Vaccines

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i think once you're talking about a school population, for yor kids above five, were ee one has been vaccinated, then the logic of wearing masks, for me, truly evaporates. Then it just seems like a asilly impositionbut, well, but, i mean, i think we could, we could either like you. Is less scient part of it is tati can tell you, on the vaccine arm, they're saying that we can't possibly know what the long term consequences of these nota vaccines are. And there's every reason to believe at they're worse.

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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