The pandemic (and often stupid response to it) is on the verge of destroying it.
I have to confess that I wouldn’t miss it all that much, except when I travel. I can prepare my own food much healthier, and much lower cost. The fact that so many young people thought they could afford to pay other people to cook for them is one of the reasons that generation is having a tough time financially.
Baby, please come back.
This virus has been like a wildfire, sweeping through education, academia, and blue cities. It took technological and social trends that were already happening, and rapidly accelerated them, and now they’re smoldering ashes. I don’t think any of them will ever be the same again. And that’s not a bad thing.
…may have enabled some people to fight the coronavirus.
[Update a while later]
Per some of the comments, I can’t actually remember when the last time was that I was sick. I suspect I have a pretty strong immune system (may be a combination of my mostly-keto diet and a lot of fasting). I have to fly to DC in a couple weeks for a deposition, but I’m not really sweating it.
…has been oversold.
At some point, the people will simply rebel.
And a depressing post from Virginia Postrel about “the new normal.”
[Update a few minutes later]
In which the former editor of Reason magazine is called a “lefty Marxist.”
There’s a mountain of evidence that it’s effective.
How many people have died due to this latest Trump derangement?
Yes, Trump should issue an executive order on this, except unfortunately, it would taint the concept.
Quantum physicists say “don’t sweat it.”
That’s good news, I guess, if we ever get time travel.
Why they won’t debate you. As noted there, there is nothing liberal about them.
We may soon be able to predict them. That would be nice.
How to talk to your employers about it.
I would tell my employer that this was bullshit.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Yes, I know that white text on black background is hard on the eyes. I’m looking for contact information to tell them that.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, if you click on the little lightbulb icon at the upper right, it fixes it.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: Youtube throws in the towel.
Just temporarily, I suspect. This nonsense will continue, and it has to be continually pushed back against.