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Feb 18 4 tweets 2 min read
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.

#MakeNormalNormalAgain
people do not need more pharmaceutical intervention or piles of predatory struggle session therapy/re-education regimens.

they just need fellowship, human contact, networks of friends and colleagues with whom they can express themselves and find commonality.
instead we push alienation, aggrievement, and suspicion. we push ideas of structural hate and unbridgeable difference.

we turn a melting pot into a jar of lonely bugs shaken until they fight then medicated until they stop.

that's not the path to any future you want to inhabit
this isn't that hard guys. it was managed for 1000's of years

we're just breaking the basic mechanisms that generate civilization, community, & well being

all we have to do is stop calling it disease and discord and let humans go be humans

or did you have something better to

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More from @boriquagato

Feb 16
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
Read 6 tweets
Feb 14
this is pure lexical and semantic fiction.

"woke" is not some crypto-racist dog-whistle

it refers v specifically to folks who use post-modernist/marxist word games to "intersectionally other" people to demand power & deference and prevent criticism

like, say, you.
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 Image
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.

Read 4 tweets
Feb 3
the h1n1 scare was a scandal around a weak virus and a vaccine that had to be pulled off the market for harming people

indeed, we do need to learn from the past, stop doing this, and abandon mRNA and adenovirus as failed vaccine modalities

let's stop falling for fear porn.
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.

seems a badly misleading story inclusion.
Read 9 tweets
Feb 3
"no longer" appears to be serious misframing here.

these vaccines were never sterilizing. they did nothing to stop spread.

they never offered positive risk reward for young, healthy students on an absolute basis.

so what is the case they were EVER a good idea for universities?
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.

boriquagato.substack.com/p/are-covid-bo…
Read 7 tweets
Feb 2
ready for a shock?

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.

my how things change...

nytimes.com/1976/12/21/arc…
goodness, this sounds scary.

i hope nothing like this ever happens again...
boy, it's a good thing there was no twitter to get kicked off of back then, because this kind of thinking can get you in trouble...
Read 7 tweets
Feb 2
platforms are over.

the attention economy was a dead end.

the reputation economy is coming.

it's not about being loud or inflammatory, it's about having people trust and care about what you have to say.

"old media" is not ready for what this means...

dailyfetched.com/cnns-chris-wal…
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"

"objectivity" has become a pejorative.

this idea has no future.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
it's boring, joyless ideological tantrum tossing to inflame & annoy its way to prominence but the squalling search for attention has driven it mad.

we're on the steep part of the discrediting curve.

no one cares and pretty much no one wants to hear it.

lights out.

game over.
Read 6 tweets

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