kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

People are routinely bad at assessing risks:

> In December of 2020, he tweeted, “I have a very low risk of A) Getting COVID and B) dying of it if I do. Why would I risk getting a heart attack or paralysis by getting the vaccine?”

Phil Valentine, Anti-Vax and Anti-Mask Radio Host, Dies at 61 of COVID Complications

Right-wing, anti-masker radio host Phil Valentine had mocked the vaccine prior to his lengthy battle with the virus.

https://www.thewrap.com/phil-valentine-anti-vax-anti-mask-radio-host-dies-covid-complications/

Marc Bernier, Anti-Vax Florida Radio Host, Dies at 65 From COVID-19

https://www.thewrap.com/marc-bernier-anti-vax-radio-host-dies-from-covid-19/

And I happen to be reading Maria Janion's "Niesamowita Słowiańszczyzna" ("Uncanny Slavdom") 2007, which goes deep into the widespread misconceptions about Slavic mythology, religion and introduction of Christianity. Could be interesting for @werekat

https://phys.org/news/2021-08-central-european-prehistory-highly-dynamic.html

Beautiful Split, #Croatia

When Dmitry Unagaev bought his first electric car 5 years ago, the purchase bewildered friends and neighbors in Khabarovsk. Today, the city in #Russia’s Far East is full of battery-powered autos.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-12/in-russia-s-wild-east-an-electric-car-proves-cheaper-than-a-lada

🇵🇱 Akurat jestem w Polsce i w kręgach znajomych największe emocje budzi kwestia kupczenia ciałem przez posłów Kukiza i Sośnierza (mówiąc delikatnie) 🤔

In the UK kids do *not* get vaccinated unless in high risk group. Most of EU already gives Pfizer to 12+.

"There is growing evidence that -- for whatever reason (higher viral loads, something different about how the virus is handled by less mature immune systems, or something else), children infected by the Delta variant may develop a more severe form of the disease compared to illness caused by other forms of the virus."
#COVID19

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/02/opinions/worrisome-thing-about-delta-variant-sepkowitz/index.html

Lukashenka has been exerting pressure on the EU by directing stream of refugees to the EU border, now he says he may be forced to send some dirt bomb isotopes as well. #Belarus

If you think fossil gas is a safe and cheap "transitional fuel", think again. Gas supplies worldwide have seen 30-50% price volatility in long term, and now it just spiked by 1000% 🤷

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-06/the-era-of-cheap-natural-gas-ends-as-prices-surge-by-1-000

This apparent paradox is caused by a slight difference between the massive increase in risk of death increasing with age and nearly as massive decrease in risk with full vaccination.

Nearly, but slightly smaller.

For a 70 yo person, the increase in risk from age alone is 32x as compared to 35 yo.

Double vaccination reduces that risk by 20x.

This is in details explained here:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/most-covid-deaths-vaccinated-heres-102424441.html

Now, this is a nice showcase but not a representative statistics (one day, small sample).

A more detailed picture could be recently seen in the UK report, which has been promptly picked up by anti-vaxers as proof that "vaccines are harmful", as 63% of people who died of Delta variant received at least one dose of vaccine.

How?

A nice #COVID19 impact summary

COVID hospitalisations breakdown on 9 August 2021 in Houston Medical Center

Out of 81 hospitalised, 9 vaccinated and 72 unvaccinated

Out of 23 in the ICU, 23 unvaccinated, zero vaccinated

Out of 11 on ventilators, 11 unvaccinated, zero vaccinated

😂

Poland introduces high financial prize for people who come up and report their employers to the tax authorities for untaxed payments.

The problem is however that the labour tax is primarily impacting the *employee.* For an average monthly salary of 5000 PLN the effective tax rate is 30% since the income tax allowance is *very* low in Poland and national insurance tax is actually *regressive.*

https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/08/10/poland-to-shift-punishment-for-under-the-table-payments-from-employees-to-employers/

A lone tourist with improvised SRT (rope climbing/descending) equipment was found at -1100 m in Veryovkina cave in Abkhazia. He most likely died there last year (!) after being unable to pass a technically demanding rope sections.

Everything in this story just screams "WTF". You never go caving alone, and you never go to a vertical cave without proper SRT equipment, skills and fitness. Veryovkina is like Chomolungma in among climbers.

https://vk.com/@rsspeleo-v-peschere-verevkina-proizoshlo-chp

German "climate activist" gives a real feel of a messianic cult that #Energiewende has become:

> Niemand schlägt ernsthaft vor Deutschland solle ~alleine~ die Welt retten.
> Nobody seriously suggests Germany should save the world ~ alone ~.

You are *not* "saving the world", Louisa. Germany's CO2 emissions per kWh are as usual 5x higher than those of France, and Germany still plans to shut down 8GW of #nuclear power 🤦‍♂️

🇵🇱 "Prokurator w tej sprawie domagał się wydania akt postępowania kanonicznego, karno-administracyjnego dotyczącego sprawcy. - Niestety żyjemy w takim kraju, że dostał polecenie z góry, żeby wycofał się z tego wniosku dowodowego, on nie został zrealizowany" ✝️

🤷

https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2021-08-10/wielkopolskie-rozpoczal-sie-proces-b-ksiedza-ws-gwaltow-i-molestowania/