Category Archives: We’re Really Fucked

It’s Become Even Worse for PRoMED

Posted on August 4, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

A few weeks ago, I noted that PRoMED, an infectious disease alert system, was in trouble. Well, it seems it was far worse than anyone knew. Apparently, that letter from July 20 was sent out without any of the PRoMED … Continue reading →

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COVID Can Do Bad Things to Your Brain

Posted on July 26, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

I’m reluctant to write about this because there’s a tendency to fall into the trap of blaming every episode of human stupidity on COVID, when people were plenty stupid before the pandemic. But I haven’t been able to get this … Continue reading →

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Feeling a Bit Gaslit Right Now

Posted on June 9, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

With the Smoke Cloud of Doom parked over the nation’s capital, we are now getting advice from officials to wear N95 masks–outside. Needless to say, given the non-trivial risk of long COVID, even for the fully vaccinated*, one should be … Continue reading →

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Trump and the Missing Eight Words

Posted on May 8, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

S.V. Date has a must-read article about the role most news outlets have played in the normalization of Trump’s auto-golpe (self-coup; boldface mine): Donald Trump is the only president who used the threat of violence and then actual violence in … Continue reading →

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Will Republicans Denounce Mastriano’s Anti-Semitic Consultant?

Posted on July 29, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

A consultant for Republican Pennsylvanian gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano sure seems nice (boldface mine): Andrew Torba, Gab CEO and consultant to Republican Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, responded to criticism of Mastriano using his antisemitic platform by telling Jews that … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on the Current Horror

Posted on May 27, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Of course, we’ll likely have a new horror in a few days: I have to admit–and I’m not proud of this–I’m suffering from ‘horror fatigue.’ Over the last two years, in the U.S., we’ve had hundreds of thousands of people … Continue reading →

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SCOTUS’ Inchoate Anti-Vaccinationism

Posted on January 21, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court’s decision to prevent OSHA from enacting a mask mandate with a vaccination opt-out (it’s not a vaccination mandate) isn’t surprising. This is the sort of half-assed jurisprudence the radical Republicans on the Court regularly engage in, … Continue reading →

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Manchin Was Negotiating in Bad Faith All Along

Posted on December 21, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

So this came across the transom–and most establishment Democrats belatedly agree with it: Manchin on WV radio saying he knew from the beginning he wouldn't support BBB, but let Democrats negotiate. That he got to his "wits end" after staff … Continue reading →

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Blaming Everyone but Themselves

Posted on December 14, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

Have no doubt that, if (and that’s a very likely if) Democrats lose the Senate or the House, moderate Democrats will blame the left for their failures. There’s just one problem with that (boldface mine): It is true that some … Continue reading →

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Over 750,000 Dead and Most of Our Elected Leaders Will Pay No Price for It

Posted on November 10, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

In a very good piece, Brian Beutler makes an excellent observation (boldface mine): What troubles me even more than the governing errors, though, is the fact that Republicans were able to become competitive anywhere in any blue territory in the … Continue reading →

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