We're a Rich and Plural Society

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In our society, you can find any expertse that is humanly available. We have thousands of people who have devoted their lives to acquiring these expertes. And so it's a mystery to me why we don't happily deploy them like we would with any other activity in our capitalist society. Different societies have different strengths and when coronovirs began, they deployed those attributes and did things that would have been impossible in our society. Think, which included wealthing people into their apartments.

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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