Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

The hard truth for Sverige is that we cannot vaccinate our way out of the pandemic.

We will have to wear medical masks and isolate more, something the government and many people here have not been willing to do.

3. Any notion of national herd immunity is wrong. The entire world will keep suffering until all countries have access to effective vaccines at the same time to inhibit new variants.

2. Any notion of herd immunity from "just getting it and getting over it like a bad flu" is wrong. Many people who got COVID-19 before being vaccinated are getting it again. Antibodies fade fast and we do not know what variants will develop in the future.

This means a few interesting things:

1. With 71% of all Swedish residents are fully vaccinated, the current vaccines are not effective at preventing infection of omicron. Yes, they reduce hospitalization, but that is not the primary measure of efficacy we use for other vaccines.

Sverige is now ~60% of the way to its prior peak 7-day rolling average infection rate.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-02-29..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=new_cases_smoothed_per_million&Metric=Confirmed+cases&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=false&Align+outbreaks=false&country=~SWE

I did not enjoy “Dune” (2021) and would not recommend it.

“Don’t Look Up” was worth watching, but should have been 90 minutes instead of 2 hours 18 minutes.

I am hoping the pandemic will be over by March because I am looking forward to Eden, an “immersive dinner experience” of VR in a physical space with some fun performers.

https://immersivestockholm.com/eden

I enjoyed Matrix Resurrections more than the second and third movies. 👍

All I want for Xmas is five 9s, AWS.

I made some holiday videos and posted them to Instagram since there is no legal way to self-host videos the soundtrack.

🎄 https://www.instagram.com/reel/CXqwSbgDxia/

🎄 https://www.instagram.com/reel/CXq-pihjaPS/

God Jul!

Dammit. Mood Stockholm just took me out of #LDBGame. Good luck to all those who remain.

People: I miss how easy it was to ask people questions in the office.

Also people: I hate constantly being interrupted by shoulder taps from people asking me questions in an office.

Perhaps it’s not being in an office vs remote, but learning to collaborate asynchronously.

*sigh* I really need to blog more and read Twitter less.

“Single All The Way” had everything.

• Hairy muscles
• plant gay
• cute dog
• Jennifer Coolidge
• gay uncling
• fully formed adults having mature relationship conversations
• Jennifer Coolidge

Once again, I am asking for your support of my yule tree.

DeFi is like creating an immutable Electoral College in code, but for money.

And that's a good idea because majorities are never wrong and the Electoral College has never failed to protect the interest of voters or needed to be amended.

I think every website I have ordered from in the last 2 decades has emailed me today.