Unicode-American, former Institution Truster™, beagle mentor
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Apr 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Having a hard time understanding how one can be *two years* into this and not have wanted to really understand it, the mechanisms by which it functions.
I get those who just don’t have the time. But most of these people do.
It’s almost like we don’t trust ourselves at all. We’re on autopilot, outsourcing our brains, dependent solely on chaos-incentivized information streams + failed institutions to somehow spell it out for us.
Apr 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Listen to the batshit logical incoherence, total lack of evidence, and blatant emotional manipulation coming from the Twitter Doctors™ most outraged about masks on airlines. This isn’t new; these aren’t random one-offs. THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LIKE THIS THE ENTIRE TIME.
It just worked better before—they’d always been given the benefit of the doubt—because, unlike this situation, facts weren’t so observable as immediately absurd to people with no background in this stuff. But the mode was always the same. Exploiting empathy in lieu of a defense.
Apr 15, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
We were referred and screened into a really special intensive program for toddlers with significant hearing and communication disorders in SF. Went for our classroom day: masks required for all 2 y/os, SLPs, teachers, and parents. Director in an N95, muffled. Nobody can see lips.
No deimplementation timeline or plan; “People are still getting the virus.” Zero willingness to consider alternatives.
Sitting in the car, crying. We can easily afford to kludge together our own services and therapies. But other people? These kids are not being served.
Apr 13, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
We can’t have a serious discussion about a serious thing without reflexively devolving into high-stakes dichotomization. Now we have a dynamic where individual and institutional guardrails cease to function.
@DouthatNYT on the new American exceptionalism: nytimes.com/2022/04/13/opi…
Why us? Is this just the endpoint of our new social media-mediated reality, in a liberal-progressive context? Constantly performing support, being supportive enough, and not wanting to be perceived as “unkind,” to the extent it chills critical debate?
Idk how many more of these I can take you guys lol
Dec 23, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“Not only is the spread of this virus inevitable, it is necessary. In order for us to go from the pandemic phase to an endemic phase, the virus has to be widespread. We all have to have immunity. You will all have to develop immunity.” skynews.com.au/australia-news…
We are the virome, you guys. The whole thing is beautiful, a complex natural system.
Blessedly, modern science has given us vaccines to greatly reduce severe outcomes (but not really “cases”/“infections”) in many along the way.
But we can’t end-run Nature.
Nov 3, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
San Francisco becomes the first jurisdiction in the world to mandate EUA vaccination for all 5-11 year olds.
In ~8 weeks, all children ages 5+ will be required to carry proof of full vaccination in order to dine in a restaurant with family, take swimming lessons, and more:
In a public “town hall” tonight, SFDPH announced that vaccine card requirements to enter indoor spaces will be expanded to include ***all 5-11 year olds** eight weeks after on-the-ground availability. (Clip I trimmed from previous tweet is ~55:50-56:30.)
Sep 3, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
~58,000 children aged 0-5 are hospitalized with RSV annually in the United States.¹
~14,210 children aged 0-4 have been hospitalized with covid during the entirety of the pandemic thus far.²
We have to acknowledge how salience and novelty, our media, the political outrage economy, and other dynamics are impacting how we’re processing risk and how we’re generally responding to this stuff, psychologically and socially. At least with regard to very young children.
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