8) Schlussendlich: Jeder aufgestellte Luftreiniger zählt. Jede vermiedene Infektion stoppt eine Infektionskette und hilft, den R-Wert zu drücken. Die Massnahmen helfen nicht nur gegen die (vmtl. unvermeidbare) C0vid-Winterwelle, sondern auch gegen die befürchtete Grippewelle.

Because the first time you do it, you feel it in your body. You walk toward the venue and your hands feel slightly empty. You keep checking your phone even though nobody’s coming. You stand in line and suddenly you’re hyper aware of where to put your eyes. You’re scanning faces like you’re looking for someone to rescue you from looking like a person with no friends. The brain does this stupid thing where it equates being alone with being unwanted. Even when you chose it. Even when you have people. Even when the truth is just: your schedules don’t match, nobody answered in time, you don’t want to beg someone to live your life with you. Still, the body feels it as exposure. That’s why so many people would rather stay home. They don’t want to miss the movie. They want to avoid the feeling of being visibly alone in public. They want to avoid that tiny sting when you sit down and there’s an empty seat next to you and you can feel other people’s laughter and you wonder if you look sad. It’s pride. It’s fear. It’s that childhood wiring that says the herd equals safety. Then you stay home and you scroll a feed of other people living. You see couples at concerts. Friends clinking glasses. Someone posting museum photos. Someone at a cafe with a book and a cute pastry. You tell yourself they’re having a better life than you. But half the time they’re just doing what you could have done, if you weren’t waiting for permission from someone else’s calendar. Waiting is the quiet killer. Not because friends are bad. Friends are great. Love is great. Shared memories are real. The problem is when your entire life becomes contingent on other people’s availability. You turn into this person who is always “down” but never actually doing. Always “we should.” Always “soon.” Always “when everyone is free.” You start stockpiling intentions like they’re experiences. A year goes by that way so fast it makes you nauseous. A lot of people don’t realize how much they’ve outsourced their living until they hit a wall. They break up. Their best friend moves. Everyone gets busy. Someone has kids. Someone gets depressed. Someone becomes a work zombie. Suddenly the social engine that carried you stops. And you’re left standing there like a person who forgot how to walk without holding someone’s hand. That’s when “go alone” stops sounding like empowerment and starts sounding like survival. There’s a specific sadness in realizing you’ve been sitting in your apartment waiting for other people to press play on your life. Like you’re paused until someone else is ready. learn to go alone. Not because it makes you edgy. Because it keeps you from turning your life into a waiting room. Going alone teaches you something your nervous system needs to learn: solitude is not rejection. You walk into the coffee shop alone and nobody cares. The barista does not care. The couple at the corner table does not care. The guy on his laptop does not care. Most people are so wrapped up in themselves that your aloneness is invisible. That’s the first relief. The second relief is quieter: you start noticing what you actually like. When you go with friends, you’re in group mode. Compromise mode. Conversation mode. Social performance mode. Alone, you’re in attention mode. You notice the light in the museum hitting the floor. You notice you want to stay five minutes longer in front of one painting. You notice which songs hit harder when you’re not trying to look cool about it. You notice you like sitting by the window. You notice you prefer earlier showtimes. You notice you like walking slowly after the movie instead of immediately debriefing it. You start developing taste that isn’t filtered through anyone else. That’s a form of adulthood people skip. Also, going alone is a kind of quiet rebellion against shame.

