A deep dive into the risk/benefit of vaccination vs. "natural" COVID infection at this delta-driven stage; we talk mask and vaccine mandates, how variants work, natural immunity, an alt-middle approach to sensemaking, and more, originally LIVE.
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Key Topics:
0:00 Intro
1:04 Rising cases and hospitalization geographically and declining vaccination rates
5:50 What’s the deal with delta variant, how are variants created, how infectious is it
8:44 The effect of vaccines on Delta, the dynamics around young people
11:00 Cases vs. Deaths
12:54 Risk vs. Benefit with vaccines and understanding hesitancy
16:28 My recommendation on vaccines
17:47 The herd immunity threshold and Delta, Israel and Great Britain’s experience
19:54 Vaccine breakthrough infections
22:05 Risk to kids, the effect of normal human behavior modulation, vaccine mandates
26:02 Alt-Middle call to action
28:42 Taking live comments: employer mandates, FDA approval
31:26 Nurses who won’t vaccinate, social media polarization
36:11 The forces of misinformation are selling you something (Mercola, Tenpenny)
37:00 Pregnancy and vaccines
39:56 CDC and it’s terrible messaging
40:42 Autonomy vs. Communion: The Alt-Middle approach
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