I’ll be candid: I’m dreading this holiday season. While last year (winter of 2021/22) we were facing the formidable Omicron BA.1 variant, the U.S. at least had some mitigations in place, particularly mask mandates on transportation and general mask mandates
The #WheresWalensky watch is now over: CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has returned, unless her cat is wandering across her keyboard. I don’t know if she actually has a cat, but it would no doubt be a more honest broker
For those who are wondering #WheresWalensky, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky came out of her Paxlovid rebound following her COVID-19 infection in October long enough to pump some propaganda on CSPAN on 1 November. I don’t think there’s much here
I am writing this to all the privileged “blue check” Illuminati on Twitter (and no doubt elsewhere) who are currently punching down on the many, many people sending their heartfelt “thoughts and prayers” and raising middle fingers to Dr. Rochelle
“How do I process this? I have no one on the ground here who feels the exact same as me…” That’s essentially what a friend on Twitter asked me recently after emerging, shaken, from a situation where some incredibly vulnerable
If you’re reading this, you fall into one of two categories: someone who’s not vaxxed with the mRNA vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna and is considering Novavax, or someone who’s already mRNA-vaxxed and wants to get Novavax to improve your
“I mask 95% of the time in public indoors…” This isn’t new, but this “95% masking” rationalization seems to have become more of a thing lately, especially with COVID influencers…or minimizers. There are also other variations, like “masking when feasible.”
EDIT: I now feel it’s fine to name who “George” is – Gregg Gonsalves, and the “abstinence rooster” thread was his vitriolic response on Twitter for being called out for dining indoors, unmasked, with a couple of his fellow infectious
Now that President Biden has officially thrown us under the bus, I think we have to come to terms with a few unpleasant truths. First, there is no cavalry coming to save those of us still fighting to keep from
“The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with Covid. We’re still doing a lot of work on it…but the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And