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Daniel Hadas

6 months

Pleased to announce the launch of 𝘊𝘢𝘧𝘦́ 𝘈𝘮𝘦́𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦, where I am managing editor. You will find articles to interest, entertain and provoke you. Do try it out!

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Daniel Hadas

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1 year

'Moby-Dick' was written after the invention of gun-powder-powered harpoons, but set before it. This is not a small detail, but a key to the book.

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2 years

Bizarre that there's an entire section of the population who aren't particularly right-wing, but just aren't keen on lockdowns, vaccine worship, child mutilation, & forever wars, and that the bulk of mainstream media & politics is committed to pretending this group doesn't exist.

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Daniel Hadas

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2 years

I admire those who, from the start, rejected and resisted every aspect of the Covid regime. But I cannot claim to be one of them. At its inception, I supported the spring 2020 UK lockdown. Hindsight distorts, but still, I shall try to recall some reasons for my support.

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2 years

The debate over whether, when, and to what extent lies were told about Covid vaccines preventing transmission misses a central point: No matter what the trial data showed, the vaccines were 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 going to be pushed on entire populations, by fair means or foul.

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Daniel Hadas

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2 years

One slow-motion disaster that's come over us in recent decades is the gradual disappearance of a literate, intellectual class formed by wide reading, rather than by graduate and post-graduate formal education.

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Daniel Hadas

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2 years

Don't mind me - I'm just a bitter crazy person obsessed with the fact that 2 years ago democratic governments decided they could dictate when we left our houses, and most of us went along with it, and almost no one has expressed the slightest regret about any of it.

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Daniel Hadas

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2 years

For the record, my opposition to Covid lockdowns was entirely due to the following: - my love for eugenics - my copious consumption of dis/mis/malinformation - my inability to understand science - my sociopathic selfishness For these reasons, I wanted the virus to win.

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Daniel Hadas

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2 years

How did Canada go from being just boring, large and cold to being the mirthless harbinger of the post-human dystopia? I feel the rest of us are owed an explanation.

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Daniel Hadas

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1 year

So 'Moby-Dick' is a prophetic book, a vision of how nature would become invisible as man's mastery over it became an affair of pressing buttons, flipping switches, pulling triggers, gulping pills.

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2 years

- It was 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 that immunity from Covid infections would last only a few days, so that waves of infection would not build up waves of herd immunity. (Admittedly, no other disease works that way).

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Daniel Hadas

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2 years

I am an anti-masker. At this stage, it's part of my philosophy of life.

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1 year

A whale that must be speared from a tiny ship can seem the majestic or terrifying face of God. A whale who is shot at a safe distance is just another commodity.

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1 year

And so, at the moment of our death, even if never before, we will face that white whale, alone and with no pills or machines to help us.

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2 years

Many practices and discourses from the early days of Covid persist in a zombie form, not because there remains any serious hope of "beating" or "controlling" Covid, but because the continuation of these practices and discourses makes 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 sense.

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1 year

Inter alia, 'Moby-Dick' is a lament for a direct confrontation with nature which technology was erasing.

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2 years

If you're able to convince yourself that a project which led to this👇 wasn't rotten from the start, then your vision of of human nature and human dignity is in serious need of re-assessment.

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Daniel Hadas

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2 years

I am not a Lockdown Skeptic. I am a Lockdown Despiser, a Lockdown Hater, a Lockdown Reviler. Skepticism is for matters on which there can be reasonable disagreement, not for anti-human horrors.

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2 years

For an old man or old woman, dying is 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭. Dying imprisoned in a hospital or care home, surrounded only by masked medics, separated from those one loves, saying final goodbyes on a flickering screen or not at all - that is what's not normal. How is this even hard?

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2 years

Looking forward to everyone quietly dropping the pronouns from their bios / e-mail signatures over the next few years.

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2 years

- It was 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 that lockdowns would do vast harms to health, education, economies. - It was 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 that masking would impede communication and child development. - It was 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 that vaccine mandates would divide societies and enable authoritarians.

