[chrisk]

I know burger won't bother to read this because, for him, the NYT is ABSOLUTE TRUTH [more so, probably, since they ran out that heretic, Bari Weiss] and the National Review isn't fit to line a birdcage.  Nevertheless, it seems to me that the column raises some legitimate questions about that still-evolving Texas COVID Party story:

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/di...an-legend/

Maybe it happened; maybe it didn't, but, in the end, does that really matter?  It helped further the preferred media narrative so, by definition, it was a legitimate story for the NYT to print.

I would say it is irrelevant. We know that the spread is mostly due to lack of masks and social distancing. A COVID party here and there might add a few cases but when a state is logging tens of thousands of new cases each day, it’s mostly due to the sloppiness of the general population. The large minority (or in some stare, majority) of the population have not grasped that concept and internalized in their behavior.

[chrisk]

I know burger won't bother to read this because, for him, the NYT is ABSOLUTE TRUTH [more so, probably, since they ran out that heretic, Bari Weiss] and the National Review isn't fit to line a birdcage.  Nevertheless, it seems to me that the column raises some legitimate questions about that still-evolving Texas COVID Party story:

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/di...an-legend/

Maybe it happened; maybe it didn't, but, in the end, does that really matter?  It helped further the preferred media narrative so, by definition, it was a legitimate story for the NYT to print.

I would say it is irrelevant. We know that the spread is mostly due to lack of masks and social distancing. A COVID party here and there might add a few cases but when a state is logging tens of thousands of new cases each day, it’s mostly due to the sloppiness of the general population. The large minority (or in some stare, majority) of the population have not grasped that concept and internalized in their behavior.