You may now go to work after testing positive, if you 'don't feel sick', but you may go to a restaurant and a pool (with a mask), but aren't permitted to eat or drink (and much more)
I think lead seals and pipes were outlawed decades ago. Here's some information (in German) on the 'sunset date' for lead pipes in Vienna, which were to b replacd by 2007:
Not considering plausible, potential or probable consequences is hubris, stupidity or following a doctrine of a Truth. Being ignorant of same is no excuse if the ability to glean knowledge exists.
Evil would be knowing of the potential consequences and notcaring, as long as you personally benefits - this is in opposition to if you have a notion of good/evil which weighs intent more than method, cost or consequence.
You can of course go beyond good and evil to, for equally valid and invalid reasons; moral and ethics are malleable and situational after all - look no further than the old chinese adage about sacrificing the village to save the kingdom. The caveat of course being that you actually intend to save the kingdom and that the sacrifice can serve to achive that.
There is also the question of how able you are when it comes to predicting the possible logical consequences. Lower intelligence, lower ability for abstract thinking and lower ability for logic as well as higher social-ability, higher empathy (do note: in psychology, empathy only means understanding that others have feelings and emotions of their own, not agreeing with them or feeling sympathy for/towards them, thus you can be very empathic and still commit atrocities - witness Heinrich Himmler who couldn't even hear about cruelty to animals without starting to cry) and malleable executive function is the ben you want for dreaming up things like Energie-wende or Sweden joining the european energy market - short-term benefits, looks good on paper, feels good emotion/mepathy-wise and is by any pragmatic material metric disaster.
We cannot measure actions using only a ruler, or a rod mared "Good" on one end and "Evil" on the other. We need lots of different rulers and we need to use all of themin concert, even measuring perpendicuar to observable reality (religion and philosophy).
There is no sentiment more honest than "I wanted to, so I did." after all. On theother hand, that's hardly something to base a soceity on.
Technical remark: those elements in black (like the "expand" buttons to see further comments) are hard to detect on the purple background. Is it possible to customize these?
Others are much worse off than us. Including those still living in Cambodia.
"Sad to see it was not a once in a lifetime experience."
I had actuallly thought of this very point. It is rare indeed for some of us to cop Pol Pot and the like and to be living through this time. Howwever, as Earth is VERY SPECIAL - which you will know one day - hardships and other, non-traumatic experiences, are to be appreciated. The key is NOT to be embittered by any experience. That means to be forgiving and tolerant, knowing that we also need forgiving and tolerance.
In Germany, there are no global data on hospitalizations with incidental Covid diagnosis. But Helios, one of the biggest carriers, has its own reporting:
Scroll down, and open the link in the green box ("Auslastung Helios-weit"). Cases without symptomatic lung disease ("davon ohne sympt. Lungen-/Bronchialerkrankung") are hovering around 60% during Omicron times.
Very interesting data, and because it's from a 'private' provider, it might actually be comparable to, say, some U.S. data.
What I found curious are two things: what, exactly, is that 'asymptomatic lung disease'? I mean, I understood, perhaps wrongly, that this means bronchitis is a disease that primarily infects the lower respiratory tract. If so, how would that square with Omicron (whatever variant), which is said to infect primarily the upper respratory tract, hence it's talisman-liked touted 'mildness'?
I feel sympathy for Mr Rauch, it must be extremely hard to withstand the hysterical Twitter and Standard and SPÖ mob. The regime tries to stop the madness - but unfortunately it does not work very well.
Vienna: Still FFP2 mandates on public transport, most of the time I am „Last (Wo)Man Standing“ being without one.
Covidistan: 2G+ (vaxxed or recovered and tested) in some hospitals/elderly homes. 1G (vaxxed) in healthcare schools like schools for Midwives. A friend of mine told me that her daughter would love to become a midwife and would be allowed to attend a school in autumn - but she has to be triple vaxxed (she is 19 as has already waited one year as she hoped for times without mandates). She is unvaxxed and will now get the 3 shots in 2 months 😒 as the job is her dream.
I am really disgusted by the Global Autoritarian „Health“ Regime…
I'm glad you're still around and standing tall, though.
As to Mr. Rauch--no sympathies, for he kinda knew what clusterf*** he was getting into (but apparently, 16,000 € X 14 per year--if he lasts a year in office--just before retiring was too tempting).
Tell me, is it mandatory to have lead seals in the water pipes in governement buildings? It sure sems that waygoing by the Covid-rules.
I think lead seals and pipes were outlawed decades ago. Here's some information (in German) on the 'sunset date' for lead pipes in Vienna, which were to b replacd by 2007:
https://www.wien.gv.at/wienwasser/qualitaet/blei.html
That said, as th above official website states, it's the property-owner's responsibility to change all lead pipes.
Many government institutions have their seats in 'old' buildings, i.e., those built bfore 1938.
Also, I don't know if th gov't officials are secretly--or: re-reading the above piece, not so secretly--are sniffing glue or smoking weed.
Sniffing mercury more like. They are incoherent, inept and incompetent not to mention impotent.
Corrupt I can deal with. Evil I understand. Greed and grift too.
But stupidity is by its nature incomprehensible.
