People who refuse to wear masks & go to superspreader events should be among the first to get vaccinated (after 65+ ofc).
The vaccine isn't an opportunity to exact justice, it's a chance to go back to normal.
Some prefer more total people die than see their Outgroup not die.

— Isabel, no lines on my tweets! (@ijfen) December 21, 2020

Agreed. But the problem is those are the same mooks who would refuse to be vaccinated. But we have tons of tasers and other means of subduing and restraining people. Time to use all that stuff for a good cause for once.

They’ll get over it. And then we can go back to eating at restaurants and having concerts again.

Epidemiologist looks to the past to predict second post-pandemic ‘roaring 20s.’

I mostly agree. There is going to be a contingent of hikikimori-type “stay inside forever” people, but other than that this psychological damage and trauma will have a bounceback and things are likely to be fairly freewheeling in the mid-2020s.

It alas probably won’t do much to reverse the pervasive prudery as it’s just too well-supported by libs, but one can hope.

I don’t agree with most of what this guy writes, or even a lot of the rest of the thread, but this is absolutely accurate:

I think that 99%+ of women don’t realize that this world truly does not give a single fuck about the average man. Since women are treated very differently, especially when young, and they themselves generally only care about non-average men (the top 10% or so of men) they don’t see this at all.

It takes being in the bottom 10% — maybe even bottom 1% — of attractiveness for a woman to be treated like the average man is.

That’s why I always give hearty, condescending laugh when women say, “Oh, treat us just like another man!” Oh, trust me, you really really don’t want that. And you can argue that it shouldn’t be this way, blah blah blah, but I am just recounting how the world actually is.

The new vaccines also generate a massive immune response, so the coronavirus may need many mutations over years before the vaccines must be tweaked.

Panic not justified.

Now if we can just convince enough clowns to get the vaccine. Probably not, because they wouldn’t even wear facemasks.

I read this typically-moronic Moira Donegan piece about PornHub but strangely, ever after fairly extensive searching, could not find any piece of hers about the vastly-greater destruction Facebook wreaks on our lives, republic, and world.

Surely that must exist, you’d think. Of course, since the harm of Facebook is so enormously larger. I mean, Facebook basically caused a genocide. But, spoiler alert, of course this piece does not exist. Because that’s not what putzes like she is actually care about.

Why can’t these types admit they just are prudes, are deeply scared of sex, and would use any excuse to destroy any aspect of that and to harm sex workers? It’d just be so much easier for everyone.

(Note that I have no special interest in PornHub. I think I’d been there maybe three times, mostly just clicks from Reddit, and once was to watch some comedy video about a chicken. If it disappeared I would not even notice. But I do care about clueless prude dipshits doing clueless dipshit things.)

Everyone’s searching for the secret knowledge, what no one else knows, in an effort to make sense of the world.

But it’s all already right there in the textbooks you don’t read and the scientific papers you don’t read and the summaries thereof you also don’t read and the books on systems you of course don’t read. Etc. ad infinitum.

I used to go easy on the ignorant and the dipshits. But more than ever this state of dimwittedness is a choice and thus it’s also my choice to skewer you all mercilessly and ceaselessly.

Are you calling for civil war?

You’ve clearly never seen what civil war can wreak, because you don’t want that shit for your people.

You can’t handle wearing a mask for a few minutes, but you think you’ll be fine when power goes out, telecommunications are cut?

— Max Shields (@Max_Shields) December 18, 2020

The people calling for civil war and such are just cosplayers, but unfortunately the kind that can escalate their gun and tough-guy cosplay into becoming real. That’s pretty likely, in my estimation.

Like the old song says, gotta get out of this place.

I thought I was low empathy, and then Covid happened. It’s bizarre to watch millions of people who won’t do something as slightly inconvenient as wearing a mask to avoid killing other people. I still think, really, that I am low empathy. But my empathy is considered whereas others just feel it. And apparently they just do not give a crap at all if they kill other people accidentally.

This I will never understand but it’s caused me to hate many of my fellow citizens in a way that I never have before and won’t be able to get over.

I would honestly emigrate now to about any country that would have me.