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“The unvaccinated” is a group defined more by class than by any other characteristic (perhaps besides age). Although the Biden administration has invested $10 billion toward expanding access to vaccines and building “vaccine confidence” in low-income areas, staunch resistance remains in many working-class and minority communities.
Herd immunity: In an Israeli hospital outbreak, 96% vaccination rates (and universal masking) made no difference. And guess who had mild cases? Hint: not the vaccinated.
Tunnel vision on COVID care killed by focusing almost exclusively on masking, social distancing, and vaccinations and ignoring what sick people could do at home to avoid hospitalization.
The view that the unvaccinated are all stupid, primitive and ignorant is getting more difficult to sustain, especially as liberal policy contradicts its own core premises.
Oligarchy or Autocracy—the competing systems of power are divided between alternatives which widen the social and political divide — and increase potential for violent conflict.
New Zealand’s and Australia’s responses to the “pandemic” do not bode well for the United States. It is always a pleasure to watch an interview with Mark Crispin Miller, but in this video I was as interested in the remarks by Claire Deeks.