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The level of venom you respond with when being questioned a little does support that assessment.

You've been doing it for a month? I mean, that's great. I won't deny the acceleration but you haven't been doing it nearly long enough to know if it's gotten you into trouble yet. It mostly works great. When it fails, it fails silently. I don't think I'd call you an idiot, but maybe hubristic?

"Do you even lift, bro?"

You're sure hostile for someone who isn't on a break with reality.

Based on your posts - is it meteorology?

Then they're writing code they don't understand and can't maintain. They're like my junior developers who see the code I write and think they know how it works, but if I take a vacation, they're paralyzed.

This makes me wonder if you code with Claude. It cannot do that. It might be able to write 95% *of the characters you type* (and if you do that, you're going to get nigh on incomprehensible code), but it doesn't know what you want to do and can't tell you when what you want to do is dumb.

I think people in general's priors on "Humans are lying" are way too low.

I hope here and elsewhere, Minneapolis can let us know how we can help you recover in the months and years after the news cycle has moved on.

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I think you're coming around on the people-don't-generalize-about-disease train :D

Also don't underestimate how much "but it makes them cry" can push semi-skeptical moms over the edge. I don't know if you've ever had a newborn or how long ago it was, but I was nearly hallucinating with sleep deprivation when we brought her in for her first DTaP. If I was already on the fence...

HPV hesitancy was mostly about the fact that HPV is an STI and if you protect kids from STIs, somehow they'll have more sex? There was explicit statements to that effect once it was added to the APA recommended list. Also they didn't want to give it to boys because "it was girls who got hpv"

*I* generalize about disease. Any vaccine you wanna give me, I'm all for it. You offer me a moderately effective, safe vaccine for menstrual cramps and I'll roll up my sleeve. But I don't see that from a lot of my peers. And in their defense, neither diseases nor vaccines are all created equal.

We get flu shots every single year. Many parents who have every other vaccine up to date skip that one. I hear parents just a bit older than me say "I got chicken pox, why would my kids need the varicella vaccine? They'll get dtap but not mmr because MMR is the they heard about maybe being bad.

That's definitely a difference, then! I've got school age kids so I see various ranges of vaccine hesitancy among my parental peers and it is definitely different from disease to disease with different factors going in to each.

My basic thesis is that there's a threshold for universality of a disease AND the efficacy of the vaccine to get the "victim of its own success" and the covid vaccine didn't hit the efficacy and HPV didn't hit the universality.

Well, it's a hypothesis we'll probably get to test with measles in particular. Grim though that may be.

In conclusion (did you read this far? Bless you, lol) story of the covid vaccine actually reinforces the victim-of-its-own-success rather than undermining it. It wasn't successful enough to get that effect.

Everyone knows someone who got covid without the vaccine and survived and everyone knows someone who got the vaccine and got covid anyway. That's what counts as evidence for people. Science is again, a miracle but it's arcane knowledge. You have to be trained in it at least a little.

The covid vaccine was a miracle but not a silver bullet and although the Trump administration can take a lot of credit for Operation Warp Speed, the vaccines effect came after Biden's inauguration. I got covid after being vaccinated and many others did.

There are people who can profit off lying and there's no reality to prove they're lying. And then we get to 2020 and we have the most divisive president maybe ever? Who rode conspiracy theories and superstition and science denialism into the White House.

So they see what they think is the evidence of the harm (and plenty of grifters are happy to lie about it) and every parent knows a parent of a kid with a developmental disorder blamed on vaccines and none of them know any who had infectious illness.

Parents of children today never lived in a world without safe, effective vaccines against small pox, polio or measles. They never met anyone who has whooping cough or even knew someone who knew someone. They got many fewer vaccines than their kids got is much lower "and they were just fine".

Measles is more contagious (vaccine not as effective at limiting infection) and less deadly (people more likely to know survivors personally) so although there are more people alive who were alive before and after the vaccine, they were mostly children) and they don't have young children today.

They work *really really* well and that evidence is undeniable to every person who lived before and after the vaccine. But that cohort is near the end of their lives.