droog_the_droog

Again, no, it's assisted death. Quite different.

Yeah, knees shaking over here.

Soda springs geyser: am I a joke to you?

Use this set at home. Really like it! Especially that the forks forces you to eat smaller bites. :)

Fiat 500, my friend.

Except that raising children requires more time and resources than caring for elderly.

Source on this? Doesn't sound right at all. According to my findings after a quick search, LTC (long-term care) takes a significantly higher fraction of OECD countries GDP than e.g. childcare+early education.

https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/PF3_1_Public_spending_on_childcare_and_early_education.pdf

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/cb584fa2-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/cb584fa2-en

Found the Finn, everyone

Absolutely. Always consider medical statistics based on self reporting with a grain of salt is all I'm saying. Obviously, my back of a napkin maths based on my personal circumstances shouldn't be used as any kind of evidence on your behalf. This is also why I say it's based on my own anecdotes.

Recently, for instance, at Site Zero, the world's largest recycling center for plastics. Obviously, it depends on the material being recycled.

I mean, fair, but also: if the implication is that vaccination is the key to reducing covid symptoms - no shit? Also, the article you link mentions 10 percent rate of omicron cases leading to long covid (not mentioning how vaccination rates play into it), so...

Assuming I have a 100 close ties (I have significantly more), and just one of these exhibiting publicly that they have long covid seems highly unlikely. According to the below link, 60% of the US population has caught omicron. The probability of only one of my sixty close ties having long covid is ~1.2%. So...

https://www.statnews.com/2022/04/26/with-omicron-nearly-60-percent-in-us-infected-covid/

Sure, I have no doubt about some people being affected in this way. But the scale that the article is talking about is just absurd, to be honest.

Anecdotally this statistic is just not right, or the hardships of long covid hits people very differently. Most people I know (hundreds) have had covid several times at this point. I know one person who believes to have long covid in a debilitating way.