It was always a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

What it is becoming now, at least in the United States, is a *preventable* pandemic of the *willfully* unvaccinated.
And it's in danger of mutating into a new and more hyper-infectious pandemic *because of* the willfully unvaccinated.
Many state governments are actively making things worse. Alabama has forbidden private businesses to refuse service to unvaccinated people. legiscan.com/AL/text/SB267/…
Arkansas has - among many other coercive measures - forbidden private insurers to charge higher premiums to those who refuse vaccination. arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Detail?t…
By executive order, Florida has forbidden privately owned businesses to demand proof of vaccination from patrons or customers. flgov.com/wp-content/upl…
Montana forbids *HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS* from requiring COVID-19 vaccination laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0210…
And more bills are coming ...

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16 Jul
You all are aware that the federal government has policed the truthfulness of medical claims since 1906, right?
If the people who sold morphine and alcohol as "soothing syrup" had access to Twitter, they would have denounced the 1906 Food & Drug Act as pure communism, no doubt. livesandlegaciesblog.org/2020/01/31/bad…
I suppose the point is, regulating fraudulent medical claims was fine for the first 115 years. But when @PressSec went for the 116th - game over for free speech in this society!
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Trump's interview this weekend ... acclaim by Trumpists for a Twitter essay justifying the violent attack on the constitutional transition of power ... time to start using the F-word about post-presidential Trumpism theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
In a 2020 book, I experimented with the word "fascoid" to describe Trumpism - meaning similar to fascism, but not quite there. But as Trumpism moves from *threatening* anti-state political violence to *justifying* anti-state political violence, it's time to drop the fancy suffix
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That's not a formula for political stability. The best case ...
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Siri, what happens when your country lags in pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity - but also has no Murdoch media properties spreading vaccine disinformation? ctvnews.ca/health/coronav…
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Personal thread ...

Through my adult life, I've never been interested in spectator sports. My son @natfrum is an intense fan of every/any sport. He'll watch darts if there's nothing else. After today's worst day in English history since the fall of Singapore, I asked him ...
@natfrum "Sports fans suffer SO MUCH. Their team almost makes it, then loses the big game. Then almost again, then loses again. Maybe once a decade or worse, your team wins the big championship, and you are happy. Then ... more suffering. Is it worth it?"
@natfrum And @natfrum - a prematurely wise person - answered: "Without the suffering, you'd never have the joy. My favorite teams are the teams that every year find a new way to rip my heart out. ...
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