There seems to be people who are convinced getting infected is some sort of heroic effort, and vaccines are for the weak? I increasingly suspect this may be driven in some by fear of needles, which is exactly why letting people know this is a common condition is important.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1468628813710041091 …
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Boosters will definitely reduce the risk, and many vaccines are three-dose primary series. Likely this one is too. Maybe there will be annual boosters, like flu. Still, avoiding vaccination isn't like storming the beach at Normandy. Why is it valorized?https://twitter.com/LGFi0rnkELg0KDn/status/1468630674856890374 …
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Because the pandemic isn't over, and we now have yet another variant. Resisting the ways to end the pandemic is big part of the problem. Again, avoiding vaccines isn't some heroic act. https://twitter.com/GeordieStory/status/1468631651982794756?s=20 …
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"EARNED." Is this a version of how real man don't need to look at the map or ask for directions? The virus isn't a moral agent, nor does it live by Calvinist ethics and strictures. Vaccines strengthen immunity, and lessen chances of transmitting. Simple. https://twitter.com/NuclearNemesis/status/1468632712986697729 …
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If the beef is immunity from natural infection hasn't been taken enough into account in policies and messaging. Sure. I've agreed with that all along. But vaccines help even those with prior infections and infectious diseases are a risk to others. It's not heroic to avoid a dose.
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People don't know any history. Perhaps the core story of that "more enlightened" 20th century has been an immense effort and the wholesale transformation of our societies to lessen the scourge of infectious diseases, which stalked humanity forever.https://twitter.com/tristaneldritch/status/1468641821878362121 …
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tristan eldritch @tristaneldritchReplying to @zeynep @aeminorhan @TheNickFoyVaccines aren't scary - people like you are. People who support the permanent radical empowerment of the state and transformation of our societies on the basis of a virus which would have barely caused the world to shrug in the more enlightened 20th century.7 replies 15 retweets 187 likesShow this thread -
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No, they were more enlightened in the sense that they understood "public health" as the maximization of health outcomes for the entire society, not the minimization of health outcomes for everybody on the basis of obsession with one particular aspect of the public health picture.
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I strongly suggest reading up on it. I have constantly criticized parts of the current the public health response, but 20th century was a wholesale reorganization of society against infectious diseases. Some of it was quite top-down, too.
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