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Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds

If we were to see immune damage manifesting at a population level, it would look like what we’re seeing today: big waves of common illnesses. Unusual spikes of uncommon illnesses. Course reversal for previously declining and eliminated illnesses. An unexplained, global wave of sickness.

“I spent 5+ years as a billionaire’s wordsmith, which meant knowing him intimately enough to write in his voice.

I think the thread running through most of them is not a belief in their own basic goodness but rather contempt for everyone else, including and especially their peers. Expressing that contempt with plausible deniability was part of my (usually) unspoken mandate.

Contempt and duper’s delight. Those were the last thrills once $$ reached a point of diminishing returns.” —@kims

The life of a bicyclist is worth $1150…. apparently.

“Christopher Shawn Basque of Chilliwack, B.C., pleaded guilty in North Vancouver Provincial Court to one count of driving without due care and attention on Friday. The court ordered him to pay a $1,000 fine and a $150 victim surcharge.”
RIP to this poor woman who was just riding a bike.”

Dump truck driver pleads guilty in fatal cyclist collision in North Vancouver

20 Social Roles Overview and Background by @Vanderwal

One of the important things to understand is the 20 Social Roles are not formal roles. These social roles are exhibited by people performing the formal roles, most often as an extension of who they are as a person and their personality make-up.

These are roles that people in formal roles often perform. The 20 Social Roles often do not align to organizations formal roles as they often aren’t considered. Formal roles quite often have attributes, experience, expertise, and other qualifications that are essential to that formal role. The social roles may or (quite often) don’t align to formal roles, which is why it is important to understand them so to support them. People often perform more than one social role, but the combinations aren’t universal, so it is really good to understand the roles as distinct and treat them that way, but also see multiple social roles performed by individuals.

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