Most likely c. privilegium album; it’s really hard to immunize against it in de facto segregated communities where the Bible is viewed as a scientific text. Multicultural exposure during early childhood is sometimes effective.
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Yeah honestly I think it’s just childish entitled folks who think if they cry or rage hard enough they will get what they want. I see a lot of “it’s not my fault so I shouldn’t have to wear a mask” attitudes and it strikes me as about as deep and intelligent as a four year old who doesn’t want their teeth brushed.
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There’s actually some research to suggest that WATB is a real thing, and that you can detect future Republicanism in 5-year-olds.
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There’s all sorts of rationalizing, but at its base this is mostly totemic tribalism: this is how we are different, and therefore how we are better than them. (insert @beschizza lecture on scrubbing language)
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The argument that I am starting to see is “Yes, the daily cases are going up, but the important numbers are hospitalizations and deaths, and they are still trending down, so we are OK.” So I looked, and it is true enough that deaths are trending down. But deaths are a lagging indicator. Lagging by roughly 2 weeks, give or take. 2 weeks ago, the daily case numbers had hit their minimum, about 19k/day around 6/10. We are currently running ~32k/day. And trending sharply up. Wanna bet 2 weeks from now, the deaths are trending sharply up as well? I will. Idiots will take comfort in whatever they can to support the position they already have.
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I was just explaining this to my family. Not that they are idiots, it’s that they are worried about what the idiots will say, and I provide them with ammunition to shoot the idiots down.
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Genocidal liars.
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There will be no consequences. Watch.
When I caught up with Mulligan, he emphasized that he didn’t break any U.S. laws in his mask business.
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Democracy dies in dumbness.
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I didn’t realize it was possible for someone to look more like a ghoul of Lindsay Graham than Lindsay Graham already does, but this guy somehow manages it.
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Once he saw who was doing the dying, he learned to love Trumpvirus.
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I don’t know who is behind this account, but damn are they not pulling punches lately.
If only it was just the deniers that got hurt like this.
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From my knowledge, that might be underestimating the lag. I might be mistaken, but I think the estimates for Germany were that you would get bad after two weeks, get hospitalised around three weeks, and around week six the majority of cases who don’t get better die. Some last longer. Some do get better, and I don’t have any numbers in mind. (That’s all so simplified that it’s surely false, but the message was: deaths lag by about six weeks to an (early-ish) diagnosis.
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It’s the basic dominance test. If they get away with it, they win. It proves they’re on top.
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I think even those idiot maskless spring-breakers were probably pretty safe; there doesn’t seem to be much transmission outdoors. The indoor clubs afterwards are another story.
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I’m trying to imagine a world where that would be worse than what was currently happening.
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Checking out the latest on CDC’s Covid-19 Dashboard:
The US accounts for 25.7% of the world’s covid-related deaths…
… while the US accounts for the 4.4% of the world’s population.
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
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…to the point where, when most countries peaked in April, the US reached its highest daily figure only yesterday, and the trend looks like it’s continuing.
(From worldometers.info)
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Of course, this is just a snapshot in time; at one point Italy had an even more disproportionate fraction of covid-related deaths. Some large-population chunks of the world (like India) are lagging on the timeline, and only Putin knows what the real numbers are in Russia.
What is important is that the US, a nation that prides itself on its wealth and democratic principles, 125k people have died, many (possibly most) needlessly due to execrable leadership and a profit-oriented healthcare sector.
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