Who Is the REAL Moral Criminal? Tikvah Trumpscum Bari Weiss is So Over COVID it Hurts!
David Shasha
Who Is the REAL Moral Criminal? Tikvah Trumpscum Bari Weiss is So Over COVID it Hurts!
Last week I once again had to point out the nefarious manner in which The Tikvah Fund so very cleverly deploys silence as a means to support the debased Lysol Insurrectionist agenda, as it has been doing for the past five years:
https://groups.google.com/g/Davidshasha/c/ROUCO07xx4k
As I noted there, our dear Meir Soloveichik-loving, Sabbath-desecrating, Lesbian friend Ms. Weiss was to violate the sacred day two weeks in a row– proud Jew that she is! – and appear on the horrible Bill Maher Neo-Con loving hate-fest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bQ2rctogOs
We have dealt with the Maher problem many times:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/ST_lAOZ-adQ/m/StRxo9P8AAAJ
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/OAiKDUEMRUQ/m/uf6bnWH0DQAJ
Weiss has become the apple of the New Atheist’s jaundiced eye:
https://www.gq.com/story/free-speech-grifting
“Free Speech Grifters”!
I like that very much.
For her most recent Shabbat appearance she did her usual nihilistic antinomian COVID denialism shtick:
“I’m done. I’m done with COVID,” Weiss proclaimed, prompting the audience to erupt in applause and cheers.
“We were told you get the vaccine, you get the vaccine and you get back to normal. And we haven’t gotten back to normal. And it’s ridiculous at this point,” she said.
“I know that so many of my liberal and progressive friends are with me on this and they do not want to say it out loud because they are scared to be called anti-vaxxed or to be called science deniers or to be smeared as a Trumper,” Weiss explained.
“Most importantly, that this is going to be remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime,” Weiss argued. “People are killing themselves. They’re anxious, they’re depressed, they’re lonely. That is why we need to end it.”
At least Dr. Jonathan Reiner is not buying any of it, as the death toll in America increases by the hour:
https://twitter.com/JReinerMD/status/1484928068481388557
As he correctly tweeted:
I’m sorry Bari Weiss is really inconvenienced by the pandemic and I’m glad she’s done with it but 3600 Americans died yesterday and over 860k have died in the last 2 years. Yes you were told that vaccines would bring us out of this but 25% of this country refuse to vax. Grow up.
But the inaptly-named HASBARAH rag Jewish Voice heartily concurs with Weiss in her Death Cult loyalty:
https://thejewishvoice.com/2022/01/bari-weiss-unloads-about-covid-policy-on-bill-maher-program/
The “Moral Crime” for Weiss, as it is for all Tikvahworld, is not the Zombie Orange Pig and his Seditionist followers, but those who seek to enforce rational safety measures to save lives, and promote “Love Thy Neighbor” ethics.
Then on Monday we got more COVID denialism double-down from one of the Whore of Trump’s go-to Tikvah Tablet deplorables, John P.A. Ioannides:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/saving-democracy-from-pandemic
He is no stranger to SHU readers:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/YoiUcuRlDEA/m/wSYXV4N7CQAJ
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/Z14QHKiV8cY/m/grJrgoO0CQAJ
P.A. Ioannides is a true Trumpscum, as I have previously noted:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.21295
He is all in on the Hydroxychloroquine Trumpscam:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.16.20194571v2
Even the Greeks don’t trust him!
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/255374/the-greek-american-epidemiologist-who-misled-donald-trump/
The Tikvah Tablet Trumpscum article follows the Intersectional Lysol WOKE Talking Points perfectly:
Several governments responded to the lethal pandemic by undermining the very systems that were in place to ensure accountability and to protect public health and well-being. No single individual can be blamed for this—it was a systemic problem, as decisions taken by one government or government agency instantaneously affected the decisions of others. But the result was the restriction of basic freedoms and the normalization of scapegoating and exclusion, both historically a prelude to atrocities. While some extreme actions were justified as efforts to achieve otherwise laudable goals (like increasing rates of vaccination), the attempt to isolate vast numbers of people while whipping the general population into agreement on aggressive public health policies probably damaged even these goals.
