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18 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
COVID "Bullshit Jobs" Are Driving Everyone Crazy, Including TV Crews!
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Why I keep calling attention to COVID bureaucracies and the bullshit jobs they produce Image
If you read the article you'll discover that a few years ago, a particular "COVID Logistics" official I've interacted with was making Rap Battle videos on YouTube. That was their main professional output. Now they're implementing extremely serious "public health" regulations 🙄
As far as "Omicron," most people now being told by surveillance/testing bureaucracies that they've "tested positive" would otherwise have no reason to worry based on their own perception of their symptoms/experience. Only due to this bureaucratization are their worries generated
If you're an NYU student -- and yeah I know, boo hoo for them. But what has disrupted your life more this week? The fact that people around you are allegedly "testing positive," and some might have a sniffle, or the fact that the COVID bureaucracy has reacted in this manner: Image
Folly of accepting at face value anything these COVID bureaucracies say. Carnegie Mellon announced mandatory "boosters" -- PLUS mandatory asymptomatic testing. If the point of "boosters" is to reduce severe symptoms, why are you also testing the "boosted" with *zero* symptoms??? ImageImage

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15 Dec
A common defense of vaccine passports is that people find them surprisingly non-cumbersome. OK. But do they curtail the spread of the virus, which is supposedly the reason they were implemented in the first place? Because there's essentially no evidence for that at all
Here's the latest from Germany, where this individual was so heartened by the ease and convenience of vaccine passports thelocal.de/20211215/germa…
I've used "vaccine passports" in France, Canada, NYC and it's true that they're not the world's most debilitating inconvenience: but if they don't even achieve the objective they were allegedly supposed to achieve, it's bizarre that defenders just kind of casually glide over that
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14 Dec
Twitch imposed an elaborate "Hateful Conduct" policy this year, which among other things declares: "Attempting to promote hateful viewpoints under the guise of education or comedy will lead to suspension of your account." Very interesting to see who's been banned as a consequence
The policy itself is insane. It seems like any human who's ever cracked a joke could be banned. Every Twitch user is defined as belonging to multiple "protected groups" -- about which "hateful slurs," even if "untargeted," result in bans
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Have the prominent accounts who were just banned ever expressed skepticism of these types of ridiculously over-bearing speech regulation policies? Or, to the contrary, have they advocated for greater regulation of speech, in the name of punishing their perceived adversaries? 🤔
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14 Dec
The entire U. of Washington men's basketball team is vaccinated, but apparently still pose enough of a threat that they must quarantine and cancel games. Why then are non-vaccinated state employees in Washington being fired, based on the unique threat *they* allegedly pose?
Was just on Seattle radio where the host told me about this. If vaccine does not prevent transmission, it makes no sense to punish "the un-vaccinated" on the ground that they allegedly pose some unique threat. This becomes apparent if you stop to think about it for two seconds
The whole premise behind why there was an ethical duty to get vaccinated was because you were "protecting others." If vaccine does not enable you to "protect others," the ethical duty argument is negated. Otherwise it's only about individual health, which was never the argument
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12 Dec
In a radio interview this week CO Gov. Jared Polis rejected *in principle* that public health officials have a permanent right to mandate mask-wearing. Then his office issued a panicked statement claiming he only meant *state* public health officials, which seems like total BS
The host repeatedly badgered him to re-impose a mask mandate. Polis said the "emergency" stage of COVID is over, and government officials cannot permanently "tell people what to wear." If that's his view, why would it somehow only apply to state government cpr.org/2021/12/10/int…
Denver, Adams, Arapahoe and Jefferson counties re-imposed a mask mandate last month, so the Governor's office must've been panicked that Polis clearly rejected the principle underlying those re-impositions. Hiding behind some state/local government distinction here is nonsensical
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11 Dec
“Progressive Prosecutors” are Invoking “Terrorism” to Expand State Power and Advance Their Political Ambitions mtracey.substack.com/p/progressive-…
Michigan rushed to enact a "terrorism" law after 9/11, supposedly to protect the state against Al Qaeda. 20 years later, that same law is being used to charge a 15-year-old school shooter who expressed no apparent political motive, under the auspices of "progressive prosecution" Image
MI prosecutor Karen McDonald -- who ran in 2020 as a "progressive" reformer -- has given a number of vague justifications for her use of the "terrorism" statute. Ultimately it's a new, precedent-setting exercise of punitive state power in the name of advancing "progressivism" Image
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3 Dec
Twitter purged a large number of accounts last night, coinciding with their announcement of a campaign against "state-linked information operations." But they appear to acknowledge at least some of these accounts were "real." Raising the question of how they define "state-linked"
If you don't think the "states" chosen as the target of their campaign has a political purpose, you're dreaming. (Note that these are only the states they choose to publicly "disclose.") Of course no US actor would ever dare launch any "state-linked information operation"
Imagine if they banned US accounts for "amplifying support of the government and its official narratives" in some kind of coordinated fashion. What a joke

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