TO: CDC ACIP, CC President Joe Biden There are people on this ACIP committee like Cody Meissner, signer of the infamously wrong Great Barrington Declaration,(1) who has in the past voiced incoherently anti-vax opinions and vague opposition to vaccine development.(2) Paul Offit, […]
Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up.
Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 001 (transcript below) Notes, & Links: Pluralistic ignorance From Wikipedia In social psychology, pluralistic ignorance refers to a situation in which the minority position on a given topic is wrongly perceived to be the majority position or […]
Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up.
We don’t need to convince everyone before moving forward, and we may already have more on board than it appears anyway. We won’t know until we try. We need to urge the people who already agree with us to speak up, and […]
Elite Panic.
Big shots have different goals than the rest of us. Politicians should be representatives, businesses shouldn’t lead, even billionaires can’t seem to buy common sense, and tech won’t save us. Elite panic is one reason we can’t rely on elite saviors or […]
Thanks to vaccines, the threat is reduced – so we will no longer be requiring vaccination. Ba dum bump.
This is the message that healthcare providers are giving as the scientific reasoning to drop vaccination requirements for staff: “The vaccines work, so we will no longer be vaccinating.” I’m not even sure if you’d call this circular logic or just plain […]