I listen to Sam Harris and find him smart and logical . . . and I also listen to (some) Joe Rogan podcasts, and he seems to have a pretty low bar when it comes to vetting his guests-- and in a recent Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris discusses why he won't invite Bret Weinstein on to talk about covid vaccines and ivermectin-- because Weinstein touted ivermectin on Rogan's podcast-- Vox has a nice article explaining the "dubious" rise of the drug as a miracle treatment . . . and apparently the drug is probably NOT a miracle treatment, but it may have some modest effects . . . and while I'm taking everything Weinstein and his wife Heather Heying say on the podcast with a grain of salt, they are against masks in school-- because kids are mainly going to be fine-- and I would love it if we all the had the choice to take off our masks in school-- though that might not be the best course of action, but I do agree with them heartily about the fact that we should NOT be married to our ideas, not equate science with political teams, and that people on the left should not describe the unvaccinated as impure or disease-ridden-- first of all because some of these people have natural immunity from already having the virus and second of all because that is a really dangerous path to go down and I don't think there's any way back.
I think part of the problem is that there are some folks who think purely of big picture and greater good and believe in acceptable losses… the highly debated herd immunity strategy accepts the deaths of a certain fraction of society. But particularly here in America, some people struggle with the loss of even one life, especially that of a child. So there are also those that demand taking steps to reduce the likelihood of even one person catching the dreaded disease and dying, even at the expense of some natural immunity.
ReplyDelete“Kids are mainly going to be fine” is a stance at odds with the thought that even one child lost because of tactics — ones deemed utterly careless by some — is catastrophic.
The truth, as it usually is, likely exists somewhere in the middle.