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Title text: The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it's still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses.


Transcript[Cueball, White Hat and Megan walking]

Cueball: I try to meet people where they are, but I have such a hard time with anti-vaxxers.

[Zoom out; a tree to the right is visible]

Cueball: The pandemic brought with it so much confusing stuff.
Cueball: Ambiguous data, weird tradeoffs, disagreements, dilemmas, and uncertainty.

[Zoom in on Cueball]

Cueball: It just feels like a miracle that the best and most effective intervention to reduce suffering also turned out to be one of the easiest and simplest.
Cueball: That never happens!

[Cueball, White Hat and Megan sitting around the tree]

Cueball: I hate that people are working so hard to make it complicated when it's one of the few things in this world that isn't.


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[โ€“] fushuan@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a small correction from the video itself: it isn't just that he wanted to sell the individual vaccines, it's that the parents of the kids that underwent tests wanted the investigation to go through to sue the MMR vaccine company. It was all a sham from the beginning.

[โ€“] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All because of ๐Ÿฆ€ MONEY ๐Ÿฆ€

[โ€“] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's literally a reference to Spongebob? Maybe I am finally getting old.

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was already well into adulthood when Spongebob came out, so I'm guessing I'm already old.