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Saturday, October 22, 2022

Links - 22nd October 2022 (1 - Covid-19)

Alex Washburne on Twitter - "This is a good example of how academics try to exclude diverse opinions (and people) from the field.  Dr. Chan has made extremely good arguments about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, and now Dr. Neil is accusing her of "conspiracism for money" & calling to remove her from a panel. Dr. Chan has been professional. She disagrees with others in the field, incidentally with people like Dr. Neil. Dr. Chan has made her arguments very well, and yet she's been subjected to constant abuse from this cartel of researchers seeking to silence her. This is not okay."

You Do Not "Follow" Science ... You Confirm or Refute It - "There’s a very firm psychological reason why the catch phrase of the day is ‘follow the science’ and not ‘confirm the science’, ‘validate the science’, ‘debate the science’ or ‘replicate the science.’ Science is never settled or followed unless evil is trying to set a trap for the public"

Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com on Twitter - "They all lied to the people *Bill Gates and other "experts" on vaccination ending the pandemic, stopping infection and transmission etc*"
Of course, the cope is that the science changed. Clearly this shows that "science" is infallible and anyone who disagrees with it is a far right conspiracy theorist "denier"

Meme - "The last century's "settled science' is often the next century's pseudo science. *lobotomy*"
Meme - "In the 1940's-50's a Lobotomy represented the leading edge of psychiatric science and many considered the procedure "settled science." Infact, in 1949, the inventor of the procedure, Dr. Antonio Egas Moniz, was awared the Noble Prize for his discovery. Thousands of patients had their SELF destroyed by this procedure and became docile, robotic, non-humans"

Meme - "When somebody says they trust the science, they're not doing this:
*lab work*
They're just doing this:
*watching talking head on TV*"

Meme - Amihai Glazer @AmihaiGlazer "States where physicians are highly paid have lower Covid-19 mortality per capita. *correlation with awful fit*"
"What's the R-squared on that line? It looks like an extremely poor fit to the data."
"The ubiquitous misuse and tyranny of SST [statistical significance testing] threatens scientific discoveries and may even impede scientific progress."
"Follow the science"... from people who don't even know what they're talking about

Jordan Peterson Slams COVID Tyranny: ‘F***ing Leave Me Alone’ - "I got vaccinated, and people took me to task for that, and I thought, all right, I’ll get the damn vaccine. Here’s the deal, guys. I’ll get the vaccine; you f***ing leave me alone... And did that work? No. So, stupid me, you know?"
Since the "science" changes so much, it can't be the gospel truth

Meme - Mark D. Levine @MarkLe... 09 Jun: "BREAKING: Masking for children aged 2-4 in NYC schools and daycare centers will not longer be mandated. Beginning this Monday, June 13, masks"
Dr. Jorge Caballero stands 09 Jun: "NYC: set yourself a reminder to check COVID data in 6 weeks."
Daniela Jampel @daniela127 Aug 2: "NYC: How's everyone doing?"
HisNameWasRobertPaulson on Twitter - "Oh the irony of Dr. Caballero's handle "data driven" indeed . . ."
Tezos Chairman | Ethereum OG on Twitter - "@DataDrivenMD isn’t so data driven, but he’s got all the current things in his profile." ("come for facts, stay for snark, & #WearAMask | immigrant | #BlackLivesMatter | #StopAAPIHate | @CodersCOVID, Advisor @Doximity | Prev @StanfordAnes @AminoHealth")
Follow "the science"!

