Taylor LorenzThis "new normal" of constant reinfection with a disease that carries a high risk of disability is neither sustainable, nor does it resemble what we were told to expect in 2021. Read every word of this piece https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent
Wesley Faulkner@taylorlorenz We need to keep talking about this!
Kevin 🐾🌲🍁@taylorlorenz the lawsuits against infection control measures like masking and vaccination kind of made this inevitable. Sadly.
J. Jacoby (gender explorer)@taylorlorenz Thank you for this article.
Sallyd@taylorlorenz
It's worse than ever. So many people I know have Covid, some first time, some second.
It's worse than ever. So many people I know have Covid, some first time, some second.
CassandraZeroCovid"On March 29, 2021, on the Rachel Maddow show, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky describes COVID-19 vaccines:
"But there`s a scientific gray area about whether once you’re vaccinated you can still get infected…Well, today, the CDC reported new data that shows that …not only are the vaccines for those folks keeping those people from getting sick from COVID, those vaccines are also highly effective at preventing people from getting infected, even with non-symptomatic infection."
Michael Helm@CassandraZeroCovid @taylorlorenz Another thing I regret having to say is Dr Walensky was one terrible CDC director (after another one). At least for public facing and information; perhaps better at the reorg/repair work CDC needed, don't know.
KraigMy educated and otherwise clever and usually reasonable friends get legit *angry* and abusive when I suggest that perhaps COVID isn't over.
This article (with receipts!) is the best i've seen that clearly and definitively lays out that case.
Its not that those who are boosted are in mortal danger; but rather the current state of affairs isn’t an acceptable outcome from an individual OR a public health standpoint.
Jonathan Kamens 86 47@kraigschmidt @taylorlorenz Yes, my relatives do the same thing.
Deep down they worry that they're wrong. That scares them, so they don't want to think about it. Because they don't want to think about it, they get angry at people who make them think about it. Or mock them or abuse them or whatever else it takes to make the conversation go away or turn it "not serious" so they don't have to think about it.
Deep down they worry that they're wrong. That scares them, so they don't want to think about it. Because they don't want to think about it, they get angry at people who make them think about it. Or mock them or abuse them or whatever else it takes to make the conversation go away or turn it "not serious" so they don't have to think about it.
Brian Lewis@taylorlorenz @rmondello What did you do prior to 2019?
Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦It was a bit of a relief to read today’s #ScientificAmerican report on how #Covid vaccines help prevent #LongCovid when they precede infection.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccination-dramatically-lowers-long-covid-risk/
Jer-Bear, Snakes-for-Hair@taylorlorenz Is this published anywhere that isn’t a Substack page? I struggle to patronize a platform that has explicitly allowed Nazi content.
In steerage@taylorlorenz "The media, in order to prop up the incompetent Biden administration, successfully cast those who continue to be harmed as an out-group that exists outside the social contract of community care....you can be a mask-hating COVID-denialist in June; if you’ve got Long COVID by December, your days being featured as an expert or making policy decisions are over. Now you’re just another whiny patient who should get more exercise."
Love this piece. Important writing.
Zorro Notorious MEB 😡@taylorlorenz This is sad, but so is the widespread and extremely well-funded anti-vaccine movement. They are funding a third-party candidate for President of the United States of America!
stevenray@taylorlorenz @AlgoCompSynth I was just standing in line in my local Walgreens for the pharmacist, and a commercial came over the intercom touting their COVID vaccine appointments. It started with the words ‘The Pandemic is over’. 🙄 I just started shaking my head.
@stevenray @taylorlorenz What people don't realize about anti-vaxxers is that they aren't "scattered crackpots." They are well-organized scammers.
@AlgoCompSynth @taylorlorenz well, I think they’re probably both. 😊
Alexey MerzThere is no country on earth that is basing policy on this alarmist framing. The US is not an outlier. COVID is now a seasonal reality and the risk of long COVID is steadily decreasing, *particularly* among those who are vaccinated.
Encourage people to get their damned boosters. Don't be mean to people who decide that using a mask is a good idea.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/percentage-us-adults-long-covid-falls-6-cdc/story?id=102161415
Chop@taylorlorenz The Gauntlet News — you’re really digging deep to maintain the scare tactics.
Paul Friesen@taylorlorenz I re-posted this with a bit of a summary.
Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)@taylorlorenz this explains America, but I want to know why every other country on the face of the planet is going the same route
kflanagan@taylorlorenz Just anecdotal, but I know folks with all of the vaccines and some with none, both groups have some who keep getting infected. I think it has a lot to do with the circles you travel in. If your workplace doesn't have flexibility to not go to office when sick more will get it. (guess I'm stating the obvious)
Dare I say out loud that my wife and I managed to avoid even once, we are vaccinated to the gills. Teacher friend can't avoid it
Dare I say out loud that my wife and I managed to avoid even once, we are vaccinated to the gills. Teacher friend can't avoid it
@taylorlorenz this is an excellent summary of how the COVID news coverage changed over time. I particularly appreciate your comment on how little people actually learned by following the news closely. I studied biology and immunity during my undergrad. It's shocking how little anyone learned about their immune system. We could have all been well informed on virus biology and immunity and various organ systems.
Jens Scholz ⍟@taylorlorenz same here.
@taylorlorenz I really hate having to agree with this author.
If we expect our species to survive, we are going to have to learn how to do better than relying on individual immune systems to carry the load. We are not going to evolve fast enough to deal with this virus, either.
We can do better, but long term thinking is not easy nor one of our strengths.