my concern about it being first dose only is I keep seeing people's brains melt once they get the first shot, and they start taking risks before they're actually protected

— bletchley punk (@alicegoldfuss) May 12, 2021

This is exactly the kind of shit I mean. It only takes a few minutes of fucking reading to not be this clueless.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week that the first doses of the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines were 80 percent effective at preventing infection. The protection was measured two weeks after the first doses but before the second.

Sure, it is indeed better to wait until two weeks after your second dose. But still — 80 percent is pretty damn good. It’s not that they are not “actually protected.” It’s that they are more protected with the second dose (especially with the Moderna and Pfizer vaxes).

Sometimes I wonder, can people actually read? Are they actually literate? I mean, most people can pass their eyes over words, get some sense of them. But I think that’s all it is, a basic gloss. They don’t actually comprehend deeply what they read and integrate it in any organized fashion. It’s not categorized and synthesized and contrasted with the rest of their knowledge. It’s just a clutter of things clattering around in their heads, none of it based on any analysis or interpretation.

That’s what the evidence I observe seems to suggest.