Jean-Paul R. Soucy: Why we must not 'follow the science' - The Hub - "“As [prime minister], I will let science dictate mandates, not arbitrary political whims,” tweeted Jean Charest in response to Ottawa’s announcement about dropping federal vaccine mandates. It was a familiar refrain, the practically mandatory invocation by a politician of “following the science” as the justification for any change in public health policy, whether dropping restrictions or reinstating them, cutting isolation periods, or defending random testing at airports. But does anyone believe it?  In practice, it is rarely a change in “the science” that motivates a change in policy. Oftentimes, it seems to be a change in what is politically expedient that does so.  Politicians have been all-too-happy to embrace the rhetorical dodge of “following the science”. By pinning the responsibility for their decisions on “the science”, they avoid having to explain the true reasoning, which might open them up to criticism and debate. It is easier to present a policy as the only option, resulting from the unassailable authority of science instead of the sum of numerous subjective considerations, each one a new opening for attack.  However, this political game is not without consequences. First, it tarnishes the credibility of scientific evidence as an input into the scientific process. It is no secret that many Canadians have succumbed to misinformation during this pandemic. For example, a recent survey by Abacus Data reveals that the belief in a mass cover-up of coronavirus vaccine deaths is disturbingly common. What is underappreciated is the role of politicians’ careless use of language in fuelling this erosion of trust... In reality, “science” cannot dictate policy, because science cannot weigh the value of particular freedoms against specific risks, any more than it can tell you how to feel about a sunset. Policy is about making trade-offs, based on a set of values and goals, in the light of evidence. Unfortunately, the nature of these trade-offs has been frustratingly opaque throughout the pandemic. This has also made policies more difficult to revise. Consider the case of border closures in March 2020, which were considered unthinkable until days later when they were considered essential. More recently, the same arbitrary-feeling decision-making was employed regarding random testing at airports and federal vaccine mandates. Transparency regarding the evidence used to inform decisions, as well as the goals being pursued and the trade-offs being considered, would make it easier to periodically review and adapt these policies so that changes feel less haphazard... “Follow the science” is a slogan, not a strategy. Worse, it has been used as a fig leaf to cover for political expediency and partisan jockeying. The biggest loser in this charade is the public. Trust is the currency of public health and transparency is a critical part of building and maintaining this fragile commodity. Transparency means being clear not only about the evidence informing our policies but the values and goals motivating them. Appealing to some rarefied version of “the science” can only harm the effort to rebuild trust in our institutions."

UK Is Top Destination for European Travelers, Beating Spain - Bloomberg - "The UK’s resurgence as a travel hot spot was partly driven by the government’s decision to scrap all remaining Covid-19 travel restrictions in March, marking an end to nearly two years of measures. These included expensive Covid tests and quarantine"
Of course, if your aim is really to destroy the economy...

Duration of effectiveness of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease: results of a systematic review and meta-regression - "For severe COVID-19 disease, vaccine efficacy or effectiveness decreased by 10·0 percentage points (95% CI 6·1–15·4) in people of all ages and 9·5 percentage points (5·7–14·6) in older people. Most (81%) vaccine efficacy or effectiveness estimates against severe disease remained greater than 70% over time... COVID-19 vaccine efficacy or effectiveness against severe disease remained high, although it did decrease somewhat by 6 months after full vaccination"
"Covid vaccines work, so you should get vaccinated. But they stop working, so you should get boosted"

Waning 2-Dose and 3-Dose Effectiveness of mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19–Associated Emergency Department and Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalizations Among Adults During Periods of Delta and Omicron Variant Predominance - "Vaccine effectiveness (VE) against COVID-19–associated emergency department/urgent care (ED/UC) visits and hospitalizations was higher after the third dose than after the second dose but waned with time since vaccination. During the Omicron-predominant period, VE against COVID-19–associated ED/UC visits and hospitalizations was 87% and 91%, respectively, during the 2 months after a third dose and decreased to 66% and 78% by the fourth month after a third dose. Protection against hospitalizations exceeded that against ED/UC visits."
Clearly we need to force everyone to take 6-monthly boosters for the rest of their lives to prevent infection, even though protection against severe disease remains robust

Tucker Carlson: Our leaders, the media lie about potential treatment for coronavirus when we need the truth - "in a lot of ways, hydroxychloroquine is the ideal medicine. If it turns out to be an effective treatment against coronavirus, things will change fast in this country and for the better. Is it an effective treatment? We don't know that. Scattered reports from health care providers across the country, including in New York City, suggest that it may be. It is currently being prescribed in France, and at least one study suggests that it works.  In an interview on Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that "of course" he'd be willing to try hydroxychloroquine on coronavirus patients if you were treating them directly. A patient in Florida credits the drug for his rapid turnaround.  More trials are currently underway, including one in New York, the epicenter of the outbreak here. This is how science works. It works incrementally in different places at the same time and in the end, effectively, if you let it.  At the very least we should all be following developments in hydroxychloroquine's use with interest and measured hope"
From March 2020
Some hater claimed that "tucker's followers literally kill themselves cause he says so" because "he told people to take hydroxychloriquin". But if you see what he actually said, it was very different (not to mention how telling people to take HCQ is not the same as telling them to kill themselves. This is a great illustration of liberal fake news. This is in the same vein as the hit job when Colin Powell died, where liberals once again pretended Carlson said something totally different to what he did

