Boo! I will miss them! New resort, new style, no recaps—so much to get used to this year.

Are you not doing recaps this season?

I would hope, but I’ve seen a lot of studies that are based on self report. Re: this study, I’d be shocked if they were PCRing that many people frequently over a prolonged period. And if testing with RATs, those have limitations (especially in the U.S. where official guidance is still nose only)

Similarly, I think denying the shortcomings of mRNA vaccines and the way their effectiveness was overhyped has made people distrustful. People are still told they’re the best way to prevent infections, and can see people all around them still getting covid.

Also worth considering that public health’s silence re: the long covid and other post covid complications people are seeing all around them created a vacuum anti-vax propagandists have been eager to fill. By failing to educate PH allowed them to seize the narrative.

Not to mention, how are they even tracking infections for a study like that? Self report? I wonder if there’s a correlation between not getting vaccinated and never testing.

Dr. Phil too

Also how you create more anti-vaxxers or vax skeptics when vaccines don’t live up to that promise.

Two things can be true though. This thread on the other site got me thinking about how the right wing has used these tactics before. The part about bot farms felt very familiar. Antisemitism on the left definitely exists but it serves the far right’s purposes to stoke it x.com/jmj/status/1...

We've been telling Republicans for years now that "If there's one Nazi at your rally, then it's a Nazi Rally."

We must now have the courage to apply those same principles to ourselves.

Now that you’ve set the foundation, could you please take a closer look at the billions McKinsey has collected from all levels of government in countries around the world pushing mass covid infection and a return to normal?

Some receipts:

x.com/arijitchakra...

x.com/mamatoronto/...

Toronto Public Library is the best. Really. I took it for granted growing up. I thought every library system had this stuff.

As a kid, we’d borrow 16mm movies and a projector from the library and do family movie nights on the wall at home.

The clickety clack of that projector is a fond memory.