dat we vaccins besteld hebben voor een veelvoud van onze bevolking, dat we dus mogelijks een grote overschot gaan hebben. Ik mag hopen dat we die overschot gaan delen.
Apple is again extending TV Plus trials to July
With the latest announcement, anybody with an Apple TV+ subscription that was set to expire from now until June will instead expire in July 2021.
Ik vond ‘Central Park’, ‘The Morning Show’, ‘Ted Lasso’, ‘Defending Jacob’, ‘Boys State’, ‘Palmer’, ‘For All Mankind’ en ‘Dickinson’ serieuze meerwaardes voor iets wat gratis bij een iPhone zat. Maar of ik er 5 euro per maand voor over zou hebben? Geen idee. We hebben ook een jaar Disney+ en ik krijg toch nooit alles gezien. (Net om die reden hebben we al meer dan een jaar geen Netflix meer.)
House Democrats Briefed On 3 Terrifying Plots To Overthrow Government
Democrats were told that the Capitol Police and the National Guard were preparing for potentially tens of thousands of armed protesters coming to Washington and were establishing rules of engagement for warfare.
An Engineering Argument for Basic Income
We wouldn’t create a life support system on a space station where in order to receive oxygen, one would need to work to obtain it. Life support is life support. Dead people can’t work. So make sure people get oxygen so they can stay alive. Living people will do much more work than dead people.
I Lived Through A Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now
This is the point. You have taken an orderly system balancing a whole lot of chaos and fucked with it. I don’t know how it’s going to explode, but I can promise you this. It’s going to explode.
This is precisely why we have elections, and why both sides accept the results. To keep the chaos at bay. The whole point is that you have a regular, ritual fight rather than fighting all the time. Once one side breaks ritual then you’re on the way to civil war. Once you break the rules then chaos ensues. What exactly happens? I don’t know. It’s chaos.
Once You Get The COVID-19 Vaccine, Can You Still Infect Others?
Even if a vaccine has trained your immune cells to kick the butt of any SARS-CoV-2 viruses they spot, they might not be able to neutralize the ones resting in your nose, on the other side of your mucous barriers. Those COVID-19 viruses wouldn’t hurt you, but they still might be able to replicate and shed — coughed back out of your nose and mouth and into the community, where they could encounter your unvaccinated friends and loved ones.