Cape Cod Republican who "defended the freedom" of people not to be vaccinated against #COVID19 dies of you'll never guess what. https://t.co/fNmLT3BtnQ
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) July 20, 2021
No great loss.
And yep, I’d say that of any assclown fucking mook who refuses the vax and dies of Covid.
Die drowning, motherfuckers. This is the real world and there are consequences of dipshittery.
New preprint from Israel using household contacts finds that the Pfizer vaccine has an overall vaccine effectiveness against transmission of 88.5%.
Want to know the best way to protect your unvaccinated kids? Get vaccinated yourself.https://t.co/0qhWpaEj2y
— Benjy Renton (@bhrenton) July 19, 2021
That’s about what I expected and the vaccines are working great. So, as I noted, many people are just outright lying about vaccine efficacy. Lockdown worshippers will always puzzle me.
Boris Johnson’s ‘freedom day’ isolation tells us the virus is everywhere.
Get. Fucking. Vaccinated.
You’ll be ok.
The early 1990s were a vibrant & fun time, as reflected in these zippy neon car colours/graphics.
Today, cars are predominantly grey, black or white. Boring.
They reflect the mood of the time, & in the 90s we were generally in a neon mood.
(Plz don’t @ me with your “yeah but”) pic.twitter.com/x6OYf7mtVm
— Andrew King (@twitandrewking) February 1, 2020
The early 90s was the last vestige and expression of non-prudish culture and practice. This sort of thing was its last real flowering before the beige era began and the liberals all transitioned to tiresome two-bit goody-goodies.
Literally and metaphorically, we were more into letting it all hang out then. And you know, don’t argue with me on that. I was fucking there. I remember. The whole culture is vastly different now, and it shifted drastically between 1993-2000 or so.
I’m not sure exactly what brought about this massive change. Some is just drift. But a lot of I believe has to do with how much harder it has become to get ahead and stay at least middle class in our society. People feel they can take fewer risks and scold those who do almost reflexively now. When all is precarious, even the tiniest self-expression feels like a grave threat — in yourself or from others.
This has made a worse and more limited world. In some ways, I don’t blame the prudes. But we always have a choice to make the world worse, and it’s one they make every day.
Sometimes it feels like certain people are so pro mask they’re almost anti vaccine. I have a lot of confidence in the vaccine (plus I have natural immunity from a prior infection) and that’s why I don’t feel the need to wear a mask 🤷🏼♀️
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) July 21, 2021
Masking has become a cult on both sides. On the conservative side, it’s just the obverse of the progressive “a mask is the solution to everything” belief that has developed.
The reality is that masking is a mildly-effective mitigation measure — one among many. Better ventilation is more effective, and vaccination is the best option. Defense in depth means that all of them together would be most effective, but masking is very destructive to social cues and is highly uncomfortable, too. I’m all in favor of doing away with it if vaccines are available.
Lockdown lifers and masker cultists are usually the same people, but not always. According to them now, the “vaccines don’t work.”
All terrible people.
We are now approaching a whole year of California & Texas having nearly identical Covid death rate numbers despite California's lockdowns & mask mandates and Texas's re-opening back early March 2021. This chart clearly showcases an inconvenient truth for certain people. pic.twitter.com/OyBpMeoE2a
— James Melville 🌸 (@JamesMelville) July 20, 2021
This does need some sort of explanation, I think. I do not have one, or even any speculation.
Australia’s Brisbane to Host 2032 Summer Olympics.
Won’t they still be in lockdown then?
I really do think the lockdown lifers and quarantine lovers and kid torturers have some really major fucking mental malfunction. There is no reasoning with them; just defeating.
So much fun. And some great anti-prudery here, and the best thing about it is that the prudes won’t even understand it.
The outbreaks in Sydney and Melbourne both stemmed from one failure in the quarantine system.
One simple failure. Millions in lockdown. Billions of dollars lost.
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) July 19, 2021
That’s because the whole idea is terrible and lockdowns are a horrendous and horrendously-harmful idea that should have never been used extenstively.
If you punch yourself in the face repeatedly, there is no one to blame but yourself.