😷✊ I don't get how these people think it's any of their business what you happen to be wearing.

Australia's recommendations are still for 18-64 year old folks without IC to consider a booster every 12 months, with stronger recs for older or immunocompromised folks. www.health.gov.au/our-work/cov...

It does seem like a logical extension of the MAHA pandemic response - your health is entirely down to your consumption choices and so the only way to heal from all that Covid damage (that you don't recognise as Covid damage) is to relentlessly optimise those choices towards max healthiness.

Figure 3 - Total Incidence of Pertussis From 2012 to 2024 in Argentina, Australia, Czechia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Japan, and the US, from the paper.

Paper in JAMA Network Open: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Hell yeah. Hoping you can hit it as hard as Sam Kriss did in The Point. "Some books are so utterly bad that the case against them can be made based on almost any excerpt. Elon Musk is one of those books." thepointmag.com/criticism/ve...

There's not an obvious causative agent that lines up with the trends that I can point to and recommend. Just time, luck, and pacing.

Appreciate your work. If you've got to tighten things up to stop the trolls, that's totally fair.

"The pandemic was a waymarker on our journey to a harsher, crueller world" is a line that hits hard. So much societal dysfunction around us stems from the total disregard for other people that was mainstreamed by our surrender to the pandemic.