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27 Sep, 9 tweets, 4 min read
This guy? He has a history of spinning yarns, making big deals out of things that aren't, looking for attention & fame, being rewarded for that behavior. An enlightening read about Frederick Joseph from Sept. '20: vice.com/en/article/m7j…
Sarley could very well have said terrible things to him before the filmed portion (or have a past of saying racist things, engaging in escalatory behavior). We just don't know! What we do know is that Joseph isn't a particularly credible narrator; proceed w caution.
As @katrosenfield said:
This is fundamentally a story about our inability to deescalate, our inability to forgive, our inability to be judicious when the situation calls for it, our punitive impulse. But it's also fundamentally a story about book sales, don't pretend otherwise: nytimes.com/2020/12/17/boo…
Sarley could very well be a horrible person who was bad at her job. But, nothing in the posted video that we have access to indicates a fireable offense or even sheds much light at all on what exactly their dispute was
At 29:40, @kittypurrzog & @jessesingal went through the Frederick Joseph/Satanic Airbnb saga from last year "Sounds like you have an overactive imagination," said the Satanists to Joseph. I'm sorry, even the SATAN WORSHIPPERS thinks he has a screw loose. barpodcast.fireside.fm/29
Journalist Anna Merlan reached out to Joseph, he refused to comment (w ample time), then tweet-threaded about how racist journalism is since it didn't portray a black man's perspective––despite the fact that he was given opportunity to comment (to Vice, not, like, Daily Wire).
As for the Derek Andersen thread of this (CEO of Bevy who fired Sarley), boy is he hurrying to delete the tweets that people have dug up where he says words like "retarded." He's fed the machine, wonder what it'll dig up, or how it might turn on him. It's all horrible & tedious.
We don't know what's in the hearts of Sarley/Joseph/Andersen, or what went down in McCarren pre-video. We don't know what's authentic atonement vs. damage control. But destroying livelihoods shouldn't become a team sport where we all pick sides and cheer & jeer. Pathetic.

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Public health experts (& the media who boost them) are, in many cases, living in a delusional fantasy land. People should live a perma-reduced life? OK, what about single people––should they go out and date? What about people who make a living working at crowded bars?
What about celebrations? Those involve us congregating together! What about when winter in NYC comes––avoiding indoor dining will be a lot harder then. What about people who get joy from going out to fine restaurants, or to packed bars on game day to watch their team?
These things seem trivial & surely there's a point of contagiousness at which people would alter behavior. But it's not at all useful for pub health experts to say "live a life that bears little resemblance to the one you had before for at least 1.5 years, but maybe many more!"
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Life will never be risk-free. A vaccinated 40-year-old's odds of dying, if they contract COVID, is astonishingly low. When people get hysterical about this, it's important to be empathetic, but also to say: Your fears are unwarranted & you should speak w your therapist.
She teaches high school; so few teens 19 & under have died since start of the pandemic––59 total in the state of TX right now. Each one of those deaths is heartbreaking, but, again, the risk of ppl in this age group dying from COVID is extraordinarily low.
IDK, maybe I'm wired differently, but I used to get anxious on planes (& motion sick). First I tried happy drugs to solve this (thanks doc); then I tried a hefty dose of plane crash stats & reading about turbulence & grasping just how rare plane-related deaths are. It cured me!
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I'm becoming increasingly annoyed by the "masks are no real imposition" crowd. Yeah, they're a relatively easy & low-cost protective measure, but they take something significant––but hard to measure––away from human interaction. We can't see other people's reactions, we can't
hear their words as well, small talk & the types of little interactions that build trust & friendliness have been largely eradicated. For children, still developing their social skills/ability to read nonverbal cues, this is so much worse.
It's a lonelier world we inhabit now, and I don't think people are wrong to mourn or reject that, especially when we have better tools in our arsenal (vaccines!) to fight COVID spread, and when there seems to be no exit plan for masking (esp things like planes, public transit).
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30 Jul
New York has had 274 deaths per 100k, Florida has had 181 deaths per 100k. Seems like taking a single snapshot & implying that NY's beating this better than FL is a case study in the irresponsible politicization that you're pretending to condemn.
People are pointing out, as if it weren't obvious, that lion's share of NY deaths came early in pandemic when less was known. But Cuomo's numerous early-pandemic screw-ups have been quite well-documented, and remain inexcusable. (Though his book would have you believe otherwise!)
Krugman's point, hidden beneath the sensationalized tweet, is that states w low vax rates might be in for a world of pain. This is true––people should get vaccinated! But this Times piece is a useful companion to what he's saying: nytimes.com/2021/07/30/bri…
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There's something jarring about how regional coronavirus feels: NYTimes running a front page with the 100,000 names of Americans who've died (and watching friends in NYC, DC, generally adopt mask-wearing pretty intensely) while reopened Austin bars last night were PACKED.
Also, throwback to two weeks ago when I had to explain to some fellow Austinites what asymptomatic transmission is and basics about how COVID spreads. I understand that Austin has had a much lower death toll than other places, and I am grateful we've had less loss...
But also: what the fuck

Bars on W. 6th and Dirty 6th were reportedly packed last night (and night before). I live in E. Austin and walked by the few bars that were opened and...super packed! Corner store near my house keeps dealing with people refusing to wear masks inside.
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