Sean Speer: Operation Warp Speed didn't cut corners on vaccines, it saved lives - "It’s easy to forget that the prevailing view through much of last year was that Operation Warp Speed’s goal of having a vaccine ready by January 2021 was highly improbable. The previous record for the quickest vaccine development was the mumps vaccine, which took four years from collecting viral samples to licensing and producing the drug in the mid-1960s. And the typical time frame could extend well beyond a decade. The mainstream media and leading members of the scientific community voiced significant doubts about Operation Warp Speed’s prospects and even its underlying motivations. There was a widespread sense in those early days that it mostly amounted to a public relations distraction from the Trump administration’s initial failure to manage the pandemic. This point is worth emphasizing: from the chief scientist at the World Health Organization to leading medical journals and virtually everyone in between, it’s fair to say that there was a high degree of early skepticism about Operation Warp Speed’s long-run prospects. Just consider a May 2020 article in Vanity Fair, for instance, which called it “dangerous” and “likely to fail,” or a CNN report the following month that warned it may undermine public support for vaccines more generally... Operation Warp Speed’s US$10-billion ($12-billion) public investment involved some funding for research and development. Moderna, for instance, received US$1 billion to develop and test its vaccine. But its main contribution was to pre-purchase millions of doses from Pfizer and Moderna before the companies even knew if the vaccines would work. One might think of it as a massive financial prize to reward them for their innovation."
Too bad the world didn't "follow the science" and plan to lock down for 4 years
One cope I saw was that Pfizer didn't benefit from Operation Warp Speed - pretending that having a guaranteed market didn't help

Effective Pandemic Response is Not About Preparation - "If we examine the countries that have responded best to COVID-19 (especially, the small Asian nations of the Pacific coast), we see that the factor that distinguishes them is competence. This concept is largely orthogonal to “preparation” as it is usually interpreted in the U.S."

Two Kinds of Pandemic Failures - The Atlantic - "Political debates in the U.S. are too dominated by rival factions hyperfocused on one truth. The “blue” faction knows that a better-funded government is necessary to solve important problems. The “red” faction knows that getting the government out of the way is necessary to solve important problems. Neither faction is wrong, but both are often blind to ways that their rivals are right, in part because they focus so much on the other side’s dumbest arguments."

How we lost our collective memory of epidemics - "Over the past 70 years richer nations have gradually lost their sense of danger concerning epidemics and serious infections. We must now reacquire this instinctive memory."
Ironic, given that they overreacted wildly to covid, unlike with previous pandemics

Adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines and measures to prevent them - "Recently, The Lancet published a study on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and the waning of immunity with time. The study showed that immune function among vaccinated individuals 8 months after the administration of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was lower than that among the unvaccinated individuals. According to European Medicines Agency recommendations, frequent COVID-19 booster shots could adversely affect the immune response and may not be feasible. The decrease in immunity can be caused by several factors such as N1-methylpseudouridine, the spike protein, lipid nanoparticles, antibody-dependent enhancement, and the original antigenic stimulus. These clinical alterations may explain the association reported between COVID-19 vaccination and shingles. As a safety measure, further booster vaccinations should be discontinued. In addition, the date of vaccination should be recorded in the medical record of patients. Several practical measures to prevent a decrease in immunity have been reported. These include limiting the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including acetaminophen to maintain deep body temperature, appropriate use of antibiotics, smoking cessation, stress control, and limiting the use of lipid emulsions, including propofol, which may cause perioperative immunosuppression. In conclusion, COVID-19 vaccination is a major risk factor for infections in critically ill patients."

