We seriously need to start talking about exactly how deranged and dangerous cookers are: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/13/wieambilla-property-owner-gareth-train-brother-nathaniel-missing-man-shooting-qld-queensland-police-officers

There's a reason why 'cooker' got picked up so quickly here in Australia to describe these conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers. It's because 'cooked' used to be the colloquialism for meth users having a psychotic break from reality and to everybody not sucked into the conspiracy black hole, that's what their ramblings sound like: as if their grasp on reality is genuinely lost due to over use of drugs or some other mind break method.

At the very least, we need the media and segments of the political landscape to stop encouraging and validating their derangement.

I like it here on Mastodon because:

I don't feel analyzed.

I don't feel cataloged.

I don't feel categorized.

I don't feel manipulated.

I don't feel I am a manipulator.

I don't feel like a sold commodity.

I don't feel my speech is used to sell another's commodities.

#FreeSpeech #mastodon #noalgorithm #notaproduct

Just a shocking number of people don’t even know the 2022 bivalent boosters •exist•.

Folks, there are newly formulated vaccines as of this fall.

If you got your last before Sep / very late Aug, you should get a new booster.

It’s available for kids 5 and up.

It’s free.

It will protect you ••much•• better against the newest variants, which are hospitalizing people en masse.

Tell your less-online-than-you family, friends, neighbors. Publicity has been terrible.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-new-covid-wave #covid