#covid19vaccine note: Vaccine effectiveness of 50-60% vs symptomatic disease for the new bivalent vaccine is tremendous. Itβs not a base hit, itβs a home run.
Why? The comparison group was already vaccinated x2, x3, x4 and many were previously infected. Thus, this additional protection is amazing because even with all the background immunity, the bivalent cuts your risk in half!
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Seeing some posts talking about fediblocking turning Mastodon into a "filter bubble." No. We absolutely do not need abusive or fascist views to have a high level of intellectual diversity. Full stop. That hate can fester somewhere else.
After 20 years of social media, the experiment has been run. Hateful people are unconvinced by rational argument, so there's no point engaging with them.
This is a rotten, disingenuous, meritless argument, from A to Z.
Fascism is to be defeated, not debated.