As the instance’s owner and admin, there was a server migration that lasted for a day and nearly 8 hours. And yes, !meta@sopuli.xyz and my Mastodon are good places to check out regarding Sopuli’s status.

“Yeah but this is totes different thing!!!?!?!”

Windows has gone cuckoo-crazy and off the rails ever since 11 came out, and even more when Microsoft decided to cash in on AI.

The folks behind The Great Barrington Declaration who believed in herd immunity for COVID now get to reap what they sow.

“Medical freedom”, the rallying cry for all kinds of grifters spreading disinformation and wanting to roll back the progress made in public health.

I don’t think repealing the Patriot Act will be likely.

Something has gone fundamentally wrong regarding upbringing, school and mental health if a 12-year-old gets access to a gun and starts shooting innocent people as a means of “revenge”.

Just read that woman’s manifesto and it was exactly the kind of shit that one writes after reading too much Linkola and Kaczynski, in addition to finishing the first course of philosophy in upper secondary school. The humanity is doomed because of excessive individualism and consumerism, and countries should strive economically for degrowth instead of growth. Governments should do more things for the environment and grassroots action is necessary. TikTok makes people dumb and ignorant of societal issues. “Drastic measures are required, for we have gone too far”… and the solution is to have a gun and kill a bunch of people??? These people don’t really have creative solutions for such big problems.

This will be downright disastrous and the consequences will soon manifest.

Check out this ban!

I thought this was an article by some Indian satirical news site.

Oh what a name!

According to research, a COVID patient is contagious for approximately 10 days after first symptoms, and in severe cases that can be even 20 days. Plus approximately 40% of COVID cases are asymptomatic. Therefore this decision is idiotic. What could possibly go wrong?

EDIT: This decision was also commented by professionals in an article by CalMatters:

Dr. Noha Aboelata, chief executive of Roots Community Health Center in Oakland, is one of many community doctors who have expressed disappointment in the state’s new direction. COVID-19 does not necessarily behave like other respiratory viruses — hospitalizations and deaths have never dropped to zero the way flu does outside of the winter months — and it is still unpredictable, Aboelata said.

“This policy is not based in science, equity or public health. It devalues the lives of immunocompromised and disabled people, and completely ignores the risk of long COVID,” said Lisa McCorkell, co-founder of the Patient-Led Research Collaborative, which studies the impacts of long COVID.

Amen. I usually mask when going to indoor public places like shopping or gym. I haven’t felt particularly social during the last few months so that has also helped me to avoid COVID.

This should be done worldwide and there should be big public health campaigns about the health problems COVID causes.

And this year it will drop further!

Same for Finland.

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When someone says “I’m not against all vaccines, just the ones for COVID”, he is usually lying. In time this “skepticism” will slide into being against even the common vaccines and it can be seen now. My favorite blog Respectful Insolence had a good post about the so-called “medical freedom”:

"Health freedom” and “medical freedom” have become a rallying cry for libertarians, far right wingers, and even outright fascists. Indeed, the Republican Party has become a bastion of antivaccine and anti-public health hostility, a process that actually predates the pandemic by at least several years. “Health freedom” and “medical freedom” have always been code words for dismantling public health infrastructure, anything resembling a vaccine mandate (even in schools), and dismantling the FDA.

“Blue Lives Matter”… no, not those ones!