Sam Harris: ‘Unlucky’ Covid Didn’t Kill More Kids as Vax Skeptics Weren’t Treated Sufficiently Harshly

EXCERPT:

HARRIS: “You just flip that around, the variable of age. If kids were dying by the hundreds of thousands from Covid at a rate of whatever it was, one percent, say, but it was pretty much all kids, we would have had a very different experience, right? And the patience, there would have been no fu*king patience for vaccine skepticism, right? And we — everyone would have recognized that this is not my body, my choice. This is, you’re not going to kill my kids with your ignorance. And you change one other variable: what if the vaccines actually really did block transmission much better than they in fact did? There was a moment where it was only rational to expect them to block transmission — turns out they don’t do it nearly as much as we would hope at this point, they just shorten the window by which, during which transmission is possible, if they’re even doing that now, I don’t know.”

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