I know a number of people at NIH and NIAID — amazing and incredibly skilled physicians, nurses, and healthcare workers across the gamut of disciplines — and I feel awful for them.

Imagine having worked your whole life, reach the pinnacle of your field at the most esteemed facility in the nation, possibly the world … only for a worms-in-a-human-suit buffoon and his fascist cabal, who collectively have negative amounts of knowledge on science and medicine, to tear it all down through sheer evil and greed.

Oof. Wish I’d remembered this before I ordered something the other day with Canada Post shipping.

Honestly, Manitoba may not be a bad choice for you (unless the no mountains thing is a deal breaker).

• left leaning government for at least another three years
• $120k CAD salary will be very comfortable anywhere in the province
• cold as balls half the year (since you’re okay with cold)
• lots of farmland for locally grown food

Manitoba has, uh… hills ;)

But also has a left leaning government (for at least another three years, probably longer with our voting patterns) and low CoL. $120k CAD can be very comfortable here, even in Winnipeg.

In Toronto or Vancouver, you’d be a peasant.

In Winnipeg, you’d be a king.

We call them “Albertans.”

Manitoba always gets political whiplash every few election cycles. Fortunately, we just entered the NDP cycle after almost a decade of PC horrors.

You forgot about Manitoba (that’s okay, everyone does lol). We’re safe from a willfully destructive government for at least another three years.

If you’re implying OP is mining data for guerilla marketing, their post and comment history doesn’t look like it.

Canada, 36M, can and do.

I love both HK and WotW and would rank them equally, just for different reasons.

How do I delete someone else’s lemmy comment?

I literally said “oh NOooo” aloud in a Mario-like cadence without even thinking when I read this headline. It’s sad to see him go, he was such a perfect fit for the job in every way.

Oof, I couldn’t get through the Pantheons, they’re just nuts.

I have recently finished Hollow Knight

Did you finish it finish it? Have you battled The Radiance? (9000 times lol)

Same old same old. I only have a Switch, so mostly MarioKart while my bones disintegrate waiting for Silksong and Hades II.

If anyone has any metroidvania rec’s, I’m all ears. Already played both Ori games, HK, HAAK, Unbound. Haven’t found much else in the Nintendo Shop that appeals to me.

I love the way the RF totally transforms the ND look. I think it looks much better than the default roaster.

I’m aware of the limitations I’m subjecting myself to, but I’d far rather live with them than live without smell, taste, clear lungs, or clear cognition.

In Canada, mask behaviours depend on the area. I think the larger cities are generally better in terms of people wearing masks and people leaving you alone for it.

I haven’t gotten any comments my small prairie town, but it’s an everyone-knows-someone-who-knows-you type of place. I think I’ve seen one other person wearing a mask in the past several months, but people generally know who I am, that I’m immunocompromised, and nobody says anything to me about it. That being said, I don’t really go out much and literally never go anywhere indoors without a fit tested N95 or better (with the one exception of my dentist, who still has a number of precautions in place).

But there’s a small city a half hour away where I’d legitimately fear being physically assaulted just for wearing a mask and minding my own business. It’s basically a 10 square mile slice of 'murica, rednecks and trumpsters included.

There are so many vectors for infection that it is kinda silly to try.

This statement, in and of itself, is silly. That’s like giving up on washing your hands and sterilizing equipment because it’s just too much effort.

Unless you’re frequently digging for gold with unwashed hands, SARS-COV-2 transmission enormously favours the airborne vector.

That’s the reason I don’t enter a hospital without my fit-tested N99.