Posts by quietranger132

boldotter2 said:Well, Japan had 120 cases yesterday. That's for 125 million people living packed in there like sardines! It's less than one in a million, I guess.

Just for comparison, New Zealand—which had some of the toughest measures outside of China—had 146 cases yesterday for their 5 million people.
Just as a quick comparison, the US last saw fewer than one in a million infections back on June 17, 2020, though even then, numbers were probably lower since they mostly tested symptomatic folks, maybe even slightly skewed because of election season.

The big thing here is that Japan isn't really doing a zero covid policy.
It seems like high vaccination rates and everyone being pretty smart about safety measures helped push COVID back. How long that lasts, well, we'll see!

PS: Japan ran 46,000 tests yesterday. With 120 cases out of 46,000 tests, that's a positivity rate of only 0.26%.

Oh sure, because there’s absolutely no way the task force would ever try to manipulate their loyal followers with some nonsense about election optics or excuses about how they weren't running drills all summer because they were too busy enjoying their well-earned vacations while millions of tourists flooded the country, all of whom were obviously perfectly healthy.
Did anyone actually bother to mention what testing cycle they're running, whether they're tweaking those cycles based on whatever the current political climate demands, or even what kind of drugs they're actually pumping into patients in the hospitals—are we talking hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, or Remdesivir?

Here’s just one more prime example of today's pandemic marketing—and by that, I mean the coordinated efforts of the task force and their paid-for media outlets like CNN.

The news and the headlines read like this:
https://www.cnn.com/news/article/...h/2321554.aspx
The CDC issued a statement regarding Omicron: It bypasses immunity more easily and is mostly being found in younger people...
"This variant has an increased ability to evade immunity, though vaccines should still provide high protection against hospitalization and death."
Omicron is more frequent among the youth.

Not long before that, on that very same mercenary news site, there was a report from the doctors who actually discovered this variant:
https://www.cnn.com/news/article/...i/2321550.aspx
US COVID doctors: Omicron doesn't cause severe illness.
"The symptoms of this new variant are unusual, but mild."

The sheep haven't quite figured it out yet.

Firefox?

Jessica Morris6 said:It only scales down if the dimensions are larger than 640x480; that’s just how the logic is set up...

Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. Maybe I didn't frame my question quite right even though I thought I was being clear enough, but I'm talking about all five of them.

or we just don't touch the image at all—no resizing, no nothing—if the width is already under 640px.