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5 Jan, 34 tweets, 8 min read
Remember to tell everyone you know to ‘up your mask game’. Because that’s a phrase you totally thought of completely by yourself and not something you’re repeating because you saw it on the TV or perhaps a social media posted clip of something on the TV
guys, it's time to step your mask game up

your mask game? up it

i wonder what i should up? oh that's right, my mask game

i wonder what Leana Wen thinks i should do to my game, which game you ask? the mask one

feel like upping something? may i suggest mask game

hmm what do experts think i ought to do to my mask game, let's find out

whose mask game should i up? oh silly me, wouldn't you know it, it's mine

what does Omicron mean for my mask game? should i down it or

i wonder if there's any intelligent and original thing that a doctor could say to her patients about masks and games thereof

how about kids, do they have games, what kind of games are they, and should they up or down them

hello i am inquiring about the status of my mask game should i step it and in which direction

what about on the weekend should i also up it then

wait i forgot should i DOWN my mask game? oh right silly me my bad

these are just the bluecheks imagine if i picked on randos. we'd be talking thousands
anyways, bottom line, i think you get the message loud and clear:

masks don't do jack
but still, be sure to up your game vis-a-vis them
'up your mask game' is totally a normal way for adults to talk btw. like grownup ladys with MDs and pearl necklace or whatever? when they say it it doesn't sound weird or cringe at all. it sounds cool, and that's good for persuading people (i want to be cool)
a county government twitter account run by a grownup wants you to up it

in a surprising twist here's someone who doesn't want you to up it, just improve it

MPH in handle wants you to up it

another MPH wants you to up it

radio doctor wants you to up it

what percentage of twitter users have a MPH btw. gotta be at least 35%

heck maybe i have one for all i know, i'll check the attic later
literally self-describes as Mask Wearing so i'll give you one guess in which direction the game is advised to be sent

a simple request, 1 point for politeness

Ph.D.'s want it upped almost as much as MPH's

sorry i know i said i wouldn't pick on randos, i peeked, in my defense this is still only a small percentage sampling
all in all i think what I'm saying is that a large number of people appear to have independently hit upon this particular phrasing to describe what they want you to do re: masks. i guess it's kinda like Newton & Leibniz both developing the calculus

uP yOUr mAsK gaME everone!!1
UPDATE: think my favorite kind of response-type to this thread is ‘hey! getting people to mindlessly intone and parrot phrases to influence behavior in a direction you decided you want is Good, Actually. it’s all part of Public Health.’

indeed it is, Smart Person. indeed it is.
UPDATE 2: My first effort at a PSA/logo for this campaign, I think the young people are gonna really respond to it where do I submit this to please
“up your mask game”
“up your mask game”
I wonder what time it is when a normie looks at that one transmission-time table? oh. of course

3 tweets 10m apart

btw some version of this table was out there 6m+ ago. i was RTing it to say masks in schools are pointless

somehow only *now* do normies absorb this fact? wtf

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5 Jan
DON’T LOOK UP (2021) was ok. But not as a ‘climate change allegory’. As a quirky character study of the DiCaprio and especially the Jennifer Lawrence character. They were just funny to watch in all those situations.
The movie itself, despite being ‘timely’ and I have no doubt meant as some blunt allegory about ‘climate change’ in our ‘social media’ ‘politicized’ ‘divided’ ‘post truth’ era, comes across as weirdly dated. Felt like something from the late 90s. And just cuz of DEEP IMPACT.
*not just cuz of
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4 Jan
The 2020 debates between Covid-Taliban and ‘floomers’ who argued for less restrictions on grounds that its severity was kinda sorta ‘just the flu’ looks pretty absurd in retrospect now during our current regime of (partial/localized) Covid-Taliban’ing against ‘omicron’, a cold
Maybe it was wrong to minimize Wuhan Classic, and liken it to ‘just the flu’. Maybe the tradeoff/balance weighed in favor of restrictions.

But now we have Wuhan-South Africa, which is uniformly *much less severe*. And still the Covid Taliban *wants to do all the same things*.
Imagine Wuhan Classic hadn’t existed and it had been Wuhan-South Africa that emerged in 2020. You know, a cold that spreads fast and everyone gets, then they’re done.

Would ‘closing schools’, ‘vaccine passports’ in response to it have even been on the table?
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2 Jan
Covid restrictions, to the degree that they actually ‘work’, could be increasing severity/death in the US, if their net-effect is to slow down ‘omicron’ from viral-competing away ‘delta’, meaning ‘delta’ remains prevalent longer, to infect more people. Just saying: could be.
For any given uninfected person, whether their next-exposure to a Wuhan-like virus is ‘omicron’ or ‘delta’ is a random variable X. ‘Covid measures’ ‘working’ could mean the omicron wavefront reaches them later, tilting the odds toward X = delta. Which is bad for them.
This effect could actually be material given the reported ability of an omicron infection to provide some immunity to delta; if so it *really matters*, net-outcome-wise, whether your next exposure/infection is one or the other. It’s not symmetric.
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2 Jan
There is a good point being made here that is worth thinking about even if identifying ‘western modernity’ and/or ‘capitalism’ as the culprit is a cliche misdiagnosis
Implicitly, there is some deal/tradeoff that has been made, wherein large/more-extended family living situations have been largely switched for nuclear-only

was this deal 100% desired, were all its terms entered with open eyes. Or was some of it inadvertent
One factor comes to mind is how the (all-in) tax burden on a salary nowadays is 40-50%, & a big chunk of what that supposedly buys you is a pension (i.e. paying for your aging parents to live elsewhere). Did we ‘choose’/want this attractor in the social-arrangement state space
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31 Dec 21
'vaccine hesitancy=people have lost trust in experts' is question-begging

why can't it be that a given person does not want to take the vaccine because they do not judge the risk vs. benefit ratio of doing so to be in their favor
'but that's exactly my point, it means they Don't Trust Experts'

no it doesn't, because no actual 'Expert' has actually calculated the risk-benefit ratio for that person. which Expert has done that, for that person? Joe Biden?
where the rubber meets the road, most individuals aren't being told to take the vaccine 'by Experts'. they're being told because their Mayor implemented a 'vaccine passport', or because Joe Biden told OSHA to make a workplace rule.

this isn't an Expert judgment happening.
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10 Nov 21
A repeated problem I have with the past 2 years of policy is that policies are hastily thrown in place and then reactively ‘defended’ by Smart People who *invoke the possible existence of an argument for them* rather than actually making that argument.
Lockdowns: wait why is this worth it? what justifies any of it? where can I find anyone putting forth something resembling, say, cost-benefit analysis?

Smart People: ‘well surely Lockdowns are justified *in some cases*. are you sure it *wouldn’t* pass a cost-benefit test?’
Vaccine mandates: wait, these vaccines don’t seem to suppress transmission that much, & to have a more-than-normal side-effect risk profile. What’s the argument for surmounting the presumption against forced medication?

Smart People: ‘surely vaccines can be mandated *sometimes*’
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