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It looks like vaseline glass I used to collect. Antique glass that was made with Uranium Dioxide in it. Glows under UV just like that.
NOT my collection. Just a stock photo. My collection was just a few pieces.
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Jesus man, you really gotta do something about that urinary tract infection.
He is, heās going to bottle it, then encapsulate it and sell it to the community.
A little bit of Amal in every implant
Any news on when the subscribe bug might be resolved. 
Edited to add: For those who wonder why I like the Unicorn emojis so much, the Unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. 
Kindaā¦ thereāsā¦ something wrong. Hah. I have to learn to dig around in data through ruby on railsā¦ manually yank some records.
I canāt subscribe because I am subscribed, but I am not subscribedā¦ 
Ok Buddy, leave it with meā¦
I am sorry you have to do anything in Ruby. I didnāt realize it was that bad.
(Yes, I have a deep, abiding disrespect for Ruby, and Cobol if it comes to that)
Iām curious, howās that app work?
I saw in the news the other day that yāall were locking down because you had ONE domestic case of Covid. Thatās seriously impressive. Itās burning like wildfire here.
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Itās all about making Contact Tracing much faster and easier.
Every business or premisis has a QR Code at the entry (and normally throughout the store) Public transport, tourist locations etc
Itās actually a prosecutable offence for businesses not to display a QR code
We use the App to ācheck inā to a location
(we can also add manually instead of QR code) also there will be a manual resister to sign in, with hand sanitiser to use etc.
If you have checked in anywhere that has had exposure to Covid, you would get a notification via the App.
If you get notified you would self isolate and get a Covid test and authorities would get in contact
Here is the App blurb from the PlayStore
Speed up contact tracing by creating a digital diary of the places you visit
NZ COVID Tracer is the Ministry of Healthās official contact tracing mobile app. It helps you protect your friends, whÄnau and community by enabling faster contact tracing.
Help contact tracing go faster by creating a private digital diary of the places you visit. Scan the official QR codes wherever you see them and add manual entries for your visits to other places.
Use Bluetooth Tracing to enable the Exposure Notification System on your phone.
Sign up for contact alerts in case youāve checked into a location at the same time as someone with COVID-19, or exchanged anonymous Bluetooth keys with someone with COVID-19.
If youāre found to have COVID-19, you can share your digital diary with contact tracers. This will help us identify whether any of your friends, whÄnau or community members may have also been exposed, so we can respond quickly and stop any further spread of the virus in New Zealand.
If you test positive for COVID-19, you can also upload your anonymous Bluetooth Tracing keys so that other app users who have been close to you will be quickly notified. This helps to keep your friends, whanau and community safe without compromising on your privacy.
Register your contact information so contact tracers can get in touch if they need to.
The Ministry of Health has worked closely with the Privacy Commissioner and independent security experts during the development of NZ COVID Tracer to ensure your privacy and data security are protected.
Your digital diary will be stored securely on your phone and deleted automatically after 60 days. Any personal information you choose to share with contact tracers will be used only for public health purposes and never for enforcement.
Information about who you have encountered using Bluetooth Tracing will never leave your phone and is automatically deleted after 14 days.
That was the first case, in something like ~7 months.
We opened up our border to some states of Australia and a Delta strain case got through.
From about 2.5 weeks ago we have been on lockdown. (Level 4)
āEverybody is to stay at home except essential workers.ā
We are at just under 300 cases now, and we have not yet had a downward trend.
Churches were the biggest spreader of the virus, but the App again helped speed up contact tracing.
As of yesterday, our lockdown has been extended another 2 weeks (Except for regions with no cases, they exit lockdown next week)
Is that more info than you wanted?
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for perspective;
Google says New Zealand has 4.917 million people and with 300 cases youād have one per 16,390 people.
Arkansas has 3.018 million people and it looks like we have 2,261 cases or one per every 1,334 people.
In other words we have a little over 12 times as much. BUTā¦ Thatās reported cases, and thereās alot of people around here who simply get sick and JUST KEEP GOING ABOUT THEIR LIFE. I shit you not. Iād bet the true ratio is worse than 20:1 by comparison to New Zealand.
I work with a guy who refuses (loudly) to even consider a vaccine. If the subject comes up he goes completely blow-hard on it and starts invoking every ridiculous conspiracy theory he can until he runs out of those and starts off on racist tangents. The unbridled, unchecked emotional shitstorm that he unleashes is at best staggeringly incoherent.
And heās normal around here. The unvaccinated greatly out number the vaccinated. It was 30/70, but started to climb a bit when everyone got scared of the Delta Variant. Itās at 40/60 now.
