To be very clear, I think Long Covid is a big deal. I estimate that 200 million Americans became symptomatically sick with Covid. I believe the real Long Covid rate will be the same as other similar PIFS — which is about 0.5%. That’s a million people with Long Covid right there.

A fucking lot y’all!

I simply do not understand why the Covidians had to claim that Long Covid would end civilization and that everyone would eventually get it (and all their other spurious, specious claims). This actually harmed their own cause enormously and made non-Covidians care less, not more. And more importantly, it harmed and continues to harm those with Long Covid.

I will never not hate the Covidians for this.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

This stuff is nuts and I run into it all the time

It’s funny/sad that I don’t fully trust both relatives much older than me & relatives much younger than me to handle money online, because neither are well-equipped to spot internet scams. I find it hard to teach, too. https://t.co/cOhuOev4VA

— Elliot GDC (@nameoftheyear) February 24, 2023

Yeah, isn’t that weird? Only a maybe 15 year slice of Gen X and older millennials can spot scams as they are the only ones who learned how to use real computers and had to actually think about how email, the internet, websites and related technologies functioned.

Send someone over 50 or under 35 an email scam or a fake website, they are gonna be sending their money to that Nigerian prince fucking pronto. It’s wild.

The tsunami wave rolling in in The Impossible — holy shit! Some great filmmaking there. It really showed how unexpected it was, how violent, how surreal. And just how powerful a massive wall of water filled with debris is.

Good film, but great scene.