The excellent dancer is Brontë Poiré-Prest.

How can they stop a rollout of a vaccine on nearly no data (when the world and the pandemic continues) but not understand the same principle for closing borders early? Is there incentive to block certain vaccines?

— pedantic uncertaintist duck (@mathtick) April 13, 2021

Extremely poor understanding of risk and meta-risk.

Probably not anything more than that.

Think about how beautifully recursive it is: math is the physical used to describe all(?) the physical!

Once you unlearn and unconfuse your thinking like this, you will go a long way

— Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankkarthik) April 13, 2021

Ya’ll have not read your Nancy Cartwright and it shows.

Math worship is deeply weird.

If you’re scared of getting the j and j vaccine bc of blood clots I have some very bad news for you about hormonal birth control

— Kath Barbadoro (@kathbarbadoro) April 13, 2021

Ah, this won’t matter to anyone. Most have the risk assessment capability of Kermit the Frog on Adderall.

It’s a huge mistake to withdraw the J&J vaccine, for a variety of reasons.

I am trying very hard to have faith that there was a good reason for this decision, and the CDC/FDA did not withdraw one of the vaccines over such a small number of reported adverse reactions. Because if that’s truly all there is to the story, the harm they will do in giving fuel to anti-vax skepticism will outweigh any good they might do by studying these reactions.

I’d gladly take the J&J vaccine — the risks are so tiny. If nothing else, just reserve that one for men.

Can’t give the anti-vaxxers an inch. And this will probably cost an extra 20,000-40,000 lives, and possibly far more.

Hard to believe this is central London on a Monday night as opposed to some decadent festival.

Spontaneous cheering. People quite literally dancing in the streets- the liberation is palpable. pic.twitter.com/gxHeuKcood

— Matthew Thompson (@mattuthompson) April 12, 2021

The lockdown lifers are wailing, affronted at anyone having a good time. But they know no matter what, there is always another bed to hide under, always another mask to layer atop the other 50.

No need to force social distancing rules on me anymore. After seeing hundreds of people wearing masks outside in a park on a sunny day, I am convinced the IQ of my cat exceeds the collective IQ of all of them. I don't even want to be around people anymore. Everybody is nuts.

— Juergen Amft (@jamft) April 10, 2021

Eh, most people don’t really know anything or think deeply about why (or how) anything is the case. They follow the cues of their friends and families, or what they see or hear on the news. Even this, though, they usually misunderstand.

Could humans be smarter and better thinkers? Maybe. But the reality is that right now in general we are not.

For immigrants, IDs prove to be a barrier to a dose of protection.

Wow, could be be any dumber as a society? Anyone who gets vaccinated protects everyone else. We should be jabbing random stray animals who wander through the fucking vaccination sites.

The Naked Sun.

I read this novel long ago, maybe when I was 8 or 9. I’d almost completely forgotten it. It presaged the liberals’ wished-for perma-lockdown future.

Asimov portrays in The Naked Sun a world focused on avoiding physical contact with other people. The Solarians practice physical distancing, and interact with each other largely through technology. They live far from each other, spread out across a sparsely populated planet. People are taught from birth to avoid physical contact, and live on huge estates, either alone or with their spouse only. Face-to-face interaction (referred to in the book as “seeing”) is seen as a repugnant chore….Sex is only practiced for reproduction when replacement of a citizen is necessary, and is considered a chore even more repugnant than seeing. A character remarks that to be in the same room with another person is “most unpleasant…. I feel strongly as though something slimy were about to touch me.”[3]:113 A doctor has to “get hardened” to it….The Solarians’ phobia against in-person contact is so strong that a character commits suicide to avoid it.

Sound like any people you know? At least a lot of them are moving that direction for sure. Not bad for 1956.

What’s particularly weird about the Fat Acceptance movement is that because I’ve been fat, I can say authoritatively that you feel like a fucking rusty garbage can when you’re fat.

You don’t need a goddamn doctor to tell you it’s unhealthy. It’s perfectly clear from living in your own body.

New in Bloomberg — Amtrak should focus on upgrading speeds in the northeast where intercity trains are useful and popular, not keep trying to add new routes.https://t.co/oJWgQbkavE

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 11, 2021

If Yglesias says it, you know it’s wrong. And this is! At least he’s half right. But where I come from, being half right is being all the way wrong.

What a doofus.