John McQuaidVerifisert konto

Good luck and all support to everyone in Louisiana.https://twitter.com/NWSNewOrleans/status/1432079308139421697 …

(The one time Twitter > reality, and it's ignored by the people making decisions)

Richards as Jeopardy host had one set of problems. Richards as EP ran a flawed or frankly corrupt host selection process that undermined the Jeopardy brand, which seems a much graver offense.https://twitter.com/lindaholmes/status/1428727286929543171 …

The sad thing – I suspect – is that in the U.S., Afghanistan will be quickly forgotten. Which is bad for everybody involved *except* Biden!

Despite vast changes, US media stubbornly sticks to a template from the 1980s-1990s to frame political coverage, and now they are going back even further – because of how Gerald Ford suffered from the fall of Saigon?

There's a lot of Vietnam or Cold War-era comparisons vis a vis US politics, for instance, which seems like an exceptionally lazy comparison – a 50-year old take mapped onto a very different set of circumstances

Will we next see FL State Police arresting school administrators for implementing mask mandates to protect children/staff? Would that kind of escalation *help* DeSantis become president? etc.

You have to wonder if there is some point at which the DeSantis anti-masking jihad ceases to provide an advantage in Republican 2024 politics (if it actually does at all)https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1425213701586554883 …

IDK how you cram that context into a tweet, but this reinforces the "if you're vaccinated you're good" idea, a very 2-months-ago belief that now predominates even as circumstances have changed.

This is reassuring on one level but misleading on another, given growing evidence that vaccinated people can be infected and transmit the virus, and get sick – and also the wide geographic variance in infection rates - some places much riskier than others right now.https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1424795856214138881 …

Two issues that complicate assimilating new/always evolving Covid-19 information: 1. Old/outdated info continues to be spread by those who find it politically useful. 2. The old info (a bit later) is repurposed as "evidence" of experts/authorities being wrong or inconsistent.

No brief for Bowser here, but seems like the emerging lesson from Provincetown, Graham, etc. is that vaxxed masking is *not* pointless but helps prevent infection/spread, as vaccinated people can be infected and have large viral loads.https://twitter.com/TPCarney/status/1421789111111852038 …

No idea what the economic landscape looks like for vets now (shouldn't it be ... OK?) maybe they are being Amazoned by Chewy – or just trying to get in on that action. The vet plays hardball and I don't know whether to be impressed or annoyed. Well, annoyed. 6/end

When I called the vet to ask them to send me the prescription to complete the order, the receptionist gave me a hard sell on their service and spent a full minute trash-talking Chewy. /5

Well, the vet's office has its own online pharmacy (not clear who centrally runs the service, but the vet makes money from it). Now they are trying to undermine Chewy by making it harder to process the prescription order. /4

Today, the vet refused to do this; I got a call from a Chewy representative telling me I would have to go to the vet in person to pick up the prescription and then email them a photo. ??? /3