Looking back, I can’t believe we ever even considered the insane path of infinite lockdowns and such. And that some countries are basically doing that.
Now that seems really fucking nuts, especially with the actual fatality rate of Covid. Dang, were we all high?
Another update on that prophesied mega-surge of DOOOOOOM after people stopped wearing masks and such:
Nowhere to be found. Again, just as I said.
I particularly like how she realizes how the liberal “we can’t do anything until it’s completely safe” is also a pernicious flavor of fanaticism:
Someone who can think. So rare.
For the last 14 months we have collectively accepted, without meaningful debate, the ideological belief that the 'greater good' can be equated with maximum COVID mitigation, without concern for or recognition of of the collateral harms caused by those mitigation efforts. 1/
— Samantha Godwin (@samanthaagodwin) June 3, 2021
Exactly. Why “Zero Covid” and “close the borders forever” and “infinite lockdown” are just terrible ideas for any country. There will be no end to it, and it causes vast harm so we can beat back a relatively low-risk disease. Yes, Long Covid, blah blah. Still does not matter.
She is really good and thoughtful. Glad someone is not afraid to say this.
I was at a friend’s house one time and her roommate came out and dumped a bunch of her just-washed clothes on the table in front of me, not really thinking about it. It was mostly a lot of panties and such.
When she realized that, she got a bit embarrassed and apologized. Of course I did not care. I’m the complete opposite of a prude and someone’s clean panties…I mean, who gives a crap? I certainly couldn’t care less and didn’t even really notice until she said something.
What she didn’t know is that she could’ve walked out there completely naked and I also wouldn’t have cared. My facial expression would not have even changed. I just do not care what other people do as long as it doesn’t harm me. I can’t even express the degree to which I don’t care and am not concerned.
But it’s hard to tell people things like this and make them realize how much you mean it.
A Return to Normal? Not for Countries With Covid Surges and Few Vaccines.
What a colossal failure, and a failure that is only and inevitably going to return to hurt us. But we must protect that intellectual property at all costs! This is what dunces like John Scalzi and his bootlickers miss: when you believe that the world and its ideas can be locked up forever, it doesn’t just extend to your second-rate Heinlein knock-off books. It’s everything. As Billy Shakespeare said, people like him have a plentiful lack of wit because they only understand what they can loot, not what that takes from everyone else — and from themselves.