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    1. Nick Foy‏ @TheNickFoy 7 Dec 2021

      Nick Foy Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      What this data shows is that protecting already vaccinated people from infection is a really bad idea.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1468347730133192708 …

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      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      First lab results on Omicron, from @sigallab.🙏 Not great, but not as catastrophic as it could have been. Tested with 2x Pfizer, and shows, yeah, it'll cause a lot of breakthroughs. Those with vaccine *and* infection appeared much more protected: suggests boosters will work well. https://twitter.com/_b_meyer/status/1468319835012673549 …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Dec 2021
      Replying to @TheNickFoy

      Wait what you think we should get infected after vaccination so that... we are better protected against infection after vaccination? Given sufficient supply, I'll take the vaccination route.

      24 replies 0 retweets 129 likes
    3. Emin Orhan‏ @aeminorhan 7 Dec 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @TheNickFoy

      It's cool that you made that decision for yourself in a Sisyphean effort to indefinitely delay your inevitable infection, but can your class of privileged, anxious professionals please stop taking hostage the rest of us who don't wanna make a virus the meaning of their existence

      33 replies 65 retweets 434 likes
    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Dec 2021
      Replying to @aeminorhan @TheNickFoy

      *Given sufficient supply*, why should anyone risk transmitting this to someone else when there’s a straightforward way to reduce the risk? What’s the Sisyphean effort? Nobody is storming the beaches at Normandy. There are programs for those afraid of needles, if that’s your fear?

      23 replies 2 retweets 125 likes
    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Dec 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @aeminorhan @TheNickFoy

      You guys seem to think getting infected some heroic accomplishment. I guess you live a life with so little risk or accomplishment that you’ve lost all sense of what’s actually heroic? Vaccines aren’t that scary! Even most children manage it without crying.

      52 replies 3 retweets 138 likes
    6. Eli Klein‏ @TheEliKlein 8 Dec 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @aeminorhan @TheNickFoy

      You keep bringing this conversation back to Covid vaccines, but I don’t think the main point here is about boosters. It’s about completely moving on from Covid restrictions.

      5 replies 1 retweet 101 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Dec 2021
      Replying to @TheEliKlein @aeminorhan @TheNickFoy

      Protecting people, especially the vulnerable is the best way to move on, and again, and that's what vaccines do. It's an infectious disease, and, at a minimum, elderly and the immunocompromised aren't society's leftovers.

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        2. worldclassLFC‏ @kindenough2018 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @GeordieStory @zeynep and

          Which venues?

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        2. Eli Klein‏ @TheEliKlein 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @aeminorhan @TheNickFoy

          I don’t see how any of this is relevant. Nobody is calling people leftovers. Elderly & immunocompromised people existed before Covid, too. All we’re saying is that we’re not going to attempt to avoid an unavoidable Coronavirus, especially when those attempts come with great harm.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @TheEliKlein @aeminorhan @TheNickFoy

          They existed before and now there is a novel virus that is a great threat to them because it's novel. I mean, really? This is like saying why deploy the fire department, the house was there before. Because. There. Is. A. Fire. Now. And what's the great harm of vaccines?

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        1. Daniel‏ @4dannyboy 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @TheEliKlein and

          Restrictions have made the world a FAR worse place to live over the last 20 months. Of course they were needed at times but the priority now should be getting rid of them and making sure we don’t have to use them again.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @BroCarolina @TheEliKlein and

          Then you should study up the immune system.

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        1. Feynman‏ @Feynman_19 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @TheEliKlein and

          Nothing you’ve said here shows acceptance that this is endemic. Basically everyone here who I’m familiar with is absolutely on board with resources (vaccines, therapies, etc.) but you’re really just proposing perpetual restrictions or avoidance of something that’ll never go away

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        1. Mod-Cons‏ @FalconHed 8 Dec 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @TheEliKlein and

          Of course not. And that group is highly vaccinated already.

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        1. Gus Griffen‏ @touchandtank 8 Dec 2021
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          Surely you see the gaping logical fallacy in this rhetoric, no?

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