What in the Demon Hell is Herd Immunity?😠
Andy Slavitt will explain.
COVID Update September 6: There’s a lot of Twitter mansplaining about herd immunity.
Here’s what it means. 1/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) September 6, 2020
1. The first thing it means is “This is too hard. I give up. We might as well just get it dear & get it over with.”
Tired of missing your football games? Aching to go to the BBQ? Believe in herd immunity. 3/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) September 6, 2020
2. The second thing it means is “Having studied epic graphs for 2 months now, I declare myself an expert.”
A variation of this is that people like my tweets when I talk about herd immunity. Nothing makes me feel more alive than relevance! 5/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) September 6, 2020
Besides this group say a pre-print is a study on T-cell cross-immunity.
Well, they didn’t see the study. They saw an article about it.
OK, they didn’t see an article but someone tweeted about it.
Same difference. Anyone can put 2 & 2 together. Must be herd immunity. 7/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) September 6, 2020
3. Another thing herd immunity means is “I personally feel safe.”
These are people who only understand one word of the phrase “infectious disease.”
50% is not bad. 9/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) September 6, 2020
Yes risk managers have demonstrated that people always believe they need to be protected from other people’s dumb behavior but no one thinks anyone ever needs to be protected from theirs. 11/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) September 6, 2020
The survival of the fittest argument put forward by Kirk Cousins, PhQB is put forward by the guy who tells his friends: “have you noticed we don’t know many people dying from COVID?” 13/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) September 6, 2020
But what about the bus boy at the bar? The farm worker? All those people you hang out with Kirk who have no choice but to be near you or work to serve you.
Are they not the fittest? It’s not that you don’t know them. It’s that you never learned their names. 15/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) September 6, 2020
B- It’s not just old people where this is life threatening. It’s sick or previously sick people too. 1 in 3 Americans have a prior illness or disability. Or healthy people w high volumes of exposure. This can be life threatening if you spread this sound. 17/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) September 6, 2020
The herd is relative still to behavior and mobility, infection rates, superspreaders, immunities, length of immunity. And clinical advances. 21/
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) September 6, 2020
Candace Owens is a useful idiot to white supremacists/the racist alt-right.. in much the same way the likes of Nina Turner have come to be for the racist alt-left..
They exist not just as paid black mouthpieces and more importantly, as blackfaces/black cover for virulent racists.. they also provide the warped talking points masquerading as ‘concern’ for black America, ‘cultural insights’, lingo that said racists can freely wield as they arrogantly dig in, while some pretend to ‘finesse’ their racism.. all courtesy of these ‘black mouthpieces’ flashed selectively and fleetingly, as the ‘black’ person they ‘respect’..
This paid gig rewards the most mediocre and most hollow of performers..
And the more notoriety and huge paydays these blackface hustlers get for their service to racists… and the worse the economy gets …the more spin-offs, copycats, recruits to this black mouthpiece, blackface as cover for racists, hustle..
https://twitter.com/jeffadler22/status/1300029555948781570?s=20
Yeah, I grew up with these people. The word back then was “prejudiced” as in “I’m not prejudiced BUT blah blah…”.
Only the double Ivy League educated black FLOTUS was discussed in this way.. No other speaker at either convention..
These are your ‘allies’..
https://twitter.com/cajunglory/status/1295559696049491968?s=20
Funny how all politicians and public figures use speechwriters, and no matter how hard they try, still end up giving mostly forgettable speeches..
Yet, curiously, it is only the Princeton and Harvard educated historic black FLOTUS who bizarrely, endlessly gets the ‘bravo to her speechwriter!’ response from the usual suspects.. including supposed ‘allies’ and ‘reformed’ racists alike.. and those who now all supposedly make up the ‘resistance’.. And those who’ll even applaud a fleeting mention of a devastating pandemic that’s raged on unaddressed for 6+ months, in a speech given by a Birther plagiarist..
As if..
There’s a reason why try as some of these now temporarily ‘aligned’ ‘resistance’ folks may, they still aren’t fooling many of us..
https://twitter.com/Gaia_Rising/status/1295566633054830592?s=20
https://twitter.com/dameemee/status/1295567429683355648?s=20
https://twitter.com/conundrummerboy/status/1295684943280996353?s=20
This needs to improve. It is worrisome to see FL, OH, and PA all red. Biden needs to win PA. No one should be too optimistic about AZ just yet.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1303425863652986881
Yup..
Hate to say it, but I’ve a niggling feeling that it’s even redder than is being reflected..
And all these raucous social media ‘influencers’ stuck in Twitter bubble/echo chambers are probably in for quite a rude awakening..
I think what many are missing, is just how much folks aren’t actually saying.. even on Twitter.. many regulars have dipped out, while some folks are simply pretending to go along – some because they’ve been beaten/guilted into momentary submission.. others, preemptively bandwagoning just so they aren’t pummeled..
There’s far too much exaggerated, inorganic artifice and artificial hyping going on.. and many recognize it for what it is.. folks actually do know the difference..
And it’s not working..
I’ve got to tell you I am WORRIED.
Of the big three swing states, FL, OH, and PA, it does seem that Ohio is lost this time around. Florida consistently has major election problems but worth pursuing. The Democrats have their best chance in PA and I would say it’s a must win right now. Biden is from there, for crying out loud. They have got to figure it out and win that state.
Trump will lose the popular vote again more than likely. But for the electoral vote predictions to be this close is a big red flag. Why is this vile, vulgar, incompetent, dishonest criminal doing so well? Well, I think we know but given that turnout is the cure and turnout is negatively affected by the pandemic and the Trump created post office problems as well as other voter suppression tactics, we have much to be concerned about.
I’m at my wit’s end.
Da phuq 😠😠
https://twitter.com/BLaw/status/1303439419911933960
“Da phuq” is right. One step closer to an authoritarian government.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1303125614153601025
When the DailyMail.com reached out to Blanche Vitero this week to ask what she thought of Harris being named as Biden’s presidential running mate, she broke into laughter.
Pressed on whether she would vote for them, Blanch, 84, added: “I’m sorry, I don’t want to comment at all.”
https://twitter.com/wolfblitzer/status/1303049106026369025
https://twitter.com/DanaHoule/status/1303173223031414788
https://twitter.com/LelainaPiercen/status/1303033854698156046
https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1303106277778825220
https://twitter.com/Jyggazaam/status/1268018917827645441
😂😂😂
https://twitter.com/iamcardib/status/1302753121077141504
She can’t play the dozens with Cardi. She is no match to with her whatsoever!
https://twitter.com/Purify_toast17/status/1302807665064783872
https://twitter.com/Purify_toast17/status/1302807852122284033
Tee hee!
https://twitter.com/SaskiaPopescu/status/1302818423706013696
https://twitter.com/themelaniedione/status/1302748500548038656
😂😂😂
https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/1302799436494626818
https://twitter.com/IThink_UThink/status/1302399175431159808
https://twitter.com/Purify_toast17/status/1302844035019821057
https://twitter.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1302818605239762946
Wonder if it will make the rest of his hair fall out? Just asking.
https://twitter.com/LilyJac67086679/status/1302759771573977088
https://twitter.com/preshotmess/status/1302765842724261888
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