Even with hope on the horizon in this pandemic, what’s the point of ever leaving home again?
The lockdown lifers are coming out to not play, as I knew they would. Fuck that noise. I’m pretty anti-social, but even I miss dining out and concerts and such. And I really want to travel. Some Americans do have a fucking passport, and use it.
oh i’m sorry are you titillated by my exotic writing? i learned it whilst studying at ‘ .
— Josh Sawyer (@jesawyer) March 7, 2021
On yeah, buddy? I learned everything I know at L’école des conneries. So there.
Lord, Miley fucking crushes this song:
Fantastic cover, and the sound mixing in this is just perfection:
There's a lot of prediction and uncertainty on the future of #SARSCoV2 in the human population. I'll do a little thread explaining why I *think* it will end up similar to the 4 "common-cold" endemic CoVs, but the time-scale on which this happens is up to us.
— Stephen Goldstein (@stgoldst) March 8, 2021
I agree with this. About the trajectory I expect, except as he points out we can make it happen much more quickly than it would naturally.
You know it's a good covid day when…..
1. Vaccinees can hug each other, unmasked, blessed by CDC
2. The descent in cases continues despite looming threat of B.1.1.7 strain
3. More data keeps coming out on vaccines overriding immune evasion property of the variants— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 9, 2021
Nice. Doom-mongers are wrong.
America is finally going to kick COVID's ass, and soon.
Feels so good to say that.https://t.co/pbaE6QBgYV
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— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) March 4, 2021
I can’t read that post, but he’s right. Been telling ya’ll that since two months ago. I was right.
People react badly to self-promotion, but respond positively when someone else praises you. This study shows the effect works even if the person praising you is know to be an agent hired to do so… even if you are visibly seen briefing the agent first! https://t.co/yCXQ6ITb3W pic.twitter.com/vvqTpHHQan
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) March 8, 2021
WTF. Everyone’s brain is ridiculously broken. Evolution failed.
Sporadic reminder that we paid the taxes and that's where the government's money came from so we absolutely are entitled to scream at the federal government to use that money to improve our lives
— Razorblade Snowflake (Keffy R.M. Kehrli) (@Keffy) March 6, 2021
The federal government is not funded from taxes. Money sent to the IRS is essentially destroyed. (It’s a bit more complex than that, but that’s what it amounts to.)
drive the vaccine needle through my sternum like in Pulp Fiction
— NFT NINJA III: HUSTLE COWBOY (@bombsfall) March 8, 2021
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
I occasionally wonder how I was able to read so much as a kid when I can't really do it anymore, and then I remember oh yeah, I had literally nothing else to do and was going slowly insane
— foone (@Foone) March 7, 2021
Same. It was either read 3-4 books a day or (to paraphrase Jay-Z) murder everything moving.
Both my seventy something mom and a relative got asked out in the vaccine line. Im telling you ppl are ready. This summer will be wild
— Kaitlyn Greenidge (@surlybassey) March 7, 2021
Something I’ve noticed lately is that “a man asking a woman out” is much, much less often being framed now as automatic harassment. People are desperate for connection and resumption of the social.
Wonder how long that good thing will last?
If you can cut child poverty in half with a single piece of legislation it just goes to show that poverty is a policy choice.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) March 7, 2021
In a society as rich as ours, any poverty or material lack is always a policy choice.
I cannot stand the toxic atmosphere of glee around the link between coronavirus and obesity.
I haven’t seen anyone — literally anyone — express “glee” about the link between obesity and Covid mortality. What I have seen is people rejecting the idea that so-called “Healthy at Every Size” is really a thing you can be besides rare exceptions, and observing correctly that if so many people weren’t so obese, mortality would be much lower.
A lot of us who work to maintain our weight and our health are really tired of being told that we have “hatebodies” and that it’s “impossible” to be of a normal weight, and that those of us who have lost weight and kept it off are somehow hurting the obese.
That shit gets super old. No one is happy that the obese are dying in greater numbers. But many of the FA types have wanted to live in blissful ignorance of the fact that obesity is in fact harmful. Furthermore, those same people harm children and others who don’t know any better. Many people are just observing that FA propaganda has led to many deaths, and will lead to many more.