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A university president makes a case against cowardice

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459 points pseudolus | 5 comments | 4/3/2025, 12:29:00 PM | HN request time: 1.021s | source
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CaptWillard[dead post] ◴[4/3/2025, 1:26:00 PM] No.43569290[source]▶

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sixothree ◴[4/3/2025, 1:31:00 PM] No.43569352[source]▶

Are you referring to the most studied medicine in human history or the one that saved more lives than any other medicine in human history?

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1. inglor_cz ◴[4/3/2025, 1:48:00 PM] No.43569595[source]▶

Maybe he is, but forcing teens to take the vaccination was still rather illiberal.

We knew perfectly well back then that bad cases of Covid were rare in teenagers.

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2. n4r9 ◴[4/3/2025, 1:59:00 PM] No.43569792[source]▶

We also knew perfectly well that allowing it to spread among teenagers would make it impossible to control. When I got vaccinated it was to protect elderly friends and family, not myself.

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3. maplant ◴[4/3/2025, 2:00:00 PM] No.43569807[source]▶

Doesn't matter if the cases were bad for them or not. They were still believed to be able to spread it.

"illiberal" or not, the COVID 19 vaccination mandates were good decisions that saved countless lives.

4. anonymousiam ◴[4/3/2025, 5:14:00 PM] No.43572689[source]▶

You've assumed that the vaccine reduces transmission risk, which is not the case:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39283431/

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5. mikeyouse ◴[4/3/2025, 11:40:00 PM] No.43576765{3}[source]▶

I'm not surprised when I google the author of that paper, it's a bunch of antivax nonsense because the idea that the mRNA vaccines didn't reduce transmission is one of the dumbest I've heard yet. Here's a slightly (ha) better study investigating the matter from real scientists;

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6...

> Full vaccination of household contacts reduced the odds to acquire infection with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in household settings by two thirds for mRNA vaccines and by one third for vector vaccines. For index cases, being fully vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine reduced the odds of onwards transmission by four-fifths compared to unvaccinated index cases.