One of my big fears is that our handling of corona is a preview of what’s to come with climate change.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) December 23, 2021
That was already happening before Covid, but the pandemic ramped it way the hell up. Well before the pandemic there were libs eager to let you know you that you were evil and bad if you traveled anywhere or had any fun. Now it’s so, so much worse.
disgusted with apple for paternalistically capping me at 500 safari tabs
— Lucre Snooker (@LucreSnooker) December 22, 2021
500 tabs? That’s amateur level. On my main machine, I have 1,200 tabs open.
If you count all the machines I use, I have 2,400+ tabs open. Yes, I do know what’s in most of them.
From 1964-70, the @AFmuseum in Dayton, Ohio, decorated its retired Atlas D ICBM (which once carried a W49 1.4-Megaton warhead) as Santa Claus. Ho-ho-holocaust! pic.twitter.com/f4w18BnSsm
— Stephen Schwartz (@AtomicAnalyst) December 22, 2021
Ok that made me laugh.
Omicron resulting in less severe illness
The latest roundup of data from this preprint with South Africa data and from Denmark https://t.co/sdJUz5w6vU by @mroliverbarnes @jburnmurdoch @rmilneNordic
1. Less hospital admission in South Africa https://t.co/EnHpbDW7Gd pic.twitter.com/yWgxzFLUID— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 22, 2021
Looks like I was about right on the money for the reduction in Omicron severity.
Somebody should really pay me for this shit.
My question about people like Alice is why were they never equally terrified of the flu? Alice and millions like her absolutely did not live like Howard Hughes before Covid. Why not? Their risk post-vaccine is substantially less than it was for flu and post-flu complications prior to the pandemic,* so what happened? Shows the power of propaganda I guess.
*Yes, influenza does often cause “long flu” as I guess we’d call it now. See here for more info.
every time I see someone's beachy vacation photos, I am reminded that their fun is only possible because so many others abstained
— mx claws (@alicegoldfuss) December 22, 2021
That…doesn’t even make any kind of sense. But I guess even Alice has been captured by the purity culture of the woke left. If it’s fun, must be a superspreader event! Despite the fact that you’re far, far, far less likely to spread or catch Covid on a goddamn beach.
What the fuck? I despise all these people, including people like Alice I used to like. I need to stop hate-reading Twitter. It’s not good for the ol’ mental health.
(Alice is so terrified of Covid that she won’t even leave her house, despite being triple-vaccinated and having nearly no risk of any kind. Fucking Christ, I cannot understand.)
Omicron means the pandemic is effectively over. Funny to say I know as cases seem to rise stratospherically by the day. Hospitals will be hurt for a while, for sure.
But with a variant that is milder and about as transmissible as measles, most everyone is going to get it, and then some broad-based immunity will be built up, even among the clownish anti-vaxxers. It’ll be a bit painful but it’ll be the effective end of the pandemic as a social event (except among the ever-panickers and lockdown lifers).
The panickers are gradually — very gradually — losing, and it’s beautiful to see. By spring, this will mostly be over except those unfortunately debilitated by long Covid. That’s a choice we made, but it is what happened. Pretending the end of the world is occurring won’t help with that even a little bit.
Omicron Infections Seem to Be Milder, Three Research Teams Report.
Huh. What a shock. Ok, not really