“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead

I used to ship with @FedEx but will never do so again. This package was due to arrive last 4 days ago. This is just incompetence at this point.

Nice work @FedEx! Due Tuesday, then on the way for three days, then suddenly delayed in the facility it's be On The Way from for three days.

Is @w_network no longer putting @hallmarkchannel movies on @stacktv?

@sdbaral I can't believe that my mathematical model - that treats human beings as unthinking programmable automatons and every pet project I have concocted as being 100% effective in achieving my goals - ended up telling me that, if not for human nature, my pet projects would have worked!

Good news from the CDC…

Just when I think that people can’t sink any lower, I find myself even more disgusted. If you think this way it isn’t because of your “concern for others”. It is your absolute lack of humanity. https://t.co/Pvh19vqbSd

@JamesHoweWR @j4shah Why do Canadian believe closing schools is an option? Why does it require far more things when the things we are doing are considered to be a way more than what is needed by everyone else… in the world.

https://t.co/G0a5d7HrGR

Well, there you have it.

Let me perfectly clear, I would be happy to chat with anyone about the benefits of vaccination but will never stigmatize them if they choose not to get vaccinated. I see no role for judgment and shame in medicine or public health. I never have and never will.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but pretending you’re slowing the spread of COVID by supporting a bunch of totalitarian mandates that impose enormous costs on children, minorities and the poor does not make you virtuous or caring. Actually it just makes you a fascist.

@RobynUrback The ruling class are not just raising the idea, they are shaping a dangerous narrative. https://t.co/i8htiYSsR8

How does OSHA's "epidemiological expertise" determine that vaccination has to be required in all companies with 100 or more employees regardless of workplace population, type etc. Ah... he just hit that

The importance of the Supreme Court’s decisions in the OSHA and CMS cases, which will be argued this morning, cannot be overstated. I would go so far as to say the future of freedom in America hangs in the balance.

I've said this for two years now. Those who understand real risk are not that concerned about Covid. Those who typically face little risk - office staff for example - are terrified.

Somebody finally read the decades of mask studies pre-2020 that show at best a low certainty of the efficacy of any kind of mask (let alone cloth) for aerosol-transmitted viruses. If only they had done that sooner.

The canary in the coal mine...

All of this has been based on "what we thought people would be able to tolerate." Your willingness to wear masks and get vaccines to travel (or whatever inconvenience you were trying to avoid) enabled all of it.

So Omicron is basically the equivalent of a vaccine.