It's hard to justify Tahoe icons #HackerNews tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

Die Pandemie, von der niemand spricht: Kinder und Jugendliche, die täglich die Zeit eines Arbeitstages vor dem Smartphone oder Tablet verbringen. Unbeaufsichtigte WhatsApp-Gruppen in der vierten Klasse, inkl. Mobbing. Eltern, die sich mit Händen und Füßen dagegen wehren, dass wenigstens die Schule ein Schutzraum vor Social Media und TikTok ist. Gestern sah ich wieder ein Kind im Buggy, mit Schnuller, mit iPhone. Schule kann nicht alles leisten, wir erwarten aber immer mehr von ihr. Ich war kürzlich beim Tag der offenen Tür einer meiner Kunden, habe mit Pädagog:innen, Erzieher:innen, Schulsozialarbeiterinnen, Kräften vom Jugendamt, ... geredet, in allen erdenklichen SGB VIII Maßnahmen, Betreutes Wonnen, Tagesgruppen, Intensiv-Tagesgruppen, SSA, stundenlang. Gefragt nach dem größten Problem unserer Zeit, was die psychische Gesundheit unserer Kinder gefährdet, alles nach unten zieht, war die Antwort eindeutig, überragend geradezu: Medienkonsum. Handy. Social Media. Ich glaube nicht, das sage ich auch als Vater einer Elfjährigen, dass es ausreicht, immer nur zu fragen, was in der Schule schiefläuft. Ohne Eltern, die ihrer Verantwortung gerecht werden, wird Schule alleine das nicht schaffen. Kinder, die nach der Schule praktisch ihr gesamtes Leben im Internet verbringen: Das ist die Pandemie, die keiner sieht.

"Dekarbonisierung bringt nichts weil China viel mehr CO2 ausstösst!" Es fällt mir schwer, das "Aber China!"-Stammtischargument nicht als idiotisch zu bezeichnen. 1) Wenn wir uns Dekarbonisierung als Dosis-Wirkungs-Beziehung vorstellen, hat Reduktion von CO2 weitgehend einen linearen Effekt: Treibhausgase nur schon ein wenig zu reduzieren hat bereits einen positiven Effekt. Dekarbonisierung bringt nicht erst ab einem grossen Schwellenwert etwas. Sie hat immer einen unmittelbaren Nutzen. 2) Der Rest der Welt stösst ca. 25 Milliarden Tonnen CO2 aus. Wenn alle Länder auf China verweisen, um nichts zu tun, passiert erst recht nichts. Das ist eine besonders dumme Variante der Tragedy of the Commons. 3) Lokale Anstrengungen rund um Dekarbonisierung können *multiplikative*, systemische positive Effekte haben. Vielleicht entsteht gerade in Hamburg eine Innovation, die systemweit skaliert und grossen Impact hat. Aber um Komplexität, Ungewissheit und Fat Tails zu verstehen, muss man gewillt sein, das Gehirn einzuschalten. Bullshit-Krawall für ein auf Bullshit konditioniertes Publikum geht viel einfacher.

If you scroll through climate headlines right now, it’s easy to feel discouraged. BP scaling back its wind plans. Big banks pulling out of net-zero alliances. Google’s emissions go up instead of down. In the US, political winds are blowing hard against decarbonization efforts. Projects are getting defunded. People are losing jobs. The mood? Anxious, frustrated, even apocalyptic. But zoom out, and the data tell a different story. The Economist recently spotlighted a new trend in corporate climate strategy, which they called greenhushing. In short, companies are doing the work (i.e. cutting emissions, setting ambitious targets, cleaning up their supply chains), but they’re talking about it less—not because they’ve given up, but because public attention is noisy and politicized. Instead, they’re flying under the radar and quietly doubling down. Let’s look at the numbers: • 37% of companies actually increased their climate ambition last year (PwC) • 67% are on track to hit their targets, up from 64% in 2023 • Scope 3 targets (the hard stuff) are booming: 67% of firms have them, up from just 28% in 2022 • Companies with targets cut emissions intensity by 8%, compared to 3% for those without (MSCI) • Record sales of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits in 2025, surpassing all previous years combined (cdr.fyi) In other words: less noise, more action. Yes, there are political setbacks, and some companies are scaling back the marketing of their sustainability work to avoid backlash. But in the background, many are giving the culture wars the finger and continuing anyway. I find that… oddly encouraging. This doesn’t mean we’re on track (we’re not, by a large margin), but the idea that ambition is evaporating ignores the full picture. The quieter truth is, decarbonization is still moving forward, just less loudly than before. So to anyone feeling disillusioned by the headlines: don’t mistake silence for surrender. There’s real progress happening behind the scenes.

