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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 53

(Yes, the change in image theme reflects that; the earlier sequence served its purpose. With a nod to El Gato Malo (1, 2, 3), the posts to come will be headed by thoughtful memes relevant to the Covid mess. Yes, I'll take nominations -- you can post links in the thread.)
So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:
1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.
2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.
4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
Vaccination in the IT industry
(Anonymous) 2022-08-16 02:09 am (UTC)(link)Re: Vaccination in the IT industry
(Anonymous) 2022-08-16 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)I don't think many IT companies enforced a mandate (Google did I think). But most people in the big US locations foxed at a very high rate. Most companies have smaller locations, some remote employees and of course oversees offices.
My very rough guess would be that the rate of foxing is higher than the local average, given the higher incomes. So in US I would guess at least 70% of the employees are foxed.
I know of 2 (possible) fox injuries: someone in his 30s died of a blitzkrieg cancer last year and the wife of a coworker (in her 50s) has been in and out of the hospital ("doctors are baffled!") since their fooster.
Other than that, I don't see much sick days or problems - for now.
I think given the economic forecast, the IT industry will shrink by 50% AT LEAST in the next 5-10 years anyway, with or without fox injuries.
Re: Vaccination in the IT industry
(Anonymous) 2022-08-16 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)I doubt that's true. It's not really that complicated, for most of the big online stuff you might think of, dozens of open source alternatives exist.
Anyway, as far as I know the vaccine rate is high, so yeah, they should be noticing it.