Some people, organizations, corporations, and lobbyists (or combinations thereof) saw this crisis as an opportunity to establish some version of a desired ideological utopia, which, in reality, benefited only a zealous minority confident in their “truth”, “science,” or whatever name they used to legitimate blind dogmas. In the end, half of the world’s working population suffered financially under lockdowns, creating massive ripple effects. Most people thrive when they can make their own decisions within the boundaries of the law, even during a crisis. But the loss of these basic freedoms was celebrated as a victory for public health, even as the loss of basic freedoms probably made public health outcomes worse in several countries. Many citizens of the United States and other democracies saw their businesses shutter, their life’s work disappear, and were not allowed to visit sick and dying loved ones or to even attend their burials. Younger generations were probably affected most, as students saw their schools close and their social lives thwarted with consequences we won’t fully understand for many years.
A critical mass of people, especially among those hit hardest by the crisis or whose concerns were marginalized by political and health authorities, may eventually conclude that their governments and leaders have failed them. Frustration may be expressed through peaceful, democratic means (voting officials out of office, for example), or through riots and revolution. Across the world, we have already seen instances of both. The outcomes of such social explosions are by nature chaotic and unpredictable.
The worst way to address such circumstances is to double down on trying to replace concrete values like freedom and equality with goals like safety and health under the guise of “science” and the greater good. No reasonable person would question that all of these values and goals are worthy of our efforts. But when they clash (or are portrayed as clashing), democratic societies must make decisions on priorities. Once individual freedom has been downgraded as a priority, it is difficult to ever get back.
All the usual buzzwords and Trumpisms are there – without ever mentioning the Sacred Name of the Zombie Orange Pig.
Intersectionality on the Right, unlike Intersectionality on the Left, has become a matter of national security, given how the Alt-Right Sedition continues to threaten us.
The Whores of Trump have chosen their side, and it is against both Torah Judaism and the American way.
Also on Monday, The New York Times published op-eds from its Jewish columnists, Michelle Goldberg and Paul Krugman, that respond to the patented Weiss Troll the Libs psychopathology:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/opinion/done-with-covid.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/opinion/florida-critical-race-theory-de-santis.html
Both articles follow this note.
Before you read them, I want to make sure to give a tip of the hat to Weiss for her uncanny ability, very similar to her hero Trump, to light the Twittersphere on fire, ensuring more subscriptions – and more Alt-Right moolah – for her Jew-hating Substack-fueled bank account.
Well played.
We who are about to die, salute you!
Goldberg mentions her former NYT colleague Weiss by name, but does not apparently know anything about The Tikvah Fund and the Whore of Trump devotion to the Lysol Talking Points demanded by the Zalman Bernstein cabal leadership and its shadowy network of funders.
In other words, she is too timid by far, and displays – as is the case with many Liberal insiders – little actual understanding of how the Neo-Con Right has cleverly morphed into Trumpworld.
Politeness, as we saw from Weiss’ arrogance on the Maher show, is not the way to deal with these cowardly Trumpscum Jews.
Would that the Left applied WOKENESS and Cancel Culture to the Right the way that the Right does to the Left.
Like the Idiot Sephardim, they will never learn:
https://groups.google.com/g/Davidshasha/c/YCZ9lAvGFlY
The Krugman article is an attack on Right Wing Cancel Culture – led these days by Florida Governor Death Sentence – that never refers to Weiss or her Rufo allies.
But Krugman does do an excellent job presenting how the Rufo Weiss Projection works; as the White Snowflakes show that it is their toxic ideology which is against American Freedom, Civil Rights, and the Rule of Law, and not the ideology of their Leftist enemies.
The article points out how the term “White Snowflake” is all too accurate:
What’s really striking, however, is the idea that schools should be prohibited from teaching anything that causes “discomfort” among students and their parents. If you imagine that the effects of applying this principle would be limited to teaching about race relations, you’re being utterly naïve.
We have seen many times how Weiss has flipped the script to identify the Left Wing Cancel Culture as the true danger:
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-miseducation-of-americas-elites
Weiss represents the New McCarthyism that has been promoted by the Zombie Orange Pig, and which has found one of its most proficient exponents in Governor Death Sentence, and more recently, the newly-elected Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, who has established his own Snitch Line for those who want some Rufo shcarole:
That is a sure way of cashing in your Lysol chips in true Roy Cohn fashion!
https://www.history.com/news/roy-cohn-mccarthyism-rosenberg-trial-donald-trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/donald-trump-roy-cohn.html
But I have to admit that when I opened the Daily News webpage on Tuesday, I was not expecting this one:
The complete article also follows this note.