🇪🇺 Die #Chatkontrolle steht einmal mehr auf der Agenda. 🚨 Bitte helfen Sie mit, Massenüberwachung in der EU zu verhindern, und rufen Sie Ihre Abgeordneten auf, diese brandgefährliche Vorlage abzulehnen: fightchatcontrol.eu/de/#cont…

Aufgepasst, @BMI_Bund @bmjv_bund: Der Deutsche Kinderschutzbund lehnt die #Chatkontrolle ab und fordert von der Bundesregierung „zielgerichtete Maßnahmen statt anlassloser Massenüberwachung“ im Kampf gegen sexualisierte Gewalt. netzpolitik.org/2025/eu-uebe…

#Chatkontrolle ist so, als wenn man Briefe vorsorglich öffnet und man nachschaut, ob nicht etwas Illegales darin stehen könnte. Sowas hat im Rechtsstaat keinen Platz. Diese Linie habe ich als Justizminister durchgesetzt. Ein Kurswechsel wäre ein Jammer! heise.de/news/Deutsches-Ja-z…

Markus #Soeder im französischen Fernsehen. So werden wir also nach außen repräsentiert… 🙃

#Habeck hat die STROMPREISE TROTZ GASKRISE stark nach unten gebracht Unter Frau #Reiche steigen sie wieder trotz verbesserter Bedingungen Hier 👇🏻 ist der Beweis... knallt das ruhig jedem Grünen-Basher und Dummschwätzer um die Ohren, der was anderes behauptet ☺️💚🌻

Here's something that could be hung on the wall of every classroom, hospital, or office: a CO2 monitor that would remind us of what good indoor air renewal can prevent: numerous contaminations. It's reliable and inexpensive to manufacture.

💉🧵 Why Novavax is the better COVID-19 vaccine While we *still* wait for Novavax to roll out, since today is Sunday and pharmacies & customer support lines are closed, I’m taking a step back to a very basic concept and giving a reminder of WHY we’re all waiting for Novavax in the first place. And why nobody should be considering rushing out to get mRNA right now. Some forget in the midst of all the panic, and some people looking at us “holdouts” from the outside may still be confused about why anyone would ever bother to wait for Novavax in the first place. This will also be the topic of the next article that @DonEford releases, so keep an eye out for a much more in-depth and scientific analysis than this thread will offer. You often hear Novavax discussed as a “traditional protein-based vaccine”, which makes it similar to vaccines like Influenza, Hepatitis B, Tdap, & HPV. This is true, which is a testament to Novavax’s safety profile, but it’s not an entirely accurate characterization. While protein is traditional, Novavax also makes use of cutting-edge technology in two distinct ways when compared to other vaccines. Technology 1: Sf9 cells from the Fall Armyworm moth. This is what makes it possible to produce a high-quality protein vaccine targeting a respiratory virus in the first place. Many vaccines, like traditional flu shots, are “inactivated virus vaccines”. These products are made by growing the virus in eggs, and then inactivating it to include in the finished shot. In that process, adaptation becomes an issue. The virus is required to adapt to grow in the eggs, which means the finished product may contain antigen that is clinically significantly different from the antigen seen in the virus actually circulating in the real world. Novavax uses a completely different process, where they skip the step of needing to “grow” the entire virus. Instead, they take the gene for the SARS2 spike protein, insert it into a baculovirus, which then infects Sf9 insect cells that come from the fall armyworm moth. Those cells then produce pure spike protein that is used in the finished product. This allows them to produce antigen that is much more closely matched to circulating viruses, just like mRNA, while still using the more traditional protein base. Technology 2: Matrix-M adjuvant. Matrix-M, which is a saponin-based adjuvant developed by Novavax, is the star of the entire show here. Saponins are natural plant compounds that form soap-like foams in water. Matrix-M specifically comes from the bark of the Quillaja saponaria tree, aka “soapbark tree.” An adjuvant is a substance oftentimes added to vaccines to enhance the immune response to the antigen, and Matrix-M is a next-gen adjuvant that is showing an amazing amount of promise. For example, it’s now being used in a childhood malaria vaccine in Africa, and providing 70% efficacy, compared to the 35% efficacy from previous vaccines! In addition to driving strong antibody responses (B cells) which is pretty much the only thing that older adjuvants do well, Matrix-M also elicits a strong cellular response and memory among T Cells. The Matrix-M mechanism of action is illustrated below. Okay, cool, thanks to the soapbark tree and the fall armyworm moth. Nature is great! But how do these technologies play out in the real world when it comes to the COVID vaccine? Do we have evidence of them *actually* providing us particularly noteworthy protection? Yes! The following categories and studies are all proof of that, and are just a selected handful out of many dozens of studies that prove why Novavax is the best vaccine choice. There are 5 main categories (in addition to the benefit of the JN.1 antigen target, which I’ve already described in the past) that illustrate why Novavax is the best choice: 1. Less waning/better infection protection 2. “Universal-like” variant coverage 3. Better mucosal protection 4. Less side effects 5. No IgG4 class switching 1/4

