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Post by miscmisc on Mar 31, 2022 17:08:00 GMT 1
It's hard for me to articulate my feeling about it, but I feel insulted whenever they pretend that this "done with Covid" attitude has anything to with "rationality". It has fuck all to do with rationality; It's about being tired, feeling miserable, and assessing whom we can afford to sacrifice for the greater good, that is "going back to normal", both emotionally and economically. I mean, no one even pretends to care about immunocompromised/highly vulnerable people any more.
They say, "We gotta live our lives!" as if many of the Covid victims - most of whom were working-class people, and typically black/Latino - didn't do just that. They had to go out there for work, breathed on each other, got Covid and died. They fucking lived their lives all right instead of remote-working 5 days a week, Uber-Eats-ing 7 days a week, watching Netflix every night, and crying over being unable to go to yoga classes and off-Broadway theaters.
Do live your life if that's what you want. Fine. But don't give me that convenient, self-serving bullshit decorated with vacuous words. I'm not telling you to be honest. Just don't say anything. Stop insulting my intelligence.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 31, 2022 17:29:01 GMT 1
I felt angry partially because of this, yes. Only partially, though. Highlighting COVID-19 racial disparities can reduce support for safety precautions among White U.S. residentswww.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795362200257XI knew this was the case, you are a fucking idiot if you didn't know it was the case, but still it feels pretty bad to be told conclusively that it was the case. |
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 1, 2022 1:55:09 GMT 1
The first strange thing that I noticed when I moved to the US was that people went, "Wow, that's so cool, man, it's cool to be bilingual!" when I spoke Japanese - my mother tongue - in front of them (like during a phone conversation with my parents), and did the same with a French friend of mine speaking French - his mother tongue - in front of them, even though there were a shit load of perfectly bilingual Americans everywhere, namely Hispanics. People were like, whatever, toward them, like it's the least impressive thing in the world, when they went back and forth between English and Spanish rapidly and smoothly in a highly impressive way, being far more "bilingual" than us.
I mean, now I understand why, the sociological reason for that, but that genuinely baffled me for a while.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 1, 2022 2:13:20 GMT 1
I know someone who spends more than a few hours online everyday attacking anyone who doesn't think Ivermectin works, and she went to an Ivy school (psychology major).
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 1, 2022 2:18:20 GMT 1
Worm killer, NFT, fart, it could be anything, really. Anything can be fetishized and politicized. And those who are completely unable to do self-reflection/look in the mirror every once in a while are all susceptible to the idiocy, regardless of their social status.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 1, 2022 2:53:04 GMT 1
No, it's not the fact that they didn't do lockdowns, but that their government epidemiologists came up with ridiculous theories against masks and went with a totally unscientific, dare I say vibe-based, notion of herd immunity that turned out to be nonsense in reality. And that they have doubled and tripled down on that nonsense to this day, empowering charlatans and kooks worldwide. Unforgivable, although I do understand why they doubled and tripled down (read a previous rant of mine - this pandemic has been hard for all epidemiologists). They are in a way unlucky, but life is unfair. The way they tackled Covid in their own country is their business, and not mine. I don't see any uproar among Swedes against their government, so that's fine, I guess. But I have an issue with the influence they had on other people in other countries. It's not exactly their fault that the outside world put a spotlight on them and spread their broadly asinine messages to the rest of the world with all the important, specific local contexts stripped away, but still I wish they had just shut the fuck up instead of pretending to be the wise guys in the room. Column: Did Sweden beat the pandemic by refusing to lock down? No, its record is disastrouswww.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-31/sweden-covid-policy-was-a-disaster |
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 1, 2022 3:35:12 GMT 1
Holy shit.
Holy shit #2.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 1, 2022 3:37:57 GMT 1
They are putting everyone in a tough spot. Bernard-Henri Lévy or Aleksandr Dugin? What kind of a fucked-up choice is that? "Neither" would be my answer obviously, but will they even give me that option?
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 1, 2022 3:41:21 GMT 1
Holy shit #3:
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 1, 2022 3:43:16 GMT 1
We in Japan, the US, Canada etc. casually talk about the sanctions, but shouldn't forget that Germany relies so, so, so, so, so, so much on Russian gas. It's just a grave, grave, grave issue.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 1, 2022 3:45:47 GMT 1
Didn't Alan Partridge have a Ukrainian girlfriend?
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 1, 2022 3:51:39 GMT 1
I'm not in the US now, but I hear a lot of people got Covid this week, a few of them even hospitalized. Purely anecdotal, and I don't even see a bump in the official stats, but maybe it's happening now?
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 1, 2022 3:55:53 GMT 1
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 1, 2022 5:11:24 GMT 1
Genius.
(It is Lukashenko explaining to the audience why the invasion was needed: Because otherwise Ukraine would have attacked Russia!)
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 1, 2022 5:15:23 GMT 1
LOL
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