Yeah. People are looking for whatever guidance meets their "feels right" (=strict) criteria for safety rather than listening and adjusting to ongoing shifts. So — WHO said "vaxxed should mask" and they jumped on it, "see!!!" But WHO says young kids shouldn't mask=Nobody cares 😭

— much ADU about nothing (@normalvariance) July 22, 2021

That’s why you rarely see the “Believe Science” incantation trotted out anymore. It was only used as a leverage point to scold people. No one cared about the science in the least because we never followed the science, and even the liberals chanting the “Believe Science” mantra knew that at the time, I think.

But now it’s nowhere to be found, and that’s better. These days you’re a “Covid denier” if you don’t want to hide inside for years and wear a mask in perpetuity.

Delta variant risk for vaccinated: the real COVID “breakthrough cases” danger.

Good article. I don’t give a fuck about avoiding a mild case of Covid at all. It does appear that breakthrough cases are more common with Delta than thought, though. I’m guessing (as the article notes) that what matters is prolonged exposure. That is, if you are incidentally exposed and would’ve been infected pre-vaccine, the vaccines will protect you from this infection.

However, if you bathe in Covid day in and day out by being near those who are infected and use no mitigation measures, you will eventually probably get it too.

I like the song, but the video idea and execution is great. The “robot” is a movie camera motion control rig, a very expensive one. It’s designed to hold heavy cameras so it can easily support a smallish human.

England has run out of pediatric ICU beds this evening.

(So much for Freedumb!!! Day!!) https://t.co/sQhmK8BxPq

— Charlie Stross (@cstross) July 21, 2021

This is 100% false (why the tweet was deleted), but beyond that because children get ill enough to need an ICU at vastly, vastly lower rates than adults, there are never all that many pediatric ICU beds in existence anywhere.

This is the base rate fallacy in action.

It enrages me how none of these fuckers will answer exactly how long people are supposed to stay indoors, exactly how long society is supposed to be on hold. Two years? Ten years? Fifty? Of course they cannot give an answer because this is all just performance.

I know liberals are opposed to doing a utility calculation like this, as most of them are deontological thinkers, but how many people should we attempt to “save” by torturing and harming millions? Lockdown is extremely mentally damaging. Even masking has harms (though not the ones most conservatives cite). I wish I could get some sort of answer out of these people about how long lockdowns are supposed to last, how long we are all supposed to cower inside, how long people are supposed to be penned inside their prison countries unable to visit loved ones “for their own good.”

They will never answer this because the scolding and the holier-than-thou finger-wagging is the fucking point.