It's almost like the existence of vaccines places evolutionary pressure on a mutating virus.
This whole pandemic has highlighted something that I really prefer not to think about, which is just how irrational, selfish, incapable of assessing risk and prone to confirmation bias too many people are.
The vaccine isn't 100% effective in stopping transmission? Or stopping you catching the disease? Or dying? Each of these becomes some pseudo-gotcha moment that leads some down an invermectin-taking path with Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan as the pied piper.
It's basically equivalent to arguing that people wearing seat belts can die in car accidents therefore seat belts are ineffective. Worse, you can suffer an injury from a seat belt so they're net harmful.
What many non-Americans may not understand is that there are a nontrivial number of Americans who still doggedly and genuinely believe that about seat belts to this day and view laws requiring their use as impinging on their ffeedom.
And we want people to make sacrifices for climate change? Yeah, never gonna happen.
This whole pandemic has highlighted something that I really prefer not to think about, which is just how irrational, selfish, incapable of assessing risk and prone to confirmation bias too many people are.
The vaccine isn't 100% effective in stopping transmission? Or stopping you catching the disease? Or dying? Each of these becomes some pseudo-gotcha moment that leads some down an invermectin-taking path with Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan as the pied piper.
It's basically equivalent to arguing that people wearing seat belts can die in car accidents therefore seat belts are ineffective. Worse, you can suffer an injury from a seat belt so they're net harmful.
What many non-Americans may not understand is that there are a nontrivial number of Americans who still doggedly and genuinely believe that about seat belts to this day and view laws requiring their use as impinging on their ffeedom.
And we want people to make sacrifices for climate change? Yeah, never gonna happen.