Thread by @SethAbramson

BARI WEISS:

“It’s a pandemic of bureaucracy! It’s not real anymore!”

COVID-19:

I KILLED FOUR THOUSAND AMERICANS *YESTERDAY*

https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1484868809416753153

PS/ It’s hard to fully underscore how nonsensical what she’s saying is. Yes—we discovered that cloth masks aren’t as effective as had once been hoped. So what the hell do you take from that? When we mask up, we need to wear N95 masks. What does she take from it? No masks anymore!

PS2/ She lies in saying we were told getting vaccinated would preclude infection. No—we were told vaccination would lead to less serious illness. That’s *just* what happened. So what should we do? Get vaccinated and boosted! What does she think we should do? Nothing, apparently!

PS3/ The whole premise of her cheap, tawdry little rant is that she’s a moron who doesn't understand how public health works. The simple fact is that public health officials always give the best info that they have at the moment, but that info *definitionally* changes day to day.

PS4/ Yes, *many* people are depressed. I’m so sorry, Bari, that a pandemic that’s infected 75 million Americans with a deadly virus and killed 1.3 million of them—with undercount—in 21 months is *depressing* you! God forbid a global disaster not *amuse* you and your NYC friends!

PS5/ What the audience in LA was applauding—for Clay Travis’s information—was the sense of being *exhausted* by the pandemic. Because we *all* are. They were *not* applauding arrogant non-expert Bari Weiss’s idea of how to deal with a pandemic—which would cost *10,000 lives/day*.

PS6/ There’s a *reason* almost every other country on Earth goes into a state of emergency when it has an outbreak even 1/100 of what the United States has had for months now—and it’s certainly not because they’re less badass than we are, Bari, or less exhausted by the pandemic.

PS7/ Most countries simply have a lower tolerance for *piles of dead people* than Bari. They have a lower tolerance for 50% of the infected getting Long Covid—putting permanent strain on their healthcare system. They worry about the unknown long-term effects of Covid on children.

PS8/ Most countries know, as Bari—who has *no expertise in anything* except how to bilk money out of credulous conservatives—*doesn’t*, that when you let a deadly virus run rampant in your country you raise the odds substantially of a variant that’s more deadly and transmissible.

PS9/ And even here in america, anyone who reads major media understands that right now the actual COVID-19 death toll here is 54% higher than the reported tally, according to research on the undercount. And the number of infected may be *double* the already shocking tally we see.

PS10/ So excuse me for finding Bari Weiss’s sudden concern about a slight uptick in suicides absolutely *ghoulish*, as it’s entirely fake and performative and certainly mathematically preposterous: the increase is *subsumed* under the *literal daily tsunami* of new COVID-19 dead.

PS11/ But understand, too, that when you hear Weiss talk about the state of the pandemic—which she clearly doesn’t understand—what she’s advocating is a state of affairs in which *twice* as many die daily, and *twice* as many are infected, and our healthcare system *collapses*.

PS12/ If America were as badass as far-right demagogues like Weiss claim it is, we’d all have *voluntarily* withdrawn from unnecessary public interactions for 4 weeks back in April 2020—which would have killed this thing in the crib as it more or less did in 100+ other countries.

PS13/ I’m sickened by Maher bringing Weiss on to parade her stupidity, arrogance, cowardice and privilege before a country that needs the *bravery* to acknowledge it f*cked up the pandemic in the *opposite* way from what she says. She’s not speaking truth—she’s coddling *babies*.

PS14/ America’s the laughing-stock of the planet in how it’s handled the pandemic because people like Bari Weiss are so f*cking *soft* they can't imagine sacrificing for the greater good or acknowledging that life will have to be tough for a while. She's a privileged little sh*t.

PS15/ Other than that I don’t have any opinion on these far-right snowflakes.

NOTE/ If the smartest person Bill Maher can get on his show is *Bari Weiss*, he needs to pull the plug on his whole operation.

NOTE2/ And yes, I know even acknowledging that Bari Weiss *exists* just helps her print more money on the backs of far-right morons. I don’t care. Her ignorance and arrogance has already made her a multimillionaire—nothing anyone says will change that. She needs to be called out.

NOTE3/ I apologize for the strong language. Regular readers know that I do not swear often here. But *4,000* Americans died of a virus we have a vaccine for on the *very night* that this person issued her privileged little HBO rant. I’m so angry and so bitterly sad for all of us.