We do have that duty of care. My suspicion is that the issue may self-correct reasonably quickly - that more people will take up the vaccine than we fear. If it doesn't, we may have to look at i… (View Post)

I did frustrate one once when he insisted that the Earth looked flat, so... "No, it doesn't." What? "I've never been anywhere where it looks flat. There's always hills a… (View Post)

It may be a self-fixing problem. It's well established that the best cure for vaccine hesitancy is personally knowing someone (or even just knowing of someone - ie knowing them at one or two rem… (View Post)

This illustrates how a dramatic headline at one end of an uncertain estimate (surrounded with "may..." and "suggests...") can mutate into an accepted fact within 24 hours - and ev… (View Post)

Originally, antibody prevalence reached about 6% by July and then decayed to 4.4% 12 weeks later. They now have reached about 6.9%, I think. That 20% figure (and over 50% in some areas) looks surpris… (View Post)