This is good news but it remains maddening that this article leads with the misleading "66.1% effective" number and buries the most important finding -- that there were zero COVID deaths among people who took the vaccine -- well after the lede wsj.com/articles/johns…
This disconnect where stories quote experts saying you should take any vaccine that's offered but go out of their way to soft-pedal WHY you should is deeply strange
Every story should LEAD with the fact that there were zero deaths and two hospitalizations (none after 28 days) among people who took the J%J vaccine rather than burying it in the back lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/02/why-do…
Among people who have taken the three COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the U.S., there have been zero (0) fatal cases of COVID. Shout it from the goddamn rooftops rather than leading with extremely misleading infection rate stats that treat all infections as being equal!
And yes there should ALSO be more coverage of the increasing evidence that the vaccines significantly reduce transmission vox.com/future-perfect…
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Thomas also repeats the silly argument from Rehnquist's nutty Bush v. Gore concurrence that giving legislatures power in the first instance (in election law and no other context) preempts subsequent judicial or executive action
But this makes no sense. Section 5 of the Pennsylvania state constitution guarantees that “[e]lections shall be free and equal.” During the pandemic, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court interpreted this to require extended deadlines to ensure that no voter was disenfranchised.
Even by the standards of would-be reactionary CANCEL CULTURE martyrs "I demand a large sum of money because my supervisor prevented me from making a massive ass of myself in public" is highly non-compelling stuff
"I demand a large cash settlement because as a middle-class professional I was required to attend meetings that I considered a supoptimal use of my time" is if anything even less compelling
"Can you believe these SNOWFLAKES with their SAFE SPACES and TRIGGER WARNINGS?"
[Hears the phrase "cultural appropriation"]
"I demand $2 million for the immense mental anguish this has caused me"
Ridiculous as Bari's latest Campus PEE CEE story is, all such stories are merely pale imitators of Conor Friedersdorf investing nearly 2,100 words losing his shit over a few students at Oberlin telling the student newspaper pulled pork and coleslaw shouldn't be called a "banh mi"
I even agree that "cultural appropriation" is an imprecise and over-used concept, but I'm not sure what it is about the phrase that makes people go absolutely crazy over perfectly reasonable statements, such as "middle aged white women should not do hip hop library orientations"
Another strategy is to uncritically cite the tweets of people yelling at clouds at stuff they just completely made up out of whole cloth. (Nobody "berated cafe workers," they gave polite feedback to administrators who agreed with them because they were self-evidently correct.)
Good comment pointing out that even leaving aside the "why won't my boss be stupefyingly cringe to a captive audience?" problem the rest of the story of Bari's correspondent is bullshit
"Limbaugh was good in the beginning but then he sold out"
Like Josh Hawley, Limbaugh was exactly as "anti-establishment" at the beginning of his career at the end, which is to say "not in the slightest," unless you think the defining feature of America is that heterosexual white guys just can't catch a break
"Anti-establishment" is just an amazing way of describing a guy who not only worshipped Reagan but shared Reagan's views about the humanity of LGBTQ people snopes.com/fact-check/rus…