You’re right that a negative affect to NFTs in particular / blockchain stuff in general is part of the reaction, but I don’t see the reasoning error in
“<X> causes greater electricity consumption;
on the margin, greater electricity consumption currently causes <more pollution / finite resources to be consumed faster / more birds to die due to windmills / …>, which is bad;
this is a downside to <X>.”
It’s probably the case that NFTs do not directly cause greater electricity consumption, but NFTs do plausibly indirectly cause greater electricity consumption, e.g. via making Ethereum more valuable, thus increasing mining rewards, thus increasing competition.
I’ve used microcovid occasionally, to make sure my intuitive feelings about risk were not completely crazy (and that did cause some updates; notably, putting numbers to staying outdoors had an influence.) I’m not a heavy user, but I do appreciate the work you’ve done!
I’d basically like to see more of the same—update microcovid.org for omicron and keep it going.
(FWIW, I’m in the Netherlands, where we just entered a new lockdown for omicron. So COVID unfortunately isn’t “over”.)