What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has an answer
Modelling study based on almost 250,000 positive COVID-19 tests in the United Kingdom shows that universal masking could have cut transmission markedly.
UK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer:
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
08.08.2025 16:46 β π 536 π 249 π¬ 19 π 37
After first criticizing South Park as βlazy,β now Kristi Noem is trying to act like sheβs HAPPY they depicted her as a puppy shooting moron with a melting face.
Desperate levels of cope.
09.08.2025 21:55 β π 4606 π 797 π¬ 260 π 45
Eat the Rich.
But first buy some anti-acids.
10.08.2025 05:22 β π 16 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
All Cops Are Bastards
I genuinely hope they each get to experience the exact same amount and kind of love they show everyone in the community.
I wrote a handy dandy guide for dealing with fascists.
It emphasizes how self defense should be considered a practical application of the Tolerance Paradox.
Remember, kids!
All Cops Are Bastards!
I genuinely hope they each get to experience the exact same amount and kind of love they show everyone in the community.
Bugs Bunny says
i wish all COPS a very
EXPERIENCE THE EXACT SAME AMOUNT OF KINDNESS YOU VISIT ON YOUR COMMUNITY
IMAGE:
Maya Hawke from Stanger Things holding up a sign
TEXT:
If you think that "not all cops are bad" but wish the "good ones" would "take the bad ones to task and hold them accountable.β Then congratulations, you have just figured out why all cops are bad.
///
All Cops Are Bastards
I genuinely hope they each get to experience the exact same amount and kind of love they show everyone in the community.
#ACAB
10.08.2025 00:39 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
What a shrill dumbass. I live in the Godforsaken state of Aouth Carolina and our current Governor is incompetent but she is a disaster in the making.
Tony
10.08.2025 00:05 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 3 π 0
Exactly, parents have a duty to teach their kids not to become ignorant facists.
10.08.2025 00:11 β π 50 π 12 π¬ 2 π 1
I did learn heβs clueless in other ways, and might even feel sorry for his wife because another staff member just up & quit βout of nowhereβ according to him. This was someone who fought for me & other patients, so he wasnβt paying attention to anything they had been saying for a while. I miss them.
10.08.2025 05:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Not even my own pain management specialist is great at understanding lifetime chronic pain patients. He has a great reputation, but still needed to get yelled at by one of his staff members explaining their own pain issues after an accident. He noticeably improved, but he shouldnβt have needed to.
10.08.2025 05:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
09.08.2025 11:59 β π 4282 π 651 π¬ 177 π 54
If ICE is Gestapo-adjacent (there are never perfect parallels, but they do rhyme) then that would make the FBI the Sicherheitsdienst (SD)
"This was the intelligence gathering agency of the SS. It was responsible for the security of Hitler and other top Nazis..."
08.08.2025 01:31 β π 31 π 12 π¬ 1 π 3
Now I want to see a Trix Rabbit-style commercial where Dersh is denied pierogies.
βSilly pervert! Rogies are for people!β
10.08.2025 01:44 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
tmnt logo reading "once again refused pierogi"
09.08.2025 22:35 β π 980 π 202 π¬ 6 π 8
Excellent post and excellent name that's a twofer
09.08.2025 23:36 β π 176 π 15 π¬ 0 π 0
There are shitloads of US-ians who canβt even handle the workload of a dog kennel. Iβve seen so many people quit/no-show after lunch or before the end of the day.
And working in a kennel is one the *the* easiest jobs in animal care. They would die at the zoo: 200lb wheelbarrows of shit! Hay bales!
10.08.2025 01:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
We still have not felt enough pain for putting this administration in power. Red Voters have more coming and itβs unfortunate that the rest of us are along for the ride.
Tony
09.08.2025 19:40 β π 1783 π 660 π¬ 135 π 47
True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.
Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYCβs program helping people move out of shelter.
Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. π§΅
x.com/andrewcuomo/...
09.08.2025 13:04 β π 7386 π 1952 π¬ 146 π 203
Another Cuomo noninterference story falls apart
Andrew Cuomo has always been careful to maintain a plausible-looking deniability when it comes to his role in keeping his own party out of power in the State Senate.
Cuomo helped form the IDC, a group of rogue Democratic state senators who sided with Republicans year after year to keep loopholes in NYβs rent stabilization laws.
The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated.
www.politico.com/states/new-y...
09.08.2025 13:04 β π 1746 π 380 π¬ 7 π 18
When I was a zookeeper, I gave him and his family a tour of my section. He had to duck through half the corridors in the building because of the otter pathway hanging from the ceiling.
His brother was really cool; we hung out & talked shit about animal shit while Shaq spent time with the press guy.
10.08.2025 01:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Did you ask to see the blueprints when you last stepped in to a large building or a train?
Okay, so why are you so sceptical about that vaccine? Or that trajectory from a climate scientist?
09.08.2025 23:39 β π 13 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0
one of the great tragedies of our age is how many people are willing to view AI as magic because they don't understand how it functions but unwilling to exhibit any humility at all towards more important things they understand even less (like the climate or medicine)
09.08.2025 21:18 β π 2608 π 489 π¬ 48 π 11
A painting of the Last Supper, showing Jesus at a table surrounded by his disciples, captioned:
BEFORE THIS NIGHT IS OVER
YOU WILL DENY ME PIEROGI THREE TIMES
09.08.2025 23:41 β π 25 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
How has Doc not been on @playwatchlisten.bsky.social yet?
10.08.2025 01:17 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
I've been thinking about this all week and have come to the conclusion I was too hard on Titanfall 2's campaign for being good rather than genre-defining. If TF|2 was the floor and we got 2-3 things like it every year since 2016 we'd be in an indisputable fps golden age instead of battlepass hell
09.08.2025 23:38 β π 16 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
All Cops Are Bastards
I genuinely hope they each get to experience the exact same amount and kind of love they show everyone in the community.
I wrote a handy dandy guide for dealing with fascists.
It emphasizes how self defense should be considered a practical application of the Tolerance Paradox.
Remember, kids!
All Cops Are Bastards!
I genuinely hope they each get to experience the exact same amount and kind of love they show everyone in the community.
Bugs Bunny says
i wish all COPS a very
EXPERIENCE THE EXACT SAME AMOUNT OF KINDNESS YOU VISIT ON YOUR COMMUNITY
IMAGE:
Maya Hawke from Stanger Things holding up a sign
TEXT:
If you think that "not all cops are bad" but wish the "good ones" would "take the bad ones to task and hold them accountable.β Then congratulations, you have just figured out why all cops are bad.
///
All Cops Are Bastards
I genuinely hope they each get to experience the exact same amount and kind of love they show everyone in the community.
#ACAB
10.08.2025 00:39 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
09.08.2025 14:06 β π 16691 π 4366 π¬ 468 π 205
A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr.
CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedyβs rhetoric specifically.
Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterdayβs shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...
09.08.2025 22:03 β π 7980 π 3024 π¬ 238 π 182
This clip of Mark Maron talking about the comedies who helped usher in all this nonsense is pretty cathartic.
08.08.2025 18:52 β π 799 π 166 π¬ 13 π 16
Great clip of @marcmaron.bsky.social
08.08.2025 18:11 β π 1484 π 309 π¬ 39 π 45
people who still believe the democratic party is opposed to the republican agenda are gonna get us all killed
09.08.2025 20:18 β π 192 π 48 π¬ 5 π 1
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