disdain

Elizabeth Breunig, who recently wrote a very moving piece in the Atlantic about what measles can do to a child, and then later admitted she made up a story about a child instead, of, I don't know, actually going to out to interview or report about real people, like an actual journalist would do. 

Hasan Piker, on his trip to China: “I have Chinese relatives … and I talked to my Chinese friends all the time about this sort of stuff, where the attitude is as long as you keep your head down, you don’t say certain things, it’s broadly understood that the government has your back,” Piker said.

Meanwhile, in Australia, Sydney riders for delivery service HungryPanda, who have been considering protesting or refusing to work, say police in China have been making threats and putting pressure on their families back home.

Emily Oster - Too bad I didn't save the screenshots or rabbitholes I went down, but I remember basically that she advocated for schools re-opening because she couldn't stand having her kids at home all the time, and basically used data from areas that did not have high incidences of COVID *yet* to do that. The other one was her article in the Atlantic where she said a kid who was unvaccinated for COVID was safe around other people, and the next week reading about a family that lost their kid to COVID because they read that damn article and thought it was safe to go on vacation. 

Amy Chua and her husband Jed Rubenfeld have a lot to answer for - inflicting JD Vance and Brett Kavanaugh on us, first of all. They should have been banished after publishing a book about how some groups are just better than others but also suck, and instead of telling them they were being racist and stupid, they were instead praised as being "provocative" and "daring".