Is Peanut Butter the Perfect Preventer of Covid?

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i think i want to just cycle on it again, so that there can be no question about it. If peanut butter were the perfect prevention of covid and we gave peanut butter to hundreds of millions of people, we would have some number of people dying outright from peanut buttery. We would kill many more people with peanut butter than we've killed with these vaccines. This is such a simple case to make that meyoyo. You can everyone's be eventually going to be exposed to covid. Personally, you have a choice about whether you should be exposed, having been vaccinated or not vaccinated. And we know that u you're running a tenex or more greater risk of death

Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about the lessons of the COVID pandemic. They discuss our failures to coordinate an effective response, the politics surrounding vaccination, vaccine efficacy, vaccine safety, how to think about scientific controversies, the epidemiology of excess deaths, transmission among the vaccinated, natural immunity, selection pressures and new variants, the failure of institutions, the lab-leak hypothesis, the efficacy of lockdowns, vaccine mandates, boosters, what would happen in a worse pandemic, and other topics.

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