If you’re somehow confused about why people are unhappy with the economy even though job growth is good, you should maybe read up on ever-increasing costs for health care, housing, energy and other basic necessities of life as corporations and billionaires reap a jackpot.

— David Sirota (@davidsirota) March 4, 2022

Yeah, it’s no freakin’ mystery.

Fascinating data from the @ONS schools infection survey today, looking specifically at mental health and "long covid"

Reinforces previous reassuring data showing rarity of prolonged symptoms in children, especially those affecting daily life

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— Alasdair Munro (@apsmunro) February 28, 2022

That’s what I expected, and something similar will eventually be found to be true for those fully vaccinated too, I’d guess.

The Covid panickers were and are just that….

Proposed add to the (correct) adage "amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics" being invoked lately.

Yes, but Russian army isn't amateurish, it's that they're used to brutally shelling and bombing cities from afar (Grozny, Aleppo, Idlib) without consequence to them.

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) March 8, 2022

But that is the definition of amateurish in military matters. I don’t often disagree with Zeynep, but here she’s showing when something is far outside of your experience and study, you make just terribly obvious errors of judgment and reasoning.

If an army goes in without enough spare parts, supplies and fuel on what they think will be an “easy” campaign: amateurish.

If an army is forced to rely on civilian walkie-talkies and other unencrypted, readily-intercepted comms: amateurish.

If an army has a 60km long convoy stuck on a road that it cannot leave, and has only survived by luck: amateurish.

If a military force has no integrated command and control and doesn’t even know what entire divisions are doing or where they are: amateurish.

If a military entity commits its entire force, as the Russians have, with no backups and no reserves: very amateurish.

I know this isn’t her natural realm so I’ll excuse her here, but come on. This is basic military stuff, not some mysterious new aspect of warfare. The Russian army has proved to be amateurish. That’s all.

What's most striking about the present moment to me is that there's still a total absence of fresh ideas. There might be a economic cataclysm or a major war but I'm pretty sure we'd come out the other side with the exact same problems we have now.

— scientism (@mr_scientism) March 8, 2022

I’ve discussed this with several people recently. I thought Covid would alter more than it did. Instead we came out the other side worse off, stupider, but with all the same problems and a few more to boot. Unless there is a nuclear war, I’m guessing the same thing will happen as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and our responses to it.

Why such lack of change, even with momentous events? We’re in a strange time where the old will just not perish or even slightly transform, no matter how much it really should.

People are struggling to comprehend how this can be true if "masks work"

If you test masks in optimal lab conditions, they work

Make young children wear ill fitting, cloth masks with poor compliance, removing them during highest risk contacts (inevitable) and they do nothing https://t.co/9JKaXRE1Fc

— Alasdair Munro (@apsmunro) March 9, 2022

Exactly. Masks mostly do nothing in most schools almost all the time, but make blue state scoldy people feel better.