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Knives are out for Forced Vax Fanatics

"If you can't get the right answer, you're no use to anyone," said my thermodynamics professor. I would add that if you don't know what you're talking about, you have no business lecturing anyone. 

Such common sense is lost on Professor Emily Oster, who wrote this tone-deaf tweet:

That may be the mother of all ratios.

July 2021: Professor Oster advocated for coerced vaccinations: 


Oster, whose Twitter bio says she's an "unapologetically data-driven" economist at Brown University, may have been in the dark about COVID in July 2021, but I--with an undergrad degree from a state university and no formal training in statistics--was writing about the vaccines' lack of efficacy, the fact they didn't stop spread, and vaccine injuries among study participants. As far back as April 2020, I wrote that it was clear that the risk of healthy kids getting a bad case of COVID seemed to be blown out of proportion. If I could figure these things out, there was no reason for a data-driven, Ivy League econ professor to be in the dark. But since she was, she should have shut her stupid, craven mouth instead of spreading panic and pushing to get people fired. At best she was no use to anyone, but she used a platform to make a bad situation worse, and now she wants everyone to forget about it. 

This may not only be a tweet with the mother of all ratios, but a twit with a total lack of self awareness. 

Professor Emily Oster and others like her can begin with the admission that they panicked, looked at the TV instead of the data, and threw out all decency in a fit of terror. Such an act of honesty and humility would be a good start to accepting accountability for the train wreck they caused other people to live and suffer through. 

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Other great takes:



 


From Bad Cattitude: 

if you wielded the whip hand of of the covidian crusader i’m sorry, but i don’t care if you were “in the dark” as that is no excuse. it stands rather as indictment.

having done so out of ignorance (or worse the sort of dark desire to act the dictator or demagogue by assuming a faux moral mantle to vilify and attack others) makes you a hazard and precisely the sort of actor that ought be penalized, not accommodated.

society must develop an immune system to you.

forgiving such would be past enabling and into ennobling anti-social action and technocratic science perversion.

that's not a world you wanna live in.

so, sorry, but not planning to start trusting the folks who got this so wrong again any time soon. that “amnesty” will need to be learned in the school of “actions have consequences.”

From Eugyppius: 

It is just hard to put into words how infuriating it is, to read this breezy triviliasation of the absolute hell we’ve been through, penned by some comfortable and clueless Ivy League mommyconomist who is ready to mouth support for basically any pandemic policy that doesn’t directly affect her or her family and then plead that the horrible behaviour and policies supported by her entire social milieu are just down to ignorance about the virus. We knew everything we needed to know about SARS-2 already in February 2020. The pandemicists and their supporters crossed many bright red lines in their eradicationist zeal and ruined untold millions of lives. That doesn’t all just go away now.
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