From a review in #TheGuardian
What I know from others' summaries makes me think these profs do protest "partisan bias" too much, suggesting that the #pandemic wasn't as bad as the political response, and that #maskMandates and #lockdowns should have been based on public opinion.
After a few decades on the #internet the highlighted text told me everything I needed to know.
#books #apologists #WolvesInSheepsClothing #populism #CryptoMAGA #details
![Screenshot from The Atlantic. It has the cover of Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee's book "In Covid's Wake," with a thumbs-down emoji some enterprising and no doubt good-looking person pasted over it.
The text of the article shown is: Policy learning seemed to be short-circuited during the pandemic,” Lee said. “It became so moralized, like: ‘We’re not interested in looking at how other people are [responding to the pandemic], because only bad people would do it a different way from the way we’re doing’.”
She and Macedo spoke to the Guardian by video call. The Princeton University professors both consider themselves left-leaning, and the book grew out of research Macedo was doing on the ways progressive discourse gets handicapped by a refusal to engage with conservative or outside arguments. “Covid is an amazing case study in groupthink and the effects of partisan bias,” he said.
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Vijf jaar na het uitbreken van de coronacrisis in Nederland toont een ruime meerderheid begrip voor het handelen van de overheid in die tijd, blijkt uit onderzoek van het RTL Nieuwspanel. Het kabinet-Rutte dat vanaf maart 2020 lockdowns, avondklok en thuisonderwijs afkondigde om verspreiding van...
Darren Aronofsky, Brendan Fraser – „The Whale“ (2022)
Jetzt mal ehrlich: Dieser Film war ein Monster. Auch wenn es „nur“ drei Oscars dafür gab, hat dieses kleine Kammerspiel für mich 22/23 die Saison als größte Überraschung dominiert. Es war schlicht unglaublich, was Arronofsky und Fraser aus einem Theaterstück extrahiert und auf die Leinwand gebracht haben. (ARD)
Online child exploitation spiked during lockdowns. Police worry it's here to stay
Online predators are becoming increasingly resourceful in trolling media platforms where children gravitate, prompting an explosion in police case loads, said an officer who works for the RCMP Integrated Child Exploitation Unit in British Columbia.
#childexploitation #police #lockdowns #BritishColumbia
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/online-child-exploitation-spiked-during-lockdowns-police-worry-it-s-here-to-stay...
Radboud study links #lockdowns to heightened #immune reactions #postpandemic
Blah blah blah - #LOCKDOWNS ATE MY HOMEWORK
“a substantial proportion of pediatric #COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms exhibit abnormal neuroimaging findings - 43.74% of #children in the included studies demonstrating such abnormalities”
I remember how during the early part of the COVID pandemic, cops kept harassing people for exercising outside. I remember when all park benches were removed because sitting down outside was no longer allowed. I remember having to sit on the cold ground when I got tired while out walking because there was nowhere to sit. I remember human shit on the sidewalks because public bathrooms were all shut down. I remember when people hugged through big sheets of plastic. I remember long lines outside of grocery stores. I remember not being allowed to purchase exercise equipment because it wasn't considered an essential. #Pandemic #covid #lockdowns
Class, welcome to Fascism 101. (A) Appoint people meant to dismantle government. (B) When the planned chaos comes, demand more power to "fix" what you've created. (C) Repeat.
#CovidIsNotOver #COVID #vaccine #health #care #USA #deaths #capitalism #kills #lockdowns #airborn #virus #government #department #service #hospital #nurse #doctor #skeptic #denier #conspiracy #theorist #theory #fascim #fascist #GQP #GOP #Republican #Senate #confirmation #recess #appointments https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4yxmmg1zo
COVID-19 lockdowns linked to accelerated brain aging in adolescents, particularly in girls https://www.psypost.org/covid-19-lockdowns-linked-to-accelerated-brain-aging-in-adolescents-particularly-in-girls/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #COVID19 #lockdowns #brainaging #adolescents #mentalhealth
Canadian Port Shutdowns Underway Likely to Bring Economic Headwinds http://dlvr.it/TG2zc8 #Class1railroad #economicheadwinds #freightrailroad #lockdowns
Max Igan on LSNT - Final Chessboard
https://vigilante.tv/videos/watch/dfcf9515-60c7-4f3e-9482-32f2fe4f0c6f
Pret Air Maniac - During Lockdown Pret Manger was the only food place open
https://fair.tube/videos/watch/dc51ec5d-f8b6-4987-a7d3-77966f88ec3d
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Viel Lärm um Lockdowns
Von Franca Parianen @Fparianen
„Hinweise auf schnellere #Hirnalterung bei Jugendlichen durch #Corona-#Lockdowns“, titelte der MDR und blies ins selbe Horn wie zuvor die New York Times und der Guardian. Eine US-amerikanische Studie berichtet von verstärkter #Ausdünnung in der #Hirnrinde junger #Mädchen.