RT @bender8422: Nasenspülungen sind die wichtigste erste Verteidigungslinie gegen Covid. Eine Studie hat gezeigt, dass sich Sars-Cov-2 in…

🇩🇪Übermorgen wird über die #Chatkontrolle beraten! 500 Top-Wissenschaftler warnen die Bundesregierung jetzt eindringlich: Der Plan ist technisch untauglich, leicht zu umgehen & zerstört unser digitales #Briefgeheimnis. Deutschland muss ihn stoppen! patrick-breyer.de/chatkontro…

Metformin cuts long covid risk by 64% in UK study news-medical.net/news/202509…

Jetzt mal ernsthaft. Ich will das wirklich verstehen. Wenn ein Täter rabenschwarz oder schneeweiss ist, dann spielt das Merkmal absolut keine Rolle? WTF? blick.ch/politik/bund-greift…

Fasse zusammen: Politikerin, die Corona öffentlich nie ernst nahm, Kinder durchseuchen wollte und sonst keinen Anlass sieht, das Thema im Sinne des Gesundheitsschutzes der Bevölkerung zu betrachten, infiziert sich vor Veranstaltung, die eine Zeit "aufarbeiten" will, die laut Defintion "vorbei" ist mit exakt diesem Virus, das es laut öffentlicher Darstellung nicht mehr gibt und "ungefährlich" ist und sie isoliert sich von dieser Veranstaltung, bei der u.a. diskutiert werden soll, warum Isolationspflicht und andere Schutzmaßnahmen sinnlos und böse waren, also jene, die sie nun selbst anwendet, um sich und andere zu schützen 😅🤣🤣🤣🤣 Denkt ihr, diese multiple, mit Heuchelei gepaarte kognitive Dissonanz, die einem irren Gedröhne gleicht, fällt irgendjemandem auf? 🤪🤔

Der Bund hatte die Kritik am unsicheren Gesichtsbildabgleichverfahren zur Ausstellung der E-ID stets ignoriert. Wer nicht auf mich hören will, der hört vielleicht auf Sam Altman?! Sam kennt sich ein wenig aus mit der Gefahr durch Deepfakes.🤓

Many simple-minded people love conspiracy theories, as it makes them "feel" smarter than those who are actually intelligent. They think they know important things all the smart people don't. It's a coping mechanism.. Napoleon syndrome of the mind.

Es macht eben einen Unterschied, wer dieses Land regiert: