There's a series of short ads that play before videos on YouTube. They're targeted to Rhode Island, and I assume there are equivalents for other states. They always end with an admonition to get vaccinated, get your kids vaccinated, mask up, and social distance. These steps are supposed to be meaningful in the aggregate, although it's self-evident that even proponents find them individually useless.
In related news we have an indoor mask mandate again. Which is especially fun because it's doubly removed from any kind of public input. Governor McKee gave the order yesterday without going through the legislature, and he was only elected to be Lieutenant Governor. Why should New York have all the fun? I guess.
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From Jer:
So why did public-health authorities abandon their opposition to lockdowns? Why did they rush to embrace the untested claims of flawed epidemiological modeling? One answer appears in the Johns Hopkins study from 2019: “Some NPIs, such as travel restrictions and quarantine, might be pursued for social or political purposes by political leaders, rather than pursued because of public health evidence.”
a good, brief commentary on 'non-pharmaceutical interventions' from the wall st. journal
&, afa your 'governor' by-passing the legislature, here's the latest from a personal favorite, michael tracy
but hang in there - the tide is turning (painfully slowly, admittedly):
can't find this story anywhere in the msm, btw...
One of the things that can make a person cynical--and arguably should do so--is the sheer number of these well-reasoned warnings from the past. In this case the very recent past. And then a few years before that there was an ACLU blue paper warning that in aggressive attempts to stop the spread of a virus "people rather than disease become the enemy." But from March 2020 these cautions have pretty much been memory-holed. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the authorities have considered all the harms they're doing and concluded that they're worth the cost, and maybe even positive in themselves. I think the WSJ article at least hints at this, or at least all the elements are there.
Tracey has been very good of late on the inanity of restrictions, especially on college campuses.
South Africa really does seem to have done a 180 on this. You can't entirely kill the story but yeah, I bet most Americans have no idea.
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