Is Covid moralism forever? I would like to not live like this forever thank you.

Probably? The libs are really seizing on this as a great way to do some moral preening.

I have already ranted about those who seem to derive immense, perverse pleasure out of moralizing about Covid, enforcing pessimism with utter gusto and strutting around as if treating the most unpleasant future as the likeliest future is a mark of moral sophistication.

Aye, fuck those people. Garbage humans. Not quite as bad as the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, but still just horrendous pieces of crap.

The crime is not believing that better times are here. The crime is wanting better times to be here.

Unfortunately, Covid arrived at a time when many, especially on the liberal side, were already essentially withdrawing from society and Covid made this pernicious tendency much, much worse.

And now the Covid moralist says, never again. You must live in a bubble, away from them, and even worse from many that you love, and even your bare desire to be free of this brutal hindrance is disordered.

To many, prison is freedom. The pod is the dream. Restriction is clarity and release.

I am not one of those people.

THIS.

Remember when people would scream at you for using the phrase "partial herd immunity"?

Turns out that even if you don't reach the magical (and theoretical) "herd immunity threshold", you can almost entirely get rid of the disease… https://t.co/zemSp1lY6H

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) May 3, 2021

Oh yeah, I remember. Epidemiologists who apparently can’t even read textbooks in their own field emerged from the walls screeching about how that was “impossible,” even though that’s the common case for most diseases.

As I said three months ago, when we hit 50% vaxxed, cases are going to fall through the floor. I was right then and it’s clear I’ll be right now.

My exact words from February 8, 2021:

When we hit around 50% vaccination rate, cases will fall dramatically and everyone will be shocked. But you shouldn’t be because I am writing it now. And I will be right again.

Now why is it that I can run a simulation in my brain that’s better than 99%+ of expert prognostications, when they have all those credentials and access to all that computing power? That should not be a thing that can happen.

But here we are.

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.

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.

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.