@AngieSmiley16 @kluciani71 @WokeMobbDeep @TMZ To be fair, after a certain number of digits, it's difficult for people to comprehend just how *big* big numbers are. It's not necessarily because people are stupid but because the human brain evolved to think linearly and not exponentially

@CT954 @TMZ @billburr You know he's not *because* he says things like this

@kluciani71 @WokeMobbDeep @TMZ You don't become a billionaire by working hard. You become a billionaire by profiting off of other people's hard work. It is physically impossible for an individual person to generate $1b of value in their lifetime.

@ebey_jacob @hankgreen Some rando because I would trust a random person's *judgement* over that of someone who has financial ties to the industry they're supposed to be regulating. Put a study that says Red 3 causes cancer in mice in front of the average citizen and they would ban it immediately.

@ebey_jacob @hankgreen The FDA for example will routinely sleep on known carcinogens in food and medicine for 30 years before finally taking them off the shelves. They're supposed to implement the precautionary principle but they don't. That's why there's so much shit I avoid consuming these days.

@ebey_jacob @hankgreen For perspective, I would honestly rather them pick a random person on the side of the street to lead HHS than the sort of people they'd typically put in there

@C_A_P_117 @rsomething @hankgreen Honestly you don't know the history or understand epidemiology well enough to be approaching this conversation from anything except a learning standpoint. You evidently lack the curiosity to do that so yes I don't think there's any way this can be productive either.

@C_A_P_117 @rsomething @hankgreen No, not from a spread standpoint. 50-60% is below the HIT of delta. It wouldn't have stopped the spread even at a 100% vaccination rate

@C_A_P_117 @rsomething @hankgreen Embarrassing that you're still sticking to that blatantly incorrect timeline but in any case, we're talking about the impact of the vaccines on spread. That impact would be near zero at 5% vaccination rates even if they conferred sterilizing immunity against all variants.

@fOrGiVeNcHy

@C_A_P_117 @rsomething @hankgreen You were under the impression that the vaccine wasn't even available to everyone til June 2021, and by June 2021 Delta had become dominant. So why would you even ask for data for efficacy against the spread of the prior variant? That would be completely irrelevant

@C_A_P_117 @rsomething @hankgreen Being one of the very few people aware of the risks of variants when it comes to spread, I was doing the socially responsible thing and maintaining quarantine through summer 2021, while local governments were formalizing the idea of return to normal via vax with vaccine passports

@C_A_P_117 @rsomething @hankgreen I'm not getting sidetracked. The vaccines did appear to be significantly more effective against Alpha than Delta, but that doesn't matter to my argument. The crux of my argument is that the CDC and the government in general would routinely lie about COVID issues in general.

@C_A_P_117 @rsomething @hankgreen I was fully aware I was sending you data on the Delta variant. I predicted variants would be a problem for the vaccines as early as January 2021 lol

@ShannonMFHill I don't see the problem

@Eagles The best part is there was still like 4 minutes left in the game lmao