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Leslie's avatar

For a journalist, this is an indefensible ignorance of the data supporting the other side of the story. What happened to balanced reporting? Accepting the White House’ scapegoating for the inevitable vaccine failure due to waning efficacy and vaccine derived variants is just playing into the hands of tyranny. Covid is winning. It was inevitable to anyone who knew the prior history of corona vax and the leaky nature of current vaccines. Are you not aware of what’s happening in Israel and the UK? In Iceland and other countries? That natural immunity is trumping vaccines many times over? That permanent covid vax disabilities and deaths exceed all those reported for all other vaccines since VAERS inception? That the caregivers who have seen the increase in mortality and shocking injuries first hand would rather lose their jobs and freedom than submit to a jab? Not only that but as a liberal, you are burying yourself politically with this stance. It is unsustainable because it transforms you into that which liberals are supposed to hate, namely, a bigot whose opinions are not based in fact.

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kaishaku's avatar

Yeah, Leslie, when he writes "In a sober, sane, science-minded, non-polarized, high-trust, data-driven country, *everyone* without a compelling medical or religious reason would be *rushing* to take the jab",

he displays *spectacular* ignorance or dishonesty, such that he no longer deserves *any* serious attn., on scientific or any other matters.

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kaishaku's avatar

That elites such as he would have the gall to push such tripe, is a grim sign of their staggering degeneracy.

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kaishaku's avatar

This Rauch has earned a rep for being a shill for the Elites, see e.g. Eli Lake at

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/rauch-eli-lake :

"Jonathan Rauch’s Truth Crisis: A spokesman for the ‘reality-based community’ *acquits his own* class and condemns its critics".

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Wayne Karol's avatar

I don't know whether or not paying people to get vaccinated is a good idea. What I did notice is that the one Kubler-Ross stage he left out is bargaining, and that what his proposal sounds like. (Would you do it if I paid you?)

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Mark Hauswald's avatar

The problem with this idea is that we require full vaccination against at least eight diseases for school entry - and more in some states. Unless we stipulate that all CDC recommended vaccines be up to date this would have some obvious unintended consequences.

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