From exactly four years ago:
What’s on the mind of New Yorkers today who were passionate maskers in 2021? Wearing masks:
Also, of course, the suffering of the world’s most peaceful and noble humans (link):
Coronapanic flashback to 2021
Philip Greenspun’s Weblog
A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months…
Is there a donation site to get them to stop teaching children in Gaza?
What they’re learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjaK1FP6nCM
For those who don’t know, that video is *not* staged. Similar early-age training programs exist in other Arab countries as well. I saw it firsthand in my hometown of Aleppo, Syria. In fact, when I was in middle school in the late ’70s, we had a mandatory class where we learned how to handle and fire rifles. The targets? Cardboard cutouts of Israeli soldiers.
Elenora is being groomed into the next Greta, except her mission is vaccinations, not climate.
When she is old enough, she will give a tearful speech at the UN Vaccination Summit, get vaccinated on stage, and accuse the world: “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.”
And to be clear, that child, Elenora, is the real victim. Her parents are using and exploiting her, and I expect they will continue to manipulate her as she grows up.
> Eleanor, about to be two years old, and can’t be vaccinated yet
Also from 2021: “Johns Hopkins team studied 48,000 children under 18 diagnosed with COVID-19, found zero deaths among otherwise healthy kids.” (https://archive.is/PY0mZ)
So the risk of dying from covid was less than 1 in 48,000; risk of dying in a car crash in one year is 1 in 12,000. So traveling in a car was as least 4x more dangerous than getting covid?