TheModerateTankie [any]

Team Monsanto’s Lead Junior Red Dawn war re-enactor/co-ordinator for Anniston, Alabama

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Cake day: November 6th, 2020

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  • This is according to the first link I posted:

    The system is absolutely network-silent except when you actively do something that requires network access, like using the browser. It does not call the mothership, not for updates, not for telemetry, not to let Kim Jong Un know the status of your internal organs. Spoiler, he doesn’t give a fuck about your hentai porn. You’re not trusting me? Well, you should, because if you listened and installed the OS inside a VM, you can now mitm/firewall the external connections and notice the absolute silence.







  • My understanding is that the rate of mutation per infection for covid is not unusual, but the amount of people (and animals) it can infect, and how quickly it can infect them,is unusual, which is why we have been seeing covid mutate so rapidly.

    When the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, many scientists thought it would evolve slowly, like other coronaviruses.

    But that was one of the first big surprises from the virus dubbed SARS-CoV-2. It evolved like crazy.

    “SARS-CoV-2 so far has probably been even faster than influenza virus, which is really remarkable,” says Jesse Bloom, who studies viral evolution at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle. “I thought it would undergo some evolution, but the speed at which it’s undergone that evolution and the ability it’s shown to undergo these big evolutionary jumps is really remarkable.”

    In fact, SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus, punctuated by several large evolutionary jumps, scientists say. Most notoriously, SARS-CoV-2 jumped a huge evolutionary hurdle to spawn the omicron variant, which spread around the world with shocking speed.

    A lot of the biggest mutations, like omicron, are believed to have come about as a result of long term infections in people with suppressed immune systems.




  • In Australia last year covid killed 4x as many people as the flu. It’s probably similar in other countries but most, like the US, stopped bothering with testing.

    In terms of risk, it’s now similar to the flu on an individual level, but way way more contagious. On average most people get a flu every 3-5 years, or something like that. While you can get covid 1-3 times a year, depending on how mutations play out.

    And now it’s being treated like it’s a common cold.