Main Points:

• Gas shortages
• Inflation
• “Anti-maskers” more into science than “Maskers”
• Wuhan Gain of Function research

Details:

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Gas shortages/Inflation:

• Inflation-No Keystone Pipeline
• Colonial Pipeline hacked https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/10/largest-us-fuel-pipeline-colonial-still-mostly-shut-impact-and-reopening.html
• NY Times says there are no lines: https://t.co/kX58tBAd78?amp=1
• Energy independent to bringing in oil from outside US in 100 days
• Hackers only wanted money not disruption: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-10/white-house-creates-task-force-to-deal-with-pipeline-breach?sref=vuYGislZ
• Biden denies that paying unemployment benefits is hurting the economy https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/05/10/white-house-says-300-a-week-unemployment-benefits-are-not-causing-worker-shortages/?sh=84c989023b27
• States are ending extra benefits https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-led-states-move-to-end-enhanced-federal-unemployment-benefits-early/ar-BB1gCri4?ocid=uxbndlbing
• Businesses having to pay more money.  Arby’s now $14 per hour.  Nearly all fast-food restaurants advertising that they’re hiring.
• https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/upshot/biden-families-plan-american-rescue-infrastructure.html

Anti-maskers use data to promote “unorthodox science”

• https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07993.pdf
• Researchers look at tweets and Facebook groups other social media to analyze anti-masker rhetoric
• “This paper investigates how these activist networks use rhetorics of scientific rigor to oppose these public health measures. Far from ignoring scientific evidence to argue for individual freedom, antimaskers often engage deeply with public datasets and make what we call “counter-visualizations”—visualizations using orthodox methods to make unorthodox arguments—to challenge mainstream narratives that the pandemic is urgent and ongoing. By asking community members to “follow the data,” these groups mobilize data visualizations to support significant local changes.”
• “Qualitative analysis of anti-mask groups gives us an interactional view of how these groups leverage the language of scientific rigor—being critical about data sources, explicitly stating analytical limitations of specific models, and more—in order to support ending public health restrictions despite the consensus of the scientific establishment.”
• “Indeed, anti-maskers often reveal themselves to be more sophisticated in their understanding of how scientific knowledge is socially constructed than their ideological adversaries, who espouse naive realism about the “objective” truth of public health data
• “Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe