Google Delays Mandatory Office Return To 2022 on Covid Surge (bloomberg.com) 61
Google pushed back the date when its employees must return to the office until after Jan. 10, citing uncertainty related to the pandemic amid a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in various countries around the world. From a report: It will be optional for Google's staffers to work on campus until at least Jan. 10, Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai wrote Tuesday in a memo to employees. The company will give workers 30 days notice before they're expected to go back to offices, but Pichai didn't specify a date when employees, based in the U.S. or elsewhere, must return. "Beyond January 10, we will enable countries and locations to make determinations on when to end voluntary work-from-home based on local conditions, which vary greatly across our offices," Pichai wrote. Google previously delayed a compulsory office return to Oct. 18. The internet giant has said it will ask employees to work in a "hybrid" model, with about 60% going back to the same offices as before the pandemic. In August, Google approved 85% of employee requests to work remotely or relocate once the company's offices fully reopen.
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News For Nerds, and Instagram drama apparently.
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Replace 'Biden' with 'Trump' in that story [washingtonexaminer.com] and it would be on the /. front page.
Mod me off topic too, I don't care.
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It was the first hit when I googled it. Many more like it.
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What makes more sense in this scenario. Facebook has employees on standby to suspend accounts when someone badmouths Biden? Or a bunch of people didn't like what she said, made complaints, and the account was automatically flagged?
Also this pullout was a Trump deal made in February of 2020. https://www.axios.com/us-miles... [axios.com]
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Names would have been fairly irrelevant. Many Afghans only use one name, and those are not exactly unique.
What they left behind is the solution US devised to solve this problem. Biometric tools used to ID those Afghans and the data.
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Also this pullout was a Trump deal made in February of 2020.
Trump's been out of office for 9 months. Stop blaming him.
Blame Bush, I guess, and Obama for ISIS. But Biden has royally dropped the ball on the pullout.
If I had been President, I'd have nuked Afghanistan on 9/12/2001, then announced that any other country that harbors Al Qaeda is next. Problem solved.
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Now, now, you know the deplorables don't like it when you present undeniable facts. It drives them crazy because they have to come up with other lies as to why the fact isn't a fact.
It's the same reason they've been furiously purging all reference to the deal the con artist made with the Taliban [time.com], Mike Pompeo having his picture taken [gettyimages.com] with the Taliban he negotiated with, or that the con artist negotiated th
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Yes it was. You'll find a majority of Americans, include folks from both sides of the political divide in agreement it was time to wrap up our mission in Afghanistan.
However it was not necessary to leave the Afghan security forces unable to coordinate movements on their own. It was not necessary to allow the Taliban to capture useful assets like the airbase or control Kabul before today! It was not necessary to wait to start getting a large number of SIV eligible persons out of harms until there was a logi
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I'm guessing this part of her post is what triggered the temporary dropping of her Twitter account:
You are not the president of the United States of America Biden!!!! Cheating isn’t winning!!!
Probably triggered some election fraud conspiracy filter.
Good, hopefully that hurts them. F**K Google. (Score:1, Troll)
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Good, hopefully that hurts them.
Google is facing the exact same coronavirus landscape as every other company in the area, and in response they've ascertained that "delay mandatory return to work" is in their best interests.
I don't get it. Are you saying "good" about the current levels of coronavirus and risks that everyone is facing? or "good" that they've ascertained their own best-interest course of action in response, and are following it?
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I think pretty much everyone is (Score:2, Interesting)
What frustrates me is how many people I see extremely sick or dying because they're not getting vaxxed. And there's always some snake oil. I saw an article about people taking ivermectim talking about seeing worms in their poop... it wasn't worms, it was their intestinal lining.
We really, really need a non partisan gov't campaign to teach critical thinking to adults. Of cou
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I should've said, they don't generate T-cell immunity to *variants* in naive individuals. They do generate T-cell immunity to the specific target of the vaccine, but unlike actual infection (or classic vaccines), not to variants. Hence RNA vaccine will require perpetual vaccination cycles for many variants (good for Big Pharma, not great for everyone else).