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2 years

To bring about certain harms in the hope of avoiding extremely low-probability ones was unconscionable. That we would do something that insane was the true black swan - a man-made swan, as they so often are.

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2 years

I'd been alive for over 40 years when Covid hit. I'd lived in 3 countries, travelled in 3 continents, worked over a dozen jobs, met thousands of people. I don't recall EVER encountering the idea that each of us had a moral duty not to pass on respiratory infections.

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1 year

I think this new form of mastery has played a part in exiling death to or beyond the outer fringes of our sense-making. The fear of death is of all times, but this exiling of death is perhaps new.

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2 years

One reason it's been startling to see pro-lockdown / vaccine-mandate epidemiologists & public healthists behave so viciously to dissenting colleagues & the dissenting public is that so many of these people are academics, and this really isn't how academic culture is meant to work

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1 year

Every sort of technological progress has made some natural problem less pressing, more easily solved. But death is the one exception - death is still as it always was.

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2 years

There really is a novel virus, which we've named SARS-CoV-2, and a mild to severe illness caused by it, which we've named Covid-2019. But these realities have mattered less over the past three years than what I will call the official myth of Covid, and the counter-myth.

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2 years

I am of course glad & grateful that this happened. But I'm also troubled to see, looking back, how unable I (like millions of others) was to simply make & stick to the obvious objection that it is wrong to lock people in their homes. Not regrettable, or high-risk. Simply wrong.

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2 years

One of the most baffling aspects of the Covid response in the West is that no one cares about it any more.

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@DogM0mma @ComradeDoom1 yes, it was the biggest psychological operation in history, and a big part of its success is, now that the dust has settled, nobody sees the point in confronting it.

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1 year

Masks are the perfect epitome of the entire Covid response. They are stupid. They are oppressive. They are anti-human. They are terrible for your health. And they were embraced with gibbering glee by the public health establishment.

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1 year

When students ask me why something I've taught them is true, I tell them "the experts in the field agree it's true, and that means I don't have to explain it to you, and in fact explaining it to you would only give oxygen to the idea that it might not be true. Don't ask again".

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2 years

I have every bit as much authority to decide whether I am to be locked down or vaccinated as every epidemiologist, virologist, public health expert and immunologist in the world. My credentials are that I am a citizen in a democracy.

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2 years

Following such childish scripts is a profoundly dangerous, and increasingly dominant, way of doing science, public health and politics. It needs to be resisted wherever possible.

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2 years

The purpose of sowing fear that there might never be a vaccine was to increase gratitude and enthusiasm when one came along. Indeed, every part of the early Covid response can be understood as (in part) pre-release marketing for the vaccine.

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2 years

For the logically-minded and socially isolated, lockdowns became increasingly terrifying as they stretched into 2021, because there seemed to be no logical reason they would 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 end.

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Daniel Hadas

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2 years

Area man is not a full-fledged scientist. But area man (and woman!) has had to spend thousands of hours reading scientific papers and combing through data, to try to make sense of the stunt you and related creeps tried to pull. Thank goodness for real citizens.

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Wouldn't it be great if a few internet searches could land you a PhD? Thank goodness for real scientists

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2 years

The expertise of infectious disease epidemiologists meant that, in early 2020, they were able to see clearly what non-experts could not: That Covid was going to spread through humanity to become an endemic disease, and that there was not a hell of a lot anyone could do about it.

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2 years

"Well, actually, the vaccine's safety profile is only so-so, efficacity is murky, and most people don't need to worry about Covid anyway. So best most of you not take this, and just go out and get Covid. Sorry about the lockdowns". That was not in the script.

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2 years

The idea that you, that I, that each citizen could be held personally responsible for the spread of a respiratory virus was the original sin of the Covid response. All the other abominations stemmed from there.

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1 year

There is no safe level of food consumption. There is no safe level of having sex. There is no safe level of thinking or feeling, loving or hating. There is no safe level of pride or humility, fear or desire, joy or sorrow. The only way to be truly safe is to be dead.

