this bizarre modern fixation upon the idea that all difficulties are pathologies and that no one ever had a hard time or found adolescence confusing/disorienting and that everyone needs to be medicated has become a full blown mental illness of its own.
the US has about 1,000 train derailments a year, roughly 3 per day.
this is worth keeping in mind as we try to separate this new "oh my gawd, train sabotage!" furor that's building as stories spread.
is rate actually up?
or is it just reporting that changed?
the internet seems to really struggle with the idea of "base rate" likely because you can make nearly anything look like some crazy clustering or wild trend by just starting to report on it all the time
whatever you get focused on suddenly looks like a crisis
it's easy to pass off "this happens all the time but you never bothered to notice" as "scary new crisis"
it's also attention garnering and profitable
but it's not a lens through which you want to see the world
don't trust any of these claims unless they reference a base rate
it refers v specifically to folks who use post-modernist/marxist word games to "intersectionally other" people to demand power & deference and prevent criticism
it's funny how desperate wokesters are not to be called by their real names
perhaps that's because their whole movement is childish "punch no punchbacks" fraud and can survive neither interrogatory nor even handed application
it's just squalling for unassailable privilege
woke is the bratty demand for adherence to a victim cult of aggrievement to be respected as if it were virtue rather than an excuse to be lazy and trap yourself in failure, dependence, and depredations upon others.
swine flu, h1n1, zika, dengue, ebola, monkeypox, there are an infinite number of hobgoblins waiting to audition to be the "new scary thing" and drive budgets.
and we keep winding up in the same mess because crisis sells papers and pharma alike.
h5n1 is just the latest model.
and calling this a 56% CFR is absurd when you're talking about 2 cases since 2015. these are obviously people with some congenital vulnerability or extreme immune issues.
you cannot conclude anything meaningful about genpop from that.
given low base risk, iffy efficacy, and high AE's,
vaxx did not, on a net basis, protect most (maybe any) students.
note that these negative outcomes are cumulative and need to be added as you must take d1 to get to d2 etc.
and boosters looked to be much worse on AE's per dose so this trend likely kept getting worse for college kids as more jabs with even more negative risk/reward were forced on them.
this is from the @nytimes from 1976 as they excoriate the ford administration for bungling the rushed to market swine flu vaccine that was ultimately pulled from use for being unsafe.
media appear hell bent on being purveyors of their own endlessly entitled biases as their "lived experience," agenda, and phantasmagoric "identities" trump concepts like "truth" and "facts"