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28 Dec, 7 tweets, 3 min read
I wanted to understand more about the COVID-19 vaccines and the future of the pandemic.

So I interviewed the great @VirusesImmunity for my blog!

It was hugely informative.

noahpinion.substack.com/p/interview-dr…
2/Some excerpts from the interview!

Dr. Iwasaki on why we shouldn't be very worried (at least, not yet) about new mutations making vaccines less effective:
3/And here's Dr. Iwasaki on the ultimate fate of COVID-19:
4/And on the threat of future pandemics from human-animal interaction:
5/And on the barriers faced by women in biosciences.
6/A list of barriers that women face in science:
7/Read the full interview for much more!

And remember, you can sign up for my free email list to get my newsletter delivered directly to your inbox. :-)

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The U.S. has now vaccinated at least 0.7% of its population.

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Israel, meanwhile, vaccinated about double that percentage in ONE DAY.

And to all the reply-guys saying "Oh but Israel is the size of New Jersey", realize that New Jersey has vaccinated ~0.5% of its population.
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27 Dec
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Immigration doesn't reduce wages. But for the people who want to stop immigration, the facts don't matter. Halting immigration is an end in and of itself, and they will reach for whatever justification they can in order to justify that end.
The other justification people will reach for is "immigration is bad for the environment". Basically, the Trump people won, and succeeded in making even liberals and leftists wary of immigration, and everyone is looking for a theoretical reason to pause it.
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1/Who will put $600 to better use -- Scrooge, or Tiny Tim?

A Christmas economics explainer.

noahpinion.substack.com/p/should-you-g…
2/A few people claim that Scrooge would put $600 to better use, because he'd save the money, which would increase investment, which would make society richer, instead of consuming in the present.

3/And there are still some people who fixate on the idea of rich people's personal thrift as the key to building up productive capital.

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23 Dec
1/OK, so let's talk about America's COVID relief spending.

noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-us-gover…
2/A lot of people are Very Pissed Off about the fact that the new relief bill sends out $600 checks. They pretend that this is the only thing the bill does.

3/The misinformation is bipartisan.

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21 Dec
Yesterday someone accused me of deleting comments on a YouTube video because there were only 3, while the same video posted on a big channel got 375.

Today someone offered me a bet, and when I turned it down, demanded I Venmo him $150 to "get out of" the bet.

WTF is happening
These were big accounts too -- tens of thousands of followers.

Is it possible that Twitter is getting Even Dumber???
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He then went on to make fun of me for having glasses, and said I had low testosterone.
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20 Dec
Fun fact: Albert Einstein had a tankie phase!
digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:210…

(He changed his mind when he found out Stalin was antisemitic...)
Einstein also got honeypotted!

So Eric Swalwell doesn't have to feel too bad. :-)

history.com/news/einstein-…
Einstein also wrote some racist stuff about China:

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