Also just to be clear, I’m not arguing that the lockdown should go on for 2 years until everyone has access to effective vaccine. I think many places can start to reopen within the next month. But the goal of the reopening shouldn’t be to have herd immunity, it should be to minimize infections. Unfortunately our…

The majority of the people using the phrase “herd immunity” can’t manage to define it, much less understand actual immunity, and tend to be of the Fox News persuasion. Can you show me in your original posts where you talk about reopening with all the precautions and universal masking and high risk populations? Because…

So your argument is basically “The data are all bad, I know one guy who was able to get tested pretty easily, and we should just make decisions on the basis of crappy data and anecdote”. I don’t think you can find a single epidemiologist in this country who would agree with you that the number of deaths is being over-r…

You mean the Texas that has the one of the lowest per capita number of tests done? I’m sure those number are super accurate and I’d totally want to stake my family’s health on them!

Cool, are you going to sign yourself and your kids up for getting this herd immunity that may or may not protect us from reinfection? Because that inflammatory syndrome that’s putting kids into ICUs in the places with high infection rates really makes me want to make sure that my child doesn’t get infected

Fuck, for $40 per hour I’d drink all the warm urine flavored beer they give me 

That’s the stupidest comparison yet. We have multiple effective medications to treat malaria, as well as prophylactic medications + mosquito control. That’s part of why you don’t see Florida being overrun by malaria cases despite being a fucking swamp. The only reason it has such a global burden is because nobody…

Plus with taco bell you shit out the virus faster than it can replicate

Can we hope to have him buried in an unmarked grave on the Mexican side of the Trump wall?

I can’t wait for the NFL to suspend him for 2 seasons for breaking their social distancing rules

I can’t repeat this enough. We have no idea what the long term effects are even for people who have a mild course and recover completely. There isn’t enough data yet on the post-viral syndrome that seems to be severely affecting some previously infected kids, but that should give anyone with a few functioning brain…

There are a bunch of key vaccine boosters at 4, so I’d definitely not delay that one. For kids 4 and older, typically they’re only being seen once a year unless there are issues to follow up. Delaying that by a month or two mid-pandemic shouldn’t be a big deal but I think eventually everything will need to get back on…

I’m actually surprised he didn’t just put Barron in charge of it. He’s quite qualified, having once licked an envelope to seal it, despite it being a self-adhesive one. 

Normally I would oppose incarceration of people for non-violent crimes on principle, but fuck her, I hope she has a really bad time. Nobody seems to care about people getting essentially death sentences for minor crimes in prisons overrun with COVID unless those people are white and or rich.

I’m sure that if one of these guys were shot by the police for exercising their second amendment right, the NRA would be all over it. Every single time that a non-white person was shot by the police while carrying a lawful firearm, the NRA has pushed to make sure that the second amendment is applied equally and that…

There’s a tremendous amount of stuff that pediatricians monitor at every well-visit in the first 2-3 years of life that’s really hard to do by telehealth and too important to avoid. Accurate height and weight to monitor for growth, head circumference. There are also physical exam things like checking that the soft…

I don’t really get what there is to be threatened by. Every sport changes with time - new equipment, new training, new strategies, rule changes, even just knowing what is possible and what to strive for. Nobody is going to forget MJ or think any less of his legacy. The GOAT debates are always the worst. 

And now I guess if any of those people are still alive, we’re going to sacrifice them again, because fuck old people, I want my stock holdings to go up

We did those things for the white people who were fighting, and in this war it’s mostly the non-white people who are dying, so none of those things will happen. You can bet your ass that if this virus were primarily making its way through the suburban Karens, nobody would be returning to work

I predict this insurrection will quickly stop once it’s too hot to be outside without AC. The sun may not wipe out the coronavirus, but it will definitely chase these idiots back under their rock.