Covid and masks have even give me an *immediate visual method* of determining who's a dangerously irresponsible shithead who I would prefer not to share a community with.
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) May 3, 2021
That it has. And it turns out it’s a lot of dumb motherfuckers I (literally) do not want to share air with.
Next up: how just looking at another living organism could lead to an uncontrollable climate feedback loop cutting off the gulf stream and causing Europe to FREEZE OVER. pic.twitter.com/XctYojdT4E
— Dr Dani Rabaiotti (@DaniRabaiotti) May 3, 2021
I am glad more people are noticing and lampooning this anchorite ascetic lib ridiculousness.
The vaccines are highly effective against the Indian variant as they are against all the variants. Reports to the contrary have been wrong or greatly exaggerated for the sake of alarming headlines. https://t.co/MFg4WeXwX7
— James Witker (@jwitker) May 3, 2021
Yet I’ve been seeing Very Very Scary headlines everywhere like, “The Vaccines Are Completely Useless Against the Indian Variant,” and “The Indian Variant Somehow Coalesced Into a Macro Entity and Shoved a Vaccine Vial Up Someone’s Bum!”
Reality is, the vaccines work against that variant just like all the others. Some people just like to doom-monger and it makes the press loads of money.
The #1 online safety tip ought to be "install an ad blocker."
Given that there is no vetting of online advertising, and little recourse when you are scammed, you should treat all adverts as dangerous.
This article describes the problem:https://t.co/U9Tv7w0ITl
— Terence Eden (@edent) May 3, 2021
Allowing ads or allowing others to view them is dangerous and unethical.
introducing windows 11! we've finally finished hardening input security. now games aren't allowed to use the keyboard or mouse.
— foone (@Foone) May 2, 2021
This is another fake “security” thing that’s gotten really common — manufacturers, including Apple with MacOS, are making it much, much harder to automate anything at the consumer OS level. Anything that sends a keystroke or makes life easier in any way is now becoming verboten.
I suspect this is mostly to push people to crappy mobile OSes, where such affordances are not available. If the real OSes are made more inconvenient then the shitty mobile ones seem more convenient by comparison.
The topic of masking kids outdoors continues to come up so I felt this was worth re-sharing. Masks not found to have any effect in outdoor contact-sports settings in kids. This should also apply to recess. Important to not discourage kids from exercising when no gain from masking https://t.co/CFN41TFbX2
— Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD (@TracyBethHoeg) May 2, 2021
Believe science! (Unless it contradicts the sanctimonious bullshit I want to force my kids to do so that I can show how virtuous I am.)
Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe.
I think this is most likely to be correct, but it’ll be near herd immunity (see Israel for an example). Anyway, if the dumbasses want to sicken and kill each other, let them. The problem is of course that this hurts other people, too — those who can’t get the vaccine for other reasons. And for this I really despise the ant-vaxxers. Pure fucking contempt here.
Assembling a 35 million dollar engine.
Doesn’t look like it will fit in my SS.
Vaccines = freedom!!! https://t.co/GTdKSdID95
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) May 2, 2021
Because the pandemic has revealed now beyond all doubt that about half the people in this country are irredeemably stupid, and I fucking hate them all.
It’s not that I am a genius. It’s that I have stood on the faces of dumbasses.
The family just watched 48 Hours and it was significantly more racist & misogynist and less funny than I expected, hooboy
— Emily Lakdawalla (@elakdawalla) May 2, 2021
It’s not just that — it’s that the whole culture changed. It’s weird that even most people who lived through it (Emily is roughly my age) can’t really remember just how different it was then. It’s not some act — they truly cannot recall.
What she’s saying isn’t wrong, exactly, but it misses so much. Everyone related to and viewed each other very differently then. The whole basis of social relations in the 1980s bore little resemblance to our own, in ways that are almost indescribable if you weren’t there. It’d take a book.
I guess that’s part of why most people, even those who were there, can’t recall? It’s nearly impossible to run two different “social OSes” at one time, and to really understand what it was like then that is essentially what one must do. I believe it is easier for me to do such a thing because I have always been such an outsider — especially then, but even now, by choice.
A grim prediction —
The India version of Covid is a double mutation and in some cases, a triple. This strain of Covid is now in the United States and it outsmarts current vaccines. It will rip through this country like a wildfire. This is why you need to wear a mask still. pic.twitter.com/hocTFibtB0— Leftward Swing🌹🌻 (@LeftwardSwing) May 2, 2021
Irresponsible bullshit.
Vaccines appear effective against India Covid variant.
The “India variant” will be a big nothing here just like all those other very scary variants were. Remember that, how they were going to make the vaccines useless, and we’d all be wearing 80 masks, etc.?
Yeah. This will be the same.
From March last year (start of lockdown) – was I right? https://t.co/MZsCJvg0qa
— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) May 1, 2021
Indeed. If I remember correctly, 70% of those who died of Covid were obese (in Western countries).
Thank you, Fat Acceptance clowns.