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Just to back up a second, would this be indicative of his defense for having said that young healthy adults shouldn't get vaccinated?

Business makes business decision. That's called capitalism, Archie.

A real Bill Engvall moment for these folks lol

Not to get too personal, but I'm 33 years old and am just about recovered from a breakthrough case of COVID. Despite being in the presence of others while initially showing symptoms, including family members who are older than I, none of them yet has started showing symptoms or has tested positive. My wife, who I live with and don't really have the choice of isolating from, has tested negative throughout this whole thing. I can't say that it would have played out exactly this way had I (or others) not been vaccinated. I'm not 100% sure it would have been as mild, and I'm even less sure that I wouldn't have given it to others. That's my argument against Rogan's point right there... it isn't about me dingus, it's about everyone else in my life.

Certainly, it's important to meet people where they are. If you are someone in Sanjay Gupta's position and your goal is to try to educate and hopefully change a few minds, you can't just stick to familiar outlets, you have to sometimes go places where the audience may be less receptive. Having said all that, it doesn't really change my view that Rogan isn't a very well informed person or that he doesn't know what he's talking about on COVID a lot of the time.

I mean, if it helps even a small amount, that's an argument in order to get the vaccine. Especially when it isn't clear to me what the argument is against a younger person getting a vaccine.

I haven't listened to him much either, but to the extent that I have, this seems right. But I can see how his takes on COVID become problematic during a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic as well.

Should healthy 21 year olds be concerned about spreading COVID to others? Even with reduced efficacy with respect to Omicron, my understanding is that the vaccine does help reduce spread.

The argument isn't so much that she's not more educated than Hannity or Tucker, but rather that she's a media personality that does a job that, at least in my opinion, doesn't contribute much to society. And, like Hannity or Tucker or Rogan, I'm not sure why so many people view them as authorities on much of anything. But then again, I'm more of a print guy than a teevee guy or a radio guy at this point.

Rogan is a great example too of how we give dubious media personalities a lot more power and influence over the discourse than we should. In that sense, he's really no different than Tucker or Hannity or Maddow. He doesn't have any real talent that any of us on this board couldn't do, he doesn't provide any real value to the society, except for the fact that he provides entertainment to those who find his schtick entertaining and subsequently sells products and services three hours at a time. It's, for the most part, harmless , but I do think when we get into a 100-year pandemic situation, it can be very problematic to say the least.

I've never cared for Rogan, but really I just don't like the format of show in general. It's no different than how I feel about Dax Shepard, who (like Rogan) comes across like someone who thinks he knows more than he actually does. Even Maron, who I've listened to for a while, has started to grate on me a lot. Maybe it's the pandemic or just burnout on interview podcasts, idk.

Ohio's gerrymander is dead on arrival.... this potentially takes a 13-2 map and puts something like 9-6 on the table for Democrats, depending on how the court draws.

It's really not hard: people look to the CDC and the FDA for guidance on the vaccine. At the time, Robert Redfield, CDC Director, said (accurately) that the vaccine would be ready in early 2021. Donald Trump goes out, refutes that, and says that it will be ready in 'late October' (ie. before the election). In light of that, it's not exactly surprising that people wouldn't find Trump a trustworthy source on the vaccine. My standard on taking the vaccine always came down to buy-in from experts.... and for whatever reason, people just sort of gloss over how a politician (Trump) attempted to interfere with that process for political ends. And how that may have damaged trust.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/16/913560563/cdc-director-says-covid-vaccine-likely-wont-be-widely-available-until-next-year In light of Archie's Earth 2.0 prognostications, it's worth revisiting (again) one of President Trump's actions during the Fall of 2020 and how it probably wasn't all that helpful if the goal was to get as many people vaccinated as possible. Specifically tying vaccine distribution to the election (contradicting his own CDC Director) was a serious mistake made by Trump. For whatever reason, people just seem to gloss over it and forget about it.

After that take of his that curdled faster than a turd in the sun, maaaaybe Brit should grab some bench....

End of the line for Boris?

Is this based off any particular article? All the buzz I've seen has been either right or left coast for Suzuki

That aged about as well as a glass of milk on a 100 degree day

Not surprised in the least.

Looks like Roger really took advantage of that second chance afforded to him by Trump.

Just a normal day of tours on Capitol Hill, folks!

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It really gets back to the fact that this system of electing Presidents is just absolute garbage. It's not gonna change, obviously, but it's just terrible and creates more problems than it solves. If someone wanted to design a well functioning democracy from scratch, would they ever look at our system and think, "yeah, that's totally the way to go"?

My understanding is that the OSHA rule being debated doesn't prevent someone from returning from work but requires them to submit to weekly testing and for companies to have a program in order to carry that out. In theory I'm OK with it, but in terms of implementation, it puts a lot of pressure on a company to carry out tasks that they may not be well equipped to carry out. And I worry that will cause more problems than it solves.