Correlation between national obesity and covid death rates: pic.twitter.com/WmNRGrMbbZ
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) March 12, 2021
Dang. Hard to ascribe that just to medical bias. HAES: failed. FA movement: failed. Corporate propaganda: succeeded.
Month: March 2021
Get To Jabbin’
Covid risks aren't over yet: https://t.co/qqQ5FfPwal
— John Authers (@johnauthers) March 12, 2021
That’s because the EU is doing an absolute shit job of getting anyone vaccinated. Just appallingly terrible. Until it gets warmer, that’s what I’d expect to see there with such a poor vaccination rollout.
Hit and Run and Gun
Florida remains the deadliest state for people walking. You'd think the state Dept. of Transportation might treat that fact as an all-hands-on-deck emergency. You'd be wrong. Staggeringly incoherent, hand-wavy, buck-passing response from @MyFDOT . https://t.co/ETfZRFcEOa
— Daniel Herriges (@DanielStrTowns) March 11, 2021
Anyone who has ever been a pedestrian in Florida knows this is the case. People actually try to hit you here, instead of as is in other places where they just do nothing to avoid it.
Zoomily
I’m really glad that now no one at all is saying crazy shit like, “Zoom is as good as in person” and heinously asinine clownery like that anymore.
Lab Scape
In 2018, Diplomats Warned of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab. No One Listened.
I’m now about 98% convinced SARS-Cov-2 was a lab escape. No one will ever admit this, of course. But that’s probably what happened.
People treat this like it’s some incredibly unlikely event, that a lab escape could’ve occurred. However, they happen all the time. Labs seems to have trouble keeping their little beasties in rather consistently.
Here Are 5 Times Infectious Diseases Escaped From Laboratory Containment.
There are dozens more examples, of course, some far less publicized. Why people treat it like it’s some sui generis event I have no damn idea.
Rewarding Evil
This is a crucial point here that I think many people miss.
2008/9 and Obama and the Fed were a watershed period. The rich had lost everything. Absolutely everything. It didnโt matter if they had โwonโ the bet like Goldman Sachs, because if I win a bet with you and you lose all your money, Iโm fucked too. The Fed and other central banks bailed them out to the tune of trillions; Obama and other political leaders immunized them from their crimes (and the entire bubble was based on fraud), and our elites then KNEW that they were in complete control and that they could do anything and the violent authorities would bail them out and protect them from their victims.
During that period, the US banks had lost more money than all the banks in all the history of the world had ever made in profit, even inflation adjusted. And they did so mostly through fraud and grift.
Instead of prosecuting those banksters, the malefactors of the whole caper, Obama immunized them, allowed them to receive their bonuses, keep their jobs, and face absolutely no consequences at all. It was the most colossal fuck-up in modern history and we will be paying for it forever. Or at least until we go extinct and there exists no word nor concept of “banks” any longer.
We should’ve taken over all of those banks, tossed all of the crooks in the slammer, created community banks and institutions from their bones, and made such speculation illegal. Instead, we allowed them to rule us without restriction or repercussion, and furthermore sanctified their rule with blood sacrifice of the middle class and the poor.
Sex Scare
Wasn't killing thousands of old people that was the red line, nope. https://t.co/QBjERmcUP3
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) March 11, 2021
Anything connected to sex gets people way, way more up in arms and ready to take action. It’s the other side of prudishness I think. (No, I am not condoning harassment. We should be far harsher on that than we are, in fact!)
NoSurge
Nice. No mega-apocalyptic surge as predicted by orgs bad at prediction.
Sham Shame
I know that fully vaccinated people are going to be shamed for trying to inject some normality into their lives again, and that is so sad. The shaming in this case is not based on science or logic.
— Adithya Ramachandran (@AdithyaR_YXE) March 10, 2021
It’s based on that some people pretty much live for shaming others. It’s their thing. I don’t know why, but they are pretty evil.
No Var
So much for the variant mega-apocalypse:
That’s still an absurd number of cases and deaths, but the downward trend is holding.
No Met
About the below, trusting women paratroopers with my life every jump, that shit ain’t metaphorical at all.
Paratroopers inspect each other’s chutes, lines, and rigs. There were many women in my unit. Most often, it’d be a woman named Dubs I served with jumping with me, and we’d inspect each other’s equipment before an exercise. Our lives were literally in each other’s hands.
Not a metaphor. That’s just the reality.
The Climb
4 star Army general calling Tucker Carlson out https://t.co/XBb4fIFVlg
— Paul McLeary (@paulmcleary) March 11, 2021
I served with some amazing women paratroopers. I trusted them with my life every jump, and I would’ve been glad to fight beside them.
Mix Down
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Blaze
Double bass drums gives it a very Alex Van Halen sound. I like it.
Except when AVH went totally nuts and had four bass drums. Yes, four:
