Dude, Nah

come to the dark side, where we humanise those we find disagreeable

I’m laughing because the mind who advised everyone to be intellectually fierce called someone on Twitter an imbecile for disagreeing with him. This is an academic, an individual with a large following—acting like a child. Not sure how name calling exhibits intellectual fierceness. Seriously—Dude, Nah. 🥱🙄 Then when I move on to the next supposedly brilliant mind, who lets face it does have his moments, he’s tweeting a comparison of Covid-19 pandemic measures to 1930s nazi Germany—also an academic individual with a large following, who is often cultish in its admiration of him. Again—Dude, Nah. Generally speaking, the IDW’s response to Covid reminds us that having a PhD doesn’t make a person particularly bright. It also reminds us that mediocrity masquerading as excellence frequently floats to the top. You just have to say outrageous sh1t to get attention. Few care if it stands up to logic. It’s wild, the dumb sh1t being peddled as edgy and great.

Come to the new dark side, where people think for themselves and even humanise those they find disagreeable. We may even have donuts.

For months experts have been warning against reliance upon herd or natural immunity approaches to Covid management. Still we see ideologues pushing this narrative. Recently I saw a tweet which essentially said what’s the big deal, such a small portion of humanity died from Covid, and the response to that, um, yeah Hiroshima was not a big deal to 99% of the world’s population outside of Japan. You see how this reasoning makes no sense, how we have people so selfish and narcissistic they’re blinded to fact? Ego dulls intelligence—it’s like a weird antidote to intelligence because ego makes us rigid and intelligence demands flexible open-mindedness. When you look at the major problems facing humanity, when you strip away the rhetorical differences you can distill it down to ego.

So in this context the response to Covid has been interesting— revolving around a deliberate failure to grasp that Covid is not your average respiratory virus, that it’s a neurotropic superantigen, that it’s a platelet disorder which causes endothelial damage, and that immunity, including natural immunity, wanes over time, that long Covid is a pressing concern, given the neurotropism. So, on one hand we have people performing what I call mask sharia by walking alone outside with a mask, the everyone panic we’re all gonna die no fun allowed club, and on the other hand we have the conspiracy theorists, who think it’s all a Marxist hoax created to control everyone. Somewhere in the middle are reasonable and rational people— that’s where we need to be.

So, we are still in a pandemic and allowing the virus to circulate isn’t going to magically build herd immunity and it’s not going to address the growing concern of long covid. Extremism exists across the board and it’s not helping. Now, when I see the IDW skeptic club and their favourite media personality pets, I just say— Nah Dude.

Anyway, shortest day of the year, the light will now grow from here forward! Yay. If you celebrate Christmas then Merry Christmas. If not then Merry Festivus or whatever your thang. Get your booster if you are medically able. Wear your mask— n95 is best however a mask is better than no mask. The virus is airborne and notable. Respect nature because it doesn’t care about your ego or feelings.