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    Jan 4

    On the insanity of anti-vaxxers, by for . , I replied to your newsletter.

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  2. 1 hour ago

    If I had this much space in the NYTimes to explain to other Americans what they most urgently need to grasp, I think I'd emphasize the same points. .

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    21 hours ago

    What a great segment. is the best.

    8:35
    “This current Omicron wave will eventually subside… then the question is what happens next,” Baylor’s Dr. Peter Hotez says. “We’ll have a break for maybe a few months, and then the next variant will come along unless we make that commitment to vaccinate the world.”
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  4. 2 hours ago

    Someone else is wondering:

    This is very good news, but I'd like to know about morbidity as well as mortality. It's too soon to know, obviously, but are people who've been infected with Omicron developing Long Covid at the same rate as people infected with Alpha or Delta?
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    3 hours ago

    And then we have comments like this from Canada(Canada is actually far closer to "the bomb" than most people know. All that PU-238 production Canada has. Easy to switch to PU-239 i.e. weapons grade plutonium.)

    Replying to @BrucewMitchell @acoyne
    We should get to "not nuclear but could be so in weeks if we chose" stage, with weapons grade fissile stockpiles and tested detonation devices and rockets ready to go.
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  6. 4 hours ago

    Yep. She's disappointing so far. But she still has time to find her feet. .

    you were saying the first few weeks would be critical for her to set the tone and the direction. Seems like she's gone nowhere fast... a bit disappointing. On the other hand, Zemmour is deflating baudruche-like
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  7. 4 hours ago

    Gracias!

    Este es el texto más inteligente e impecablemente argumentado que he leído en contra de la delirante y destructiva irracionalidad de los antivacunas. Y además desborda sentido del humor. No dejen de leerlo. ¡Bravo, !👏🏻
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    5 hours ago
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    The most skilled and deft of the enarques like him don't have spur-of-the-moment communication mistakes. Yes it was a completely calculated nod to harness the frustrations of the majority. While it is not polite, it's within the bounds... assuming one is angry enough.

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  9. 5 hours ago

    Komsomolskaya Pravda is already denouncing the "orchestrated color revolution" in Kazakhstan: . Soros is invoked. So is anarchy, chaos, and a threat to ethnic Russians.

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  10. 6 hours ago

    And we still have no idea what the long-term consequences of infection might be. So it's not truly like the flu, with which we have many years of experience.

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  11. 6 hours ago

    A disturbing thing about long Covid is that even mild infections can give rise to it. He's right to say that the mortality risk for the vaccinated now "resembles the kind of health risk that people accept every day." But I'd go *well* out of my way to avoid long Covid.

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  12. 6 hours ago

    This is very good news, but I'd like to know about morbidity as well as mortality. It's too soon to know, obviously, but are people who've been infected with Omicron developing Long Covid at the same rate as people infected with Alpha or Delta?

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    6 hours ago

    & - this is a really big deal... we'll see whether this turns out like Egypt, Zimbabwe, or Romania...

    President Tokayev has dismissed Nursultan Nazarbayev as the head of Security Council in Kazakhstan and claimed this post for himself. End of a very long era.
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  14. 6 hours ago

    But our weepy and self-flagellating midlife crisis is catnip to aggressors. So it would really be best if we stopped flailing about and fixed our problems; if we don't, the problems will soon get a hell of a lot worse.

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  15. 6 hours ago

    Above all, this is about morale and confidence. The West, and the US in particular, is demoralized and unsure of itself. And not for no reason! We urgently need to fix a great many serious problems.

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  16. 6 hours ago

    Though I'm not sure the biggest factor is the rise of China. I'd rank "failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the financial crisis in 2008, political polarisation, and the botched response to Covid" above that.

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  17. 6 hours ago

    Happy New Year — Or Maybe Not "It is not just Ukraine’s future at stake. It’s ours. That’s what Western leaders are mostly failing to grasp ... " excellent piece by .

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  18. 6 hours ago

    If we assume it's our fault, we can imagine we have the power to make this problem go away.

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  19. 6 hours ago

    If you have an implacable adversary, however, he is by definition implacable, and thus you can't make the problem go away. No one in the West wants conflict with Russia. But Russia wants conflict with us. This is disagreeable and frightening.

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  20. 6 hours ago

    Or perhaps it's more subtle than that. Perhaps you have to be desperate to believe that we have more control over this situation than we do. If a conflict is our fault, after all, we can just stop being the aggressor and voilà--no conflict.

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  21. 6 hours ago

    This point is very, very obvious. So it's astonishing how many in the West will parrot Moscow's argument that NATO threatens Russia. You have to *want* to believe that the West is always wrong and its adversaries are always right.

    Agreed. If I put an alarm in my house, it only "threatens" you if you had plans to break into my house. North Macedonia is not planning on attacking Russia. Nor is Estonia. Nor is Germany. Nor is the US.
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