re: uspol, not useful doomerism
Telling people to vote isn't going to help if Biden wouldn't even be in office before the winter starts and there is mass starvation and homelessness that easily could have been prevented by the federal government. And there's no guarantee an election is even going to happen, or that its results would even change things.
covid tests are bad
A friend wrote this longer, less technical explanation of what it means to have a high false negative rate: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/22/opinion/what-does-negative-coronavirus-test-really-reveal/
- If you have COVID symptoms, assume you have COVID.
- Testing when you don't have symptoms is pointless. Don't use a prophylactic test to shorten the isolation period before you visit vulnerable relatives or w/e.
- Don't tell your wedding guests to get COVID tests. Cancel your fucking wedding jfc what is wrong with you.
covid tests are bad
Okay so I just looked up the actual false negative rate for COVID tests and omfg, I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was THAT BAD.
67% of tests on day 4 of illness (which is on average the day before people start getting symptoms, when they are deffo super contagious) are false negatives. 𝟞𝟟%. TWO THIRDS.
It drops to 20% during the first few days after people develop symptoms. That's still bad.
Yesterday, I finally pushed my current source code implementing the Exposure Notification API to the @microg git repository.
This will allow using apps that use the Google/Apple framework for COVID-19 contact tracing on Android devices without the Google tracking it usually involves.
The current code is already functional, but still needs some improvements before it's ready for general public, but I am certain it's going to make it in the next @microg release.
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