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I regret to inform you that Taylor Lorenz is still around, and so are her face diapers.
Lorenz — media pundit, disgraced Washington Post tech journalist, Luigi Mangione stan, and all-around sociopathic ninny — has gone viral for embarrassingly bad reasons again. This isn’t particularly news; in fact, rouse me when she goes viral for something good.
Instead, it’s the embarrassing hill that she’s planted her flag on, one which stopped mattering years ago: She believes if you’re traveling, “you should be wearing a mask” due to COVID, and if you won’t do such things in the name of “showing basic solidarity, you are not a serious person.”
Now, there is some context here — and it manages to be almost as fatuous as Lorenz’s posts, although it’s rather stunning that Lorenz managed to top it on the fatuousness-meter. See, far-left protest group Code Pink just went to Cuba in support of the communist state, where they reportedly engaged in all kinds of hijinks — including taking down the electrical grid for a concert, staying in five-star hotels in a desperately poor nation, and generally making Code Pink-esque buffoons of themselves:
BREAKING – All patients on ventilators at a Cuban hospital died after the Irish band Kneecap used massive amounts of electricity during a “humanitarian performance” for fellow communists, while the performers and activists stayed in a five-star hotel with power. pic.twitter.com/Swsg2ai4yX — Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) March 22, 2026
BREAKING – All patients on ventilators at a Cuban hospital died after the Irish band Kneecap used massive amounts of electricity during a “humanitarian performance” for fellow communists, while the performers and activists stayed in a five-star hotel with power. pic.twitter.com/Swsg2ai4yX
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) March 22, 2026
Incredible. The Code Pink/Hasan crew flew 1st class to Cuba to lecture people re how Communism is actually great and all their struggles are because of America. They were already being ridiculed for staying in a 5-star hotel. Now the power grid has gone out for everyone else. https://t.co/OABtqewTQe — AG (@AGHamilton29) March 22, 2026
The Code Pink/Hasan crew flew 1st class to Cuba to lecture people re how Communism is actually great and all their struggles are because of America. They were already being ridiculed for staying in a 5-star hotel. Now the power grid has gone out for everyone else. https://t.co/OABtqewTQe
— AG (@AGHamilton29) March 22, 2026
🚨BREAKING: Code Pink leftist activists are heading to Cuba to tell people living under communism how terrible Trump and America are. I wish Cuba would keep them. pic.twitter.com/hYROVwFfto — I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) March 20, 2026
🚨BREAKING: Code Pink leftist activists are heading to Cuba to tell people living under communism how terrible Trump and America are.
I wish Cuba would keep them. pic.twitter.com/hYROVwFfto
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) March 20, 2026
But, as you’ll notice, they’re not wearing any masks. Granted, that’s because COVID was six years ago and they didn’t work in the first place. But of all the things Lorenz could have been Not Happy™ about regarding Code Pink’s commie junket, this is what she decided to turn her attention to.
“If you’re traveling to Cuba or any impoverished community, or just generally, you should be wearing a mask,” she wrote on Sunday. “We’re 6 years into an ongoing pandemic and airborne disease is real no matter how many ‘leftists’ want to scream and stomp their feet and shout RFK talking points.”
“It’s really so easy to not infect and kill ppl around you. No one is saying u have to be perfect, but if you respond to disabled ppl asking you not to kill/maim them and other vulnerable folks by having a meltdown instead of showing basic solidarity, you are not a serious person,” she added.
It’s really so easy to not infect and kill ppl around you. No one is saying u have to be perfect, but if you respond to disabled ppl asking you not to kill/maim them and other vulnerable folks by having a meltdown instead of showing basic solidarity, you are not a serious person — Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) March 22, 2026
It’s really so easy to not infect and kill ppl around you. No one is saying u have to be perfect, but if you respond to disabled ppl asking you not to kill/maim them and other vulnerable folks by having a meltdown instead of showing basic solidarity, you are not a serious person
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) March 22, 2026
There are takes and then there are takes, and this one definitely deserves the italics.
Assume masks worked at some point during COVID. (The evidence doesn’t point that way, but let’s just live in Lorenz-land for a moment here.) This may have been something to get yourself in a tizzy about in the autumn of 2020 — but it’s March of 2026. We’ve gotten to the point where COVID is just another flu and we don’t talk about case loads or respirators or anything like that.
In other words, this looks beyond silly — on brand for Lorenz, I’ll concede, but yet another reminder of how preposterous the American left once looked on the subject of face-diapers, and still occasionally looks.
Also bad optics: Telling privileged liberals to mask up and don sanitary protection in a developing country:
Personally I am in love with the image of wealthy western communism tourists wearing N95s and surgical gloves while interacting with the local population. You know, in order to not give THEM any diseases… https://t.co/COWpnnTfrk pic.twitter.com/9oyFUzkix2 — Noam Blum (@neontaster) March 23, 2026
Personally I am in love with the image of wealthy western communism tourists wearing N95s and surgical gloves while interacting with the local population. You know, in order to not give THEM any diseases… https://t.co/COWpnnTfrk pic.twitter.com/9oyFUzkix2
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) March 23, 2026
But then again, realizing these optics would require some level of self-awareness, and Lorenz’s lack of it isn’t just a bug but a feature of her shamelessness.
Whatever the case, one thing is for sure: When Lorenz dies, probably years from now, you can picture the eulogy easily, or at least the opening. A figure will ascend to the podium, look out over the audience, and shake their head. Then, after a moment, the words will escape their lips: “Why aren’t you masked? Don’t you realize we’re only 53 years into a pandemic? Seventy-five years to flatten the curve!”
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