I don't think it's surprising that COVID-19 denialism has shifted to anti-vaccine rhetoric, because if you consider the risk of COVID-19 to be essentially 0 then even the tiniest risk of vaccines outweighs that
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Replying to @GidMK
The most widespread antivax rhetoric I see comes from Fauci and other apocalyptic “experts.” And they embolden traditional antivaxxers in a significant way. If Fauci’s message was reasonable, vaccine hesitancy would be far less.
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Replying to @TheEliKlein
I've yet to see Fauci say anything anti-vaccine. Being cautious about uncertainty is very different from promulgating myths
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Replying to @TheEliKlein
Lol. I have no political stake in the United States, vote for whoever you want to I really could not care less
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Replying to @GidMK
You know exactly what I mean. Your unwillingness to break with groupthink and criticize Fauci even when it’s necessary
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Replying to @TheEliKlein
I rarely watch American news, so I don't really know (or care) what he's saying. That clip you shared elsewhere in the thread was a bit conservative but not incorrect nor necessarily bad advice given the scale of the current US epidemic
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If you can find me a clip where the man is saying something incorrect or wildly misleading I'll happily point it out, but tbh since you're mostly just insulting me at this point there's a decent chance I won't pay attention
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This is your field and you haven’t seen Fauci say incorrect and wildly misleading things over the past year? Not even one? I could send clips all day. I don’t mean to insulthttps://twitter.com/TheEliKlein/status/1372588122857467908 …
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0:13Eli Klein @TheEliKleinFauci argues that people who had Covid already have “no protection” from the South African variant, like they’ve “never been infected before” An incredible lie. Reinfections by SA variant are almost always asymptomatic or mild, bc of prior infection immunity Fauci is a menace pic.twitter.com/RLY8qWpT9dShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @TheEliKlein
How many Australian news conferences have you watched this year? Imagine I watch a roughly similar number from the US
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As to the "no protection" comment, definitely poorly-phrased but in the tweet below the proper context is citing a study that did indeed show substantially reduced levels of protection
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Replying to @GidMK @TheEliKlein
It's worth noting the context as well - most coronaviruses have waning immunity after 2-5 years, and it is entirely unsurprising that we would see reinfections (and potentially reinfections at a similar level of severity) over time
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Replying to @GidMK @TheEliKlein
Anyway, maybe this reliance on years of epidemiological evidence is just "groupthink" that I've been "indoctrinated into"


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