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There is no safe level of alcohol consumption.

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2 years

Are we sticking with nothingburger, or are we moving on to "Our Democracy could only be saved by Grindr Studies guy silencing the sitting president"?

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2 years

Maybe it will help to tell a story. Once upon a time there was a granddaughter and a grandmother. The little girl loved her grandmother very much. As for grandmother, well, the child was her only granddaughter, and she was the apple of her eye.

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2 years

- Covid is super-dangerous for 𝘺𝘰𝘶. - Distrust in this vaccine is distrust in science. - Refusing to get vaccinated is immoral, because you will infect others. The veracity of these claims didn't matter: they were in the script, and it was too late to deviate.

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2 years

Very early on, the Covid response was locked into a specific narrative. The world would lock down and stay safe, while brave scientists hammered away at a vaccine. Then we would all get vaccinated, and come back out into the sunlight.

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1 year

If you tell millions of men and women that their children are bio-hazards that mustn't be let out, and that their parents have to die alone, because Science Says So, then people are going to say mean things to you.

Covid Inquiry: Abuse of experts must stop, says Whitty

Sir Chris laments treatment as he gives evidence to Covid Inquiry on pandemic preparedness.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Daniel Hadas

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3 months

As a teacher, there is a specific, and entirely novel, disgust one feels at correcting work that has been AI-generated. ...

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2 years

If you can answer "Yes, where applicable" to all of the above and many more such questions, then lockdowns were a sensible policy for you. If however you are a member of the human race, well, then lockdowns were a crime against your humanity.

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Daniel Hadas

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9 months

Calling out the Harvard president's plagiarism is all very well, but the fact that the world's most prestigious universities promoted and enforced the demented Covid response, while some even punished the rare dissenters within their ranks, is rather more of a concern.

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2 years

The plan was that the vaccine would be met by a perfectly primed population: immunologically naive, desperate to be released from lockdowns, terrified of Covid, eager to do the right thing, i.e. protect others through taking the shots.

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2 years

- It was 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 masks would make a massive difference to Covid transmission. (Admittedly they did so for no other respiratory virus).

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Daniel Hadas

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2 years

Now, for me, none of the above came without questions, and, through guidance from family and friends, through copious reading, through my own mounting sense of numbness and suffocation, I gradually came to reject the entire project of the war on Covid.

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2 years

Our authorities would not have adopted the strategy of lockdown-till-vaccine unless they were certain a vaccine could and would be made. Remember: absent a vaccine, there was no way out of lockdown except admitting it had failed and been all in vain.

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2 years

But clarifying the details won't alter the essence of the picture - The form of the Covid response was determined by a script of vaccine salvation, and societies' investment in that script was too deep for mere realities to divert its execution.

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- It was 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 that a sterilising vaccine for Covid could be developed in a matter of months. (Admittedly, there was no sterilising vaccine for other corona viruses).

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2 years

Recent AI text generation progress is not a sign computers are getting smarter (a meaningles idea). It's a sign we have created so much recycled copypasta that we sound more and more like machines ourselves.

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2 years

That's why we were forced to do our utmost not to get Covid. That's why Covid risks for the young were wildly amplified. That's why there was unending obfuscation of the central role of infection-conferred immunity both in protecting individuals and in ending the pandemic.

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2 years

Your reminder that it became acceptable public health discourse in 2020 to tell children that they might kill their grandparents by breathing near them.

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1 year

Anyone who lived through a restrictive Covid regime can cite many such absurd measures. A personal favourite of mine is the libraries which decreed that books needed to rest for 48 hours after each use, so that the virions could fly off the pages.

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Passing by the beach in Nice, I just remembered that during COVID every second shower was closed so that people all had to queue behind one shower. What that was supposed to achieve and what the relationship to COVID was remains a mystery. Never forget.

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2 years

Trust in experts and authorities - I couldn't bring myself to believe that so radical a project would be nigh-universally embraced by those with the relevant knowledge and responsibilities, unless it were genuinely the best option.

