Interesting quote from Oxford's Prof James Naismith on masks – "The ONS survey results on prevalence shows that the Scottish and English approach to masking although formally different since July has made no meaningful difference to Delta."

— sarahknapton (@sarahknapton) November 29, 2021

Masks in the liberal mind: panacea, better than vaccination, prevents Covid 100%, they are like 30 feet of lead shielding.

Masks in reality: Help a bit in situations of long exposure and/or dense crowding with poor ventilation. Do have some positive benefit but vaccination is far better, and ventilation.

Notice that policy is actually set reflexively, in a global copycat manner, like wildfire? Where panic from our media outrage economy pushes politicians to kneejerk-react, which is then quickly but retroactively spun as epidemiological necessity?

It’s been like this from day one https://t.co/QpS79ydfS6

— Genève Campbell (@bergerbell) November 28, 2021

I’m not gonna be surprised if they try to bring back lockdowns and prison countries again. So many blue state scoldy people push for this and yearn for it.

One reason we need the FDA and CDC to publicly talk about variant-specific boosters, right now, is to help calm economic panic and prevent more supply chain snarls and inflation. https://t.co/idauCAq3ZY

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 28, 2021

Shutting down and locking down now would be such an enormous, incalculable and perhaps irreversible mistake. I hope people would resist hard if this is attempted.

The campaign against boosters is really weird and bad.

Leaving people vulnerable by denying them boosters is NOT going to help the developing world. https://t.co/nlnVnhPbyh

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 28, 2021

But Noah, you know it’s more important to demonstrate your virtue than to actually help people.

Do not listen to the anti-booster people.

Refusing to get your booster is NOT helping anyone in the developing world. You're just being a weirder kind of antivaxer.

GET YOUR BOOSTER.

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 28, 2021

A lot of the left is de facto “soft” anti-vax now. They’d never call themselves that, but they are. Because they are wicked dumb.

Australia’s reopening plans in doubt after Omicron cases.

It’s nice to see more people being resistant to prison countries and reflexive lockdowns. Need much more of this.

U.S. should be prepared to do “anything,” including lockdowns, to fight Omicron.

Ok, Fauci, go back to bed now. You’re getting tired.

The year is 2072. Feminism and radical Islam have merged. All words, art and sex have been deemed “offensive” and people communicate with guttural grunts and slapping one another.

Those who don’t, won’t or can’t buy into this are executed “for their own good,” though of course that’s more vague grunts.

How Typing Commands Became The Norm Again.

This is terrible and I hate it everyhwere I’ve experienced it. I need a FUCKING MENU. I don’t have the capability to remember a million commands in dozens of applications.