Not considering plausible, potential or probable consequences is hubris, stupidity or following a doctrine of a Truth. Being ignorant of same is no excuse if the ability to glean knowledge exists.
Evil would be knowing of the potential consequences and notcaring, as long as you personally benefits - this is in opposition to if you have a notion of good/evil which weighs intent more than method, cost or consequence.
You can of course go beyond good and evil to, for equally valid and invalid reasons; moral and ethics are malleable and situational after all - look no further than the old chinese adage about sacrificing the village to save the kingdom. The caveat of course being that you actually intend to save the kingdom and that the sacrifice can serve to achive that.
There is also the question of how able you are when it comes to predicting the possible logical consequences. Lower intelligence, lower ability for abstract thinking and lower ability for logic as well as higher social-ability, higher empathy (do note: in psychology, empathy only means understanding that others have feelings and emotions of their own, not agreeing with them or feeling sympathy for/towards them, thus you can be very empathic and still commit atrocities - witness Heinrich Himmler who couldn't even hear about cruelty to animals without starting to cry) and malleable executive function is the ben you want for dreaming up things like Energie-wende or Sweden joining the european energy market - short-term benefits, looks good on paper, feels good emotion/mepathy-wise and is by any pragmatic material metric disaster.
We cannot measure actions using only a ruler, or a rod mared "Good" on one end and "Evil" on the other. We need lots of different rulers and we need to use all of themin concert, even measuring perpendicuar to observable reality (religion and philosophy).
There is no sentiment more honest than "I wanted to, so I did." after all. On theother hand, that's hardly something to base a soceity on.
Technical remark: those elements in black (like the "expand" buttons to see further comments) are hard to detect on the purple background. Is it possible to customize these?
That, my friend, is an excellent question and I don't have an answer yet.
I shall, however, 'investigate' this and get back to you before too long.
In the meantime, please bear with me.
Australia still has a 7-day isolation for a positive result. Masks on public transport, hospitals and other sensitive places.
Groundhog Day, anyone?
How are you keeping sane?
How are you keeping sane?"
1. Living day by day.
2. Detach.
3. Informing myself
4. Inform others
5. Knowing they want to fool us, to depress and kills us, I try to do the opposite.
I have more experience of hardships than others since I am a Pol Pot survivor.
The fact that I don't have a job, a car, nor a social life HELPS!!!
We are collectively responsible; not them!
Realise that we are living at the age of an epoch. Appreciare the experience. The experience will help others in some other "time" and places.
No experience is ever lost or useless..
Nothing done in true love is ever lost.
Soldier on!
Thanks, PolarNinja.
We are doing fine.
Others are much worse off than us. Including those still living in Cambodia.
"Sad to see it was not a once in a lifetime experience."
I had actuallly thought of this very point. It is rare indeed for some of us to cop Pol Pot and the like and to be living through this time. Howwever, as Earth is VERY SPECIAL - which you will know one day - hardships and other, non-traumatic experiences, are to be appreciated. The key is NOT to be embittered by any experience. That means to be forgiving and tolerant, knowing that we also need forgiving and tolerance.
In Germany, there are no global data on hospitalizations with incidental Covid diagnosis. But Helios, one of the biggest carriers, has its own reporting:
https://www.helios-gesundheit.de/qualitaet/auslastung/
Scroll down, and open the link in the green box ("Auslastung Helios-weit"). Cases without symptomatic lung disease ("davon ohne sympt. Lungen-/Bronchialerkrankung") are hovering around 60% during Omicron times.
Very interesting data, and because it's from a 'private' provider, it might actually be comparable to, say, some U.S. data.
What I found curious are two things: what, exactly, is that 'asymptomatic lung disease'? I mean, I understood, perhaps wrongly, that this means bronchitis is a disease that primarily infects the lower respiratory tract. If so, how would that square with Omicron (whatever variant), which is said to infect primarily the upper respratory tract, hence it's talisman-liked touted 'mildness'?
I have to correct myself: the RKI Wochenbericht contains some information on incidental hospitalisations, cf. p. 13-14:
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Wochenbericht/Wochenbericht_2022-07-28.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
I feel sympathy for Mr Rauch, it must be extremely hard to withstand the hysterical Twitter and Standard and SPÖ mob. The regime tries to stop the madness - but unfortunately it does not work very well.
Vienna: Still FFP2 mandates on public transport, most of the time I am „Last (Wo)Man Standing“ being without one.
Covidistan: 2G+ (vaxxed or recovered and tested) in some hospitals/elderly homes. 1G (vaxxed) in healthcare schools like schools for Midwives. A friend of mine told me that her daughter would love to become a midwife and would be allowed to attend a school in autumn - but she has to be triple vaxxed (she is 19 as has already waited one year as she hoped for times without mandates). She is unvaxxed and will now get the 3 shots in 2 months 😒 as the job is her dream.
I am really disgusted by the Global Autoritarian „Health“ Regime…
Oh my, the stories you tell are--heartbreaking.
I'm glad you're still around and standing tall, though.
As to Mr. Rauch--no sympathies, for he kinda knew what clusterf*** he was getting into (but apparently, 16,000 € X 14 per year--if he lasts a year in office--just before retiring was too tempting).