Fingers crossed, you're right. But in the Long Covid community, they're reporting challenges in getting life insurance, which makes me worried for pre-existing conditions coming back to insurance policies.

If only this administration wasn’t dead set on creating pre-existing conditions.

Long covid is still claiming millions of new victims per year. Children are getting measles with long term health risks. Food safety rollbacks will cause higher colon cancer rates.

A few years ago, I looked into buying a kit/prefab home from New Zealand. It was 1/4 the price to purchase and set up in Seattle, would be a lot more eathquake safe than modern Seattle homes. The cost for a 2 bedroom, 2 bath, with den in 2021 after construction costs? Under $175,000.

May I ask the brand? Because I was just about to order a very similar sounding headphone headband sleep mask thingy for my husband’s birthday and I would really hate to get him a crown of insects instead.

Often, I think the lack of political will is because we have developers who are locked in to formats. They feel like their teams can execute and that they can get funding for, therefore they don’t lobby for other building solutions.

This is really, really great. It would help manage complex priorities, density, keeping tree canopy, reducing storm water run off, daylighting more of each unit, maximizing access for the disabled, allowing for more operable windows (and reducing viral load), creating outdoor space for residents...

The only downside: air recirculation leads to CO2 build up and higher viral load (when people are sick).

If people aren’t opening windows regularly and using a CO2 monitor, folks can feel sluggish, make more mistakes, and are more likely to transmit an airborne infection.

Even if the stock market is up, @Marketplace should play the sad stock market song because everything feels like bad news.

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It doesn’t sound dissimilar from newly hired folks at Amazon. Of course, nobody tracks their hours, and WA’s Labor Dept looks the other way. It’s common knowledge in Seattle that hires work 12 to 16 hour days regularly until they burn out. Often, they go into the office on weekends or WFH.

Feeling the high ROI from hand pollinating our apple trees. Our 2025 apple crop is amazing for two little apple trees in a container garden!

I wish more of my policy, governance, public health, and data friends would peek over there to get a sense of the current state of the covid pandemic.

I increasingly get the feeling it’s not something the political class want to look at, but if you’re trying to set policy, you absolutely should.

There are hundreds, maybe thousands of folks who are Covid-informed, reaching out to the newly sick, reminding them about Paxlovid and the peer reviewed research on post covid radical rest when their doctors don’t.

The UK and Canadian voices with no treatment options, just growing disability rates

…and scrolling through the many posts you’ll see with folks flabbergasted by their 4th to 8th covid infection. Those slowly realizing they have long covid. Exasperated parents with frequently ill kids.

Then, the covid cautious posting fresh peer reviewed studies that get 36 likes from their choir…