S.E. Cupp is a Neo-Con Never Trumper who is definitely not Tikvah:
She will never be a Whore of Trump.
Indeed, what makes her attack on Weiss and Maher so interesting is that she is usually with them on most things.
And that tells you how extreme they are on the crazy meter these days.
Just to make clear the double-down on the double-down, a classic Tikvah White Jewish Supremacy Trumpist move as we have seen, Weiss arrogantly announced on Wednesday that she would be having a Roundtable on Kids and COVID:
And guess what?
Just like the Tikvah Tablet “Dissidents,” the panelists are all against security lockdown measures for children, helping to endanger them and their school teachers.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/the-dissidents
The panel is not comprised of marquee names, so I had to dig deep to find anything on them.
The easy one was someone called Alex Gutentag, an up-and-coming Tikvah Tablet Trumpscum macher:
https://www.tabletmag.com/contributors/alex-gutentag
His claim to fame, naturally, is attacking COVID security measures:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/school-closures-covid-alex-gutentag
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/revolt-essential-workers
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/plague-poor-gutentag
It is not a lengthy article list, but it is definitely Ron Johnson-worthy.
What Gutentag lacks in Tikvah Tablet quantity, he makes up in Tikvah Tablet quality!
Here is a confusing Tweet he posted:
https://twitter.com/galexybrane/status/1354192987421433860
Which side is he on?
For months the CDC ignored evidence that schools were not sites of high covid transmission. Now kids are facing a mental health and suicide crisis. Children have died because of school closures and no one will be held accountable.
It is of course anti-CDC, but acknowledges that schools are sites of transmission. Which should mean that he is for keeping them closed.
Guess again.
He then claims that the children’s deaths are from mental health and suicide, so keep those COVID hotspot schools open!
Given that he writes for Tikvah Tablet, the PILPUL confusion should be expected.
Then there is Jane Kitchen – not an easy name to google:
https://janeskitchenmiracles.com/
http://www.sweetjaneskitchen.com/about-1
https://curiousjane.fun/product/new-issue/
Here is her impoverished Twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/janesays22
She is now in the Whore of Trump Rufo Austin MISHPOCHEH!
Mazel Tov!
Here is one she retweeted from Nate Silver:
Yeah, I think depriving tens of millions of school children of an in-person education for a year or longer is absolutely on that magnitude. No question.
She conveniently leads us to our final panelist, A.J. Kay:
https://twitter.com/AJKayWriter/status/1431680649581105155
Her website bio gives away the game:
https://www.ajkaywriter.com/about
COVID disinformation is her calling card:
My published pieces were primarily narrative non-fiction until March 2020, when the world went mad. Now I spend almost all of my free time writing and researching about the pandemic; specifically the inexplicable disregard for the second and third-order effects of restrictive mitigation measures.
I can’t not.
The scope and scale of the devastation are overwhelming and those shouldering the lion’s share of the burden are the ones least equipped to do so. For me, silence is complacency and it’s an ethical imperative that I use my voice at this moment to raise awareness for their suffering.
Here are some more of her Lysol bona fides from the tweet that was retweeted by Ms. Kitchen:
"Dismissing children's suffering doesn’t erase it — it only serves to silence children’s pain so that adults are spared the guilt of hearing it."
According to Kay the world did not go mad on election day 2016, or on the day of the 1/6 Insurrection.
No, the day the world went mad was March 2020 when the lockdowns started.
Nothing on the Oath Keepers, and nothing on Trumpscum Jared Kushner’s master plan to ignore the Pandemic:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/F4efk9I73pQ/m/bRSRIGysBQAJ
And to cap a very successful Trumpscum week, Weiss gave us someone named David Zweig attacking COVID booster shots for kids:
Zweig has an impeccable Lysol record:
https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-zweig/
https://davidzweig.substack.com/p/silent-lunch
Amidst all his Trumpscum dross is a gem on the filth Louis C.K.:
“Humane Audacity”!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html
“Take out my penis”!
