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Herd immunity misinformation on the left.

Youtube served up a liberal channel with healthcare professionals that were ostensibly criticizing RFKJr – though I feel like they were trying to bothsides the guy, buying into some of his claims they think they agree with. But the issue is that covid vaccine uptake was never great even for the original series, it never […]

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Not the worst pandemic takes, but why do people seem to miss the experience of entire segments of the population?

And it’s not that I’m alone or unique because I know many many people who are in similar situations to me. Marketplace – Make Me Smart Unpacking our collective COVID-19 trauma, five years on Episode 1347 Mar 11, 2025 David Wallace-Wells was on Marketplace podcast talking about the covid pandemic declaration anniversary and was surprisingly […]

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Image includes a screenshot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, includes a black and white photo portrait of Warren G Harding in a business suit with white hair, his elbow on a table, his hand against his cheek with a finger pointing up, his expression is stern. The text from Wikipedia reads quote "Return to normalcy" unquote was a campaign slogan used by Warren G. Harding during the 1920 United States presidential election. Harding would go on to win the election with 60.4% of the popular vote. 1920 election. In a speech delivered on May 14, 1920, Harding proclaimed that America needed "not nostrums, but normalcy". Two months later, during a homecoming speech, Harding reaffirmed his endorsement of "normal times and a return to normalcy." World War I and the Spanish flu had upended life, and Harding said that it altered the perspective of humanity. He argued that the solution was to seek normalcy by restoring life to how it was before the war. Harding's conception of normalcy for the 1920s included deregulation, civic (text cut off) Another screenshot is a graph labeled American Journal of Public Health charts 3 surge waves of influenza and pneumonia mortality through the 1920s, in 1922, 1923, and 1926. A caption on top says Infectious disease does not respect political campaigns nor PR campaigns. A caption on the bottom reads Through the 1920s, the Sanitarians recognized that the problem continued and was in need of solutions and action, including political action, and that call to action written by JAMES A. TOBEY, was published in the American Journal of Public Health in 1928 PMC1580932.
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Return to Normalcy is not progress anyway.

I hope we all realize by now that nothing will ever be the same again, there’s no normal to return to, and let’s face it normal was never all it was cracked up to be. On the anniversary of the pandemic declaration by the WHO, I’m reflecting on the fact that nothing has really ever […]

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