Yes! My apologies. The data is even stronger than what I said in the original tweet.

Vaccines were shown to be extraordinarily protective against multisystem inflammatory syndrome for COVID—not a single fully-vaccinated case in the dataset.https://t.co/CxQHu8PLGd pic.twitter.com/LhBU0E5UnG

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) January 19, 2022

Lockdown lifers are absolutely devastated now.

I should revise my estimate of what other people can easily do and their stubbornness vis-à-vis my own, because I could slice my hand off with a rusty butterknife if required. I’ve been informed that most folks would not have quite my casual approach.

Ah well, such is life.

I’m trying to find a scifi novel: I read it sometime around 2000, and I thought it was Star Trek (probably TNG) but could never find it by looking through those novels.

So, there’s two planets. One is heavily polluted, one is pristine.

— foone (@Foone) January 19, 2022

I’ve read this book too. I don’t think it was a TNG book because I’ve only read one or two of those. I think I read it in high school, though, so that means it was published before 1994.

No idea what it was and like a lot of things from before the internet became popular, it’s not easy to locate. Sure it was some cheap mass market paperback, though.

The degree to which a whole lot of progressive people don’t seem to think human connection, socialization, and interaction is crucial for a healthy life seems surprisingly high! Seeing other people’s faces, kids playing together, sharing meals- these are huge things to give up.

— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) December 10, 2021

Think I’ve embedded this tweet before. I don’t care. I’ve criticized Jill pretty harshly in the past, but this tweet made me forgive most of her bad takes and her “Mean Girls” vibe.

That what she states above is at all controversial — with anyone! — should be the real scandal. Humans are social creatures. Even introverts. That a bunch of clownish putzes tried to convince us for so long that “Zoom is just as good as in person” and that “no one needs social interaction” was inhuman and insulting. And that so many people were shamed for resisting this — well, I never thought I’d see something like that but unfortunately I did.

As a side note, I think the “no one needs social interaction” thing was an offshoot of the equally-toxic feminist hogwash that “no one needs sex or love” that became de rigeur to believe during the early 2000s in an attempt to push back against the early (and also toxic) incel movement. (The feminist “no one needs love or sex” silliness originally started out as the much more reasonable “no one owes anyone else sex or love,” but quickly mutated into more absurd interpretation for some reason.)

I’m still disgusted that what Jill said above was controversial at all. What is wrong with you people?