I feel like the only time I understand how to clearly assess pandemic risk now is standing in the middle of a not-crowded national park & I feel like we might collectively go bonkers w/o clearer, centralized guidance about what to do in a half-vaccinated half-vulnerable society
— Anjali Dayal (@anjalikdayal) August 8, 2021
Here’s the advice: you’re vaccinated and not immunocompromised? Go and live your fucking life. You’ll be ok.
Jesus fucking Christ. What the fuck.
So I guess we’re going to pretend we don’t have vaccines now, and that they don’t work?
Cool, cool. Ok, not cool at all. I hate just about everyone.
If we got rid of the anti-vaxxers and the blue state scoldy people, who would be left?
I don’t know and I don’t care, but I think we should try it!
I feel so terrible for people who rescheduled big events for the next couple of months, assuming everyone would be vaxxed and it would be fine https://t.co/w7OAAaHOY7
— Jenée (@jdesmondharris) August 9, 2021
Have you heard the news? The vaccines are very effective! It’s quite cool, you should really look into it.
Man, blue state scoldy people sure are tiresome.
And also people act as if because there is *some risk* we must treat it as a huge one. Like there is no space between "huge risk" and "no risk." As if literally all you need to justify any policy is to say "but it's not zero risk!" Zero risk never exists, for anything.
— much ADU about nothing (@normalvariance) August 8, 2021
I like this person.
The problem with writing about the past now is that if you write about things we actually did and said in a realistic manner, the wokesters will come for you. If I wrote a novel about growing up in rural North Florida it’d be just peppered with offensive words and ideas, because that’s how it was.
It makes me wonder what’s been left out of “realistic” accounts of the past. A damn lot, I bet, and a lot that was important.
I also am not understanding the liberal discourse that is saying "we have to stop acting like kids can't get it and finally take this seriously" – I am seeing this a lot. Who's been acting like kids can't get it?? Schools were closed for A YEAR. Am I the only one seeing this?
— much ADU about nothing (@normalvariance) August 8, 2021
Liberals have gone assclownishly nuts about their “completely safe” horseshit. Which of course nothing ever is and never will be.
Your daily reminder that there is no empirical evidence to support masking kids under 6, we are the only Western nation doing it, and masking inhibits early literacy and social-emotional learning, which both have a *critical period* window for young children.
— elizabeth bennett (@ebennett74) August 7, 2021
But the blue state scoldy people like torturing kids, so we must do so “for their own good.”
Youth, the pandemic and a global mental health crisis.
Remember when we were gaslighted and told this was not happening? I do! But of course it was happening.
“We know from other studies that rates of depression and anxiety in youth tend to ebb and flow with restrictions,” says Dr. Sheri Madigan, Ph.D., co-author of the paper, a UCalgary clinical psychologist and Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development. “When more restrictions are imposed, rates go up. Being socially isolated, kept away from their friends, their school routines, and social interactions has proven to be really hard on kids.”
Another reason lockdowns should be brief, rare, and have a definite end date. It’s terrible for everything, and not even all that effective at preventing the spread of Covid unless you keep it up for a really long time, make no mistakes, and have 100% compliance.
I kind of want to write a novel about North Florida. No one has ever written anything about a place like that. Not that I’ve ever seen, and not that rang true or wasn’t just some exercise in absurd stereotypes. I’d set it during the 1980s, before everyone went Trump insane and became Fox News zombies. I honestly do not know how to write about that as I do not understand it, though I observed it happen to a number of my relatives.
But lord, I do not know if I have it in me, though I think it’d be really fucking good if I could manage it.
5 hospitalized, including child, after pickup truck crashes into Tampa Waffle House.
They thought the Waffle House had a drive-through. It didn’t, but they decided to go ahead and install one.
Someone said on Twitter (lost the tweet) that you aren’t a real Southerner unless you’ve been involved in a late-night/early morning Waffle House brawl. Guess I’m a real Southerner, because I have, at least peripherally.
Then, I was trying to leave my brawling ways behind so I only hit and got hit enough to get out of there and to my car. At least no one pulled a gun in that one.
norms of discourse increasingly shaped by an attitude like "if you are misleading for a cause you truly believe in, can one really characterize that as 'in bad faith'?"
— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) August 8, 2021
That is quite true. I’ve usually seen it framed as, “We must lie to these people for their own good, because they won’t believe the truth.” This is what many (most?) so-called experts sincerely believe now. And when this strategy of mendacity backfires, as it inevitably does, they are surprised that copious lying did not achieve the goals they desired.
Yet they do it again and again and again. I cannot understand it.
"It’s like we didn’t have vaccines. Or worse." Yesterday I had a long conversation with @erictopol about the state of the Delta wave, where the effect of vaccines is almost invisible, with deaths & hospitalizations tracking much higher than expected. (1/x) https://t.co/uNRPQrzNS4
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) August 8, 2021
More of the good ol’ fearmongering and claptrap about the vaccines not working. Just what I expected to see.