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Another Ghandi quote: > You yourself are completely protected against the delta variant, and you should go and enjoy your summer. It’s been a hard time, and pe
by graeme 5y ago
Another Ghandi quote:
> You yourself are completely protected against the delta variant, and you should go and enjoy your summer. It’s been a hard time, and people should have their summer. Delta variant, delta shmariant.
From May. This proved completely false. Efficacy is a relative risk reduction, not an absolute. 95% efficacy against severe disease means 1/20 will still have severe results.
“Completely protected” was patently false. The vaccines are great but that doesn’t warrant lying to boost them.
https://slate.com/technology/2021/06/delta-variant-covid-vaccines-risk-monica-gandhi.html https://slate.com/technology/2021/06/delta-variant-covid-vac...
- bilal4hmed 5y agoThis video of Monica should be saved https://twitter.com/ibrake4ants/status/1415701882178314248 https://twitter.com/ibrake4ants/status/1415701882178314248
- graeme 5y agoThanks. For anyone who’d rather not watch a video: it’s a short clip of Monica Ghandi at a June 15th mask/ribbon cutting ceremony, jumping with excitement as happy days are here again plays.
- angelzen 5y agoThe horror! Edit: Covid is a miserable disease, but it seems that some of us want to abandon the joy of living because, in the big scheme, slightly more people die than usual. The price of being alive is death, and it's well worth it.
- graeme 5y agoThe point is that they were wrong, not that they were happy. They reversed course and deleted the video. Masks have returned. The video was like Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” photo op in 2003 to declare the end of the Iraq war. He was happy too, but wrong.
- angelzen 5y agoThe point it that they were hopeful. Piling on them, even if wrong, is distasteful.
- graeme 5y agoHold it. Those aren’t just regular people being happy. They’re leaders in what is equivalent to a wartime situation. When they’re wrong, people die.
- angelzen 5y agoYuck. Not sure who you imagine Monica Gandhi is, other than a (non-tenured?) medicine prof at UCSF and a minor Twitter influencer. Without more context, the video could as well be the inauguration of the corner icecream shop. Frankly, I have little interest in quibbling with those that have made 'cumulative deaths with covid per million' the ultimate measure of human worth and achievement. Have a great day.
- smnrchrds 5y agoI don't know about anyone else, but I get "mission accomplished" vibes from that video.