Birds still haven't evolved to understand glass if that clues you in to how silly "hope for covid to evolve to be mild" is.

😱 2019: Daszak’s response to VR’s remark that you can’t vaccinate against coronaviruses: “You can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily. Spike protein drives a lot of what happens…You get the sequence, build the protein. We work w Ralph Baric at UNC to do this…Insert it

This kind of corporate backstabbing of an employee is why you'll never convince me taking diningware from chain restaurants is wrong.

And when back-to-school, election day, Thanksgiving & Christmas get done with us, we may well be measuring the death counts in 9/11s a week again. 😬

Many Autistic ppl experience the “Cassandra Complex” This is effectively … the ability to accurately anticipate future events, warn ppl about them, & yet our warnings are dismissed or ignored This is often related to some combo of pattern recognition, spins, & hypersenses

"We... conclusively demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 is capable of infecting and replicating within [the heart, lymph nodes, small intestine, adrenal glands] and many other tissues, including brain... as late as 230 days following symptom onset..." nature.com/articles/s4158…

Stop. Breathing. This. Virus. In.

Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter. Both sides were played like a fiddle by a single virologist to gaslight the world into giving their children a brain-eating virus.

Once again begging folks to stay out of/avoid public bathrooms. They are a biohazard leagues above the worst gas station bathrooms pre-2020.

There is something so haunting about walking into a classroom, seeing the lack of N95s, and knowing that some of those students are going to get sick and never be the same again. 1/2

When you eventually begin to wonder "how could officials get Covid so wrong" remember that after the North Tower of the WTC was struck, the official announcements instructed those in the South Tower to remain put. The survivors were those who left instead.

“Waaah you’re asking doctors to take on a huge risk, they could be fined or jailed!” Yes and when I started working at the abortion clinic at age 23, I accepted the possibility that I could be killed for it. Grow a fucking backbone and treat your patients.

Not now, unexpected real feelings, there's crises to be attended, and work to be done. No time for existential crying.

The slope from Pagers to iPhones is steep, slick, and short. We should all be VERY concerned, and very disgusted.

I was never much of a conversationalist, but 4 years of lockdowns and working from home and my head being filled with knowledge of just how bad things really are in the world has rendered me almost mute in social situations. How do you do small talk about trivial subjects again?

Cards against humanity’s website explaining why they’re suing Elon is pretty fucking good

Boy oh boy do I love how all of the horrifying covid data is experimental instead of theoretical now because a bunch of rich whiners had itchy chins & craved mimosas.

If I could wipe one school lesson from everyone's mind, it'd be "synonyms are interchangeable".