14/ Life often sucks. People get targeted for physical attacks (middle school), social ostracism (other stages), suffer bankruptcies, severe loneliness, involuntary celibacy, heart break, divorce, deaths of loved ones It's all in the normal deck of cards This is w/i bellcurve
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25/ ok, so the European theater of World War II wasn't "almost over" when we crossed the Rhine? Pacific War wasn't "almost over" when we nuked Hiroshima? This is a made up definition. https://twitter.com/ITBeHa/status/1357394922744274945 …
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26/ 70% is the cut off for herd immunity. Between vaccines and prior infected, US is up to about 1/3 of that. Rate of infection is already slowing bc of partial herd immunity. Yes, covid is almost over.
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27/ This is EXACTLY my point. Normal people have "I am terribly lonely" experiences ALL THE GOD DAMNED TIME, and, yes, it very much sucks ... but it's TYPICAL, COMMON, NORMAL. It is not "abuse". It just sucks.https://twitter.com/The_Petrichory/status/1357395223798681600 …
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28/ A lot of people kill themselves all the time. Life is cruel, life can suck. I've seen tons of people saying "suicide is spiking", but no serious data. https://twitter.com/ITBeHa/status/1357395573163311108 …
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29/ "perpetual" ? There is no "perpetual". There is "until the vaccine rolls out / we hit herd immunity". And we're already 1/3 of the way there.https://twitter.com/LostConservativ/status/1357396120255791113 …
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30/ Failing to put my faith in your assertion that "a policy that absolutely everyone hates will persist forever ; I know this because reasons" is not remotely about me trusting government. It's about me trusting feedback loops. https://twitter.com/TheAgeofShoddy/status/1357396110944387072 …
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31/ TSA is reasonably popular, tho. You can mess with people's shoes and they're all "muh thing blue line!". You tell people that they can't go to bars, though ... https://twitter.com/TheAgeofShoddy/status/1357397880668102656 …
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32/ No, I certainly don't think that (a) anyone should make light of the loneliness and unhappiness, (b) anything you say can make it much better HOWEVER, there is a teaching opportunity here, along the lines of "be grateful for how much you still have"https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1357398878186729475 …
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33/ I don't block people over their opinions. (or over anything, actually) I mute people if they express those opinions in stupid / annoying ways. I'll listen to anything if the S/N ratio is high enough.https://twitter.com/Laserpig_Utopia/status/1357399365661384707 …
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35/ I don't take issue with either of those things ... as I've said like 5 or 10 times in this thread. What I take issue with this the failure to CALIBRATE. Does it suck? Yes Are people lonely and sad? Yes Is it "abuse" ? Is it motivated by cruelty? No https://twitter.com/TheAgeofShoddy/status/1357402650216693762 …
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36/ This is a very good insight.https://twitter.com/Laserpig_Utopia/status/1357403188358447104 …
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37/ EXACTLY I am perfectly willing to debate the policy. I can't imagine that it is the best policy, or implemented well. What I hate is the very left-style "NOTE THE MAGNITUDE OF MY SUFFERING AND THEN AGREE WITH ME, BECAUSE SUFFERING = VIRTUE"https://twitter.com/AngryFoodie2015/status/1357403123568963585 …
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38/ > not in evidence see here: https://twitter.com/poutinecurd/status/1357404348628824066 … https://twitter.com/poutinecurd/status/1357404348628824066 …
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39/ > If it were, you would not see "case" numbers diving first, there was a recent change in methodology for computing the statistic, second of all, herd immunity is not a boolean - partial herd immunity decreases R0
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