Flabbergasted at how much speculative worrying there is out there against current/future variants making our vaccines completely “ineffective” (I’ll easily take a bet against that) when the real issue is we have AMAZING vaccines that DO work, but not enough of them for the world!
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Replying to @zeynep
Hard to blame people for worrying given the alarmism that’s rampant in clickbait coverage and among some high-follower Twitter accounts...
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Replying to @notdred
I’m really at a loss what to do. Not blaming people. It’s in the news, it’s coming from (otherwise well-credentialed) experts. And seems the (many) who know better don’t openly pushback because parts of pandemic/expert social media has become so cliquish and hostile? Not sure.
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Replying to @zeynep
It's a tough one to be sure. I think the best that can be done is to keep trying to call it straight and hope that the message breaks through. At some point reality becomes undeniable.
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I hope so. I read tweet Crotty had about some awesome vax number we had. First comment was basically we are going to cause ADE and an escape mutant. I don’t know where all this comes from but it’s every single thread some far out worry.
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And I worry it's exacerbating the biggest risk, which is that not enough people get vaccinated. It would be perverse if the fear that vaccines don't work well enough against variants means that not enough people get vaccinated for them to work well against variants.
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Most of the time when I get a reply like this, the replier refers to EFD. So I'm forced to conclude that he's driving a huge part of the conversation here. He has the reach and he makes more noise than anybody.
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Agree he's got a lot of weight in the baselessly freaking people out space (rather than: "here's what we're watching, but meanwhile here's the overall picture") but if he were alone there, the damage would be a social media thing. It's all over TV/regular news/other experts...
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I just mean driving the reactions of people on twitter - no question there are a lot of other people feeding into this. But he's become the one-stop-shop for viral twitter threads about the scary mutants
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The Today Show had a feature on the "Double Mutant Strain" , just ridiculous stuff
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I'm afraid to watch the segment
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They interviewed Ashish Jha, who basically said, “We just need to vaccinate everyone”, but if you had turned it off before that ...
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Replying to @MarkELindsay @notdred and
I'm glad they had him, at least. Honestly, if anyone wants dramatic and realistic terrible scenarios, we don't have a shortage of them!
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