I saw a guy on the internet that said “if you show people the facts they’ll adapt their position”. I linked him three studies which evidenced that this isn’t really the case due to selection bias and he replies that he thought the studies were flawed and maintained people change their mind when shown the facts.
I’m being hit by covid bureaucracy. I’m in Athens and am shortly returning to UK if the fires don’t interrupt air travel.
I’m double vaxed, but I still need to have a test before travelling and book a second test to be taken after travelling, both the first test and booking of second test need to be evidenced on a passenger locator form.
Although cases are still up in UK hospitalisation is way down, so thats good. Emergency department I visited in Athens was practically empty - the greeks all go to their family summer houses away from the city in August.
Was pretty scary weaving through the fires to get back from our own summer getaway in the island Evia (you may have seen the video of the people escaping the town fire at Limni by ferry which was used to falsely claim the entire island was on fire).
Vaccine seems to be doing it’s job of protecting vulnerable from getting super ill though not as good at preventing transmission as hoped.
People seem bored of covid - I’ve always been a fan of the basic hygiene of frequent hand washing, personal space, catching/binning/killing coughs and sneezes, would take the flu shot if it were available to me, but people seem to have stopped caring about these things.
Except for the bureaucracy, and some mask wearing (which being a clean freak I always admired in eastern nations) regular Joe seems back to normal.
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