Everyone please stop freaking out about declining antibody levels. https://t.co/91gtCkwuZA
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) July 28, 2020
What I have been saying for a long time.
Everyone please stop freaking out about declining antibody levels. https://t.co/91gtCkwuZA
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) July 28, 2020
What I have been saying for a long time.
New York Times Rewrites the Timeline of the Fed’s Wall Street Bailouts, Giving Banks a Free Pass.
This same thing happened during the 2008-2009 bailouts. Not at all surprised to see it occurring again.
If a restaurant closes, like really closes, the chances of the same team opening up the same restaurant again just because there’s a demand sometime in the distant future is nearly zero. https://t.co/kipTF7F36Q
— Daniel Vaughn (@BBQsnob) July 28, 2020
Yep. People had this stupid fucking idea for some reason I can’t fathom that when societal relations are disrupted that things just “return to normal” as if by magic. I even heard (and linked to) some saying that the “economy was on pause” or other such crap.
Once again, to paraphrase Chuck Babbage, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a conclusion. The economy does not pause, especially how we mismanaged the crisis, nor can it resume in any meaningful way.
Again, as I said months ago, when those relations are destroyed they don’t just come back. They are gone forever. Will never return. Bad models lead to bad thinking. Or perhaps the reverse. I don’t really give a shit. What I do know is that many people had and still continue to have fantasy thinking going on about the economy.
Also, to reiterate, if we’d managed the crisis properly and had an effective 1-2 month lockdown with proper stimulus and business preservation measures, more of this would’ve been realistic. But we did not do those things and here we are.
COVID Update July 26: We can virtually eliminate the virus any time we decide to. 1/
— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) July 26, 2020
But the oligarchs and plutocrats don’t want to eliminate the virus. They are using it as a cudgel to break labor and any remaining power there. It’s working — why would they stop?
No, it’s not a formal conspiracy. However, just like anyone or any group, they tend to take advantage of the opportunities offered to them. This is one and they are now in fact taking full advantage. We will not contain the virus in the US anytime soon for just this reason because the effort to destroy labor is working beautifully.
The virus being out of control now is the plan.
Listen, we need to acknowledge that spite-driven career development is a real and valid thing
— Danielle Leong (@tsunamino) July 26, 2020
I am largely spite-driven when I achieve anything. It works.
When you're a kid growing up in a singlewide in the backwoods, I can tell you from personal experience your every waking thought is generally not "my god, we are … so poor." This book fucking gets it, and thank god for that
— B. Bolander (@BBolander) July 27, 2020
I grew up in a singlewide, too. I didn’t even really understand that I was poor until I was at least 10 or 11. Everyone I knew, except my grandparents, lived the same way I did. I just thought what I saw on TV (which turned out to be in many cases “normal” middle-class lives) was exaggerated. Sure, I was very smart and read a lot, but I had no basis for comparison.
So, no, I never thought, “We are so poor.” It’s just the way things were.
Someone asked me about some new Netflix documentary saying low protein was the way to go for health.
Let me put it this way: if the TV told you something about health, it's most likely wrong. That's the default.
— P. D. Mangan Coaching 🇺🇸 (@Mangan150) July 22, 2020
This is my conclusion, too. Same of most nutritionists and similar “experts.” It depends on what you’re doing, but my ideal diet is lots and lots of meat, some carbs and veg, and a a bit of fruit.
The only thing that’ll stop me eating the meat I need is if they throw me in jail for it.
I personally believe, the more I research it, that we could see a truly *massive* increase in consumption in the US if we truly alleviate the worries of healthcare.
— Charlie Maguire (@ChuckMaguire) July 27, 2020
I believe this too, especially since healthcare is most like a Giffen good. And it exerts a massive direct and indirect drag on the entire economy. The direct drag is just how expensive it is and the indirect is people not wanting to change jobs, or quit bad jobs, because they will lose their health care.
And people like me who can afford it who keep way more in reserve in savings and investment vehicles in case a health crisis occurs.
One of the worst parts of this pandemic is the loneliness, even when isolating with family, but away from an SO or friends or extended relatives with whom one has a special relationship. Sure, you can text and FaceTime, but none of that makes up for loss of touch and closeness.
— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) July 26, 2020
Milena, WHY DO YOU WANT TO KILL GRAMMA?
Don’t you know that that sort of talk shows you are only interested in murdering gramma and partying atop her virus-infested corpse.
Admittedly, this liberal attitude I’m satirizing is not as bad as the anti-maskers, but is still pretty vile.
“If you’re quiet in the woods long enough, you’ll hear something die. Then it’s quiet again. There’s no outrage about injustice, or even mourning. One animal’s death is another’s dinner; that’s just the way it is. What remains will go to the earth, yesterday’s bones sinking into today’s dirt, the only bit of life left where a mouse nibbled, leaving tiny indentations that say there was once something of worth here.”
–Mindy McGinnis in Be Not Far From Me