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My name is gRegor Morrill, a.k.a. gRegorLove. I live in San Diego, enjoy
tinkering on the web, and try to make people laugh. Yes, “Gregor is a weird
name,” and I know gRegor is a weird capitalization. More about me

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DO YOU STILL WORRY ABOUT COVID?

The LA Times has a reader survey with this title. I started to fill it out, then
realized I should share my responses. If you want to fill it out, too, note that
they request your name, email, and city.

How concerned are you about COVID right now? How often is it on your mind in
daily life?

Very concerned. It is a daily consideration in order to protect myself and my
community. I feel like it takes more mental and emotional effort now because so
few are taking precautions; everyone is a potential risk vector. In the first
couple years it was taxing, especially with the unknowns, but the majority of
people around were masking at least. It felt like there was some level of
solidarity and shared understanding, which feels almost entirely gone now.

How have the precautions you take changed over time? Or have they not?

I wore cloth masks for the first year or so. I briefly stopped masking as
regularly in the summer of 2021 after the initial vaccines, but quickly started
again when we learned that breakthrough infections could happen. In winter
2021-2022 I switched to using high quality respirators like KN95 or N95 and have
continued since.

What have you noticed about how COVID is now viewed in your community or social
groups? Do you think the average person is taking it more or less seriously than
you are?

Most people have loosened up their precautions or stopped entirely. I blame this
largely on the minimizing language that our leaders and public health
institutions have promoted. They’ve basically ended their response to the
pandemic and are not communicating the risk of repeated COVID infections,
despite more and more research confirming it. This leaves individuals to fend
for themselves in an incredibly unjust and expensive healthcare system. I think
most people want to believe that if things were really bad, these institutions
would be doing something. It is difficult to face, but these systems favor
capital and profit more than our lives. A prominent example of this was the CDC
reducing the infection quarantine from 10 days to 5 at the request of the Delta
CEO, with no scientific backing.

The average person is definitely taking it less seriously than me.

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View responses or leave your own response

#CovidIsntOver



July 18, 2024


OTHER RECENT ARTICLES

 * Adventures in Healthcare on June 20, 2024
 * Giving pop music a chance on June 14, 2024

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PHOTOS



Oh you know, just a rollerblader on a four-lane road, turning left directly
beside a cop. At least he had a helmet and pads on, but what.

More like roader-blader.

Click through for larger photos

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NOTES

This section is under construction

I am upset but not surprised that Nassau County passed a public mask ban.
Misdemeanor with a $1,000 fine and vague exemptions for health or religious
reasons — left up to police to decide, of course. 😡



Also on: fed.brid.gy

August 6, 2024

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I’ve been using Insomnia for testing API calls for a while and have been mostly
pleased with it. Today I noticed I was several versions behind and the app no
longer seemed to have a Check for Updates option. I went to their site and found
new versions.

I made the mistake of just installing the latest version, thinking the upgrade
would go smoothly. The new version opened without any of my API request
collections. It looked like it found some older collections, but I had to login
in order to migrate them. That was frustrating, especially since I’m not using
any of their cloud or paid features, but sure, I’ll sign up for an account since
you’re holding it hostage.

After entering my email, it told me to enter the verification code they sent me.
No email came from them, though. I tried to re-send it and still no dice after
waiting for half an hour. I get that this is a nice way to verify the
authenticity of an email address, but it’s very frustrating that it prevents me
from even using the app. They should at least let people sign in and then prompt
to verify the email address as a separate step.

At that point I did what I should have done first 🤣 and searched for issues
with upgrading. I was very much not alone. From that thread, I found that
several people had downgraded to version 2023.5.8, the last version before
version 8, and their collections were restored. I did that and voila, my
collections are back! I immediately turned off the preference to automatically
download software updates.

I should probably switch to Postman, but also found Hoppscotch.io and httpie
recommended as open source options, so I’ll check into those too.

#dev



July 26, 2024

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Periodic reminder to myself as much as anyone else: foster an environment of
delight around learning new things rather than shock that someone doesn’t know
something, no matter how “common” it is. Evergreen xkcd: xkcd.com/1053/





July 26, 2024

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Authoritarian court says, “Sure, criminalize unhoused people” and “progressive”
governor jumps right on the bandwagon. Cool cool cool.

It is increasingly important to connect with our communities and mutual aid
groups. There are plenty of needs to meet. We are all we got.

#MutualAid



July 26, 2024

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“During the Pandemic” is Now: Why E&W Still Has a COVID Policy

This article is 🔥. Well-stated and good resources linked within.

#covid



July 18, 2024

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