Just to make things abundantly clear, here's what happened in 2022: The *second* mpox started spreading globally, corporate flunkie journalists started minimizing it and attacking anyone who recommended a cautious, proactive approach. 🧵 Instead of putting pressure on the government to secure an adequate vaccine supply and fund the eradication of all clades of the disease, they bickered over methods of transmission and hurled fearmongering accusations.

Four years ago, when I tried to tell my colleagues at a university that Covid was most likely airborne and we needed more than "socially distanced classrooms," they told me I was jumping to conclusions. 🧵 When everyone was going around telling us kids couldn't get very sick from Covid, some of us doubted that, and we were told to calm down.

Shitlibs are having an absolute meltdown right now because the corporate media that's been telling them the pandemic is over and the economy is great has suddenly told them something they should've realized two years ago. And after years gulping down misinformation, throwing vulnerable groups under the bus, warmongering, and enabling genocide, they're going to blame everyone but themselves for what happens.

Here's my Covid conspiracy. It probably was, in fact, made in a lab through gain of function research. 🧵 The Chinese government didn't intend for the virus to escape at that time, under those circumstances. That was an accident.

After getting dragged through the mud and called all kinds of names for 4+ years, we have yet more data showing definitively that letting Covid rip everywhere was a horrible mistake we'll spend decades paying for.
bloomberg.com/news/features/… Highlight: In 44 countries, at least one disease has come back 10x worse than pre-pandemic baselines.

When you judge someone for not doing a major home repair themselves (like installing a water heater), here's what you're judging them for:
🧵 You're judging them for not growing up in an environment where they could watch, learn, and help someone make those repairs.

Can you spend 15 minutes alone with your thoughts, or would you prefer mild electric shocks?
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If You Love Being Alone, There's Nothing Wrong with You. okdoomer.io/love-being-alo… A UVA study found that nearly 70 percent of men and 25 percent of women preferred shocking themselves over 15 minutes of quiet reflection.

To all those who see the NC ban on masks as some kind of just punishment: The mask "mandates" from a few years ago were almost never enforced in states like North Carolina. 🧵 I know because I lived there. Every single day, I saw people refusing to wear masks or refusing to wear them appropriately.