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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 7

    Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Philip Melanchthon Wegmann

    This has been the right way to think of things for over a year. Rising case numbers can be a warning, but infections are not the problem. Sickness & death are the problem.https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1435238903460544522 …

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    Philip Melanchthon WegmannVerified account @PhilipWegmann
    The US Surgeon general tells Politico, “it is really important that we convey that success does not equal no cases. Success looks like very few people in the hospital and very few dying.” https://politi.co/2YAiRtH 
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    • Jenny Kheldarn Rusty Butthole Lisa Hausmann Esteban Pacheco Ron Weinstock G-Sports|Grow870 StratosfearTully🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 Ken Navitsky
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      2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 7

        If you are thinking only about convincing anti-vax resisters & hesitaters to get the vaccine, you're missing the other half of the problem: convincing the COVID Doomers that it's safe to return to normal life. We need more of both before we can finally return to the Before life.

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 7

        I mean, how are you ever going to get people with this mindset to return to normal life without masks, social distancing, etc? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/us/masks-professor-student-delta.html …pic.twitter.com/H4We2cLcaK

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      1. Phil Hardy‏ @EsqHardy Sep 7
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Success equals converting the anti-vax folks.

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      1. puckjim‏ @puckjim Sep 7
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        I can't help but think if this was the message all along, we'd have way less hesitancy

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      1. shippy‏ @Icky_Mettle Sep 7
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Infections ARE a problem too, you're generally right - there is no Zero sum here, BUT the fewer infections the better every SINGLE infection EVEN totally benign ones are vectors for mutation and rolling the dice with creating a H5N1 deadliness with the Covid-Delta infectiousness

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      2. Kingofthegeeks‏ @Kingofthegeeks1 Sep 7
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        We care about cases because, shockingly, they're a 2 week lead on hospitalizations, and 4 week on deaths. Ish. We've been over this for a year and a half now. How are you unable to learn this?

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      3. Drucker’s Revenge‏ @rsbcvet Sep 7
        Replying to @Kingofthegeeks1 @baseballcrank

        Take it up with the Surgeon General.

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      1. Jerry Skurnik‏ @PrimeNewYork Sep 7
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        In a good year, the flu vaccine is about 60% effective but for nobody thinks that's worth either headlines or people lobbying against taking the shot

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      1. Rebecca‏ @rebeccageiser11 Sep 7
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        Everyone sick at the same time is a bad thing and was whole point of a shutdown

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      1. Robert Arnold‏ @Fergus302 Sep 8
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        Ahem . . . Florida and Texas. Henceforth, sickness and death are not the problem after all, that's the wrong way to think about things, the real problem is random college professors who still want to wear masks for a while.

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