The mad meltdown over ‘V Day’ - "Obsessive Britain-basher Fintan O’Toole took umbrage at the ‘V Day’ pun and complained about ‘petty patriotism’ surrounding the vaccine roll-out...   O’Toole was even moved to ask ‘what’s so great about going first?’, adding that ‘very little is really gained by jumping ahead of other countries by a few weeks’. It seems all the lives that an earlier roll-out would save, and the economic cost of lockdown it would cut short, aren’t worth it.  Earlier on in the pandemic, O’Toole complained that lives were ‘sacrificed’ on the altar of British exceptionalism. Now he complains that saving lives has allowed ministers to say something positive about the UK.   Meanwhile, another Guardianista, Joel Golby, also managed to contrive some outrage about the vaccine. He pointed out that the UK ‘had nothing to do with this vaccine’ and sneered at the ‘dumb’ and ‘weird’ excitement over Britain’s fast approval and roll-out...   But the award for the most deranged response must go to Philip Ball. Writing in the New Statesman, he accused ministers of ‘openly indulging in rhetoric normally associated with far-right nationalists’. Really? Being proud of the roll-out of a vaccine is the new fascism? That’s what people mean when they talk about far-right extremism? This miserable trio’s ridiculous comments echo those of Dr Emily Cousens, the academic who said, to much mockery, that she did not want Oxford University, where she teaches, to be the first to develop a Covid vaccine. Back in April, she wrote in the Huffington Post that she was ‘worried that it will be used… to fulfil its political, patriotic function as proof of British excellence’...   It speaks to the depths of miserabilism among Guardianistas and Remoaners that even the swift arrival of a life-saving vaccine is no reason to be cheerful."
From 2020. We are still told that liberals don't hate their countries

Pfizer’s CEO on the Big Gamble That Brought Us the COVID Vaccine - Freakonomics - "JENA: Why did you choose the mRNA platform versus any number of ways you could have tried to develop a vaccine?
BOURLA: I was very reluctant to choose it. Moderna, the decision for them would be, shall we do a vaccine or not? There was only one way they can do it — mRNA. This is where they are good. Ourselves, we were mastering all technologies. But my scientists came and said, let’s try mRNA. And that was very counterintuitive. I challenged the decision. I said, “Are you kidding me? You want to put in a pandemic all our bets into a technology that never delivered a product? Why don’t we go with something else?”"
Weird that the CEO of Pfizer didn't get the "fact check" that mRNA vaccines are not new and have been around for 20 years

‘Too risky’ to allow 5 in same household to dine in: MTF - "It is “too risky” for five members of the same household to sit together in a restaurant, said Lawrence Wong, co-chair on the COVID-19 multi-ministry taskforce (MTF), on Wednesday (20 October)."
Delegates at Bloomberg forum in Singapore can dine in groups of 5 at specific venues - "Local and foreign delegates at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum (NEF) next month will be subject to strict measures, including being fully vaccinated to ensure their safety and well-being as well as that of the community, the authorities said on Sunday (Oct 24)."

Think You’ve Never Had Covid-19? Think Again - WSJ - "About 40% of confirmed Covid-19 cases are asymptomatic, according to a meta-analysis published in December in the Journal of the American Medical Association. More than two years into the pandemic, most people worldwide have likely been infected with the virus at least once, epidemiologists said... Immunologists are studying whether exposure to one type of pathogen can trigger an immune response against others including SARS-CoV-2. A study published in the journal Science Immunology this month found some people had T-cells in their guts and on their skin before the pandemic began that appeared to help them fight SARS-CoV-2.  There is some evidence that some people who may have been exposed to certain coronaviruses before the pandemic are equipped with cells that attack SARS-CoV-2 before it can spread, said Steve Jameson at the University of Minnesota Medical School."

