Despite their mask mandate, Scotland continues to report significantly higher case rates than mask-free England
In response, Scotland announced they are extending the mandate at least 2 weeks, because the first rule of COVID policy is that the less it works, the more we need it pic.twitter.com/cXTDA2bL8s
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) March 16, 2022
That does sum up our Covid policies pretty well. A lot of libs have magical thinking about what’s possible and what’s likely to work.
The global economy is not a machine that you can just turn off, then just reboot it. You don't just turn it all off (as we did in 2020) & then turn it right back on & a year or 2 later you're back to normal. I guess only economists are that dumb? https://t.co/BUCV2IcpYs
— jonstokes.(com|eth) (@jonst0kes) March 17, 2022
I said that at the time. Another obvious thing experts could not see that was very damn plain to see.
A hard six-week lockdown* of 7.9 billion people across 195 nations?
(*in which basic food, supply, and medical services still continue to operate)
— Jeremy Wilcox (@jwilcox79) March 16, 2022
Well, no one dies of Covid if they die of famine, thirst, and loneliness. Solved!
Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer.
Oh my fucking god, I knew this was inevitable, but joke OS becomes even jokier.
Not just failed energy policy:
– Demographic implosion.
– Deindustrialization.
– Economic competition from China and the US.
– Geopolitical instability.Europe might become much much poorer in the not too distant future.
— Samo Burja (@SamoBurja) March 15, 2022
I think this looks distinctly possible. Much of Europe is making terrible decisions which are likely to make its future worse. Reducing energy use and de-growth won’t lead anywhere good. Progress can and often does reverse, and Europe is doing many things to make sure this happens.
One good thing about the Covid pandemic is that it starkly revealed just how hostile to human life and human flourishing a lot of the so-called progressive left is. Many of them would still have us cowering inside, waiting until the “end” of the pandemic for any normal human activity, despite the consequences and the vast harm this causes.
Many of those very same people advocating an eternal lockdown are the same ones who believe we should antagonize Russia into a nuclear war.
Figure that out, because I fucking can’t.