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Also, those high grills kill pedestrians, especially kids.
Incredible kicker to this story about vaccine hesitancy in Staten Island nytimes.com/2021/07/23/nyr…
See, it's funny except for how this is endangering others. And while we're on the subject of getting people to take vaccines:
It's reflective of certain type of (I would argue somewhat incoherent) liberal ideology that restrictions placed as the unvaccinated are portrayed as "coercive" whereas restrictions placed on *everybody* (e.g. lockdowns) generally were not framed that way.
nytimes.com/2021/07/23/wor…
I had not heard this distinction mentioned before, but yea, pretty weird choice.
Mandating would be more easily accepted, and less resented, than nagging. People will grudgingly accept, and many will secretly be pleased not to have the responsibility of deciding, and not to have the burden of then defending their decision to relatives, Facebook friends, etc.
"Mandate" is a better wording that "coerce".
But back to charts:
All the data we have suggests vaccines are working remarkably well. Far beyond what had been hoped for a year ago.
For example, a fully-vaxxed 80-year-old now has the same risk of dying from Covid as an unvaxxxed 50-year-old. That's an enormous drop in risk!
What a chart. That's a log scale, btw. And there's other interesting ones in the same thread.
It's become an item of faith among significant segments of the Left that new housing is bad for poor people unless it's deed-restricted affordable -- despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. 4/10
From a thread about a recent NYTimes article about housing affordability.
Some interviewer once asked me what situations I’d use a Linked list in and I answered: none. He seemed to disagree with me, and we argued a bit, but somehow I got a second round interview.
