"But COVID is over! Everything is back to normal!"
Spoiler: bend over, here it comes again (BA2 this time). https://t.co/DYAFfgMkGt
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) March 13, 2022
Usual crybaby Covid panickers are doing what they usually do. And they will be wrong. As usual.
How many times does it have to spike in a random two month seasonal wave (across countries/counties with wildly different containment strategies) before we stop saying stuff like this? https://t.co/gjnOa60MAe
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) March 14, 2022
Yeah, almost all of the restriction removal == more Covid narrative seems to be more just random fluctuations combined with seasonal forces that restrictions had little do with either way.
The very strictest restrictions do seem to work. But otherwise, nah.
There were no names for what we saw leaping forth from the earth that day. Great flame-wreathed forms of ghouls and imps spewed from the ground as lava and pyroclastic slag pelted the trees and struck down those unlucky enough to be outside in that howling torrent of infernal denial of all that had been good. Many were possessed by those vile forms where they stood, their eyes glowing embers in the grey.
Some of us made it, though, battling our way through the steam as ponds and lakes became one with the sky, as the air itself singed flesh, as rivers of boiling blood gurgled through the buckling streets. It was a victory bought with much pain as we repulsed the hellborne hordes even as they still pullulated into our world. It felt like it would not ever end. But it did; we had summoned an archfiend greater than any even the demonic masses could command: capitalism.
They could not afford the rent anywhere.
I don't want to be cruel but it's insane to me how many people have a conceptual bubble around covid policy that they don't apply to any other infectious diseases or behavioral choices pic.twitter.com/xpxQpXUmNv
— Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter (@drethelin) March 13, 2022
Especially two years in with very effective vaccines available, that is very damn odd indeed.
My new favorite interaction on Twitter dot com pic.twitter.com/NUUn0nClta
— Kobayashi (@Kobayashi_BSLSK) March 13, 2022
Whoever Mags is, she’s the shit. A+, magnifique.
Some people ask when I sleep. And my answer is when I fucking feel like it.
China not boosting everyone with western vaccines for internal propaganda reasons could turn out to be one of the single biggest mistakes of the pandemic. https://t.co/8Q5NI7te5H
— non functional tubule (@meatspacemaxima) March 14, 2022
It will be. The Chinese vaxes are garbage. Bad things, man.
China, Russia, and the inflation situation. A worrying update.
Transitory was always unlikely, as additonal shocks always were.
So, the background here is that we thought we had inflation basically contained.
Are you joking? This was never the case. Inflation was always going to sting. But now it’s going to be like a sea full of Portuguese man o’ war jellyfish. I always thought this was about the 50% case. And now here we is.
Somebody really should pay me for this shit. Fucknuggets.
Goodbye, An-225. https://t.co/lJr2x4W5wT
— Humanoid History (@HumanoidHistory) March 4, 2022
The human toll is so much worse, but I was hoping to see that plane in person one day. Ars longa, vita brevis.
I recently saw an exceptional early career scholar and mother of two young kids (one born in 2021) write on social media “I didn’t do well enough at work to get a cost-of-living increase last year.” I can’t get over it. This is a thread for academic people who decide raises. 1/n
— Thad Leffingwell, Ph.D. (@thadlab) March 13, 2022
Academia is such a scam. I see someone in that thread talking about a 1.5% merit raise. Bros and bro-ettes, inflation was 7% in the past year. If you aren’t getting that, you’re getting poorer.
But this was all part of the lockdown plan — making everyone poorer while the oligarchs got massively richer. And it worked fine and is still functioning as intended.
Still negative at least 60 hours after landing… is it actually possible to evade Omicron? pic.twitter.com/4bEMlR1Cbp
— Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankkarthik) March 12, 2022
I’ve done all kindsa shit, traveled all over the place, and seen all kindsa people and I have never had Omicron.
China is shutting down a lot of container shipping capacity and such like that due to Covid lockdowns, so supply chains are about to get worse and things are gonna get even scarcer and more expensive.
It’s a self-reinforcing problem, too. As a driver, I drove a car for years. Starting around 2015, I began noticing that EVERYONE else drove an SUV. LED Headlights at eye level = not fun. So, I upgraded…to an SUV.
— Jay Wyss (@JayWyss) March 13, 2022
I drive a large sedan that weighs nearly 4,000 pounds. Objectively, it’s a huge car. The trunk is immense; I could fit a squad of bodies in there. But when I drive it feels tiny against 6,000+ pound trucks that loom more than three feet higher than it is. Often, I can see nothing around me.
This is not the way it should be.