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>Q: Why has Bari Weiss, a lifelong liberal journalist, suddenly adopted all the talking points of the right? Hold on. Why is discussion or criticism of a curre

>Q: Why has Bari Weiss, a lifelong liberal journalist, suddenly adopted all the talking points of the right? Hold on. Why is discussion or criticism of a current practice (giving young kids a third mRNA dose) considered a "talking point of the right"? Why is it _pointless_ to discuss why something is being done? How much peer-reviewed research about booster shot efficacy has come to light? We were told that a third shot is ineffective against the Omicron variant, and also told that the Omicron variant's symptoms are very cold-like and that it's not really killing people (which is great news and likely a key way out of this pandemic via herd immunity (which the booster shot does _not_ provide, despite what we were told 6 months ago.

javagram 5y ago
> Why is discussion or criticism of a current practice (giving young kids a third mRNA dose) considered a "talking point of the right"? The right wing in America generally supports Trump, who initially called covid a minor cold in February 2020. Ever since then there’s been a strong faction of the right that argues that taking measures to prevent covid is wrong, whether that be masks, vaccines, or anything else. Implicitly this is because if fighting covid is good, downplaying covid in February 2020 was wrong. (This persists even now that Trump has claimed the vaccine as his achievement). > How much peer-reviewed research about booster shot efficacy has come to light? We were told that a third shot is ineffective against the Omicron variant, and also told that the Omicron variant's symptoms are very cold-like and that it's not really killing people FWIW, research is and has been showing the opposite - that booster shots generate antibodies which can neutralize the Omicron variant, and that Omicron is killing people despite initial claims - mostly from the right wing, anti-covid mitigation crowd - last year that it was “mild”.

javagram 5y ago

> Why is discussion or criticism of a current practice (giving young kids a third mRNA dose) considered a "talking point of the right"? The right wing in America generally supports Trump, who initially called covid a minor cold in February 2020. Ever since then there’s been a strong faction of the right that argues that taking measures to prevent covid is wrong, whether that be masks, vaccines, or anything else. Implicitly this is because if fighting covid is good, downplaying covid in February 2020 was wrong. (This persists even now that Trump has claimed the vaccine as his achievement). > How much peer-reviewed research about booster shot efficacy has come to light? We were told that a third shot is ineffective against the Omicron variant, and also told that the Omicron variant's symptoms are very cold-like and that it's not really killing people FWIW, research is and has been showing the opposite - that booster shots generate antibodies which can neutralize the Omicron variant, and that Omicron is killing people despite initial claims - mostly from the right wing, anti-covid mitigation crowd - last year that it was “mild”.