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by cr1895 5y ago
EU citizens for sure will be allowed to return, as it has been throughout the entire pandemic. Same generally with EU permanent residents. There may be quarantine or other obligations however.
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by cr1895 5y ago
I don’t think it’s helpful to paint with as broad a brush as you are. The processes of immigrating to the Netherlands for example are vastly less Kafkaesque and not subject to luck or some bureaucrat’s mood at the time. Everywhere else is n
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by cr1895 5y ago
Voter registration is not linked to how one votes.
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I would consider the abrupt cancellation of all festivals that had merely weeks ago been granted permission by the government to go ahead, as well as yet another imposed restriction on horeca to be wreaking havoc. What will likely come soon
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> it's a uniquely North American thing It’s a thing in Europe as well.
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>I assume Karachi isn’t that bad yet. This site is showing quite a bit higher than 27C wet-bulb temp: https://meteologix.com/pk/observations/pakistan/wet-bulb-tem...
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by cr1895 5y ago
The issue isn't so much the absolute temperature as much as the combination of temperature and humidity. A wet-bulb temp of 35C can be fatal. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/how-hot-is-too-hot-for-human... Ac
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by cr1895 5y ago
>young people gave up a year of their lives to "save grandmas" It's disingenuous to suggest that throughout all of this, elderly people were somehow welcome to do as they pleased while the young were locked at home. Don&#x
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by cr1895 5y ago
Sorry to hear PCR tests are so expensive there! They're like that in NL normally if you go to a private lab in order to get a certificate for travel. If you get a government one then there's no certificate for it normally. >Tim
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by cr1895 5y ago
>So no football games with friends, and no friends abroad? No, that's not true. I've mentioned it in a few comments now, but for events within Netherlands there is no cost - you can either have your (free) vaccination check or
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by cr1895 5y ago
For Netherlands, this is the list of safe countries that do not require you to test/quarantine on return: https://www.government.nl/topics/coronavirus-covid-19/visiti... Granted, it is more complex to check w
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by cr1895 5y ago
I agree with you that I wish the yellow card was "good enough." It is for some countries like Germany and Iceland.
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by cr1895 5y ago
>Imagine that you are only allowed to visit certain countries based on your vaccination status. We don't need to imagine this scenario, because it has long been the case for certain countries with yellow fever checks, TB checks, etc
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by cr1895 5y ago
>the old and weak get to go to concerts without paying for a covid test. Be fair now...you also do not need to pay for the test. It's a hassle, true.
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by cr1895 5y ago
The context of the above was Netherlands, where there is no widespread quick testing-on-entry as there is in Germany. There is largely no restriction in day-to-day life in the Netherlands (and even less in the coming weeks), with or without
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by cr1895 5y ago
> I wonder if giving signing powers to however many hundreds of test locations will backfire at some point. In Germany the vaccine proof can be generated at (most?) pharmacies. If that would become an issue, I don't think it would o
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by cr1895 5y ago
The vaccine QR code only matters for large events or travel abroad, so the example about meeting friends makes no difference whether you’re vaccinated or not. In any case, while it is certainly nicer to be vaccinated, it’s possible to get f
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by cr1895 5y ago
It’s an unfortunate reality but why shouldn’t people who are protected be able to take advantage of that? It’s older generations in broad strokes, but also people who were at higher risk, healthcare workers, people who’ve been vaccinated al
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I didn't suggest that MoviePass functioned like insurance, only that it's not really an unusual concept. It's just clearly not workable as you point out.
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by cr1895 5y ago
> The only way their business model can work is if the majority of customers sign up and never use it, which is a very weird thing for a business to depend on, IMO. This is essentially the concept of insurance, is it not?
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by cr1895 5y ago
Only Norway is lavishing in the oil wealth of an immense sovereign fund. Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and the others are not so heavily influenced by oil. You can't generalize Norway to the rest of them.
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by cr1895 5y ago
That isn’t however the reason it is designated a Royal company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koninklijk
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by cr1895 5y ago
If Shell fully exits then their massive wind/hydrogen project probably won’t happen: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-shell-gasunie-hydrogen-id...
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by cr1895 5y ago
You can continue to use Facebook with the mobile website…the point of the parent comment was to just not use the app itself.
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by cr1895 5y ago
You should note well that the study you point out made no assessment of whether mask wearing reduced the risk of spread from the mask wearer to others, which is a key point of the utility of mask-wearing during this pandemic. It is very dec
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by cr1895 5y ago
Zeynep Tufecki described this phenomenon in the Atlantic, going into its overdispersed nature of spreading and how most infections don’t result in a spread to others, but some circumstances become super-spreading events with an outsize impa
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by cr1895 5y ago
Masks work by trapping particles exhaled or inhaled.
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Here’s a nice interactive graphic showing how masks block particles: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/science/wear-...
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by cr1895 5y ago
Unfortunately it’s not helpful to your situation, but these issues are handled much better in many countries. For example, in Netherlands there are statutory holidays (20 or so?) then many companies give additional days on top of that. 28+
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by cr1895 5y ago
Oh, that’s nothing! Look up Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau on the Belgian-Dutch border. During the beginning of the pandemic, it brought about some truly bizarre situations: https://www.thebulletin.be/coronavirus-store-dutc

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