That’s… not accurate. First and foremost people who are vaccinated remain less likely to get infected with COVID-19, period, even with the Delta variant. When you’re less likely to get infected, you’re less likely to spread the virus inherently.
Additionally, the mutations we are seeing all emerged before widespread vaccination, so widespread vaccination is therefore unlikely to be the cause of these mutations. reuters.com/article/factch…
Additionally, a study out of Singapore suggests that even those who are vaccinated and get a breakthrough COVID-19 infection have a shorter period where they are contagious than those who are not vaccinated.
In short, while the Delta variant is significantly more transmissible than COVID-original, the vaccine still provides significant protection against initial infection and therefore helps prevent the spread of the virus. Please stop spreading inaccurate information.

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31 Jul
Refusing to get vaccinated isn’t just ignorant, it’s dangerous and selfish. It puts everyone at risk, especially teachers, nurses and the immunocompromised.

Those who spread misinformation about vaccines are not just harming their own followers, but society as a whole.
And the simple truth is that there is nothing that will change their minds at this point. They are too emotionally invested. We’ve made changing your mind be a sign of weakness, and I don’t know how we fix that.

People would emotionally rather risk death than be wrong.
It’s not everyone, mind you, but it is plenty of people. There’s no easy answers here—short of private companies requiring the vaccine not just to work for them but to enter their businesses. And that would require them to value their employees more than their bottom line.
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26 May
Anyone who thinks that personal finance is balancing a checkbook in 20-fucking-21 probably also shouldn’t be setting educational policy.
And for the record: around 15% of high schoolers end up taking a calculus class. 15%. If you want an increased focus on STEM, then you probably want that number at least that high and you’ll also want to make sure more students are in classes for statistics.
But kids don’t need to learn how to balance a checkbook. They have real time monitoring of the checking account online. What they need is to understand interest rates and how credit works, but we don’t teach them that because there are massive forces who don’t want that education
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13 May
This is a classic example of the data not telling us what we think the data is telling us. Any place with really good BBQ is also going to have places with bad BBQ, and people there are going to be able to tell the difference between the two.
Someone in Seattle isn’t likely to have a ton of choices for BBQ, while someone from, say, Texas will have too many. Once you’ve had Pecan Lodge or Salt Lick, etc. it probably means that you’re less likely to give a high rating to a chain BBQ place.
Additionally, if you have a variety of BBQ places, you’re going to have more people develop preferences for styles of BBQ, and as such there will be more disagreement on which places are the best.
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4 Mar
Well, first off, this is a really awful way to explain what racism is to children.

Secondly, this isn’t a conversation parents generally want to be blindsided by at storytime. And then they’re less likely to purchase other Seuss books.
The entire Seuss brand is built on the idea that the programming is appropriate and safe, and this undermines that image. As such, as a business decision it makes sense to stop producing new copies of the book.
Copies will still exist and it will be exceptionally easy to locate versions of this story. Between anthologies, original copies and libraries there should be no issue for people who intentionally seek out that title, they’re just no longer printing new versions.
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3 Mar
And on the subject of banning books:

While Dr. Seuss's books have not been banned, but rather his publishing firm elected to stop publishing new editions of books that are very widely available. These books will still be easy to obtain in used book stores and libraries.
And while @ALALibrary keeps an annual list of the most challenged and banned books, I thought it might be worthwhile to look at which books are actually banned or challenged from our local libraries and why, to give us an idea of where this battle is actually being fought.
So, yes, this will be a THREAD about the books that are currently being banned or challenged in American libraries. The data comes from @ALALibrary's 2019 Top 10 Most Challenged Books Lists, which was the most recent data I could find (the 2020 list was a decade long list).
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2 Mar
I’m sick and fucking tired of this disingenuous bullshit. Six of Seuss’s less popular books will not longer be published with new editions because those books have drawings that at my most charitable I would call offensive. Seuss isn’t being erased.
You know what Richard Scarry did when social values changed? He released a new version of the books more in line with current values to remove the sexism of the original books.

He did it in 19-fucking-80.
Dr. Seuss isn’t being canceled, his own publishing company which exists to preserve his legacy is removing the publication of those books.
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