Too Stupid for Words category archive
Stray Question 0
Really now, just who are the “sheeple” in this scenario?
This Isn’t Kosher 0
This fellow is in a bit of a pickle.
I’m sure he feels the doors Clausen in. No doubt he will complain that he got a raw dill.
The Grievance Train 0
Sam and his caller discuss the irrationality of equating a stay-at-home order during a pandemic with slavery or internment camps.
Going Viral on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
After examining what percentage of tweets about the coronavirus contain misinformation and downright falsehoods (hint: far too much), Phil Reed, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, moves on to examine why others pick them up and spread them. His answer will not bolster your faith in humans as rational creatures (but, these days, what does?). Here’s the nub; follow the link for the evidence and citations (emphasis added):
Twits on Twitter 0
Twits who would invoke Deuteronomy 22:20-21.
Words fail me.
Aside:
My first inclination is to put this down to an elaborate hoax, but, given the current state of our polity . . . .
Oblivious to the Obvious, Susceptible to the Stupid 0
Aside:
Someone I know has fallen for the “Bill Gates coronavirus microchip” pfiffle and was recently trying to convert someone else I know. This person is constantly urging friends to watch this or that nutbag Youtuber “to learn the truth.”
He also expects to make a fortune from Iraqi dinars.
We are a society of stupid, no longer capable of critical thinking.
The Epidemiologist Speaks 0
As aside, I must say that this is potentially a most disturbing news item.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
Test Flailure 1
An excerpt:
That’s the Trump strategy in a nutshell: If we don’t have evidence, there’s no way for people to know about it . . . .
Unmasked Marauders 0
The editorial board of the Hartford Courant looks ahead at the “reopening” of Connecticut (and, by extension, other states) and has concerns (emphasis added). A nugget:
First, politicians have turned over communication and key decision making to scientists and public health experts, encouraging community responsibility and backing sweeping rules and regulations that were universally applied. That worked in South Korea, Vietnam and New Zealand. It also worked in Washington state, where the governor took a backseat to doctors and epidemiologists.
Second, effective leaders have learned from past failures in fighting pandemics and used those lessons to adjust their approach. A key lesson from a 2007 public health report “Lessons Learned from the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota,” identified a lack of clarity and coordination among local, state and federal authorities as a critical problem.
Both those lessons are being ignored by too many, and we are now at serious risk of losing the gains of the last two months, fueled in no small part by the illusion that not wearing a mask to the grocery store is an act of political will.
Do please read the rest.
The Void 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, retired military officer and public servant Robert Bruce Adolph admits to being less than sanguine as regards the “leadership” emanating from the White House during these viral times.
I don’t wish to excerpt of summarize it in any way beyond the above. It’s a short article, just on the other end of the link.
“Lethal Incompetence” 0
Experiments fail, even noble ones.