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.

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.

Welp, we’ve reached the stage in the pandemic where my otherwise healthy 2 month old with RSV+ bronchiolitis can’t get the necessary respiratory support, because all of the high-flow nasal cannula machines are being used on unvaccinated adults with COVID. 1/

— Sabrina Vineberg, MD (@SabrinaVineberg) December 20, 2021

Why do they get priority? They made their choice. Kick the idiots off the machines, put someone more deserving on.

Anti-vaxxers wanna die? Let ’em. They’re adults and they should experience adult consequences.

Hey ya’ll, remember only a short couple of weeks ago when I said the below was likely what was going on with Omicron, and “experts” came out of the woodwork to claim that it was nearly impossible? I was probably right:

Thread is here for those interested. Those “experts” should read their damn textbooks more. Because I did.

Please, I wrote a similar addon for Firefox called Monocle before it was cool

(Impossible to find now because Mozilla seems to have delisted old addons ☹️)https://t.co/Kf8O4qi437

— Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankkarthik) December 22, 2021

Mozilla nuking old Firefox add-ons was one of the most hostile and destructive acts in computing history. Just comically clueless. Even apart from how it directly harmed me, it demonstrated to all the developers, most of whom were working for free, that their time and dedication was of no value at all to Mozilla. This of course caused a mass exodus of add-on devs, further worsening Mozilla’s and Firefox’s position and market share.

Hilarious mismanagement — or would be if it didn’t harm me as much as it did. Someone could write a good business book based on Mozilla’s actions with Firefox that basically consists of: “Do the opposite of what those clowns did.”