Share this page!

Michael Tracey Profile picture
Twitter logo
23 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Emerson College in Boston has issued a "stay in room directive" for returning students next month -- the same students already required to get "boosted" and tested twice a week. Sounds like fun
The individual issuing these "directives" is a "Vice President & Dean for Campus Life" who now gets to masquerade as some profound epidemiological authority thanks to his role in the COVID bureaucracy. Imagine being confined to your room on the orders of such an individual
This is why I keep banging on about the COVID bureaucracies, because they tend to be comprised of the last people on Earth that you'd ever voluntarily take direction from mtracey.substack.com/p/covid-bullsh…
(Some) people have also criticized me for covering COVID policy at college campuses, but what goes on there tend to be early indicators for policies that'll affect the whole of society

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Michael Tracey

Michael Tracey Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @mtracey

Michael Tracey Profile picture
22 Dec
As expected, Chicago's just-announced vaccine passport scheme -- supposedly prompted by "Omicron" -- also rests on claims of "emergency" authority. Nearly two years later, just constant circumvention of "normal" governance procedures all around the country
Is there any evidence whatsoever that vaccine passports "stop the spread" of "Omicron"? All evidence points to the contrary. But sorry -- no debate permitted, because these municipal officials continue to assert "emergency" powers to do whatever they like
And as usual, hardly a peep about any of this from the ACLU and like-minded organizations
Read 5 tweets
Michael Tracey Profile picture
22 Dec
Government Officials Using Phony "Emergency Powers" To Impose Vaccine Passports mtracey.substack.com/p/government-o…
In Boston, like many jurisdictions, officials continue to invoke the same "Emergency" powers first decreed in March 2020 to institute whatever measures they like. The Mayor's order this week imposing vaccine passports expressly cites her seemingly permanent "Emergency" authority
Boston "health" officials have declared that they reserve the right to modify the definition of "fully vaccinated" at any time, and thereby mandate additional injections. Even if you somehow support this, should such a sweeping measure really be instituted by "Emergency" decree?
Read 6 tweets
Michael Tracey Profile picture
18 Dec
COVID "Bullshit Jobs" Are Driving Everyone Crazy, Including TV Crews!
mtracey.substack.com/p/covid-bullsh…
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 🙄
Read 6 tweets
Michael Tracey Profile picture
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
Read 4 tweets
Michael Tracey Profile picture
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
twitch.tv/p/en/legal/com…
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? 🤔
Read 4 tweets
Michael Tracey Profile picture
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
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @mtracey has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @mtracey!

Read all threads by @mtracey

:(