There is no contact tracing here. If you get sick youāre supposed to go home for 10 days and isolate. But by that point 2-3 other people have picked it up. And nobody does anything about it until THEY start to show symptoms, at which point they go home for 10 days and assumably after theyāve already infected a few more.
So yeah, basically not. Sorry for the rant, but Iām sure you can see why.
Edit:
Also, what is
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Maori word for Family (Which could include extended family)
I am in Oregon, which is a bit better for vaccination rate I believe, but still not great.
I work for a healthcare company, and some of my co-workers appear to be āanti Covid 19 vaccineā.
I hear crap from them about such great points asā¦
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Itās no worse than a cold. - That would be the sort of cold people die from then.
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You donāt mandate the flu vaccine. - Actually, I would if I could.
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The vaccine isnāt effective. - Both Moderna and Pfizer are very effective.
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People (usually a friend of a friend) have died after getting the vaccine. - The CDC track all deaths following ANY medical treatment, the death rate is 0.0019% and the vast majority of those have nothing to do with the vaccine.
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The side effects of the vaccine are really bad. - I had almost no reaction to either shot apart from some injection site soreness. Others I know have been sick for one to three days in varying degrees, but not as sick as anyone I know who caught Covid 19.
The CDC page on adverse events is well worth reading.
Of course this is all part of the conspiracy and we should be taking ivermectin purchased at the feed store instead. 
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Iām pretty surprised the number of people in this community that would strip people of bodily autonomy
I got the vaccine after research and consideration,
So donāt try and call me anti-vax
but if you tried to take away my choice, thereās a good chance Iād tell you to go fuck yourself on principle
Stripping people of their body rights and/or forcing or forbidding people to undergo medical procedures is wrong,
The ends donāt justify the means
Donāt let fear control you, or try to control others
The only exception to this is those who are not of sound mind or capable of exercising self determination
Is there misinformation or misconceptions about the vaccine? Sure
But there are plenty of people that have valid hesitation, and the current climate is getting more and more polarized
And were getting to the point of calling everyone who doesnāt immediately trust it, stupidā¦ and borderline gaslighting themā¦ or even trying to extort people into it by threatening them
You want more people to get the vaccine? Especially those that arenāt interested or hesitant?
You need to change your approach
Same here, happily vaxxed against Covid, but rarely against anything else. I think itās important to use your brain when it comes to vaccinating in generalā¦
I usually think about some points before:
- how likely is it that I meet the disease somewhere? Like, Iām not vaccinated against rabies, as it is pretty much extinct here. If I decided to work with bats or travel somewhere where rabies is a problem, Iād surely get a vaccination.
- how dangerous is the disease, if I get it? Iām not vaccinated against the flu, because I have a pretty good health and even if I might get sick for a week or two, I will survive it without lasting consequences.
Covid, on the other hand, might kill me or destroy my sense of smell, thatās definitely not worth it. - how dangerous are the possible side-effects of a vaccination? In most cases, at least in Europe, the side-effects are very small. But getting a āvaccinationā against Malaria might have some serious side-effects, so this should be taken into consideration as wellā¦
Another point especially for the covid vaccination is that I can help to reduce the spreading of the disease if I get it - so even if I would not profit from it, it definitely helps others around me (or anywhere on the globe), and thatās a big plus.
But I think itās sad that there are currently only two possible ways, seemingly - either you are totally for every vaccination under the sun, or you are a conspiracy-loving anti-vaxxerā¦ I am neither.
Fun fact - my last tetanus vaccination was 1996. I was told to refresh it at least every ten years, but instead, I decided to get my titer determined every 3-5 years, and funny enough - the protection is still very high. Even that high, that I should officially not get a refreshing, because it could have serious side-effectsā¦
But most people donāt know about that and instead get re-vaccinated every few years, no matter if it makes any sense or not 
So I think vaccinations are a great thing and have helped to get rid of many serious diseases. Whenever it makes sense to get one, I think it is a good thing, either to protect yourself or others. But still, the recommendation to get vaccinated against anything thatās possible, and to refresh that as often as possible, sounds a bit like people trying to make some moneyā¦
All solid and sound arguments, and great ways to convince someone they should get vaccinated, but often when you try to force someone you wind up closing their mind to it
Yep, and thatās why I am totally against forced or mandatory vaccinations. Still I donāt get it why people donāt get vaccinated against covid, simply because all points I made are totally met - itās widespread, itās possibly very dangerous, the side-effects are not that bad and you can protect others as well. I think itās a sad fact that so many people (here in Germany as well) rather decide to believe some conspiracy idiots than to just use their own brainsā¦