Thread by @Felicea

"First off. He says, Americans have thought about this pandemic mostly as an individual problem. Not as a community one, we keep asking. How do I keep myself safe, thinking is pretty ingrained in American culture. Makes it hard. "

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"Look at, look at everything from the last year. The Biden Administration has absolutely gone in an almost entirely vaccine only strategy. It is pictured vaccines against things like masks and testing. "

"A person, the best chance of resisting. This new virus. Then yeah, I get them vaccinated. But two things in that the Delta parent is transmissible enough that you can't just rely on vaccinations alone to safe."

"Change in guidance, was not in fact, an attempt to incentivize people to get vaccines. So let's just take that as as given. Even if that's not the case. It is still trading off vaccines against masks for two of our best possible intervention in this pain. "

"That. Is insufficient that is the wrong SKU given everything we've learned so far. Fiery quote, basically saying this is a welfare scheme for University scientists and big organizations and it's not going to trickle down to the people at the individual Public Health level. "

"And I thought that was a really interesting way to frame where this is bolstering people who want to make a vaccine real fast, but then the people who have to get the vaccine into arms,"

"directly relevant pandemic strengthening the public health infrastructure needed but it also includes things like child credits includes things that are that have been estimated to lift millions of people out of poverty this year"

"and my argument is that that is crucial to pandemic preparedness what do you think about it on in that way or not and you should do it is the case that if you make large groups of people less socially vulnerable they will be better able to resist a new spreading virus."

Ed Yong @edyong209, im Interview mit Slate.

Er sagt im Prinzip: um auf die nächste Pandemie besser vorbereitet zu sein, schafft eine gerechtere Welt..

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