I am the suspicious activity I want to see in the world.

I wonder if the lib side transitioning more and more to “the vaccines don’t work” view will mean the conservatives shift the other way? It’s somewhat likely, I think.

People like jwz and other lockdown lifer Covid apocalypse people are in all but name anti-vaxxers. They lie about what the vaccines do, how they work, what they are capable of, and who would benefit from them

They all but say they are pointless. Just go to the anti-vax side. That’s where you belong. It’s ok. I can hate you just as well there, too.

The Long COVID news is still looking dire.

A lot of wrong, probably wrong, and absurdly wrong info in here.

One of the alarmist tweeters that jwz cited even admits he interpreted the main “Long Covid” study incorrectly.

In fact, that was EXACTLY how I interpreted the study, but I missed that they had a significant confounder — including single-dose individuals in the "vaccinated" cohort.

The secondary analysis tells a different story, showing double-vaccination provides a measurable benefit.

— Ian Ricksecker (@IanRicksecker) January 9, 2022

The lockdown lifers are grasping at anything they can now as Covid transitions to just another mild coronavirus among the half dozen that spread around the world every year. Long Covid is real, but is not the apocalypse people are wishing for, and 90% of people will recover from it — and getting vaccinated does seem to help even after the fact.

I have begrudging sympathy for the anti-vaxxers sometimes, though I will never be one of the moronic members of that tribe. And I have that sympathy because people are frequently and obviously lying to them about things, supposedly for their own good.

The jwz claptrap is really, really irresponsible and makes people getting vaccinated less likely.

(From what I’ve seen in reality rather than what these alarmists are prattling about, the chances of a double- or triple-vaccinated individual getting long Covid are basically nil, depending on how you define it of course. That is, they are about the same as a vaccinated person getting “long polio.”)