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Once so much effort had gone into priming, it is 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 that authorities would have pivoted to telling us the vaccine was only appropriate for the smallish group who were high-risk and had not yet caught Covid.

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2 years

My Covid position is that I am anti-data. I don't care what the data shows on the effectiveness for disease prevention of lockdowns, masks, or social distancing. I oppose these things because of their intrinsic meaning.

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2 years

None of this is conspiratorial. It is descriptive. We can then argue back & forth about who acted in good faith, who was outright lying, who thought the lies were noble, who put which qualifications on which claims. Those are all legitimate journalistic / historical questions.

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2 years

The horrifying revelation of the Lockdown Files is not that the architects of the UK Covid response were cynical puppeteers, but the opposite: they embraced public health tyranny over society with all the fervour and stupidity of teenage groupies.

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2 years

So we've learned that politicians can legislate to exclude whole swathes of citizens from society and work, then retract it with "oops, sorry, it was a heady time", and we all carry on as if they'd just put out a press release on the wrong date, or misnamed the Angolan ambassador

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1 year

When 2020 began, I held subscriptions to the 'Guardian', 'New York Times', and 'New York Review of Books'. I read articles from the first two every day, and read every issue of the last cover-to-cover. Before 2020 was over, I'd cancelled all three subscriptions.

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It's entirely clear by now that, in early 2020, Anthony Fauci, Jeremy Farrar and others at the top of the "global health" food chain knew, either directly or through very solid inference, that Covid had emerged from a lab, through experiments of the sort they were funding. ...

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Fear - I understood that, while it was unlikely someone like me would die from Covid, I could indeed still die. I was afraid to die. The idea of staying home, safe and cosseted, was reasurring.

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Ultimately, the entire masking saga is to be viewed as a colossal waste of time, a tragic misdirection of human effort.

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2 years

I don't think I'd ever read a peer-reviewed scientific article before 2020, but I've read plenty now. One shock, coming to this material from the humanities, is the relentless ugliness of scientific prose.

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2 years

You may recall that, in the first months of Covid, there was a lot of breathless talk about whether there would 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 be a vaccine. This was all nonsense. Our authorities are foolish and irresponsible, but they are not utterly improvident.

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We know that Covid lockdowns spoke very deeply to the logic of our times, because their embrace was so close to universal, and their repudiation after the fact has been so feeble. ...

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That's also why the vaccine itself was touted from the beginning as able to do in one fell swoop what it had taken 150 years to do for smallpox: eliminate a disease from the catalogue of human miseries.

Vaccines alone aren't enough to eradicate a virus – lessons from…

History tells us high-tech vaccinations only work when they are effectively combined with low-tech public health strategies.

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I'm no bio-ethicist, but I'm pretty sure that you would not get ethics approval for your experiment, if said experiment involved no control group, and the plan for the experiment group was to force them (including children) to stay home for 23 hours / day for months on end ...

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We used to have intellectuals, essayists, belle-lettrists, satirists, wits, long-form journalists. Nepotism aside, entry into such categories was determined by the ability to write material that was of interest to the better-read portion of the general public.

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@daniela127 Your position here is only coherent if you consider the only basis of Jews' right to live in Israel is the right of the strongest. Is that indeed your view?

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We are swift approaching the 1-year anniversary of the UK's decision not to lock down for omicron. Sadly there will be no one to celebrate, as we are all dead.

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One weird thing about the Covid response is that, with a clear head, any idiot could see after 10 minutes of thought that containing Covid wasn't going to work, and that locking down till there was a vaccine would do more harm than good.

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Pretty amazing, when you think about it, that public health / biomedical institutions spent the Covid years agonizing that influencers and anons were undermining their professional authority.

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Team loyalty - I was vaguely on the left, tiresomely anti-Brexit, disgusted by Donald Trump, disdainful of libertarians. So the few prominent voices against lockdown were not on my team.

