Then. How. Does. That. Make. Us. Alarmists. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o... - ThreadSky

bluishorange.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Then. How. Does. That. Make. Us. Alarmists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/opinion/covid-fifth-anniversary.html

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bluishorange.bsky.social•1 day ago

boy those volcano doomers sure were right about Pompeii

bluishorange.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’ve lost friends and family over this, and I’ll probably lose more. I’ve been called names by strangers and people I know. half my therapy sessions are about being gaslighted by the whole fucking country acting like an illness that does lasting damage to your body is fine to get over and over again

bluishorange.bsky.social•1 day ago

all of that is way worse than the New York bootlicking Times calling me an alarmist, but I’m still mad about it

bluishorange.bsky.social•1 day ago

the article itself is gruel-thin, refers to the pandemic in the past tense, and makes no mention of long covid at all. fuck everything

bluishorange.bsky.social•10 hours ago

here’s my dog again

thegeo.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Only liking the dog. You're not wrong, but I do not enjoy that fact :P I do however enjoy puppers.

Anyways I'm so tired of everyone going "This is fine"

tinavstammy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fully on your side in this.

They could at least put put it in quotes to indicate that, as the rest of the title basically says, they realize now we weren't wrong!

bluishorange.bsky.social•1 day ago

someone on Twitter says the title used to be different: https://x.com/_CatintheHat/status/1895011567378346091

bluishorange.bsky.social•1 day ago

but @nytdiff.bsky.social doesn’t have it so idk if it’s true

jdailyjr.intelligenttogether.org•22 hours ago

Is it normal for a headline to change after publishing?

It feels like it should be very bad, like pushing untested code to production by writing directly on the servers at 5pm on Friday kinda of bad.

violetly.bsky.social•4 hours ago

"Turns out the 'help, I'm being murdered' people, were in fact, to use their words, 'being murdered'."

irdept.bsky.social•3 hours ago

It FELT alarmist and, as every American knows, what FEELS true is more important than what is factually, demonstrably true.

Which is absolutely bonkers, yet here we are.

aimstarr.bsky.social•1 day ago

Infuriating.

fetishartist.bsky.social•16 hours ago

300 people were dying of covid every day in Los Angeles in December 2020. What was alarmist about that?

2gay2pay.bsky.social•21 hours ago

“Alarmist” is obviously becoming redefined the same way “nihilist” and “doomer” already have been.

All of these words now just mean: “anyone who says something accurate that I, personally, would rather not have to listen to.”