With Florida’s announcement this morning, we’re now up to 23 states pulling out of federal pandemic UI benefits, hurting 4 million workers and depriving the economy of $23.3 billion. Full breakdown here: https://t.co/6jKPVCgfcS pic.twitter.com/d6GK0UMeTj

— AndrewStettner (@pelhamprog) May 24, 2021

“I wonder if it hurts if I punch myself in the face.”

This will help nothing but will harm a lot of people. It will worsen the economy, allow predatory bosses freer reign (one of the main purposes of this), and not actually help, well, anything. So of course many people are keen to do it.

I live in a country full of vindictive idiots.

people: lol why would anyone get a humanities degree

also people: ugh why does the CDC seem to struggle with articulating a synthesis of a handful of complex concepts

— Jake Anbinder (@JakeAnbinder) May 24, 2021

Ha. I’ve noticed this too.

Tech-bro STEM cheerleader: Everyone who is anyone will want to be tracked 24/7 and have my new “Yellow Sun” tracking emblem letting everyone know that I track them the best!

Humanities grad: Uh, I think I see a slight problem with this….

Tech-bro STEM cheerleader: LOL, you have a useless humanities degree. This is going to be such a huge concentration of success!

Lockdowns are very harmful, of course, but the question is if they are more harmful than the alternative? That is, a pandemic burning out of control and overwhelming hospital systems, and do lockdowns adequately control that while preserving any sort of society?

In that light, while it’s clear lockdowns do work, as their length and restrictiveness continues the utility calculation begins to look less favorable to that method.

I don’t presume to know where the dividing line is exactly, but places that had year-long lockdowns and such are going to see some real long-term mental health consequences from that, and for many those consequences are going to be very bad indeed.

THIS is the power of vaccination. And this is also why we need to get vaccines in arms globally.#VaccineEquity https://t.co/SVLX8ZwfR0

— Ingrid Katz (@IngridKatzMD) May 24, 2021

Agreed that we need to work on getting vaccines to everyone. It’s somewhat likely a variant could emerge that defeats most vaccines, and that’d be totally our fault if so.

What bothers me is that people who are consistently wrong never face any consequences, though. For instance, the much-ballyhooed US mega-surge of doom which I said wouldn’t happen and did not, and which more than half of liberals were screeching about incessantly — though I was right and they were wrong, they will receive more plaudits for being doom-mongers than I will be for being completely correct.

Makes no damn sense.

Hmm, anyone seen any sign of that lib-prophesied mega-surge of DOOOOOM? Because I don’t see it:

Snark aside, it’s great that cases and deaths are falling so sharply. But what’s happening is also just what I predicted. Can’t believe so many spend so much money on supercomputer time. Just use my brain; it’s way cheaper, and faster too.