Winners, Losers and Links
Winners
California Refugees - Tyranny on the West Coast grows with the vax mandates on school children.
Criminals - Despite a month now of heightened awareness of crime spikes, bail issues and whatnot, there is no pivot from big city DAs.
Anti-mandate fighters - Corporations are backing down. Courts are pausing the Biden EO. They may have finally pushed too far.
Losers
Large Metros - All time record murder counts for cities like Philadelphia, Louisville, Columbus, Indianapolis and others… and we still have 3 weeks to go!
Ukrainians - Tough spot to be in and no matter who they become vassal to, it will be rough.
Moldbug - Just take the L on covid and write about other things. Urbit has been a success and many great essays through the years so no need to remind us that quality of life means nothing to him compared to a 0.3% chance of death with an average age of 77 for those who die.
Links
Afghanistan was the function of a broken system. The Big Dumb Machine.
Anton has a great essay on our unprecedented situation.
Nemets has a long form essay on the Sea People.