What a great cover. Not an easy song to sing at all.

That bassist can really lay it down. She sounds like Flea!

The liberal corona stance online anyway, IMO, is over confident on masks and under confident on vaccines.

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) July 29, 2021

I was right; the liberals are moving to the idea that the vaccines don’t work. This is the case more and more every day. The evidence is everywhere.

I think this is happening because the libs want to preserve the new identity marker of masks/masking and that can’t be defended unless they also believe that the vaccines have failed. When something becomes an important bit of one’s identity it is almost impossible to cast it aside. It’s why so many of them wear masks outdoors when no one is even around, despite that making no sense at all.

It’s also why you never hear “believe science” anymore.

Why is everybody so eager to give up the masks? I got vaccinated as soon as I could, but there's literally no reason not to add an extra layer of protection that costs me nothing. Masking kept me and my loved ones safe for a year, no reason not to keep using it for a little boost

— 🏞️➡️🌊🇵🇸🔜🆓 (@JackDexterity) July 30, 2021

I wonder how often it’s true that people like this who claim masks have no cost are non-neurotypical people who have trouble reading facial expressions and the like?

Because masks have very high costs from my persective. I have a lot of difficulty understanding others when they speak, I can’t easily determine their emotional state, and I myself cannot breathe or think very well.

Does the media being concentrated in these super blue enclaves incentivize the reporters to produce coverage that panders to the sort of hardwired liberal covid ideology (hyper caution) — even when the data doesn't support it?

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) July 30, 2021

Absolutely it does. How many times have I heard the odious phrase “completely safe,” usually spouted unironically by someone who pilots an oversized SUV like they were Evel fucking Knievel? Way way too many times.

The religion of complete safety is like believing the Tooth Fairy is real, but you’re even less likely to get your expected reward.

This is the correct way to do things:

Anyway, breakthroughs are rare and getting very sick from Covid is *really* rare if you're vaxed. We need to keep an eye on how this progresses but if you've been vaccinated, you should carry on with life for the most part, taking precautions where necessary and as things evolve.

— Alex K (@AlexWithAK) July 30, 2021

People say the suburbs are quiet but mostly they aren’t, especially during the day. It’s probably worse in Florida, but nearly every day there’s mowing/leaf-blowing/sawing for at least 2-3 hours loud enough to interfere with work meetings. Sometimes, it’s even more hours than that.

I don’t know why people have such an obsession with lawns and fucking around with them, but it’s such a huge waste of time and resources.

Second lab worker with deadly prion disease prompts research pause in France.

Huh, remember all that claptrap over the past year about how lab accidents are just so very rare, blah blah? I do. Those were all lies, which I told y’all at the time.

The reality is lab accidents are fairly common, but most you just never hear about. And we probably aren’t going to do anything to fix this.