How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Innula Zenovka]

Anti-Vaxxers Melt Down Over Airbnb Discounts, of All Things

Hosts on the popular home-sharing site are engaging in an online war over discounts filled with unhinged rants and COVID misinformation.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Anti-Vaxxers Melt Down Over Airbnb Discounts, of All Things

Hosts on the popular home-sharing site are engaging in an online war over discounts filled with unhinged rants and COVID misinformation.

www.thedailybeast.com

Seems o me, if I'm looking at an airbnb, I'll ask the same questions, and add in, do you think favouring those with vaccines is the same as racism? [and if yes, newp - dumbasses]

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[danielravennest]

If I only had the space for that.
Model trains and the screnery building that goes with it, look like a great hobby.

We have real trains running through downtown of the little suburb I live in. Sometimes I hear them at night. So I don't need model trains.

 

[Isabeau]

We lived across the street from the tracks when I was younger. That was certainly special.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I used to live right in front of a train track, in Kennesaw. It was a bit annoying.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

We lived across the street from the tracks when I was younger. That was certainly special.

I can relate. We had tracks right on the other side of the wall behind our back yard when I was growing up. I actually found the sound of trains going by to be soothing.

 

[Essence Lumin]

There are lots of train tracks around Portland. I've lived in 7 different places. In 6 of them (not this last) I could hear trains running by in the distance, sometimes not very distant.

 

[Isabeau]

From a distance, even just a street away, the sound is very nice/comforting. It’s the dishes clinking, and windows rattling, and whistle in the night that were less so. Regulations are different now, and that area of town is now more expensive. The houses are probably better built/renovated.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

From a distance, even just a street away, the sound is very nice/comforting. It’s the dishes clinking, and windows rattling, and whistle in the night that were less so. Regulations are different now, and that area of town is now more expensive. The houses are probably better built/renovated.

Yeah, I didn't mind the sound of train on tracks, but the whistle at the wrong times. I'm a bit high strung.

 

[Archer]

I specifically look for nearby active train tracks or airports to live near. Love those sounds for some odd reason. I would live near docks for boat sounds if I could.

 

[Sid]

You get used to the 'normal' sounds around you.
I live near an NATO airport where Awacs planes are stationed. They are very loud planes and in final approach or directly after departure (depending on the wind) when they pass a little to the north of the apartment building I live in.
When I'm on my balcony it is impossible to have a conversation when they pass.

But now in the winter, when I'm only inside, I can't recall when it was the last time I heard a plane coming over. Totally used to the sound I guess.
There are several operational flights a day. And when they do practice runs, every 15 minutes for hours in a row.

But when another military plane type uses that airbase occasionally, my ears won't miss it.

 

[Sid]

We have them too: Idiots.

Dutch leaders condemn 'criminal' clashes at anti-lockdown protests

PM says violence seen in Eindhoven, Amsterdam and elsewhere at the weekend was unacceptable

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Calls for key workers to be vaccination priority after ONS Covid figures

Some of highest death rates among restaurant and catering management and taxi driving

www.theguardian.com

 

[Free]

La surprise...

Undercounting of Covid-19 deaths is greatest in pro-Trump areas, analysis shows

The analysis suggests that political leanings have helped suppress the true scale of Covid-19 deaths. In cases where the deceased didn’t have a Covid-19 test, a coroner or medical examiner has the freedom to interpret symptoms.

www.statnews.com

Tens of thousands of Covid-19 deaths are going unreported in the U.S., with far more missed in counties that strongly supported former President Trump, according to new research.

The figures suggest that political leanings have helped suppress the true scale of deaths. In cases where the deceased didn’t have a Covid-19 test, a coroner or medical examiner has the freedom to interpret symptoms.

“There’s potentially latitude to make a judgement call conditional on a set of beliefs about Covid and whether it represents a serious problem or a hoax,” said Andrew Stokes, a professor of global health at Boston University School of Public Health who performed the analysis for STAT.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Check out this fucking clown.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Police like: we've been called to terminate this illegal rave, so here we are!
Organiser: Which rave? Have a look: these here are old pensioneers, waiting in queue to get their COVID19 vaccine shot.
Police: OOPS!

Police turned up for a reported "rave", but it was just pensioners queueing for a vaccination

Pensioners in Essex were just waiting to get COVID-19 vaccinations

mixmag.net

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I think Innula's got it. I think they all know the trigger needs to be pulled but nobody wants to be the gunman.

Nevertheless, should the Tokyo Olympics be cancelled, one American state has the IOC's back, and will be happy to accommodate everyone's Olympian and Superspreader requirements

Spoiler: I wonder which state that could possibly be