Even with that correction you're [nih.gov] still [cell.com] wrong [state.gov].
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Even with that correction you're still wrong.
SMH. The gov't could be lying out their ass and you'd still believe them to your death bed... Guruevi explained the situation pretty well in my opinion. We've got lots of people "vaccinated," but it doesn't stop the virus.
No, that explanation was absolute garbage. If there were no T-cell immunity, the vaccine wouldn't be effective at all when neutralizing antibodies are no longer present, which is not the case. In fact, that's pretty much the exact opposite of reality. The antibodies are fading, and T-cell immunity is what remains, and the T-cell immunity does significantly reduce both the severity and probability of infection.
People being vaccinated massively reduces the probability of getting the virus. The problem is,
Re:I think pretty much everyone is (Score:5, Informative)
The number of people not vaccinating is extremely low
53% of Americans are fully vaccinated.
So 47% are not.
47% is not "extremely low".
How many Americans are vaccinated? [google.com]
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Maybe he read Analysis: California’s government solely responsible for states forest management and wildfire debacle [climatedepot.com] or maybe California, U.S. Forest Service Establish Shared Long-Term Strategy to Manage Forests and Rangelands [ca.gov] which is from Gavin Newsom's office. So, you're beef with him isn't starting strong, bruh. I'd recommend using data or evidence, not a lame quote with no rebuttal.
1) In my analysis of the data, Gavin Newsom has been governor since January 2019. The issue of long-term strategy of foresty management these last few decades goes beyond what Newsom has done considering the linear flow of time. My data suggests Newsom cannot undo decades of policies in a few short years. 2) He wanted Newsom recalled for what the US Forest Service has or has not done.
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https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html
Mos
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The "We can go back to normal when..." goalposts seem to move even faster than the "I'll get vaccinated when..." goalposts.
Naked truth right there. Penthouse naked. I bet not a single Pandemic Booster (great apropos term) will respond to your assertions and facts around natural immunity. They never do since it mostly destroys their narrative. Thanks for this great post full of facts and figures and rational thinking. Keep pushing back against these authoritarian bungholes. It's hard work and logic doesn't really work on them very often, but it's worth it. They've gained too much ground and taken too much from us already.
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Ok, I'll play. Here. [cdc.gov]
Now go ahead and tell me all about how the CDC is not a reliable source. Maybe you'll like the British Society for Immunology [immunology.org] better.
There have been reports out of Israel that say vaccinated people are less well-protected against the Delta variant; however, when you dig into the details, you find that the vaccinated people becoming infected with Delta tend to be in one of two groups: well-off individuals that started traveling internationally after being vaccinated, thinking they were i
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Now go ahead and tell me all about how the CDC is not a reliable source.
They've played some politics in this pandemic, that's for sure. However, I do not see anything wrong with the source you cite with the CDC. The second study they cite in the press release you cite makes a pretty clear assertion. I'll quote it to save you the trouble.
In this case-control study, being unvaccinated was associated with 2.34 times the odds of reinfection compared with being fully vaccinated.
That seems to support the argument that getting vaccinated might be better than having natural immunity, but if you read it close they don't actually say that (they say "un-vaccinated" but we must assume they mean from the test-group of previou
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Because CA doesn't want to become a germ-bag again like FL: freedumb to die
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Okay. That started out fairly reasonably, before descending in the last paragraph into a frothing-at-the-mouth rant about terrorism, freedoms, and government repression.
The study you cited from medrxiv.org was conducted in Israel, which case I discussed in terms of the particulars of the vaccinated individuals who were infected. This appears to be an anomaly, as it has not been observed elsewhere in the world as far as I can tell. And saying that "cases are still down about 50% off the peak" is like saying
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Not extremely low, but its still a majority of Americans that are vaccinated.
