Blood clots as prevalent with Pfizer and Moderna vaccine as with AstraZeneca’s: study.

Now the “experts” are going to yank all the vaccines over an extremely tiny risk?

Possiblilty of 500,000+ extra deaths in that scenario, all to save what, 20 or 30 people? So you know we’re gonna do it.

Where's the abundance of caution around preventing death from covid https://t.co/g8hdgz5W6F

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) April 13, 2021

Where indeed? Especially for countries like South Africa where the J&J vaccine is all there is.

We are so, so bad at handling risk.

The "listen to experts/science" crowd needs to see the problem: well-credentialed experts IN YOUR FIELD have confident, contradictory assertions all over the place. So it turns into "which experts" which turns into "ones I like"—not really a manageable process for ordinary folks.

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) April 14, 2021

It’s cool and fun seeing PhD epidemiologists and virologists offering directly contradictory statements. Surely the normal folks out there will be able to choose the right one? No?

Wow I can’t believe three of the four golden girls are minor-coded. pic.twitter.com/J271KzncFy

— Someone’s failed-clone’s daughter/granddaughter (@MarienneMaid) April 12, 2021

Dammit!

With all due respect to @NateSilver538, he is not an expert on the psychology of vaccine confidence. He is a poll aggregator and political pundit. He is not an infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist, vaccinologist, virologist, immunologist, or behavioral scientist. pic.twitter.com/HBrI6zj9aa

— Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA (@celinegounder) April 14, 2021

Fuck I cannot believe I have to defend Nate Silver from these “experts,” but I guess sometimes one has to do distasteful things because they are correct.

It’s certain that the media and “experts” amplifying absolutely minuscule risks will increase vaccine hesitancy. One doesn’t need 20 PhDs to determine this — just a semi-working brain. Even if it’s the right decision in most contexts, it still will do this.

Also this paper (by Doug French, who was the head of the Mises Institute) argues that Tulipmania was basically due to the oversupply in silver currency in Holland, partially because of pirates bringing home Spanish booty. The new money had to go somewhere… so why not 🌷? pic.twitter.com/kVzm1hzsqt

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) April 14, 2021

Maybe I just take such things for granted, but speculation requires excess currency as a matter of course. How else would it occur?

These People Should Be Required to Get Vaccinated.

All people who are medically capable of getting the vaccination should be required to get it.