It’s glorious to watch the Covidians crying about the mask mandate being struck down. I love it.

YouGov survey, today: 63% of US adults surveyed support face masks being required on public transport https://t.co/Lyyvx0Sajk pic.twitter.com/GvLOnqfFsM

— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) April 18, 2022

Think this is bullshit and is just virtue signaling as many people do when answering survey questions. I was on two completely full airplanes yesterday. Only about 2% of people were wearing masks. No one hassled anyone for wearing one, so it was not people worried about being bullied as far as I can tell. The reality on the ground and in the air is that most people got vaxxed and boosted and don’t care about masks.

And by “reality,” I mean what actually happens in the real world, not in much-beloved-by-libs “polls” that show any ol’ bullshit they want to believe. This is also how I knew Russia was going to invade Ukraine as I rely on what’s actually happening, not what a buncha clowns wish were happening or might be happening if the world were completely different.

How 'bout a 🧵on the artillery sent to Ukraine, as the narrative is bouncing between "this is pretty good," to "it's still not enough," to "NATO/US needs to do more!"

The devil is in the details.

(As a former tanker I'm not an expert on arty, but I've used it in combat) 1/10

— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) April 22, 2022

Mark is the only person on Twitter who knows what he’s talking about militarily. He’s the anti-Ian Welsh. Of course, a brain-damaged gopher tortoise is smarter than Ian Welsh about most things these days, so maybe that’s not a good comparison. Anyway, Mark knows what he’s about.

We live in a very dangerous world. Russia collapses and then what happens to these subs.. https://t.co/eZmeJegVkr

— James Marsh (@JamesMarsh79) April 18, 2022

That’s probably the Dmitry Donskoy, the only one of the Typhoon-class still in active service. Three are already retired and two are laid up (this means they could be redeployed with fairly short notice).

That sub is 574 feet long, the largest submarine ever deployed. The new Columbia-class US subs will be nearly that long, at 560 feet.

I’m not sure about the concern about what happens to those subs if Russia collapses, though. They’d sit in port, just like the others already are?

Have never understood why it’s seen as some kind of outlandish conspiracy theory to think social media corporations might manipulate traffic in some fashion https://t.co/UhauYytRvx

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) April 21, 2022

Same reason it was (is?) seen as some outlandish conspiracy theory that lab leaks occur: it was not favorable to existing power structures.

I’m a security engineer and I still almost got scammed.

How the fuck do these people become security engineers? How does this work? I just laugh and hang up at shit like this if I even answer at all. If I had a security engineer and they fell for some crap like this, I’d want to fire them.

So, the claims on Twitter I see of massive multiple Covid reinfections being common don’t seem to be backed up by any statistics I can find. Reinfection seems extremely uncommon. What is up with that?

I bet nearly all of it is people getting colds/flu/RSV/allergies as semi-normal life resumes and claiming it’s Covid.

The Playacting Over Masks Really Needed to End. The mask mandate on airplanes isn’t the only outmoded precaution that Americans should abandon.

Fuck yes. I am flying tomorrow and it looks like I will not have to wear a mask and I could not be happier.

Time to end Covid theater. Also, making the Covidians cry is its own special joy.