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Remember when DeSantis came to NYC two weeks ago to lecture us on public safety? Yeah well 2022 homicide rates just came out for major cities (per 100k)... * Jacksonville: 16.1 * Miami: 10.7 * NYC: 5.2 bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@christokir @theblaze Um, what's your point @christokir?

@theblaze No, Macy, you were right the first time.

After tons of backlash, Macy Gray changes her tune: “Being a woman is a vibe…if you in your heart feel that that’s what you are, then that’s what you are, regardless of what anyone says or thinks.”

@christokir @wil_da_beast630 For you to minimize the bravery and sacrifice and RISK of those on the frontlines at the beginning and throughout this pandemic is the worst.

@_beaueverett @wil_da_beast630 And corrected for co-morbidity? Corrected for “died with” vs “died from?” Covid was and remains *largely* a killer of old, obese and immunocompromised. We knew this early on, and could have taken measures to protect those at risk without the blanket shutdown.

Radical take: if you are not immuno-compromised, and under ~55, you took no heroic risks at all during COVID-19 and did not "survive the plague." Every one of your boys who didn't go to college just worked the whole time.

@christokir @wil_da_beast630 With all due respect, you weren't in NYC. You don't remember correctly what we knew when. Healthy people were dying OF covid on greater numbers before we learned about the disease and how to treat these patients.

@christokir @wil_da_beast630 This observation in hindsight is cowardly and disrespectful to frontline workers who worked throughout the pandemic, including at the beginning when no one knew the actuarial risks. Still, 165K Americans under 65 hehe died.

@wil_da_beast630 Do you one (10?) better: under ~65

@jmasseypoet This is called a novel virus for a reason. Public health professionals are doing the best they can with the data and information available and they are adapting as things progress. There's much we still don't know but it doesn't mean guidance is nonsensical or arbitrary.

I feel like I need to say this once a week now. I’m not anti-vax! I’m anti-mandates in the face of often nonsensical rules and contradictory information — and kids shouldn’t be forced to wear muzzles. Let parents parent. Period.

I recently disputed a @Hertz rental car charge through @Chase @Visa. After the dispute was resolved in my favor, Hertz simply put the charge on my @AmericanExpress card they had on file. Is this criminal fraud? I'll be using @Avis.

@Happy_Hiram @christokir @walterkirn The republic isn't ending over vaccine mandates. It used to be patriotic to get vaccinated!

Turns out high school English was the most important class we ever took. We read Orwell & Huxley. They taught us about the threats to humanity from information control & from authoritarian manipulation by “science” & mass psychological conditioning Now comes the exam

@christokir @walterkirn Are you really so oppressed? You and your peers have as much or more freedom - and practical ability - to think and move and live and work than almost anyone in human history.

@walterkirn Problem is, since those English classes ended we’ve moved on to join an extended lab experiment. Its purpose: to test the theories of control. Our role: lab rats of course.

In the spring of 1903, newspapers around the country started printing a quack assertion that lettuce prevented smallpox better than vaccination. It was presented as fact and went mostly unchallenged by newspapers editors. Here's the Knoxville Journal Tribune March 13, 1903: 1/

@christokir @wil_da_beast630 I'm not sure I'm smart enough to get your point, although it's beautifully stated. I think the plain truth is that one has video.

@wil_da_beast630 I’m going to lean on (and I hope honor) Shelby Steele with this answer: the second represents a poetic truth, untethered to inconvenient facts; the first is just a pile of nasty facts.

Accidentally killing an entire family in Afghanistan: small story. Swinging horse reins at a Haitian guy illegally entering the country: huge story. Why?

@christokir @walterkirn Not this one.... This is the hard work of living in a civil society, not pushing away those who wish to engage with a full heart and open mind.

@walterkirn I fear I may lose a few dear friends in this macro poli-cultural feud. There is a singing tension between us and something is bound to break. I can’t file it away because it’s a source of near-constant sadness that I confront all waking hours. It is the promise of loss.

Strive to defend certain principles these day and you will end up having allies you don’t like and enemies you do. It’s best to get used to it and file it under Life’s Twists and Turns

@christokir @deannamcraig The diseases become less concerning when enough people take the vaccines to reduce the incidence. The virus has nowhere to go. It's all about getting enough participation. So yes, if not enough people take the vaccine voluntarily, then mandates are necessary to beat the virus.

@christokir @deannamcraig Yes, you're wrong. Vaccines just reduce both infection and transmission. I'm not aware of any vaccine that "eradicates" a vaccine or is 100% effective against transmission or infection. The covid vaccines are just as effective as the MMR vaccine, for instance.

If the Airlines says you have to be Vaccinated to fly will you fly on a plane??

@christokir @deannamcraig Interesting. Have you also kept your kids out of school because of vaccine requirements for polio, measles, mumps, etc.? Have you refused to travel to countries that require vaccines for yellow fever, Hep B, etc.?

@deannamcraig Not commercial.

@christokir @_BarringtonII @HueMatters Hyperbole after hyperbole after hyperbole. Isn't it clear that "the system" places many unique and fundamental obstacles on success for people of color? Can't we agree that working to actually remove those obstacles and level the playing field would be good for all of us?

@_BarringtonII @HueMatters I’m with you

Help me understand how a lot of you are pro-black but it’s me telling Blacks they can do ANYTHING, but it’s you telling them “the system” keeps them from doing EVERYTHING?

@christokir This "uncomfortable" observation ignores the fact that these "elites" have been subjecting themselves to a masking, testing, and vaccine protocol for months to allow the film and television industry to return to work. Same for professional athletes.

Glenn Greenwald re the obscenity of the Met Gala: “It is a powerful symbol of the growing rot at the core of America's cultural and social balkanization: a maskless elite attended to by a permanently faceless servant class.”

@christokir Thanks for the bump ❤️

“I guess I just feel like” by @_beaueverett link.medium.com/2yEzm4Typjb

@AlanLevinovitz @walterkirn point taken, but with all due respect, apples and oranges

@walterkirn the thing is that everyone has different versions of this vision right now, lots of people are seeing it as the shadow of SCOTUS's decision about the Texas abortion law whereas others are concerned about masks and mandates looming apocalypses, always the fault of The Other

Here’s the change trigger, as I see it: A widespread & frightening vision, revealed to us as if by a night-time lightning flash, of a future society so oppressive, so ruthlessly invasive, that even having money won’t make it tolerable. The costs of opposing it are worth bearing