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Jan 26 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Mr. Chu is doing *more* than just *sounding* like an antivaxxer here. He’s parroting a common antivax trope, the Nirvana fallacy, which involves conflating imperfection with uselessness. #CovidVaccine decreases, but does not eliminate, transmission. 1/
Antivaxxers have been doing this for decades about, for example, the flu vaccine and pertussis vaccine. Just because a vaccine isn’t 100% effective in preventing transmission does NOT make it useless, but that’s the dishonest argument antivaxxers make. 2/
Mr. Chu really does appear to be antivax, doesn’t he? He makes the same bogus arguments antivaxxers make, and then this.
Maybe he’ll realize what a horrible take this is and walk it back. We can always hope. 4/4

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I wonder if @brownstoneinst is aware that this article is parroting a longstanding antivaccine talking point going back to even earlier than the two decades since I've been writing about antivaxxers? 1/
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Lindsay quotes the dishonest antivaxxer @RobertKennedyJr, who lies and misrepresents what @peterhotez actually said. He said nothing about "snuffing out" antivaxxers (they are *not* "vaccine skeptics") nor did he say anything about making criticism of Anthony Fauci a felony. 1/
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