The Vaccine Wars Part XXXIX

“He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inconsistent… by exploiting his vanity. He can… enjoy kneeling beside the grocer on Sunday just because he remembers that the grocer could not possibly understand the urbane and mocking world which he inhabited on Saturday evening; and contrariwise, to enjoy the bawdy and blasphemy over the coffee with these admirable friends all the more because he is aware of a “deeper,” “spiritual” world within him which they can not understand. You see the idea – the worldly friends touch him on one side and the grocer on the other, and he is the complete, balanced, complex man who sees round them all. Thus, while being permanently treacherous to at least two sets of people, he will feel, instead of shame, a continual under-current of self-satisfaction… and that to cease to do so would be “priggish,” “intolerant,” and… “Puritanical.” –C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

All data sources shared at the end of the article.

We are told a tale of vaccines with stunning efficacy that wanes over time. Apparently they all work like this, or the ones made by the cool kids do, and while they can be designed over a weekend (at not just one company…but two…both Moderna and Pfizer vaccines share that fantastical tale) nobody wonders if a few extra days might result in consistent efficacy or improvements.

Huh.

If you haven’t already smelled bullshit, I have graphs that cure anosmia.