Silverseren

Usually, yes. Or Mixter sometimes.

Mx. seems the most commonly used for gender neutral. It's used both by non-binary people and in cases where you purposefully don't want to put a gender as a prefix.

Those subs are more of a "Enough positive fluff news spam about people who are terrible people". So they post the negative stories about the person.

I would certainly prefer seeing the above article than one that claims Musk is a genius engineer.

The terrible part being that Covid is several times more deadly than the flu, so we're going to have 60,000 more deaths on average per year than we used to. And that's only until some other viral epidemic occurs.

I kinda dislike what the WHO has done with Omicron though. It has had so many lineage variants over the past year that we should have had 4-5 official new named variants by this point, but they seem to be avoiding doing that for some reason.

So we're dealing with unofficial sub-names now with the currently rising Eris variant and the emerging Pirola variant.

They are so genetically different from Omicron at this point that they make Omicron look like the same lineage as Delta.

So, yeah, it's been aggravating me that they haven't been officially recognizing these still ongoing pandemic variants.

They are already working on a new booster that should be out at the end of September, but I don't know if it is targeted enough for the new dominant Eris variant, whose main mutation allows it to better escape prior immune detection, or with the emerging Pirola variant, which has a concerning 30 new mutations whose effects are still being investigated.

So, an entirely new vaccine to deal with the newer mutated variants would be great. And with the advances in mRNA vaccine development over the past few years, it shouldn't take long to make a new vaccine either.

Always the conservatives trying to innovate on how to kill people.

It's just a funny situation where they are the terrible person complaining about others calling them out on the terrible things they say on the Fediverse.

It has nothing to do with toxicity at all, but just others holding them accountable.

So, I gather from what you've said that said argument is about you refusing to vote against Republicans and their actions, thus abandoning minorities across the country?

The Covid test kits are largely useless with Eris, doctors have been finding. It's mutation that lets it escape immune detection also seems to let it escape the test kits primary measurement methods.

So you absolutely could still have Covid.

Many states have minimized or even completely eliminated their Covid reporting systems, so I don't trust the numbers whatsoever. We know from wastewater treatment and other national measurements that the Eris variant is spreading massively, causing a new large wave of infections to form, since its primary mutation is one that helps it escape immune detection.

I really hope that new booster vaccine aimed at Eris comes out sooner rather than later.

The Eris variant seems to be massively spreading here in the midwest. I know several people that have gotten it and, unfortunately, the test kits don't seem as effective in detecting this variant unless you're significantly along in symptoms. Meaning you've been contagious for a while already.

Additionally, Eris appears to have a different method of symptom development where you have somewhat minor cold symptoms after a few days and then it goes away. Then, a week later, you get much stronger and worse symptoms. The latter stage can be detected by the test kits, the former can not.

So you're contagious for a full week or more before you can even confirm you have Covid, making many people think they have the flu instead. (Which is also something you should isolate for and not expose other people to, but we have a bunch of idiots that live here in the US.)