Isn't the correct answer:

"Hi! Thanks for your interest in this project!

I am available for open-source freelance work.

Sponsoring that particular update will cost around $200,000, or if you like, I can prioritize reviewing your merge request for $50,000."

boundaries are important! knowing what your personal boundaries are is important, and being prepared to enforce them is important, too.

it fucking sucks that there's this culture in which that kind of demanding behavior is treated as normal. we all need to get more used to treating each other as equals, and demanding the same in return.

(we also wrote a whole piece about how a culture with more emotional support could have mitigated this attack.)

Thank you! I had been wondering whether the current favourable figures were because covid is genuinely at low levels or some kind of reporting artefact, but that explains it all very clearly.

Really pleased to learn that it's the former.

for anyone else who wants a direct link to the post: christinapagel.substack.com/p/…

(And thank you generally for your posts on various platforms over the years, I've found them so helpful!)

Hospitals are not hiding Covid cases. There really isn't much Covid around right now. Be wary of those who say otherwise.

A somewhat angry post.

^{Christina Pagel (Diving into Data & Decision making)}

Useful analysis. The lack of hard data and the need to look for proxies is very annoying. Two proxy values that might be worth looking at. Sickness absence rates in Health Care Workers and the same in Teachers.

More than ever, it's not real till it's someone you know. Anecdotally, I had two people I know test positive in late Feb, early Mar. Enough to make to make me think that covid wave wasn't over then. Perhaps it is now.

Rumours already that the next wave may be on its way.