Zweig is part of the Weiss COVID anti-vaxx echo-chamber, as he proves to us that groupthink is all there is in Common Sense land.
Indeed, all we see from Weiss and her Trumpscum allies is WOKENESS in the Alt-Right manner; part of a tightly-knit Right Wing Intersectionality which fully censors any views that do not agree with her toxic religion.
“Free Speech Grifters”!
It is all about the Lysol Projection and its hypocrisy, as the Tikvahworld machers are all in with the New Fascism, which is undergirded by a foundational antinomianism rooted in Right Wing nihilism.
David Shasha
What Does It Mean to Be ‘Done With Covid’?
By: Michelle Goldberg
On Saturday, several days after my son stopped testing positive for the coronavirus, I took him out for ramen and then to the movies. The theater was about half-full; it required masks but also served food and cocktails, which you could, obviously, unmask to consume. I wouldn’t have gone three weeks ago, when Omicron was at its height and my family hadn’t been infected yet. But now everyone in my household except me has had it — I’ve been protected by either dumb luck or my Moderna booster — and so, in my own life, the stakes of a positive test have gone down.
I’m probably not living that much differently from those who declare themselves #DoneWithCovid. The phrase was trending on Twitter on Monday morning, in response to a declaration by my former colleague Bari Weiss on “Real Time With Bill Maher.” “I’m done with Covid! I’m done!” she said. Weiss described making an all-out effort to avoid Covid early on. “And then we were told you get the vaccine. You get the vaccine and you get back to normal. And we haven’t gotten back to normal. And it’s ridiculous at this point,” she said. When she finished speaking, the audience cheered.
The desperate desire to get back to normal is understandable. What’s odd is seeing the absence of normality as a political betrayal instead of an epidemiological curveball. The reason things aren’t normal isn’t that power-mad public health officials went back on their promises. It’s because a new coronavirus variant emerged that overwhelmed hospitals and threw schools and many industries into chaos, and because not everyone has the luxury of being insouciant about infection.
Even with Omicron around, there’s a fair bit of normality available, especially if you don’t have kids. Here in New York City, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and theaters are generally open, though shows are closing at the last minute when cast members fall ill. You can have a party or go on vacation. What you can’t do is force other people, whose vulnerabilities might be much greater than your own, to agree with your risk assessments and join you in moving on while the pandemic still rages.
There are certainly Covid mitigation policies that I think are awful. It’s absurd that in some places, New York City included, kids who get Covid can’t return to school for 10 days, even if they test negative earlier. (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says people need only quarantine for five days.) I hate the fact that my kids still have to wear masks outdoors at recess and that my daughter eats lunch on the cafeteria floor for reasons of social distancing.
But in general, what’s standing in the way of normal life is Covid, not Covid prevention. In most cases where schools are closing, it’s because too many people are out sick to staff them. The same is true of stores that are cutting back their hours and airlines canceling flights. To have more normalcy, we need less illness. That means doing all the things public health people drone on about, especially getting more people vaccinated and boosted, which still — even with the high number of Omicron breakthrough cases — reduces the risk of infection as well as hospitalization.
Not long ago, I thought that once vaccines for kids over age 5 were available, I’d start arguing for the end of school masking. Last month I reported on a letter that Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, wrote to the C.D.C.’s director, Rochelle Walensky, and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, asking for an off-ramp from mandatory mask policies. “There are reports coming from some classroom teachers that the constant use of masks impedes the learning process,” Weingarten wrote. “A number of parents have expressed dismay about their child’s overall well-being after wearing a mask continually for well over a year and a half.”
The C.D.C. recently put out updated guidance suggesting that some people, including those teaching students to read, might want to wear clear masks. This seems a tacit acknowledgment that ordinary face coverings can have an educational cost. They certainly have a social one; I have little doubt that masks are part of why my kids now find school so joyless, and I’ll be thrilled when they’re no longer necessary.
But I can’t imagine advocating an end to school masking right now, when those who work in schools are being infected in such huge numbers. The substitute shortage is so bad that parents — and, in New Mexico, members of the National Guard — are being asked to fill in. This isn’t a problem that can be fixed with an attitude adjustment.