Why risk-aversion is bad for us - "The days when we used to complain about ‘health and safety gone mad’ now seem like a golden age. Being warned that the contents of a coffee cup may be hot seems like a mild annoyance compared with the current restrictions on our lives. The Health and Safety Executive has long had a perfectly serviceable approach to keeping us safe. Its aim is to reduce risk to a level that is ‘as low as is reasonably practicable’. It says we must ‘accept that risk from an activity can never be entirely eliminated unless the activity is stopped’.  But the government’s response to Covid has entirely contradicted that principle. In his evidence to the Science and Technology Committee in March, Chris Whitty said that lifting lockdown restrictions could not be speeded up because ‘You want to be absolutely confident it is safe’. Extreme risk-aversion is now built into policy.   An ‘as low as is reasonably practicable’ approach to risk would tell us that because granny has now been vaccinated, the chances of killing her by hugging her are tiny – so go ahead. Instead, ministers insist we must say no to any physical contact until all risk is eliminated. That is neither reasonable nor practicable.  It also ignores the dangers of this ultra-cautious approach. US hospitals, for example, became so focused on preventing falls among frail patients that they ended up with an ‘epidemic of immobility’, reports found in 2019. A policy of absolute safety led to people becoming bed-bound, because it was deemed too unsafe for them to get up. Their muscles wasted away and they were unable to walk independently again. That was much worse for their long-term health than the risk of falls. And in inquiry after inquiry into recent terrorist attacks, the fire and ambulance services have been found wanting because their procedures insist on extreme risk-avoidance. Those attending major incidents are not permitted to exercise personal judgement about what risks to take – and so the fire crews at the Manchester Arena bombing took two hours to enter the scene. People wounded in the London Bridge attack were also left for hours because ambulance crews were told it was too risky to tend to them. The emergency services were following the Chris Whitty rule – they had to be ‘absolutely confident’ that it was safe, even if the delay meant people would die. Throughout the pandemic, a refusal to accept some level of risk has led to excessive and illogical rules which have made things worse. The period of Covid self-isolation was initially set at 14 days, even though the chances of being infectious after seven days are tiny. It was belatedly reduced to 10 days, but that’s still longer than in countries like France. This excessive caution probably ended up increasing risk, as more people would likely have complied if the isolation time was shorter. What is particularly galling is that this policy of absolute safety has actually been set aside when it has suited the scientists and politicians. Moving to a three-month gap between vaccination doses had clear risks...   There will, no doubt, be pressure to ban any activity that could land us in hospital. Football and rugby cause many injuries every year. Climbing, cycling and horseriding, not to mention drinking and overeating, are all risky activities that place pressure on health services. Will they be curtailed, too?  The commitment to absolute safety will be extremely bad for all of us. As the writer Greg Lukianoff and the psychologist Jonathan Haidt argue in The Coddling of the American Mind, ‘human beings need physical and mental challenges and stressors or we deteriorate’. If the government claims to be able to stop bad things happening and instead make life a safe space, we will not be able to cope when things inevitably turn nasty."
From 2021

'This is healthy': Cosmopolitan promotes plus-sized 'wellness' despite COVID-19 obesity risks - "After profiling more than a dozen women who supposedly prove wellness isn't "one size fits all," Cosmopolitan is facing backlash for suggesting there is nothing unhealthy about being overweight amid COVID-19 obesity risks... "The body positivity movement preys upon & exploits woman who are insecure about their weight. Telling overweight people they can be perfectly healthy without losing weight may be a great way to sell magazines, but it's a crappy thing to do if you care about public health"... "This is how the left has warped so many minds: we're told if we fail to *celebrate* obesity it means we *hate* obese people"... "I'm just tired of pretending true things aren't true. In this and many other areas of life," added self-described "anti-feminist" Inez Stepman who serves as a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women's Forum. The Daily Caller News Foundation's associate editor Katrina Haydon compared the Cosmopolitan's "This is healthy" layouts to when Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared, "Science is back baby."... "You have a higher chance of dying from China Virus because you're fat than not wearing a mask"... Ahmed urged the nation to focus on biological and metabolical faculties that influenza infections target. Research on the latter demonstrated that the "obese may be more contagious," she said, "by increasing the timeframe in which they continue shedding a virus after an infection, with huge implications for mitigation strategies." She then extended this discovery to the coronavirus, "because the immune defects are the same.""
If it's justified to force people to get a covid vaccination because we pretend it reduces infectiousness, can we force people to lose weight for the same reason?

