1\ At a party this weekend and laughing at the 2D caricatures the Left paints of the unvaxxed: basically all fat angry white guys who drive dirty trucks in flyover land
In reality: 28 of 30 guests were unvaxxed, and they cut quite the swath:
2\ Two korean girls, one does acro yoga and organic stuff, other runs a bar
Art major living in literal van in forest, building artisanal underground meat smoker
31yo kid who flips a few hundred houses a year
Three big wave surfers
Couple gay guys
3\ Ex congressman
Vietnamese refugee who now owns commercial RE, including a doctor's practice that offers fake vax records
Bunch of fund managers, many 100M in AUM
Two retired pilots
Couple PubCo directors
Son of clinical research director
Etc. etc.
4\ The reasons these people skipped the vax ranged from the reasonable to the daft to the otherwordly
Nothing but rank coercion could change the minds of a group this varied
No vapid "messaging" from some bloodless pantsuit bureaucracy will ever work
Mandates are a farce.
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I expect Pinker's "Rationality" book will be terrific, but I'm also going to have fun pointing out the places where he shoe-horned his politics into his thesis
E.g. calling this "Fake news" is disingenuous when there was a *true* story where people were called "deplorables"
Here he offers a straw man of Right-wing prejudice
But in reality, people have extremely accurate stereotypes of which groups (including some immigrants) disproportionately commit crime
Here Pinker claims COVID panic was rational
But even if you underestimated spread by 100x (as I did), you could look at Chinese and Korean data in Feb 2020 and know that COVID was harmless except to the already moribund
Fauci is something separate and apart from COVID hysteria. All countries but ours had hysteria without him. The model for Fauci is not Eichmann but Franz Mesmer; both spoke directly to gullible women.
Had Fauci been square jawed and tall, every Karen would have jealously guarded him against the adoration of other women
But his dwarf physiognomy made him common property among the hens
Mesmer looked like a dumpling
All through lockdown I was on the mailing list of my septuagenarian aunt
The daily missives-here's how Fauci says to wipe down groceries, here's what Fauci says about visiting children-had an identifiably sexual undercurrent
Like nuns working themselves into a lather about JC
Am I incorrect that Pfizer and Moderna RCTs showed no mortality reduction in the trial arm, and that claims of vax efficacy depend on looking at the double vaxxed cohort while ignoring dropouts after Dose 1?
I assume it can't possibly be this bad, so somebody tell me what I'm missing.
Not sure which one below is Pfizer and which Moderna. Also I don't think about trial design on a regular basis, so maybe I'm missing something obvious.