Critics of how liberals have responded to the pandemic sometimes argue that we’ve overestimated our ability to control this virus. But those who think we can escape this excruciating period simply by changing our mind-set are also overestimating how much control we have. America won’t seem remotely normal until it’s a lot less sick.
Attack of the Right-Wing Thought Police
By: Paul Krugman
Americans like to think of their nation as a beacon of freedom. And despite all the ways in which we have failed to live up to our self-image, above all the vast injustices that sprang from the original sin of slavery, freedom — not just free elections, but also freedom of speech and thought — has long been a key element of the American idea.
Now, however, freedom is under attack, on more fronts than many people realize. Everyone knows about the Big Lie, the refusal by a large majority of Republicans to accept the legitimacy of a lost election. But there are many other areas in which freedom is not just under assault but in retreat.
Let’s talk, in particular, about the attack on education, especially but not only in Florida, which has become one of America’s leading laboratories of democratic erosion.
Republicans have made considerable political hay by denouncing the teaching of critical race theory; this strategy has succeeded even though most voters have no idea what that theory is and it isn’t actually being taught in public schools. But the facts in this case don’t matter, because denunciations of C.R.T. are basically a cover for a much bigger agenda: an attempt to stop schools from teaching anything that makes right-wingers uncomfortable.
I use that last word advisedly: There’s a bill advancing in the Florida Senate declaring that an individual “should not be made to feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.” That is, the criterion for what can be taught isn’t “Is it true? Is it supported by the scholarly consensus?” but rather “Does it make certain constituencies uncomfortable?”
Anyone tempted to place an innocuous interpretation on this provision — maybe it’s just about not assigning collective guilt? — should read the text of the bill. Among other things, it cites as its two prime examples of things that must not happen in schools “denial or minimization of the Holocaust, and the teaching of critical race theory” — because suggesting that “racism is embedded in American society” (the bill’s definition of the theory) is just the same as denying that Hitler killed six million Jews.
What’s really striking, however, is the idea that schools should be prohibited from teaching anything that causes “discomfort” among students and their parents. If you imagine that the effects of applying this principle would be limited to teaching about race relations, you’re being utterly naïve.
For one thing, racism is far from being the only disturbing topic in American history. I’m sure that some students will find that the story of how we came to invade Iraq — or for that matter how we got involved in Vietnam — makes them uncomfortable. Ban those topics from the curriculum!
Then there’s the teaching of science. Most high schools do teach the theory of evolution, but leading Republican politicians are either evasive or actively deny the scientific consensus, presumably reflecting the G.O.P. base’s discomfort with the concept. Once the Florida standard takes hold, how long will teaching of evolution survive?
Geology, by the way, has the same problem. I’ve been on nature tours where the guides refuse to talk about the origins of rock formations, saying that they’ve had problems with some religious guests.
Oh, and given the growing importance of anti-vaccination posturing as a badge of conservative allegiance, how long before basic epidemiology — maybe even the germ theory of disease — gets the critical race theory treatment?
And then there’s economics, which these days is widely taught at the high school level. (Full disclosure: Many high schools use an adapted version of the principles text I co-author.) Given the long history of politically driven attempts to prevent the teaching of Keynesian economics, what do you think the Florida standard would do to teaching in my home field?
The point is that the smear campaign against critical race theory is almost certainly the start of an attempt to subject education in general to rule by the right-wing thought police, which will have dire effects far beyond the specific topic of racism.
And who will enforce the rules? State-sponsored vigilantes! Last month Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor, proposed a “Stop Woke Act” that would empower parents to sue school districts they claim teach critical race theory — and collect lawyer fees, a setup modeled on the bounties under Texas’ new anti-abortion law. Even the prospect of such lawsuits would have a chilling effect on teaching.
Did I mention that DeSantis also wants to create a special police force to investigate election fraud? Like the attacks on critical race theory, this is obviously an attempt to use a made-up issue — voter fraud is largely nonexistent — as an excuse for intimidation.
OK, I’m sure that some people will say that I’m making too much of these issues. But ask yourself: Has there been any point over, say, the past five years when warnings about right-wing extremism have proved overblown and those dismissing those warnings as “alarmist” have been right?
