“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.
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.
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.
What just happened. Whatever it was, I liked it.
I wonder how long Australia and New Zealand will persist as prison countries for their citizens?
That’s completely unprecedented for a modern democracy.
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.
Deport all to Somalia except the cost-anxious, please. Stuff ’em in some C-5s, let’s get it done.
Take Off That Mask, If you are fully vaccinated, the time to resume normal life is now.
Right on. This is how we should be framing it, and doing it.
And yet, I fear that—like many of my friends and colleagues—she has, over the past months, become too attached to aspects of hygiene theater that ultimately do more to reassure us or to showcase our altruism than to combat the pandemic.
Combine virtue signaling, hygiene theater, polarization, trauma, and liberals expressing religious feeling for which they have no other outlet, you end up with behaviors that have little or no connection to the reality on the ground or even actual healthfulness.
Going to be that way for a while, I guess.
60% of vaccine hesitant Americans cite blood clots as a side effect — which is vanishingly rare, but got massive attention when FDA pulled the trigger on its J&J pause over a one-in-a-million potential linkage. https://t.co/LboMlp59Zn pic.twitter.com/OhM1U9XkJq
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 17, 2021
Huh. Shocking. (Again, not.)
Covid experts warn against foreign holidays, so why is Boris Johnson so keen?
Because it’s time to stop living in fear and hiding from the world. Get vaxxed, you’ll be ok.
The libs typically don’t win because they hide inside crying while others get shit done. Not just true of the pandemic, but generally true.
So many people are so afraid of so much. How do people live like that? Just how?
As it should be. These people make society and the world worse, just as niqabs, hijabs and burqas and such do. And if you hate me, at least hate me for my consistency. (Actually, I don’t care why you hate me. Do it for any reason at all, or none.)
In interviews, vaccinated people who continue to wear masks said they are increasingly under pressure, especially in recent days; friends and family have urged them to relax, or even have suggested that they are paranoid.
They are indeed paranoid. Of course, no one should be shamed (much) for choosing to wear a mask once the need has passed, nor harassed for same. But it should be strongly discouraged because it’s yet more of a sign that people are withdrawing from community and any sort of social integration.
To be clear, I think people should be allowed to do any old stupid shit as long as it doesn’t harm others, including wearing masks at any time, or pussy hats, or whatever. But there should also be general discouragement of such things, and strong social pressure to not be a fucking putz.
The worst defense of the MUTCD is "a lot of volunteers worked hard on it."
What matters is the final product and how it effects people. There is no A for effort. We're adults.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) May 17, 2021
That bothers me too, the whole “A lot of people worked really hard on this!”
WHO. GIVES. A. FUCK. This isn’t middle school. There is no participation badge. If it’s terrible, the only solution is to correct it, not tell me how many people worked so, so hard on it.
My old boss, who also believed the same, said this after some young gun who styled himself as being very clever royally fucked something up and cost a sister company a lot of money: “This isn’t high school and he doesn’t get any credit for how smart he is or how much he worked on this. He screwed it up and now there are consequences. That’s what being an adult is.”
Working hard isn’t enough. The solution also has to be good and appropriate for the situation.
All the smart and interesting women in the world, please friendzone me.
Brit Marling, my soon-to-be best friend, I am definitely, definitely talking about you too.
I almost forgot…but today is five years since I set off on my coast-to-coast train journey in the States. I started this thread last year and didn’t quite finish it off, but will aim to finish it this time. It remains the best thing I have ever done. https://t.co/2RBx1wzeB4
— Tits McGee (@Scientits) May 17, 2021
But a bunch of libs have claimed you can’t learn anything if you travel, traveling itself is bad (for some reason), and that you also hate the planet if you do any rambling — and that trend had started before the pandemic. Now it’s only worsened.
Snarkiness and rantiness aside, I really am interested in what propels so many folks lately to claim that traveling itself — apart from any of its externalities — is inherently a negative thing. Because, as with her adventures, the travel I’ve done in my life stands out as some of my best experiences, and I’d gladly shave years off my life rather than be forced somehow to forget those times. I learned and saw and did so much and would not trade it for anything on this planet.
In the end I cannot answer why so many of late have turned out against travel. It’s just another symptom of the liberal shift to being against pleasure, against engagement with the world, but I also cannot fully explain all of that.
I’m glad she posted this. I like her so much more now because she’s not afraid to gush about great her experience was, liberal tears fall where they may.