Big_A

What if he’s just really, really dumb and online popularity isn’t evidence of intelligent thought? Just spitballing.

@ABC This is the 3rd time I've heard this 🙄

"No Kings" protesters are expected to take to the streets in more than 3,000 cities and towns across the country Saturday to again call out President Trump and his controversial polices, with organizers saying this one could be the biggest so far. abcnews.link/iwSOiwk

Today's ruling by the IOC means a welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves supremely virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women.

"Suddenly"

It was this, you fucking tool.

@CoryBooker Still using celebs to get y'all's talking points out?

The SAVE Act would make it harder for you to vote this November.

Kind of just want you to fix the thing where repeat migrant offenders push American veterans onto subway tracks, killing them.

Given that Covid exposed the clear demonstrated willingness of public health authorities to lie to the public, I think a better question would be why anyone still trusts them

Can we start with facts? It wasn't an emergency.

So many reasons: The ridicule and denial that a lab leak was likely. Masks don’t work/then were essential bs. The wear your mask while walking in a restaurant but not while sitting bs. Pfizer playing politics with finalizing vaccine testing. The bs in some places of prioritizing vaccine availability by race instead of risk. The go protest because “white supremacy” is a worse pandemic than Covid. Basically every single thing.

@conor64 Because we had public health officials telling us that gathering at church was deadly but gathering at a protest wasn’t, all while politicians like Gavin Newsom disregarded their own rules to go to fancy restaurants.

Oh, and because THERE IS ALWAYS A LABOR ANGLE, the American Association of Pediatrics flip-flopped on school reopening (while Europe was successfully returning to in-person schooling) because Trump wanted to reopen schools and Randi Weingarten didn’t.

@conor64 The greatest peacetime suspension of civil liberties since the 1964 Civil Rights Act was itself suspended when it became convenient to the political interests of the left wing of the Democratic Party. edition.cnn.com/2020/06/05/hea…

@conor64 nationalreview.com/corner/the-loc…

@conor64 The published letter exempting BLM protesters from COVID restrictions. It was just a few "experts" but the pushback from the rest of the scientific community should have been strong and it was non-existent.

@conor64 Too many people in powerful positions weren't even following their own rules.

Because they got literally everything wrong, including flip flopping on masks early in the pandemic based on nothing, then doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down as the data showed their policies failing. And instead of admitting it and apologizing, they blamed the public for not complying, which was, of course, a complete lie. And that’s just masks. a.co/d/08rhqcFb

Well Conor, representatives of the public health institutions provably repeatedly knowingly lied to the American people about a galaxy of topics related to Covid, called people who had valid questions and concerns about their prescriptions for public safety “irresponsible” and accused them of trying to murder grandma, then refused to acknowledge wrong doing in any way when it came out that they had been lying. I hope this helps

@conor64 Summer riots. Vaccine couldn’t be finished on timeline Trump said. Then it was. No debate of trade offs (ruining young lives vs some amount of elderly and obese deaths) was allowed. Vaccine was supposed to stop spread. When it did, everyone lied and said they never said that.

I come from a family of microbiologists who work(ed) basically exclusively in oncology and infectious disease. The pandemic was a case lesson in experts holding out as authoritative guidance things we knew didn't work (masks, from decades of studies on SARS-type coronaviruses and similar respiratory infections) and what seemed like warmed-over 1980s AIDS guidance. This worsened when those same experts claimed we needed to maintain six feet of distance, even outside (a great idea for robust viruses like flu, stupid for viruses that don't do well on contact with sunlight and disperse quickly like coronaviruses) and that the disease was equally dangerous across age cohorts (when by early February we had ample population data that showed that ceteris paribus, the danger started to kick in at middle age). The "social justice prevents transmissibility or makes it irrelevant" nonsense merely compounded things. "The new variants will be more virulent and more transmissible!" messaging was another layer. Forcing schoolchildren and toddlers to avoid social contact and mask in what was clearly a nod to teachers' unions sealed the deal. (Blah blah vaccine beats infection, that's defensible, but the idea that the immune system doesn't learn is nonsense.) At first, I was inclined to think that because the guidance was in the face of a new illness -- even if a variant of what we'd seen before -- some grace could and should be shown; health experts aren't gods. I also knew CDC had been gutted of infectious disease experts to focus on mental health and opioids, so I assumed they were just coming back up to speed. Over time, it became clear that they were (1) running the AIDS playbook (2) incompetently and (3) for political ends, no matter how they justified it to themselves. That Fauci -- who helped bumble the AIDS response all those years ago -- was in many ways the point man on it, and clearly loved being at the center of the spotlight, simply confirmed it. I still have family in infectious disease research. I know there are good and intelligent and hardworking people out there on it. I also know they're never allowed near the levers of power.