I find it unlikely any government will allow a “freedom day” outside the US if they don’t have to. How does it benefit them?
It turns out prison country is pretty popular because it makes a lot of people rich.
Day: May 19, 2021, 11:10 PM
Y to the Uck
I regret to inform you that America thought canned tuna with Miracle Whip and crispy “chow mein noodles” was Cantonese food in the midcentury pic.twitter.com/MQ6IeGQ2RI
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) May 19, 2021
The profane and the even more profane.
Unmask All
The CDC’s critics are wrong. The agency was right to relax indoor masking.
Indeed it was, and I am not saying that just because I dislike masks. Vaccines are available to all, except kids, who don’t tend to get severely ill (or barely even ill at all) from Covid. Unless you are in a high-risk group now, if you don’t get vaccinated it’s on you. (And as a cruel aside, at least the Trumpist anti-vaxxers are only going to be killing themselves and each other soon. That’s some justice there.)
Cases are in freefall. It’s time to ease up, ya’ll. You don’t have to cower inside crying. I mean, you can if you want to, but I’d rather not. And I’m not gonna.
Abs(tinence)
“Zero covid” and such is like abstinence-only education and is about as likely to work. And even when it does work, you end up in a prison country like Australia and with frequent lockdowns and lackadaisical vaccination. That has a somewhat high chance of ending very badly for them.
Idea stolen from Angie Schmitt.
Diverge
https://t.co/WsQg1WutAO pic.twitter.com/ajV4dGwgXD
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) May 19, 2021
“Complete safety” is an illusion. But look at the relative risk divergence between age groups there. That’s huge.
Told Ya I Did
I knew this is what the MBAs would be up to as soon as it was remotely plausible to do so. I wrote this on April 23, 2020.
There will be an absolutely enormous pushback against remote work by MBAs and executives in about a year, and they’ll win — after all, they have the power and workers don’t.
To be fair, a very easy prediction, though many people as usual believed some obviously-erroneous bullshit.
Poppy – X
What just happened. Whatever it was, I liked it.
Prausinz
I wonder how long Australia and New Zealand will persist as prison countries for their citizens?
That’s completely unprecedented for a modern democracy.
Wanna See You Win
A close friend of mine got promoted to be the youngest department manager ever in the history of her company.
I’m proud of her and she earned it. She worked hard after going through some rough times (not directly related to the pandemic) a year ago, and did it all herself.
Made me feel good to hear her say that my supporting her with advice and my innate confidence helped her do what it took to win. But she knows — rightly — that I’d break reality in half to help her. There’s nothing in the world I like more than seeing good people rising up to meet what they are capable of becoming.
Depo
Deport all to Somalia except the cost-anxious, please. Stuff ’em in some C-5s, let’s get it done.