The ZeroCovid people are truly insane. 1) They are welcome to provide their children with vaccines and N95 masks – why would mask optional be such a disaster?) 2) My grandmother survived Auschwitz and their use of ‘eugenics’ is extremely offensive.
— NJ Mama Bear 🐻⛈🌹 (@NJ_Mama_Bear) January 26, 2022
When something becomes religious, all becomes a crusade. No easy way out of that trap.
What is the most beautiful song you have ever heard?
“Ever” is not something I really do, but I’d nominate Rameses B’s “Bae Bae.”
Secondary pick is “Lo Boob Oscillator” by Stereolab. Lætitia Sadier has such a lovely voice and perfect Parisian accent.
Does anyone else remember the super brief period after Covid first surfaced where certain activist types were like “if you freak out over this virus you’re racist” ?
— 💘Sophia💘 (@Richard_Vixen) January 25, 2022
Yes I do. It’s been mostly memory-holed now, but it wasn’t really super-brief. It lasted about two months or so, and it was more widespread than just “activist types.” But at least (s)he recognizes it happened at all. It really hampered early pandemic response.
We are not smart.
Wallowing in loserdom seems to be what we’ve chosen collectively and individually.
I refuse and resist.
I don’t know much about Florrie, but she is in fact a drummer, and a really good one.
Cool video and fun song.
another aspect of seasonal depression for me:
landscapes where *everything is dead for six months* deeply unsettle me.
i spent my early years in Florida and Georgia and I just cannot adapt to "not seeing a bug or a flower for half of the year."
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) January 25, 2022
I am the same. There is just something deeply, deeply wrong about a dead landscape. Do not like it, cannot handle it.
Yep. This was always true in many ways (Japan’s approach was the way to do it), but with Omicron what we think will help is actually mostly harmful.
The libs sure do like to pretend the vaccines don’t work, yeah? Why, I am not quite sure. I guess because it was the rare time they had some power to tell people what to do, and they fucking loved it.
But lockdown until 2099 was never gonna work, nor the moronic “Zero Covid” fantasias promulgated by those who don’t leave the house anyway.
Shit, y’all, we got things to do. If you’re vaccinated and boosted, you’ll be ok. We have the vaxes for a damn reason.
State data on ultra-low rates of in-school COVID transmission.
In Massachusetts, it is really very, very, very low.
(And please stop with the "tony Boston suburb" replies. This is data from across the state, communities with very different profiles.)
— Meghna Chakrabarti (@MeghnaWBUR) January 24, 2022
And you have people like Ian Welsh posting BS about how Covid is spreading so hard in schools that every kid dies like 782 times.
People really do live in totally different realities now.
Every quote tweet to this is talking about how it's an American gun, but literally the 2nd sentence of the article says it's a Ukrainian Z-15. It's not cheap, but it's not some CIA op.
(Well, maybe there is a CIA op, but this isn't an American gun)https://t.co/xqIuIS55kR https://t.co/uiabWLw5Op— Aric Toler (@AricToler) January 25, 2022
LOL at the mooks who think that looks anything like an American rifle. Like most “experts,” gun experts usually are not.
It’d really have been better if they hadn’t been doing ill-conceived gain of function research at that Wuhan lab back in 2019. And if they’d been doing that research at better than BSL 2 and 3.
not going to be watching any euphoria scenes thank you very much. i am thirty five years old. this is simply none of my business
— jd vance's "holler aunt" (@markpopham) January 25, 2022
Yes, one should certainly only watch shows or read works about people of one’s own age, sex, and race. That makes total sense. That will definitely lead to good things.
What a bunch of absolute fucking chumps and dipshits liberals have become. Just total buffoons. That said, going to watch more Yellowjackets tonight because it’s a good show and also that I because it helps piss absolute gobshites like Mark off.
The world they want is a really terrible one.
I guess the fact that I consider literary value more important than the politics of recognition makes me a cultural reactionary
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) January 24, 2022
These days, that makes you a Nazi. We definitely live in the worst timeline.
What Japan Got Right About How Covid-19 Spreads.
And Japan did not use the much-beloved-by-liberals lockdown strategy at all.
Although Japan declared certain periods of the pandemic states of emergency, that equated to not much more than strongly worded warnings and some travel restrictions for residents. (Japan has prohibited foreign tourists from entering the country.) Drastic measures, such as lockdowns, were never taken because the goal was always to find ways to live with Covid-19. (Japanese law also does not allow for lockdowns, so the country could not have declared them even if we had thought them necessary.)
This was always the correct Covid approach to avoid vast harm. Interesting, though, that the lib side went full authoritarian (more or less successfully in various places), and how that didn’t actually help very much in most areas it was attempted — especially considering the incalculable harm and trauma it caused.
Hard to explain. Very hard to explain.
Maybe I’m wrong, but the argument that purchasing any beef at all, no matter from whence it came or how it was raised, is driving deforestation on another continent is difficult for me to take seriously, even when smart people keep repeating it. https://t.co/LW5ErA4zYC
— Ariel Greenwood (@greenwoodae) January 23, 2022
Eh, those people aren’t actually smart, they’re “smart,” which is a wholly different thing.
Actual smarts is weighing trade-offs and determining what would help under what circumstances, while deeply comprehending the dynamics of the system and its feedback mechanisms, and making decisions from there. “Smart,” though, is parroting what bien pensant pseudoliberal neo-ascetics claim would help, which is in reality merely a renascence of religious monasticism just sans the hermitage.
All of this is exploited by corporations to skirt and forestall regulation — framing decisive action as being dependent wholly on individual choice — thus reinforcing (and in some cases, creating) these religious tendencies among the “saving the planet” crowd. Meanwhile, nothing substantive is changed, people are shamed needlessly, and libs can feel smug and happy they got the joy of taking away something from someone.