A memo to the COVID complainer class: Bari Weiss, Bill Maher and our pandemic inconvenience
By: S.E. Cupp
Just this past week, COVID deaths hit an 11-month high in the United States, surging 11% compared to the previous week. While cases are finally beginning to drop, an average of 2,200 people a day are still dying thanks to the highly contagious omicron variant, bringing total fatalities in our nation of 330 million to 868,000 and counting.
Cut that any way you want: You can say it’s mostly the unvaccinated dying now, mostly the elderly or immunocompromised. It’s still a significant and tragic number. At that rate, COVID deaths account for a full quarter of what used to be the average of American deaths per day.
But if you’re Bari Weiss, a journalist and recent guest on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” who cares? COVID is so, like, five minutes ago.
In full disclosure, I know both Bari and Bill. I like and respect them both, and I’m also a frequent guest on Maher’s show. But the conversation they engaged in over the weekend was one of the most self-indulgent, petulant and unaware I’ve heard in a long time, outside of outlets like Newsmax and kooky anti-vax rallies.
After Maher boasted that Europe’s decided to “treat [COVID] like the flu,” and therefore so should we, even though science says it is not like the flu, Weiss offered up her fresh take: “I’m done. I’m done with COVID.”
She went on to describe the great many, erm, sacrifices she’s personally made, leading to her exhaustion with the deadly pandemic that’s killed 5.6 million people worldwide: “I sprayed the Pringles cans that I bought at the grocery store, stripped my clothes off because I thought COVID would be on my clothes. I watched ‘Tiger King.’ I got to the end of Spotify. We all did it.”
Indeed, the boys of World War II are head-nodding in sympathy. Of course, “we all” did much more than that. We kept our kids home from school, we missed out on weddings and funerals, we lost jobs and loved ones, our lives were upended and put on hold. Many of us who survived got very sick and struggled with long COVID.
But none of that deterred Weiss, who still had some serious complaints, and very much wanted to talk to COVID’s manager:
“Then we were told, ‘You get the vaccine and you get back to normal.’ And we haven’t gotten back to normal. And it’s ridiculous at this point. If you believe the science, you will look at the data we did not have two years ago. You will find out that cloth masks do not do anything. You will realize you can show your vaccine passport at a restaurant and still be asymptomatic and be carrying omicron. And you will realize most importantly that this is going to be remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime.”
It’s hard to unpack all this, because none of it really makes an argument that we should, for any rational reason, be “done with COVID” as Weiss is. It’s just angsty, teenage word salad that could easily have been checked by a willing moderator.
If she’s angry that we haven’t gotten back to normal, she should blame not “bureaucracy,” as she does, but the unvaccinated, enough of whom are still floating around to keep the virus and new variants alive and well.
None of her other grievances are arguments to stop caring about COVID either, but particularly not the way “the younger generation” is going to “feel” about this moment in history.
But it’s a funny thing about feelings.
Years ago, right-wing provocateur Ben Shapiro popularized a phrase meant to mock liberal “snowflakes” for their overly emotional and irrational responses to policy problems like gun violence or climate change: “Facts don’t care about your feelings.”
But in the era of Trumpism, when facts became relative, alternative and often altogether fake, it’s increasingly the case on the right that feelings don’t care much about your facts.
There are reams of facts available to all proving COVID is still real and not “ridiculous.” It’s common sense to say continued mask-wearing and vaccines are the best ways to avoid getting it and spreading it.
This isn’t a corporate conspiracy, an assault on your freedom or political propaganda. And just because science has evolved over time, or even changed based on better information, that’s not an argument to reject science as untrustworthy.
We’re all frustrated, exhausted and want to go back to normal. Especially those of us who gave up more than just a few hours to binge “Tiger King.”
We should absolutely have grown-up conversations about COVID, what’s working and what’s not. Those should be divorced from politics and informed by facts. And they should acknowledge the deep losses we’ve all suffered.
No one was well-served by the child-like comments on Maher’s show, which sounded more like a cheap pander to the Fox News crowd than the thoughtful commentary Weiss is capable of.
Of course, her erudition on COVID – remember, she’s “done” — has been met with the predictable and deserving response on social media: Her supporters are #DoneWithCovid, too. So there. If only COVID were done with them, and us.