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Vaccine Mandates, transgender athletes, billionaires… (AMA #19)

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Vaccines and Mandates - Is That a Good Idea?

Once we got effect of vaccines, yes, then our thinking about what was sang in public policy shifted. Faccines are ubiquitous. We have treatments for covid now that we didn't have even a few months ago. And the latest variant omicron, which i think has a 98 % prevalence now, appears to be far more mild than covet. So as for lockdowns, and even mandates,. At this point, i am sceptical, right? I think, ah, mandates are probably counterproductive across the board. What has worried me most is that we seem completely unable to depoliticize a conversation about basic epidemilogical facts. If you imagine a much more lethal

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