Abrupt

Ever since Trump took office, the amount of email, phone, and text spam I've received has tripled.

onward to the sea
bodies calve and calve and calve
a glacier of flesh

JAZZ

THE SAXOPHONE’S FITFUL

INTERROGATION

#APHAB

BODIES

FLUSH WITH YOUTH

REJOICE

Catch me up here. Under what condition can border security review the contents of your phone messages?

And we all laughed and laughed, and went on playing by the rules of the old world.

This is the worst Christian accelerationist halftime show ever.

Five years into a pandemic and NOW the CDC has fucking teeth?

Now that America has defeated the woke mind virus, we can say things that used to be problematic, like: “America will soon be a Third World country.”

Anyone want to place bets on when America withdraws from the United Nations?

Same. Who needs sus vaccines when our God-given unattractiveness will protect us?

The article was written by norovirus.

Too sick to cook, they all went to Applebee’s instead.

Prayer For The Embodied Life-form
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May you live to be
100-year-old meat

I dunno but I just had a great idea for a gender reveal party.

You mean preemptively compromising with the bad-faith opposition isn’t a winning strategy?

Really that was the focus of my original comment. I get the vaccine whenever I’m eligible, and I don’t at all believe reducing bad outcomes is useless. But many people remain confused, and I think misinfo is only part of the reason. PH didn’t figure out how to communicate clearly.

Also, even if the vaccines reduced transmission, telling people to stop masking while the virus was still circulating goes against established public health “multilayer protection” practices. Walensky went a year and a half without mentioning masks at all. The political pressure was palpable.

I also have (likely naive) faith that had the CDC focused on straight talk and what the science at the time was saying — and not trying to make people feel better — we might actually have seen better public health outcomes. We needed clear information, not hand holding, to counter misinformation.

Maybe there’s some whitewashing going on. The Health Matters column in TIME (11/25 issue) contains a quote from an infectious disease specialist, Dr. Yvonne Maldonado of Stanford, to the effect that vaccines were never intended to stop transmission. (Article isn’t online yet but I’ll keep checking.)

It’s good they’re promoting vaccination, though at this point it seems like a losing battle. My issue was the CDC’s announcement that fully-vaxxed people could tear off their masks and pretend it was 2019 again. The vaccines were never intended to prevent transmission, only to moderate outcomes.

At some point the whole “meet people where they are” approach to public health will mean doing absolutely nothing to promote public health.

5/13/2021 should be remembered as the day the CDC abandoned its public health mission in favor of politics and “messaging”.

May 13, 2021. CDC says vaccinated individuals don’t need to mask. Biden gives a speech to drive the point home. Omicron hits a few months later.

www.npr.org/2021/05/13/9...

Like he’ll probably try to rename Tuesday after himself or some narcissistic shit like that.

Can’t wait to hear what exciting new federal holidays Trump is going to declare.

How does the military track the trans status of service members? Like will this be a matter of going through personnel records? Or a witch hunt? And would the military simply jettison thousands of personnel without at least some pushback? Maybe this why Trump wants to fire “woke” generals…. Ugh.

The Coffee Riots of 2025

That, and supplying one more mechanism for arbitrary, at-whim prosecution / control. Like drug laws and as always, falling most heavily on vulnerable or underprivileged populations under the guise of "fairness".