Paywall, but I think I've read enough...
NYT - Fauci explains he lies for our own good
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been slowly but deliberately moving the goal posts on when herd immunity is possible. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the U.S. is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.
Scientists initially estimated that 60 to 70 percent of the population needed to acquire resistance to the coronavirus to banish it. Now Dr. Anthony Fauci and others are quietly shifting that number upward.
Gravity is an interesting metaphor. The media is telling people that if they don't wear bike helmets they'll die from the next asteroid strike. In fact, if you don't wear your bike helmet you'll increase the chance of an asteroid strike, and that puts everyone at danger. Especially fat people... because they're bigger and more likely to get hit by asteroids, you know. Here's an easy infographic I got on Facebook that's Science that shows that. Oh, and don't you dare come out of your sky distancing cave until the Governor says it's okay. We have to be asteroid death free for a few hundred years to be sure there won't be anymore beyond that.
Meanwhile, all of these people who don't understand anything are listening to Neil D. Tyson and Bill Nye talk on TV about how you TOTALLY need to wear the bike helmet IN the cave, and Newtonian physics are bullshit because Newton was an old white guy. They're Scientists. The fucking KNOW shit like this, man.
The people being whipped for standing caveless and with bare heads are the astrophysicists and planetary scientists screaming around their gags about how gravity isn't a force, but a conjunction of space-time warping around mass. You can almost hear their desperate muffled pleadings of how that's not the important factor around what drives asteroid deaths, anyway. Which is perfectly OK... because the WHO has changed some things, and they have partnered with the CDC in releasing their findings based off of Chinese models that wearing bike helmets in underground caves will have absolutely no short or long term health, social or economic effects.
Merry Christmas. I'm going to go wrap presents before this buzz really sets in...
Dear Rip,
Happy Christmas to you and all at Starting Strength. Another brilliant podcast this morning, very much enjoyed after my AM deadlift session and pre-Xmas food gorging!
I got asked this question last night and the answer I gave made me feel like a rank hypocrite - but an honest one I guess. I hold human nature in lower regard than most people but I think it’s a realistic assessment - humans are by nature hypocrites to a greater or lesser degree. So I accept with gritted teeth and swallow hard some of my hypocritical behaviour in certain situations, foul tasting though it is and I try to minimise it. I would be interested to hear your answer to the same question:
If the current (silly) government measures taken to tackle Covid-19 saved the life of the one person you loved most (eg. Mom, nephew, Steph, a past University lecturer) who happened to be in one of the most vulnerable demographics at maximum risk of Covid-19 death eg. auto-immune disorder, would you be willing to allow these measures to stay in place regardless of the consequences to everybody else - yes or no?
It's almost as though he's really REALLY interested in your getting the vaccine. I wonder why.
An excellent question, since the only believable answer to it is Yes. However, I am quite close to 65, getting into the COVID death neighborhood, and I don't own a mask. That might tell you something, along with the fact that anyone I know in the vulnerable demographics can be protected without the "help" of the government. And my way doesn't destroy anyone else's business, mental health, or will to live.
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From the Greatest City In The World:
Cuomo staffer hit in head with cinder block during random NYC attack
NY Woman Faces 25 Years on Gun Charges for Possessing Props, Toys — WTF??? - GunsAmerica Digest
Look at these fucking clowns (this will offend Hurling): https://twitter.com/NYPD112Pct/statu...117697/photo/1