Vaccine
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Further to the Japanese study.....
interesting....
bariweiss.substack.com
Lose the Mask. Eat the Turkey. And Other Sane Advice For This Thanksgiving.
A reasonable doctor's guide to enjoying the holidays and not killing your grandparents.
bariweiss.substack.com
interesting....
Lose the Mask. Eat the Turkey. And Other Sane Advice For This Thanksgiving.
A reasonable doctor's guide to enjoying the holidays and not killing your grandparents.
The counterpoint....
Opinion | Is it safe to eat Thanksgiving dinner with unvaccinated guests?
Big gatherings can feel nerve-wracking, especially if you know some folks around the table this year won't be vaccinated.
www.nbcnews.com
Hüsker Dü
DA
Having a little paper on the wall saying you made it through classes isn’t necessarily an indicator of intelligence.
same offer as before...pm me with your iq. I'll send you mine. Come on...it will be fun.
And before you say "well IQ isn't necessary a correlation with various types of intelligence" totally agree.
Hüsker Dü
DA
Partisan? Are you saying you believe all anti-vaxxers are from one political party?
No. You can be partisan with a point of view (one camp v another). The data also belies that the antivaxxers are all from one political party. There is a notable block in the D party and you know who is overly represented in that block.
Hüsker Dü
DA
148 last I tested
Hüsker Dü
DA
There have always been similarities between the extremes . . . radicals unite.
Desert Hound
DA
I assume you realized that late in life as you were looking in the mirror?
Haha. Funny.
Desert Hound
DA
That was an STD test.
I'm finding the reactions funnier than the cartoon.
Of course you would…the cartoon was stupid and didn’t know it stood for the opposite case you were trying to make…that alone guaranteed the humor particularly since you didn’t see it.
what-happened
GOLD
What's an anti-vaxxer these days? hasn't the definition changed?
Of course you would…the cartoon was stupid and didn’t know it stood for the opposite case you were trying to make…that alone guaranteed the humor particularly since you didn’t see it.
q.e.d.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Stay in class. You'll get there someday.
Bruddah IZ
DA
An economist friend of mine sent to me this photo of a poster that still hangs in the entry way to his children’s elementary school.
My friend, who prefers to remain anonymous, writes:
My friend, who prefers to remain anonymous, writes:
Bruddah IZ
DA
“You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”--Michelle Obama's cliche
While I can’t speak for Ms. Obama, I assure you that my favorable posting of her remark was not, contrary to your interpretation, a “rash call to ignore risks.” Of course risks must be accounted for. And also of course, the higher the risk of harm from any particular source, the greater should be the amount of precaution taken against that source.
But this reality – this counsel of prudence – doesn’t mean that it’s acceptable to overreact to any one risk. After all, it’s typically the case that the greater the precaution you take against risk X, the greater becomes your exposure to risks Y and Z. And so if you focus exclusively on risk X you ignore these other risks. Therefore, while you might succeed in your narrow effort to reduce as much as possible your exposure to risk X, you’ll be unaware of your resulting higher – and likely excessive – exposure to other risks.
I posted that photo at my blog as evidence that in a more-sane era – namely, before March 2020 – there was popular understanding that an action is not inadvisable merely because that action entails some risk. Yet too many people today ignore this truth on all matters related to Covid. Too many people today assume that no amount of risk, regardless of how small, of encountering Covid-19 is acceptable – and, therefore, that no price is too high to pay for even the minutest increment of reduction in the risks of encountering Covid.
This attitude is what I call Covid Derangement Syndrome. I’m convinced that this syndrome poses to society a far larger risk than does Covid itself. Against the latter we have vaccines (and, if we only had the good sense to use it, the option of Focused Protection); against the former we have too few defenses.
Sincerely,
Don
While I can’t speak for Ms. Obama, I assure you that my favorable posting of her remark was not, contrary to your interpretation, a “rash call to ignore risks.” Of course risks must be accounted for. And also of course, the higher the risk of harm from any particular source, the greater should be the amount of precaution taken against that source.
But this reality – this counsel of prudence – doesn’t mean that it’s acceptable to overreact to any one risk. After all, it’s typically the case that the greater the precaution you take against risk X, the greater becomes your exposure to risks Y and Z. And so if you focus exclusively on risk X you ignore these other risks. Therefore, while you might succeed in your narrow effort to reduce as much as possible your exposure to risk X, you’ll be unaware of your resulting higher – and likely excessive – exposure to other risks.
I posted that photo at my blog as evidence that in a more-sane era – namely, before March 2020 – there was popular understanding that an action is not inadvisable merely because that action entails some risk. Yet too many people today ignore this truth on all matters related to Covid. Too many people today assume that no amount of risk, regardless of how small, of encountering Covid-19 is acceptable – and, therefore, that no price is too high to pay for even the minutest increment of reduction in the risks of encountering Covid.
This attitude is what I call Covid Derangement Syndrome. I’m convinced that this syndrome poses to society a far larger risk than does Covid itself. Against the latter we have vaccines (and, if we only had the good sense to use it, the option of Focused Protection); against the former we have too few defenses.
Sincerely,
Don
Hüsker Dü
DA
Paranoid is paranoid. Whether you have past governmental experiments to stoke your fear or Joe Rogan it turns out the same. Although the former has a bit more ground to stand on than the latter.