https://www.taz.de/!6034512
[Audio] #Falseclaims about #Haitian #migrants in #Ohio #city lead to #threats of #violence.
#Springfield faces repeated #evacuations, #lockdowns and #cancellations after the spread of #Trump's #falseclaims about #Haitian #migrants. #NPR's #SteveInskeep talks to reporter #JessicaOrozco.
I have questions about this study. For example, did they compare the brains of teens who haven't had Covid with those who have? Were there differences?
Teen brains 'aged' during Covid lockdowns, new research suggests
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/covid-lockdowns-teen-brains-aged-prematurely-rcna169966
Kill Gates’ Pest Control Agenda In Action
https://vigilante.tv/videos/watch/e416ed1a-b10d-4109-a471-827c7dba0a01
#Covid #lockdowns and #vaccines saved almost a million lives in the US over the last four years. There’s the really important part. If you stop reading now, remember that. Everything else is commentary.
The number will grow over time, because covid is still killing people. Last time I checked, it accounted for 0.4% of US deaths, 30-40 per day. Thirty or forty people who desperately wanted another year, another month, another day, another hour. Thirty or forty grieving families. Thirty or forty lifetimes of memory gone. Thirty or forty worlds entire.
Better than hundreds, or thousands, and if you don’t remember those days then it’s because you’ve made yourself forget. I can’t say I blame you.
Cost, you say? Cost? I’m sure economists can break it down to the penny. Places I loved died, as surely as people. Ruined careers, shattered dreams, lives not ended but made less. Yes. I acknowledge this.
I say the real cost cannot be measured in money. The nineteenth crow broke us. We have collective post-covid syndrome, and it’s not going away any time soon. Our sanity, not just as individuals but as a people, was maybe never that great to start with. Now it’s staggering down the alley talking to itself, grabbing onto walls for support, and baby, there’s no detox for that.
Some of those eight hundred thousand actively take the side of a virus against their fellow human beings. They survived not because of science or medicine or even plain luck, but because of some special virtue. They were chosen by divine favor. They came through okay, so it was never that bad. They know it was a commie plot. Whatever. You’ve heard it all before.
Not a majority, I still believe that. A hundred thousand? Two? Three?
Enough, along with tens of millions of others.
There it is, the worst cost of all. We tolerate their continued existence, these traitors to humanity, because the alternative is horror. Because we still hope, desperately, that we might be able to bring some of them around. Because they’re our families and friends. Because we’re better than them.
We pay for them, every day, and we will keep paying for the rest of our lives.
Next time, and there will be a next time, they’ll be ready. Will you? Eight hundred thousand saved—and over a million gone. They’ll do their best to add to the latter number. For anyone you love, whatever side they’re on, stand up. Do what’s right, and never stop pushing others to do the same.
Maybe it’s time for me to stop banging this drum. I don’t believe that, though. The next virus, or bacterium, or parasite … it will be ready too.
"#Facemask directives have been more effective at controlling the spread of #COVID19 than #lockdowns or #physicaldistancing" https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/21/6/654
@Wen do find it staggering most of these sort of things talking about the problem caused by the rise in long term sickness never mention impact of #lockdowns #Covid #LongCovid #CaringResponsibilies Where we are in rural #NorthYorkshire there is bugger all in the way of #MentalHealth services or support for #carers now. We work with many people with severe mental health issues who used to have a lot of professional help but due to staff leaving and cuts to services have lost their support from social workers or psychiatric nurses - we do a lot of advocacy trying to get appropriate help again. This is just desperate 'skiver bashing' to try and win a few votes.
