Is about a future scenario where pandemic precedents may subvert democracy
Its not a Holocaust analogy
Why do they lie?🧵
The piece clearly states it is not about the present, but the future
A series of events that might happen, but has not yet occurred....
It describes 7 key factors which are vulnerabilities in our pandemic response where democracy can be threatened in the future
this is more likely to come from the counter party (i.e. the group that opposed these things this time)
The line about Germany is just to note that a series of events-- some pre-planed but some random chance-- turn a democracy into a dictatorship
Since it simply does not say what they claim
One wonders: why are these people lying?
They are lying to fuel the mob & tweet at my employer because 1. they disagree with me on other issues 2. they want to get me fired. 3. this is the culture we have created in 2021
Not sure it is anything more complicated that that.
The article is here for any person to read; I have gotten many messages from folks who are capable of understanding the argument
... many of these people who are losing their jobs right now risk their own personal safety to work in the hospital before there was a vaccine. When you needed them.
These people don't disappear from America either, and their fate is tied to all our fate.
Pressuring people to get vaccinated will increase vaccination rate some fraction and that will provide some marginal extra protection to people who've already chosen to be vaccinated, but it will also lead to firings and that will provide negative countervailing results..
My NEW op-ed is out in @usnews!
Mandating 12-18 year old kids get 2 doses of COVID19 vaccine & throwing them out of school if they don't is one of the most regressive, dangerous, and misguided policies in recent years, and I condemn it
The CDC director, a political appointee, siding with the President, & his pre-ordained plan, against the advice of the ACIP advisors, with 0 RCTs measuring clinical outcomes & no idea of adverse events is not "doing one's job" it is politics > science, precisely what we feared 🧵
The process that led up to Pfizer booster is someday going to be seen as what many dreaded during the Trump administration.
The White House decided during the week of Sept 20, boosters will be made available, and all gears of drug regulation made it happen
Consider the 24 year old male health care aid living in Seattle who received 2 doses of Pfizer vax, and is now granted a path to take dose 3.
Can any medical expert answer 2 questions:
Do the benefits exceed the harms to this individual?
Is he a 'safer' employee?