If you don't read this post on Friendica (why!?) then make sure you read it in full here. So you see the images, links, and all that.

This is a chart with COVID vaccines vs mortality due to COVID per million people. Left side is how much of the population is fully vaccinated. Right side the mortality rate.


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It is quite clear that the more people are vaccinated, the less are dying of COVID. Now there is a new variant of concern - read the WHO statement about it https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/11/1106622

Of course, it comes from Africa where the vaccination rate is very low. What are the tribes of the world thinking? This was very predictable. Delta came from India from the same reasons, and now Omicron is thought to be even more dangerous. If we have global problems but we only act locally, this is going to always happen.

When people doubt the institutions and companies, and in many cases for good reasons, then trust is eroded. The trade game that we play creates this situation, since companies and governments seek profits that are induced by the game of trade itself, so they cut corners, lie, are corrupted, and overall care more about profiting than they do about humans and the planet.



So the trust is eroded, and people are skeptical about the vaccines, and thus the vaccination rate will be lower even when there are vaccines available. This is why, even the new variant, is discovered mostly among unvaccinated people (source). Also the mortality rate that is seen in the world, due to COVID, is mostly among those who are not vaccinated. Therefore, even where the vaccine is available, people's mistrust in this society, couple with the bullshit of social (ad) platforms like facebook, twitter, youtube and the like that spread any nonsense that gets clicks, creates a disastrous situation.

SECOND.
Poor tribes do not get access to vaccines, so they become a breeding ground for new mutations of the virus. The vaccines should be open source and free for all. There are 0 excuses for this!

The moral of the story is that we are a global society that has global problems, from crime to climate change, from pandemics to starvation or waste and pollution. And yet humans act as if the imaginary borders they built, are going to protect them from such global threats.

Unless we wake up, and also give up to this primitive idea of trade that creates so many barriers, nothing will ever ever change.

Such a situation would be so different in a sane society:
- most people would have at least their basic needs met as trade-free, so they will have time to be more informed, relaxed, and cooperative in case of such an emergency
- more people could focus on solving the issue (doctors, researchers, citizen scientists)
- once a solution is found, will be distributed to those in most need, not in most rich tribes, thus preventing deaths and future mutations of such a virus

We act like retarded children. But this behavior comes from the environment that we are exposed to. Never forger that.

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A quick release to add-up the updates that Manjaro pushed recently, plus tweak a few things.

• We fixed some issues with the window size for the Settings Manager, and now it should fit better on the screen when it is first opened
• Changed the releases link in the RSS Reader, to https://forum.tromjaro.com/c/releases.rss
• The package for Syncthing changed to syncthing-gtk-python3 - so make sure you install that package. It will remove the old one. You can go here and install it.
• There is an issue with the icon theme we are using (Zafiro) where status icons (the small ones) are dark on a dark background. We reported the issue here. We hope that they can fix it soon. In the meantime we changed the top bar icons to some custom ones for better integration with the system. Mind you, these have to be manually changed if you change the icon theme. It is a temporary fix for this ISO. If you already have TROMjaro and would like to do this, then right click the dark icons you see in the top bar, then properties, and change the icons. Grab the icons from here, and copy them to the /.local/share/icons/Zafiro/apps/scalable/ . Then select them as explained above.

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Known issues:

• If you remove timeshift-autosnap you may be unable to update your system because removing it won’t remove the custom config file we created for it. To remove the config file go to the folder etc in your System Files, and remove the file timeshift-autosnap.conf. You may have to right click the etc folder, then open as root, for this to work.
• The left Dock that contains the apps, may be a bit buggy and crash when you install/update applications. You may see a popup asking you to “execute” or “remove”. Click “execute” to bring it back. This is reported here

Grab the ISO from here.

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All of these official meetings to address climate change have no meaning, unless they look at what makes human beings consume that much and pollute so much. Unless they understand that it is the structure of our society (trade) that creates these bad behaviors, which in turn create such problems, nothing has any chance of getting better.



With all of these talks and chewing the same gum, no one looks at the human animal in a scientific way, and no one looks at our society from a scientific way. They are trapped in keeping the same religion of trade (economy) alive by any means.

Here's how you have some real chances to change these problems. Ready?

1. Understand the problem. Trade pushes people to chase...trades. And that's pretty much it. As simple and as dumb as that. Makes us all robotic merchants and consumers. So it is not the rich people's fault, not companies, not governments, not individuals. It is the environment. You can't simply punish anyone, you have to change this environment.

2. Now that you know what the problem is, tackle it. Trade is the problem, so lets move away from it. We have more stuff and food on this planet that it has become a problem we call waste. Lets start by giving trade-free access to all humans, for at least their basic needs as a first aid. This way you will decouple humans from this robotic state of trading, of being merchants and consumers. Humans will then have more free time to volunteer and create more trade-free goods and services.

This all has real chances to phase out the damaging practices that we see today, since no one will be incentivized to (for example) use coal over renewable energies, to lie about what they offer, to produce bad quality products and so forth. Because we won't try to save the "economy" in such a scenario, but to save us and the environment, and create a better life for ourselves.

In short, if you want to fix climate change alongside the billions of problems we see in the world today, a sane start is to move away from this trade-based society and one way you can do that is to first provide the needs of all humans as trade-free. Technology exist, stuff exist for the job. DO IT!

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