Government is not the divine source of ‘truth’ | The Spectator Australia - "‘Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth,’ declared New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, in a chilling speech related to Covid health advice.  The 2020 clip was dug up by The Daily Wire yesterday, reminding the world what the crucible of government overreach looked like from the sober reality of 2022.  And it is not a pretty sight.  The hubris, delusional self-importance, and elevation of government to a position of ‘absolute unquestioned truth’ is a sign that New Zealand’s leadership has gone beyond its charter and waded into a China-style system of absolutism.  They were not alone in this behaviour.  There is no clearer indication of an authoritarian sickness taking hold than comments like this from the Prime Minister.
'You can trust us as a source of that information. You can also trust the Director General of Health and the Ministry of Health. For that information, do feel free to visit – at any time – to clarify any rumour you may hear.  ‘Otherwise, dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth.  ‘We will provide information frequently. We will share everything we can. Everything else you see – a grain of salt. And so I really ask people to focus.’...
  It is easy enough to point out the obvious flaw in Ardern’s reasoning. Health advice coming out of governments around the world – including New Zealand – has been wrong. Repeatedly. And it is never corrected or the state-issued fines returned with an apology.   That is without considering the undemocratic nastiness that the government’s position led to where epidemiologists were quoted as saying horrific things like ‘with no jab, no job, no fun’ or inaccurate alarmist predictions like ‘if 95 per cent of the population is vaccinated, there will be death, disease, and hospitalisations for the last five per cent’. This is not being reflected in figures.  The last two years have revealed the weakness, not strength, of centralised expert opinion.  Those nations that chose to diverge from World Health Organisation advice provide us with a rare insight into better options, such as Sweden who respected the individual sovereignty of its citizens. Without disobedient nations, we would never know that this approach worked.   For the majority of nations, the population has been treated to the silencing of dissenting medical voices, threats to de-register practitioners who did not believe it was in the best interests of their patients to expose them to unnecessary risk, and the sacking of thousands of health workers – all of whom with more knowledge in the industry than Prime Ministers or Presidents – that did not agree with the government decree. Ardern’s statement in particular undermines the founding principle of science – which is that science is an evolving system of knowledge whose expansion and advancement relies on diversity of thought, competing ideas, fresh data, and open challenges...   Is mask-wearing a good idea? We don’t know. The government insists that it is essential to safeguarding the population but wide studies on the topic have repeatedly failed to produce the physical evidence necessary to justify mandates while incidental evidence pouring in from mask-wearing nations shows no clear indication it has any impact at all.  Were lockdowns the right approach? They were ordered by the government, and yet there is an increasingly opinion that they did more harm than good and should never be attempted again.  What about the Ardern pursuit of a Covid Zero New Zealand? How many press conferences were given insisting that New Zealand had conquered the virus and that government measures would protect New Zealand forever? These policies are now being labelled as ‘absurd’ and ‘damaging’. Most disagreed with the government advice at the time and warned that they were living in a fantasy bubble, prolonging and even worsening an inevitable outbreak – which is exactly what New Zealand is experiencing now with one of the fastest growing outbreaks in the world... There’s a reason governments are desperate to become the central source of information and truth – fending off opposing thought requires evidence and robust debate. Ministers do not want health policy challenged on merit because it would lose. It signals political weakness."

New Zealand COVID death rate at record levels - "Emergency departments, general practices and medical centres are under pressure. However, Health Ministry data shows hospitalisation levels remain below those seen during the March peak.  The government is resisting pressure from some doctors to reinstate curbs on public gatherings or mandate the wearing of masks at schools."
Weird. I thought they were successful with covid because their leader was a women and they had strict lockdowns and they were responsible

NZ has mask mandates and isolation, but the Omicron daily death rate is still 'very concerning' - "On the World Health Organization's ranking of daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people, New Zealand has been among the worst-performing nations this week.   New Zealand has announced a change in how it will report its COVID-19-related deaths, moving to a model where cases are only counted in mortality figures when the disease has been the direct reason for the loss of life."
So much for mocking countries which front-loaded covid deaths as havng failed

Nikolaus on Twitter - "So how are you keeping sane throughout all of this "covid is over" gaslighting?"
"I'm not. I've been trapped inside for 2.5 years except for necessary (and terrifying) drs appointments. I've just started cutting off everyone I see acting like everything is okay because frankly I'm fucking tired of being an afterthought to the whole of society."
Nikolaus on Twitter - "People saying "I deserve to be able to go to a party, vacay, show, cons etc." When you say that to me after having to isolate for 2.5 years because of other people's comfort and supposed entitlements, all I hear is you're trying to excuse potentially killing someone else.
Unless you absolutely have to be there, there is no excuse you can give that would ever make your lack of boredom worth anyone's life."
Clearly the world needs to shut down for the rest of time and the economy needs to be destroyed and people starve due to the immunocompromised. Unsurprisingly, its bio is: "Level 40, neurodivergent trans guy. Immunocompromised from multiple conditions, with allergies to practically everything. (INCLUDING myself and the Sun.)"

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