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This is correct. I think the big point is not about what individuals should do. We can’t do a lot in this environment. The bigger point Bret has to make is one I’m dying to hear: is there a real plan? If compliance were PERFECT, would we have COVID licked or would evolution win?
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.@EricRWeinstein has been telling me for months that I structured my point incorrectly, so that what I intend is not what is heard. He’s clearly right about that. He was also right that "snap-to-grid intellectualism" (his term) has taken over the public sense-making sphere.
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Do Reservoirs of animals or traveling humans from other nations frustrate even perfect compliance in advanced economies? Is SARS CoV2 of a virus type that is known to be amenable to these tools? Are we signing up for an infinite sequence of booster shots? Is there a planned end?
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Might this go on forever? I don’t want to hear about Ivermectin as much as I want to hear about whether authorities are avoiding telling us: “There is no real going back to normal without large numbers of dead and severely negatively impacted lives in our foreseeable future.”
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So I asked Bret to focus his voice alone where he thinks we are. Forget the podcast guests or even the back and forth with . Forget what individuals can do for a sec. Might we be someplace that we’re afraid to confront, and no one in power wants it said straight?
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This is critically important to me because I still don’t get this virus, the vaccines or a plan. Nothing in science is this hard to explain usually. Why are we not having straight conversations? Even the parts I do get we can’t discuss (e.g. vaccine mediated selective pressure).
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So I asked Bret to stay away from solutions for a bit and to focus on just informing us evolutionarily of how he thinks about this. Like this new report about wild deer being exposed to COVID; that seemed wildly unexpected to me and an ominous sign of potential future difficulty.
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Or these variants. Or breakthrough cases in the vaccinated. Or the sporadic heart inflations in young men…is that similar to the Vioxx experience due to the unusual structure of heart cells? I’d like to hear someone try to make sense of this with an evolutionary non-medical eye.
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I don’t have a take on ivermectin. But I want to better understand the evolutionary biology of the virus before we get to a society wide plan. I guess I feel like our leaders skipped some steps. And perhaps we outside followed suit. The difference is we can back up & do better.🙏
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