So many hot tossing 4ams I told myself that if we ever got Trump out and ever had a vaccine I would not be like one of those gloomy lottery winners and NOT be happy. I have more or less stuck to that.
77% of adults have now had at least one shot.
Please today tell the terrified you of last September that it—some of it—is really, really gonna be OK.
When you're hating the anti-vaxers and Joe Manchin really remember how much worse it could have been.
This isn't like a glittery gratitude journal where I'm thanking the universe for the sun or cookies.
It's just accurate: 2021 > 2020.
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I have 8s in my handle and have always liked 8 because it’s a hail-fellow merry Falstaff kind of letter. Welcomes everyone. Where the 7s stand back and are captivating but I don’t have a chance of being friends with them — like mathematicians?
Maybe the US needs 53 states to make a real go of it.
Seems at least possible that the opinion page as a conceit has exposed itself as a finite game with only two strikeable positions, currently known as “woke” and “anti-woke.”
The problem with Theranos is the problem with every single startup: all marketing no product.
And I mean NO product. Nowhere near beta. Just nothing. Wizard of Ozzing for investor decks. nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opi…
Marketing is often known as the yin, right-brain part of a startup. CMOs are disproportionately women.
Holmes was an excellent marketer. And a truly abysmal engineer. Like just about every latter-day founder I have ever met.
I was so excited to meet Teslas, Edisons, Mrs Fieldses when I advised startups.
Instead I met lavishly funded people selling Twitter-linked headphones that were not just made in China, but designed & engineered there & they caused horrible headaches and didn’t connect to Twitter
Am I a bigger optimist than Max? It’s nearly 73% of those over 18, and those under 12 still aren’t eligible. Unlike the Grp of Seven, we are also home to the Bill of Rights & can’t just introduce statutes by fiat. Also home to all social media but TikTok so it’s disinfo central.
Imagine too if we had a national health service didn’t have this pervasive idea that we all are supposed to be swashbuckling mavericks with our own health decisions.
Once again as the Ned Flanders of vaccine proselytizing I urge everyone to hand-sell it to laggards. It’s still surprising how many people don’t know it’s free, don’t know “which one to get,” are scared of needles, etc.