Yeah, knees shaking over here. 
droog_the_droog
joined 1 year ago
Use this set at home. Really like it! Especially that the forks forces you to eat smaller bites. :)
Fiat 500, my friend.
Except that raising children requires more time and resources than caring for elderly.
Source on this? Doesn't sound right at all. According to my findings after a quick search, LTC (long-term care) takes a significantly higher fraction of OECD countries GDP than e.g. childcare+early education.
https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/PF3_1_Public_spending_on_childcare_and_early_education.pdf
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/cb584fa2-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/cb584fa2-en
Found the Finn, everyone
I mean, fair, but also: if the implication is that vaccination is the key to reducing covid symptoms - no shit? Also, the article you link mentions 10 percent rate of omicron cases leading to long covid (not mentioning how vaccination rates play into it), so...
Assuming I have a 100 close ties (I have significantly more), and just one of these exhibiting publicly that they have long covid seems highly unlikely. According to the below link, 60% of the US population has caught omicron. The probability of only one of my sixty close ties having long covid is ~1.2%. So...
https://www.statnews.com/2022/04/26/with-omicron-nearly-60-percent-in-us-infected-covid/
Sure, I have no doubt about some people being affected in this way. But the scale that the article is talking about is just absurd, to be honest.
Anecdotally this statistic is just not right, or the hardships of hard covid hits people very differently. Most people I know (hundreds) have had covid several times at this point. I know one person who believes to have long covid in a debilitating way.
Again, no, it's assisted death. Quite different.