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@hyperplanes This is just like banning drugs. Instead of education around proper use, the situation forces people to go rogue, and they inevitably hurt themselves.
Great chart of how the perceived decline in vaccine effectiveness might be driven, largely or in part, by Simpson's Paradox*
*ie: in which efficacy vs. hospitalization for specific age cohorts is actually MUCH HIGHER than efficacy for the total population
If you're a young man, say under thirty, and you work really hard for the next thirty-five years of your life, you could be the first space pirate captain in history.
A grey-bearded menace of the black. Feared, respected, loved, the toast of New Tortuga.