"I regret that you weren't bright enough to understand why I have 'Prof' in my moniker."You're an economist, not a scientist nor epidemiologist. Folks who are have called you out for your facile deconstruction of data and for misinformation. You doubled down on your bad polemic.
https://twitter.com/ProfEmilyOster/status/1372988788805361668
Equating unvaccinated children with vaccinated adults is a false equivalency and a highly dangerous one. We can argue that children have lower risk levels, but not that their risk is just like the vaccinated. Also, cautious get togethers at July 4th =/= all clear herd immunity.
A publication like @TheAtlantic, which has done so much superb in-depth reporting on the coronavirus should have made a better editorial decision on this story. The author asserting that the only problem is the framing of the headline is just as problematic as the story itself.
The bottom line should be that we stop suggesting that anyone is expendable.
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