i am harry posted:

I feel like this is one of about six people in the world I would immediately attack if introduced to, and by abandoning the precautionary principle I’m sure he’d survive and live a perfectly healthy and happy long life.

Thoguh posted:

Matty Egg must have been feeling like he wasn't getting enough attention so he's upping his takes.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1506603103491174408?s=20&t=3KcycsClADBEN9dvbAtz-g

redreader posted:

Well, it WAS obama, but now it's also Clinton lol
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1506397903765581836

genericnick posted:

Very late to this, but lmao

Shifty Nipples posted:

be sure to clarify that the thread mascot is the inflatable christmas tree costume

U-DO Burger posted:

i think you're right, but i wonder if capital would've succeeded at moving on from covid with trump still as president. i feel they'd be hamstrung by trump being a dipshit who can't ever shut up or stop tweeting

TheSlutPit posted:

Moving on from covid was the reality as soon as capital realized they could sustain it without total economic collapse. Trump was at best a useful idiot who turned a pandemic into a culture war issue while everyone shrugged as agricultural workers died in droves. You could probably say that vaccine uptake would have been better if trump were re-elected but that’s about it.

Paradoxish posted:

Going to go ahead and say that the only thing capital realized is that it wouldn't cause immediate economic collapse. The future ain't looking bright.

empty whippet box posted:

"don't even think about it unless it's already killed you" is normal public policy now

mdemone posted:

clar-ence

Thom-as

*clap clap clap-clap-clap*

raisin kane posted:

folks,,,,

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

flu like symptoms, lol

not covid!!!

also

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1506774254322393092?s=21

triple sulk posted:

we did it!!

Paradoxish posted:

Going to go ahead and say that the only thing capital realized is that it wouldn't cause immediate economic collapse. The future ain't looking bright.

TheSlutPit posted:

This is just “covid is over” but for capitalism

Grey Fox posted:

that matty thread gets worse if you keep going https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1506605482101854221 everyone should listen 👏 to 👏 the 👏 experts 👏 who have sensible views I agree with

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

flu like symptoms, lol

not covid!!!

also

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1506774254322393092?s=21

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

flu like symptoms, lol

not covid!!!

also

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1506774254322393092?s=21

Mola Yam posted:

*trips over fosborb, slams into wall*

it's pronounced "so-vid-19"!

raisin kane posted:

folks,,,,

Why Am I So Tired posted:

How do these ghouls keep ignoring Long COVID?

Why Am I So Tired posted:

How do these ghouls keep ignoring Long COVID?

Paradoxish posted:

Why should we invest in preventing the next pandemic

Wanting to prevent a pandemic seems to imply that we shouldn't be ignoring this one and that can't be right

Kylaer posted:

Paradoxish posted:

Why should we invest in preventing the next pandemic

Wanting to prevent a pandemic seems to imply that we shouldn't be ignoring this one and that can't be right

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/03/next-covid-variant-surge-strategy/627597/ posted:

America Is About to Test How Long ‘Normal’ Can Hold
Whenever it arrives, the next surge could put the country’s tolerance for disease and death in full relief.
(..)
Dillydallying inevitably racks up the kinds of costs we can’t recoup. Two health-policy researchers, Joshua Salomon of Stanford and Alyssa Bilinski of Brown, recently ran an analysis of the CDC’s new guidance and found that waiting for the CDC’s “high” level to turn on additional protections could lock the country into at least 1,000 Americans dying each day from COVID. “We’ve embarked on this experiment to see how far we can push two extremes: how low we can push our level of response, and how high we can push our tolerance for avoidable illness and death,” Salomon told me. The death toll could be lower if COVID’s fatality rate decreased—if, say, vaccination rates suddenly rocketed up, or if every infected person could instantly access tests and treatments. But Salomon said those are very unsafe bets to make. As it stands, “the CDC policy is to not take action to reduce spread until there is a high level of death,” Raifman told me. And that’s to say nothing about the long-COVID cases and other serious impacts that would follow as well.
(..)
I asked the CDC for its take on what’s up ahead. “We’re in a stronger place today as a nation with more tools to protect ourselves and our communities from COVID-19,” Jasmine Reed, an agency spokesperson, wrote in an email. “CDC’s COVID Community Levels and the corresponding prevention measures allow us to adapt and respond to new variants or a surge in cases.” Somehow that seems tough to square with the dwindling of funds to support further vaccinations, testing, and treatment—especially for the communities that most need to access them. The CDC’s new guidance is contingent on a capacity to react, and the assumption that supplies are free-flowing. They are not; they never have been; they will not be, unless more money comes through. Which means that we’re slated to start this next surge not just with porous shields but without the ability to patch the gaps. At the press briefing, White House officials underlined Congress’s failure to refresh pandemic funds, outlining again the consequences of the shortages that will result.
(..)

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1506774254322393092?s=21

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

flu like symptoms, lol

not covid!!!

also

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1506774254322393092?s=21

Animal-Mother posted: