I don’t know. I kind of enjoyed reading this story today.
Q seems to have disappeared for now. Whoever they are, they’ve largely abandoned their base after riling them up for years — and have not posted new “Q drops” since 2020. But the people who believe in Q are wrestling with whether to keep on believing or to abandon a cause that, for some, became core to their identities. Some might be deprogramming themselves, while others are cherry-picking the parts of the movement they want to hold on to. But the people I spoke to say their feelings have changed drastically from when they were following the inauguration to when Biden’s stimulus checks were being sent out.
Again, mostly agreed. But the Canadian comparison seems most fruitful to me. Their first peak was shortly after our own, and it was nearly as high as ours too. But unlike the U.S., they got their numbers really low and kept it that way throughout the summer band well into the fall, and their winter rebound was far less damaging than ours. I don’t know what Canada is doing that is so much better than us, but I hope somebody is studying it.
This is their advantage. But it is the 50x relative mortality rate that still bugs me. Being only 10x or 20x as bad would have been a huge improvement.
Regarding Europe, I think we are in the same boat as Sweden, which opted for herd immunity and has a similar per-cap mortality rate.
Of course, they were attempting to keep the wheels on the clunker that’s up on bricks outside Mar-a-Lago, so it was something of a futile gesture. Alternately, they were trying to keep the wheels on the Ship of State, which was equally pointless…
Maybe instead of being permanently disappointed that such people are flagellating themselves properly or not wearing the right Hairshirts or did not convert to anti-Trump in the right way, we should focus rather on promoting the Failure Narrative to damage Trumpism more
For fuck’s sake people Jesus - Brix, whatever, it’s done, and piously intoning from Lefty Heights that it’s Too Late is stupid. It’s not too late as there is still the zombie virus Trumpism raging rampent and every tool is needed.
These narratives from Trump admin insiders of various flavors can be used.
Interesting points. Dr. Debbie remarked that donald understood “the importance of the granularity.” Such buzz-word crap.
Here’s what this refers to - and I had to get this from Techopedia: Data granularity is how detail-oriented a single field is in your data sets. “A good example of data granularity is how a name field is subdivided, if it is contained in a single field or subdivided into its constituents such as first name, middle name and last name. As the data becomes more subdivided and specific, it is also considered more granular.”
Sure, it’s clear Donald would not “really understand this.” I’m not even sure Dr. Debbie understands it.
I’m sorry that Fauci participated in these interviews. I understand he has loyalty to his own kind but I’d rather he hadn’t contributed to Birx and Co’s attempt to reinvent themselves, which was rather sick making to watch – though I have to admit @Fellows above has a point and damage to Trump is good even if it allows a number of his abjectedly failed officers to whitewash their failures.
And I did very much like the moment where Fauci claimed the decision to develop vaccines as his own. Quite a barb to Trump, I’m sure, hearing Fauci say that this decision on vaccine development was the best call he made. Talk about chopped liver. Take that, Donald.
But the other moment that made me sit up straight was when Redfield claimed Trump never made things hard for him, ever. Only Azar. As if Azar called the shots on his own and didn’t dance on a string for his boss. This letting of Trump off the hook, this refusal to blame him for anything was even more astonishing to me than Redfield’s claim – with no evidence to back it up – that the virus came out of Wuhan’s biolabs. Which was also pretty astonishing, but still not up to the Trump good Azar bad moment. That was just wow and very curious.
It’s obvious that as big an ax as he may have to grind against Trump, it was nothing next to the resentment Redfield feels for Azar. There’s got to be quite a story there.
Just to emphasize what BS the idea “if you want a test you can get a test” was in March, here is the plot of daily tests in the US. It is a steady climb to the middle of July, the peak of the summer surge. Then it is flat until the start of the fall surge. So in March we were three to four months away from “if you want a test you can get a test”.
As a footnote, during much of the fall surge, if you wanted a test you could not get one because the testing centers were swamped, thanks to what was effectively Trump promoting spread of the virus.
Until someone figures out how to vaccinate against lies, propaganda and disinformation, we are stuck right here in the middle of the shitdemic. Watching the media whip themselves right into a “both sides do it” frenzy over everything FOX tells them to panic about has completely restored my lack of faith in most journalism (present company excluded). And it only took 2 months!
