A show about women in their late 50s/early 60s in 1985 vs 2021 pic.twitter.com/32zOtB9s0y
— Mary (@MaryJackalope) November 26, 2021
Huh.
Year: 2021
Vast Harm
We have been literally attempting to take kidsโ life-years and give them to adults, and at an abysmal exchange rate.
— Jenny Rose Finkel Mason (@jrfinkel) November 24, 2021
Yeah, it’s truly shocking how much we’ve permanently and irreparably harmed kids and most people are either utterly uncaring, think that the gramma-to-kids exchange rate was worth it, or say that it “serves them right” because parents complained about it.
How did we get like this?
Reinfect
Large nat immunity study in Qatar. Of 353K primary infections, only 1300 reinfections.
Of those reinfections, 90% lower chance of hosp or dying than an initial infection. Echos Israeli study.
Trust in public health is being lost bc this kind of data continues to be ignored. pic.twitter.com/aNoenFbH3i
— Margery Smelkinson, Ph.D. (@MSmelkinsonPhD) November 28, 2021
Good info.
No Pris
CNN medical analyst Dr. Peter Hotez to G7 leaders on Omicron: โForget about the travel bans, letโs go vaccinate the African peopleโ โข Today News Africa https://t.co/db2qlWzOct
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) November 28, 2021
Exactly. No more prison countries. Don’t work and just hurt people.
BSS
Media broadcasting sheer panic, undermining trust in vaccines again. Even tho a lot of expert reports are reassuring on the new variant. They canโt help themselves. 😑
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) November 29, 2021
It’s what gets the blue state scoldy people clicking, so that’s what they’re gonna do.
Ksam
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.
Comet No Airy
This is a cliff.
That's a kilometre tall.
On a comet. pic.twitter.com/XmCuVWJltc
— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) November 28, 2021
And the cool thing is, if you jump off and land at the bottom you’ll be fine. But don’t jump too hard because the escape velocity is so low you’ll just fly off into space. Baby comets don’t got much gravity.
Jerks
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?
Itโs been like this from day one https://t.co/QpS79ydfS6
— Genรจve 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.
Air Sight
Ok, I’ve read enough about Omicron now to make a 70% prediction: Somewhat more transmissible, less severe, does not escape vaccines to any real extent, symptoms don’t last as long.
My belief is it gained transmissibility by sacrificing some ACE2 binding capability…but time will tell.
Waive Pat
They should call this variant the Merkel since she blocked the IP waiver.
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) November 28, 2021
Nah, the Biden-Merkel Variant. Only appropriate.
Turn of the Tide
The proper weapon against Omicron is not travel bans; those are useless and counterproductive.
The proper weapon is booster shots, including variant-specific boosters.
The ball is in the administration's court.https://t.co/X8dgCz8wMX
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 28, 2021
Blue state scoldy people cannot even see through their tears. They so want to take things away from you, and they might not be able to this time; the tide is turning against prison countries and perpetual lockdown.
Network Resistance
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.
Boosting
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.
Soft Av
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.