I don't know. Because it has to be mandatory. That's the scientific reality. The thing will keep mutating; the mutations are entirely likely to be more infectious and more lethal, and the virus must be *eradicated."
This virus is the greatest threat to public health since the Spanish Flu; and it will continue to be a threat until the virus is eradicated. I mean completely eradicated, gone, disappeared, extinguished. It cannot be treated as a serious flu. It is far more serious.
It is a fucking killer and it is only a question of time before it becomes more contagious and more lethal, so time is of the essence. The mRNA vaccines are more effective in the short run than traditional vaccines.
They may in the long run be less effective since they are, by comparison, more narrowly targeted on the spike protein. Something like fifty or so mutations could render them useless because the virus itself has changed the shape or the structure of the spike protein.
Governments around the world simply *must* make vaccination obligatory, with serious penalties imposed on those who fail to comply. If the vaccine remains optional, viral pockets will remain everywhere.
In any country that has failed to achieve the mythical state of herd immunity, the result will be a revival of catastrophe. The world economy will, already, be seriously compromised by this bug for years to come.
If the world isn't vaccinated--all of it--as quickly as possible, the consequences are too horrific to imagine. So no, I am not joking when I say that the anti-vaxxers are a threat to all human life, and the penalties must be *severe.*

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30 Dec 20
Peut-être que si je veux que ce conseil atteigne son public cible, je devrais essayer d'utiliser la langue qu'ils lisent. Si quelqu'un pense que la France réussit à vacciner ses citoyens rapidement, laissez-moi vous détromper de cette fatuité dès maintenant.
Jusqu'à récemment, j'ai plutôt soutenu le gouvernement de Macron. Travail pénible. Un peuple dur à gouverner.

Après cette débâcle? Si j'étais citoyen français, je voterais probablement pour les communistes ou les fascistes (et ce sont probablement les options, à ce rythme).
Si les gars qui sont au moins censés être des technocrates compétents ne peuvent pas gérer une campagne de vaccination et qui offrent des excuses idiotes--
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30 Dec 20
If anyone in the US thinks France is doing any better with "expeditious vaccination," let me disabuse you of that conceit right now. Until recently, I've been fairly supportive of Macron's government. Tough job, tough people to govern.
After this? If I were a French citizen, I'd probably vote for the communists or the fascists (and those probably will be the options, at this rate). If the guys who're at least supposed to be competent technocrats can't manage a vaccination campaign--
--and offer idiotic excuses like, "Well, we're taking it slowly because, you know, France is full of lunatic anti-vaxxers and we don't want to frighten them"--I'm not making that up, folks, an aide to the health minister said exactly that, yesterday--
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25 Dec 20
Merry Christmas, Christian friends! I know that for many of you, this will be the first Christmas you've spent alone in your home, far from your family, and bereft of your Christmas traditions.
Fortunately, Jews are here to help you get through this. See, this is what we always do on Christmas, and over the years, we've developed pandemic-proof Christmas traditions that you too can adopt. Here's how you do it:
1) Order Chinese food.
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24 Dec 20
So for those of you who missed it, this week we launched the Cosmopolitan Globalist. Follow us at @cosmo_globalist!

What's the Cosmopolitan Globalist, you may be asking?

Here's the answer:
claireberlinski.substack.com/p/introducing-…
The idea was borne of my endless lament that global news coverage has disappeared. If you've been following me for a while, you know what I have to say about this, but I finally decided to do something about it--and so did 68 of my friends.
Want to listen to one of our editorial meetings? Here's our first podcast. We got on a Zoom call to ask ourselves, “So, what makes a story for the Cosmopolitan Globalists different from any other?” claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-first-po…
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21 Dec 20
This is the most astonishing story you'll read in the 21st century. Navalny--having been poisoned by the FSB--gets on the phone, calls the FSB--on their landline--and tells them he's "Maxim Ustinov, an aide to [Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Nikolai] Patrushev.”
There is no such person. Doesn't matter. He gets through to Konstantin Kudryavtsev, an FSB guy who graduated from the Military Biological-Chemical Academy then worked in the biowar Institute of the Ministry of Defense.

He rips Kudryavtsev a new asshole.
"How come Navalny's still ALIVE, you sack of--"

Kudryavtsev stammers something about it maybe not being a good idea to talk about this on an open line ...

(Btw, @bellingcat, this MUST be made into a movie. Write the screenplay tonight. Navalny can play himself.)
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20 Dec 20
The strangest thing is that this is true in France--the misty-eyed business--even though literally *on the same métro ride* you can go from the Bastille to Kléber, Austerlitz, Wagram and right through to Invalides.
One assumes everyone here knows why they're named that way. Even if they were never taught in school, "Invalides" is a a sinister hint. The whole city is an inescapable memorial to French history, yet ... misty-eyed? About a revolution that visibly failed on its own terms? Why?
I just don't get it. Keep me far, far away from any event that might be memorialized one day by a métro station.
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