Also there are around 50 million children in the country under 12, which is just over 15% of the total population that isn't even allowed to be vaccinated. Removing that 15% and it's about 63% of Americans fully vaccinated who are actually eligible.
And cases are still spiking sky high. Deaths on the other hand, are relatively low. We were having about about 33% more deaths back in April of 2020 with only about 1/3rd of the cases
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Speaking of critical thinking, you replied to somebody that didn't mention Trump at all with a defense of Trump. That strikes me as a little odd. If you think asking for something non-partisan from the government is a direct attack on Trump, then maybe you need a little update to your firmware. Your processes don't appear to flow linearly.
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Right and the facts are coming in now - despite what Dr. Fraudci and his ilk has been claiming would be the cause having previously recovered from covid appears to make you about 27X less likely to contract it again than vaccination alone..
Reality is break through infection and transmission rates among the vaccinated are high enough this thing is going to continue spread and mutate especially now that group has been told they can 'go back to business as usual'. Its literally just as irresponsible to be hang
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... having previously recovered from covid appears to make you about 27X less likely to contract it again than vaccination alone..
What's interesting is that earlier studies showed the difference being within the margin of error. Basically, this tells you that two doses of the vaccine isn't enough to prevent infection, and that they took too long to start giving out the third dose.
Reality is break through infection and transmission rates among the vaccinated are high enough this thing is going to continue spread and mutate especially now that group has been told they can 'go back to business as usual'. Its literally just as irresponsible to be hanging out in crowded indoor space if you are vaxxed at this point as if you are not - in terms of you being the possible source of the next killer variant of this thing.
No, not remotely. You're an order of magnitude or so less likely to get sick, and sickness is less severe, which means fewer replication cycles, which means a lower rate of mutation, so you're probably about three or four orders of magnitude less likely to
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Biden is the one that claimed the vaccines were dangerous, then he said they were a panacea. Perhaps if you learned some critical thinking, you wouldn't accept whatever you see on a news site as fact.
I'm looking forward to your sources for this quote.
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Stop looking at his ass.
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My guess is, he's talking about this. [politifact.com]
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We are getting back to pre-vaccine COVID levels with 74% of the population
74% of the population is not vaccinated. You must be looking at the stats from one of those slow countries who came well after the USA with a struggling vaccine rollout and who completely overtook the USA months ago in vaccination rates.
51%, and taken over by the disorganised mess that is the EU no less. For shame.
The number of people not vaccinating is extremely low and doesn't explain the large amount of cases we see.
Half is not low. In fact it's a complete fail according to every immunologist. You don't need to believe them though, just look at the large amount of cases you see.
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We really, really need a non partisan gov't campaign to teach critical thinking to adults. Of course that would have a lot of knockon effects that I'm sure certain people aren't going to like (I'm lookin' at you Facebook and your doom scrollers).
Yeah, that can't and won't happen for reasons other than Facebook and the like. As much as I'd like to see it, we have a large enough segment of the population convinced that any attempt to teach critical thinking is brainwashing that the very concept is more likely to throw people off the deep end than not. Heck, in some areas of the country, even the thought of teaching kids critical thinking causes apoplectic spasms from parents. I think it's too late to expect that sort of thing to get sorted out any
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The white evangelical extremist facebook axis would mount another capitol insurrection over any attempt to teach critical thinking.
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Under 12 can get vaccinated if they look 12 since you don't need ID or insurance. You just have to avoid pharmacies and medical facilities that already have the kid or your insurance in their system. Local vaccination clinics are the best option there.
Lots of 10- and 11-year-olds are getting vaccinated, and a few 9- and even 8-year-olds.
It's a trap! (Score:3)
The pay cuts are overblown (Score:2)
The main issue with work from home for Google is that they spent a lot of money on a very expensive campus that's wort
Google the home of hypocritical (Score:2)
Google thinks you should work in their cloud but googlers should work in their cube farm. And smile that googly smile or HR.
I wonder... (Score:2)
How about indefinitely? (Score:1)