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We all know how the story ends. But I ask you, did grandmother and granddaugher thank the public health official for trying to keep them safe? Or did they curse the evil day he had darkened their door?

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To speak of the Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates as “causing mental health problems” comes for too close to a perfect example of gaslighting.

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I have been following anti-lockdown twitter for two and a half years. I have seen the proponents of lockdowns, masks and untargeted vaccination criticized with great accuracy and patience.

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Remember how we had the disastrous lockdowns and the sadistic vaccine roll-out and the masking farce, and almost no one in charge of all that apologised or lost a job or was otherwise held accountable?

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Scientists need to be open to the possibility of extremely low-probability hypotheses, @nntaleb 's black swans. However ...

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There would have been no Covid vaccine mandates if Covid lockdowns hadn't been such a big success.

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2016-2020: Liberals spent four years screaming about fascism, and then, when leaders suspended civil rights and locked everyone in their houses, liberals' main complaint was that they weren't doing more of it.

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Are you somebody who likes to spend most of your time indoors, who is able to stay happy and fit for months on end with only an hour of sunshine and outdoor exercise per day?

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Horror - Images and tales of the dead and dying were everywhere, and I was willing to accept that only lockdowns could stop the ushering in of a long, dark season of death and despair.

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In retrospect, 𝘐𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘴 seems a harbinger of the rise of a particularly stupid and ugly trend in political discourse.

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The eagerness to wear masks led to the conviction there must be evidence that they worked, not the other way round. Citizens 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 to mask themselves and their children. That's the most awful part of this story.

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Of course, the more doggedly these claims were made, the weaker any individual's objections to getting vaccinated began to appear. Accordingly, the stage was also set for vaccine mandates.

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So it was inevitable that the vaccine be pushed on everyone, and inevitable that the best arguments for universal vaccination would be used. Those arguments were: ...

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If the probability of a vaccine protecting you against a disease is higher than the probability of its injuring you, this does not - no matter how great the difference in probabilities - create a moral obligation for you to receive that vaccine.

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2 years

The lockdown project was 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 - It was thrilling to live through, and participate in, this entirely new experiment. In particular, it was thrilling to be using technology to do the seemingly impossible: keep work and socialisation going without leaving one's house.

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Daniel Hadas

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The primary danger here isn't the apologia for the re-making of truth by power (propaganda), but the elevation of a string of high-school essay banalities to the status of wisdom and inspiration.

David McCune

@davidemccune

6 months

This is chilling. The CEO of NPR literally calls the truth “a distraction.” This is a permission structure for propaganda. It allows her to justify telling us we have always been at war with Eastasia or Eurasia, depending on what the Narrative requires.

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Daniel Hadas

@DanielHadas2

2 years

No matter how often specialists and officials make claims to the contrary, it is irrefutable that locking down and mass-testing to control a novel flu-like virus was NOT the response advocated by most public health institutions before 2020.

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Daniel Hadas

@DanielHadas2

1 year

The idea that we should stop talking about the Covid response is as insane as every other aspect of the Covid response.

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Daniel Hadas

@DanielHadas2

2 years

Indeed what has industrial modernity itself been, if not a centuries-long science experiment in which all much participate, and in which taboo after taboo has been razed to the ground and ploughed with salt?

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Daniel Hadas

@DanielHadas2

2 years

This stacking of credentials has not been accompanied by a increase in the sophistication and intelligence of public discourse. On the contrary, public discourse, and even specialised discourse, has become steadily dumber and less literate.

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Daniel Hadas

@DanielHadas2

2 years

How did we end up adopting a Covid response that was most tolerable and protective for narrow-hearted, neurotic people in large suburban houses, with e-mail jobs, and who could afford childcare or private tuition for their kids?

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Daniel Hadas

@DanielHadas2

2 years

What gets lost in this back and forth is that the scientists and politicians who led the Covid regime are not masterminds, for good or evil. They are something much more banal: fumbling, self-serving, arrogant, short-sighted midwits, lurching from crisis to crisis.

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