How strong is the moral obligation for the fully vaccinated to enter mask-optional stores without a mask, in order to raise (unjustified) fear and hence encourage vaccinations?
— J&J Vaccinee (@GarettJones) May 24, 2021
Haha! I like this take. It’s just so wrong and yet so right at the same time.
in the 20th century, normal-looking people could get parts on TV and in movies (though, fewer & fewer as it progressed).
also, the actors below had each probably been smoking for *at least* two decades. not sure many people do that anymore? https://t.co/uS9AX4Ja2q
— silicon age tulpa (@mr_archenemy) May 25, 2021
Now people have replaced smoking with obesity, so that also makes them look 900 years old.
It’s so sad to see people who are my age from where I grew up. Some of them look 70+ from hard living.
Humans before approving a crisis-averting vaccine: we first have to prove beyond any possible doubt that it has no dangerous side effects!
Humans before doing gain-of-function research: we should lift the moratorium because there are some benefits as well as risks.
— Matthew Barnett (@MatthewJBar) May 25, 2021
From the dumbest dumbass to the highest highbrow, not a damn person, nearly, understands risk. I guess this is my new hobbyhorse.
COVID cases after vaccination are still very rare—variants aren’t changing that.
Hmm, very mega-apocalypse of doom. So variant. Wow.
me emerging after vaccination but keeping my mask the hell on pic.twitter.com/bekYg36jIy
— Bo Bolander (@BBolander) May 25, 2021
But…why?
Do people really not understand how much vaccination changes absolute and relative risk? Don’t answer that. Of course they don’t. Almost no one understands risk.
From a WH official: Today, the United States will reach 50% of American adults fully vaccinated.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) May 25, 2021
Cases and the positivity rate already falling greatly, but in 2-3 weeks cases are going to crash through the fucking floor and liberals are going to be like 😯 — though it was completely predictable.
Moderna jab stops Covid transmission in people aged 12 to 18, trial finds.
Cool.
Remember when experts were saying this was “impossible?” Good times, huh?
The mental health insults of the pandemic will have a very long tail of negative repercussions
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) May 25, 2021
Yes they will. Lockdowns might save lives only short-term. We shall see.
More lying with data.
Because I am lazy, and as an exercise for the readers, for once I will allow you to do your own examination and determine just all the flimflam and statistical tomfoolery at work in this very-poor article. There is a ton of it, though.
I wonder, though, when someone writes something like this, do they actually know they are lying? Or do they believe it?
(Here’s a small hint because I know people have trouble thinking about this: How much more expensive life is today than it was in 1960.)
This is exactly it. We now have an informally integrated communications infrstructure that essentially prohibits certain ideas from being spread one-to-many, and Vox is scrubbing its own role in preventing a valid scientific hypothesis from being discussed freely in public. pic.twitter.com/ti7kiWMha0
— Mason ♂️✂️ (@webdevMason) May 25, 2021
This is really dangerous.
One of the reasons I keep my own blog is that it is much more difficult to censor me. Not impossible, certainly, but I am not under the control of Zuckerberg or Dorsey or other similar putzes.
A thorny & controversial topic. My first thoughts:
Do what you want with your body, incl. transition. It's your body.
But surgery & hormones, etc, does not completely change genetic make-up. So, transgender probably shouldn't qualify for these sports.https://t.co/WOXq5ZjsHG
— Sean D (TMSA) (@SeanTMSA) May 25, 2021
Biological facts are real, alas for us all.
I do think one of the projects of the left is that convincing us biological facts are not real in the service of then invalidating other realities. If you can believe something so absurd as there is no such thing as biology, then it’s easier to corrupt and disrupt your mind in other ways, too.
I like this photo:
The photographer is I believe Andrew Lucas. Model unknown.
Just doing my part to combat prudishness and piss people off.