There are no recommendation algorithms for content, you are one! Search for communities based on your interests and subscribe to them. The Communities view of your home instance and Lemmy Explorer are good for that. Because Lemmy is decentralized, all discussion isn’t centered around one site like on Reddit, which may at first give an impression of emptiness.

I also wrote an extensive guide about Lemmy few weeks ago.

Welcome!

And a guestbook, just like in the old times! I sent my regards.

This is just continuation of the same line of thinking, created by the infamous Great Barrington Declaration. Now Jay Bhattacharya & co get to reap what they sow… with mass death and disability.

As much as it’s overused, “every accusation is a confession”.

This seems to be like a recent moral panic here in Finland about therian kids in schools.

What might be the repercussions of doing this?

Oooh, absolutely nothing! No side effects whatsoever, it really improves your quality of life!

Yes.

He’s getting really well into the Linux and FOSS rabbit hole. And he’s also serving as a “celebrity role model” for people interested in switching to Linux. This can have lots of potential!

This headline might as well be from The Babylon Bee.

It’s sickening how politicians and healthcare influencers are silent about long COVID and how the society as whole tries to pretend that there is no pandemic. The price for all that will be paid if H5N1 becomes a global pandemic.

I may have used Skype for the last time in 2014 or so.

Didn’t know this is his first PC build, I assumed he had built one before.

Actually Sopuli was founded in February 2021. Few months after Lemmy’s federation got out of beta phase.

Excatly. Sopuli has become the instance for all things Finland, so that community would be more than welcome!

Execpt herd immunity doesn’t apply to viruses that mutate heavily and where the immunity isn’t durable. Dr. Anthony Fauci previously believed that herd immunity could be achieved with COVID, but he has since changed his mind:

So, with regard to that issue and something you mentioned earlier, how should we define herd immunity with respect to COVID, I mean, how do we think of it?

I wrote a paper on that. It was a simple paper [9]. It stated that we cannot apply the standard criteria of herd immunity. It’s not applicable with SARS-CoV-2. And the reason is, it’s simple. I can synopsize the paper in 30 seconds. One is that herd immunity is dependent on an immune response that is durable, measured in decades to a lifetime, and a pathogen that does not change. So, you have clear-cut herd immunity with measles. Why? The measles that I got infected with as a child, because I was born before the measles vaccine, is the same measles that’s killing kids in the developing world today.

Number 2, if you get infected with measles or you get vaccinated with measles, the duration of protection minimally is decades and maximally is lifetime. Those are the criteria that you need for herd immunity. Because if you have a pathogen that keeps changing like the multiple variants of SARS, and if you have a duration of immunity that’s measured in months, the entire concept of herd immunity is no longer valid. That’s the point.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11418601/

Considering how repeat COVID infections can cause cumulative damage, which includes immune system problems, one could expect flu waves to become deadlier. All those laptop class academics who preached about “herd immunity” via infection must be feeling great right now.

But at least he admits being a Nazi!

And this is a problem we won’t have with Lemmy.

Another variation of that is claiming how getting sick repeatedly is somehow beneficial for getting a strong immune system. That ignores research, as children who have a lot of common infections early in life have higher risk of moderate to severe infections and antibiotic use throughout childhood. That also ignores viruses for which a durable immunity isn’t currently possible, such as COVID.

EDIT: Basically the immunity system doesn’t work like a muscle.