{"id":78922,"date":"2021-07-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78922"},"modified":"2022-11-11T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:18:40","slug":"just-so-were-clear-on-this-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78922","title":{"rendered":"Just So We&#8217;re Clear On This"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m far from &#8220;Anti-Vax&#8221;.   I got the J&amp;J vaccine &#8211; partly to shut Karen up, and partly because the science that exists convinced me it was worth the fairly minimal risk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there are times I wish this country had a national organization, one dedicated to disseminating unvarnished, unbiased, scientific information about public health to the public.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I dream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we did have such an organization &#8211; and a news media that actually reported facts rather than emotions and political narrative&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;again, I dream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, I commend for your attention this 8-10 tweet thread on the latest science re the immunity provided by both natural and vaccine-based immunity.  The news is largely if not uniquivically good&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/MonicaGandhi9\/status\/1391102821689294849\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and you&#8217;ll hear little to none of it from our useless media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bring that up to arm you all for the upcoming fight &#8211; with the CDC sending out trial balloons about renewed mask mandates, and bobblheads like Gavin Newsom actively locking things down again.  And if Newsom is talking about it, you know Tim Walz is fantasizing about reliving his Mussolini days, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, for me it&#8217;s an emergency, no matter what our idiot bureaucracy says; I have parents in their 80s in about the health one might expect of people in their eighties, so I take the precautions needed, either way.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as the inevitable tsunami of Karens who believe one &#8220;believes&#8221; science, and whose idea of &#8220;science&#8221; is an NPR piece from April 2020, by a morose millennial reporter living in an apartment in Brooklyn venting their personal depression in the form of a &#8220;news&#8221; piece about how awful things are, I urge you to keep an eye on the actual science:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"796\" height=\"479\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_1875.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78921\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_1875.jpg 796w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_1875-300x181.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_1875-768x462.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_1875-500x300.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Because this time, there can be no deferring to the good will of the participants, like most of us did in the spring of 2020.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t public health,. This is a social power grab.  Nothing more.  .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m far from &#8220;Anti-Vax&#8221;. I got the J&amp;J vaccine &#8211; partly to shut Karen up, and partly because the science that exists convinced me it was worth the fairly minimal risk. But there are times I wish this country had a national organization, one dedicated to disseminating unvarnished, unbiased, scientific information about public health to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453,416,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ch-ch-changes-generational-politics","category-covid19","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78999,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78922\/revisions\/78999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}