Like, for instance, eight months ago, if you said, if you get vaccinated, you can still catch Covid and you can still spread Covid, you’d be removed from social media, they would, they would ban you from certain platforms. Now, that’s accepted as fact.
In fact no vaccine, ever, provides absolute protection from infection or disease. In fact, mRNA vaccines had astonishingly high effectiveness against the alpha variant, compared to, say, flu shots, but never 100%.
He took 1500+ words, in a rambling video, to try to find gray areas that would legitimize his aversion to simply saying "Get vaccinated and wear a mask, for yourself and others." Which is what he should have said.
Maybe he'll do a better job of explaining why black people are call black. Wait...
Yeah, what he says in that paragraph would have gotten you banned from social media was, in fact, part of what government agencies promoting vaccination were saying at the time. Vaccination was always promoted as reducing the risk of serious disease, and (though less so for Delta and Omicron) reducing the risk of getting and spreading the virus, not absolutely preventing any of those.
He’s not just spreading misinformation about COVID, but also misinformation about the response to COVID misinformation.
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Seems reasonable.
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As expected, the long form conversational answer is way better at conveying nuance than a summary written by others.
Like, for instance, eight months ago, if you said, if you get vaccinated, you can still catch Covid and you can still spread Covid, you’d be removed from social media, they would, they would ban you from certain platforms. Now, that’s accepted as fact.
In fact no vaccine, ever, provides absolute protection from infection or disease. In fact, mRNA vaccines had astonishingly high effectiveness against the alpha variant, compared to, say, flu shots, but never 100%.
He took 1500+ words, in a rambling video, to try to find gray areas that would legitimize his aversion to simply saying "Get vaccinated and wear a mask, for yourself and others." Which is what he should have said.
Maybe he'll do a better job of explaining why black people are call black. Wait...
He’s not just spreading misinformation about COVID, but also misinformation about the response to COVID misinformation.