Why are millennials dying?

60,000 excess deaths last fall.

 But it’s not suicide or OD

The world is different, it’s not just a temporary change in “vibe”

Zeitgeist has changed

If the personal level of our lives is filled with fraying personal relationships, the national level is filled with decay. 

Ann Helen Peterson agrees

white, straight people with American passports are now feeling the same sort of societal precarity that has long been the norm for people without those privileges.

COVID micro risk tool

The basic tool

All done with the url, so it’s possible to call directly…

This calculator lets you estimate COVID risk and find effective safety measures for customizable situations. Examples: how risky is a trip to my grocery store? What's the safest way to see a friend? How much would it help to wear a better mask at my workplace?

If you'd like to watch a video walkthrough of how to use the calculator, click here.

Browser and search alternatives

Brave

Brave Search doesn’t track you, your searches, or your clicks. It’s impossible for us to share, sell, or lose your data, because we don’t collect it in the first place.

marginalia search

This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. 

The software for this search engine is all custom-built, and all crawling and indexing is done in-house.

Dreyfus predicts the web using Kierkegaard

Stunningly prescient

Bert was struck by how Kierkegaard’s worries about the Press applied to the Web, but more importantly he saw how the Web would exacerbate the most troubling features of the Press. 

I’m sad to finally realize that John Stuart mill’s “ marketplace of ideas” is bogus.  It’s not about truth, it’s about either money or advocacy 

School pandemic safety

School COVID safety debate  strongly influenced by Koch funded pro business groups, not by public health 

Why Hayek was both wrong and bad

Bill Black

From 2014.

Basically none of Hayek’s predictions have been right, and his libertarianism is deeply anti democratic 

Fifteen bad narratives about Ukraine

Russia bad doesn’t mean the west is blameless

idiocy comes in many mutually reinforcing forms. Let’s examine and get past some problematic thinking on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But first, let’s proclaim some basic principles. The Ukraine crisis is a good focus for practising the art of detesting two things at the same time.

Scheisswurst or brioche-au-merde.  I’ll go hungry, thanks.

Adverse reactions to mRNA vaccines

Collected by a midwestern MD

He establishes provenance for all of his data

Typically when a drug has between 10-100 critical injuries reported to the FDA, they strongly look at pulling it from the market or giving it a blackbox warning.  I thus feel these vaccines are not being held to the adverse reporting standard we expect.  I would like to again emphasize part of the reason I put this list together was because I was reading a lot of reports on the internet of adverse events, and to some extent you don’t actually know if they are real or people posting them, but I know every single one described here happened.

What individuals can do for climate

Six actions  could account for a quarter of the emissions reductions required to keep the global heating down to 1.5C.

But…  that’s all of us on board with a lot more needed from other actors 

The actions 

• Eat a largely plant-based diet, with healthy portions and no waste
• • Buy no more than three new items of clothing per year
• • Keep electrical products for at least seven years
• • Take no more than one short haul flight every three years and one long haul flight every eight years
• • Get rid of personal motor vehicles if you can – and if not keep hold of your existing vehicle for longer
• • Make at least one life shift to nudge the system, like moving to a green energy, insulating your home or changing pension supplier

Pfizer post-marketing data

pretty ugly

very elevated numbers of patients are having these problems

Tracks the hypothetical SPARS