I would expect vaccination to be fully booked for a while, since it's going to be the most important thing in life to do for anyone not suffering from other serious issues and without anti-vaccination beliefs.
I hope everyplace offering vaccinations will have something in place to prevent anyone who comes in who is already infected but asymptomatic from infecting others there.
Given some states' track records on how they handled other things that attracted a lot of people, such as in-person voting, I'm not at all confident that we won't have some states that manage to turn vaccination clinics into super spreader events, which should be deeply embarrassing.
A good way to handle it is the way Kaiser handled flu vaccinations this year in western Washington. They had 10 minute windows available. You reserved online your spot in one of those windows. When you arrived a person at the door asked your name, checked you off the list, and gave you a pre-printed label with your information, and sent you in.
There were two or three people administering the vaccine, so two or three people for each 10 minute window. You went an stood in line with the others who shared your window, with the line very spread out.
When it was your turn you went in to get the vaccination, gave the person their your label, got vaccinated, and were sent out a side or back door so you would not cross paths with the people waiting or arriving.
I don't know how many hundred dollars it cost them to buy a couple dozen devices or how much it costs to wipe each one down and put it back under the infrared/anti-cootie lamp each use. But there are orders going out the window about every 2 minutes and no customers within 50 feet of each other.
Honestly, I'd prefer to be texted - no need to pass around a hot potato.
to this point you (everybody, really) should have a burner phone number
He points out that the standard being adopted by these studies for the point efficacy is 14 days after the second dose. That's honestly not too bad. It's no magic bullet, but it's survivable.
In the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemi...
I remember getting the vaccine and it was offered outdoors, with a line in a parking lot and a nurse having a tent or a table or something. So that was good (although we weren't wearing masks -- the level of concern and associated precautions with H1N1 felt high at the time but now seems pretty trivial compared to COVID-19).
I recently went to my doctor's office for a seasonal flu shot and the office had separated spaces in the waiting room, lots of air filters going, and all patients and workers wearing face masks. And I think they wouldn't allow more than 4 or 5 patients in the office at a time. So those same precautions would feel pretty decent to me for COVID vaccination.
Edit: I guess I'm reflexively thinking of San Francisco in imagining this -- the outdoor line-up seems perfectly fine here, but it might be pretty unpleasant in January in New York or St. Petersburg or Edmonton...
We ended up just going to Target, which was much more risky, but actually something we could accomplish.
This was redundant. Anti-vaccination “belief“ is a serious, mental, issue.
Against HN rules, but it’s time to stop being so easy on people who try to distort science and reality and call them for what it is. You cannot have a eye to eye conversation with anti-vacciners, flat-earthers, climate-change deniers, election-fraud believers and Trump supporters.
The more leeway we give the more they try to win public opinion and damage our world.
Follow-up question: how can you be sure that you, personally, are on the side of the angels? Especially if you have never been allowed to hear the opposing point of view?
Seriously, the growing support for censorship in the previously libertarianish Tech community has been the worst development of the last decade.
In hindsight, I see how citing codes of conduct implies support for censorship, when my actual intent was simply to demonstrate another example of "intolerance" having noble goals.
Netiquette 101: Don't feed the trolls. (But here we are.)
Well, I agree with the scientific consensus on a general base. But since science was not always right, I don't see a valid argument from there to censorship.
You want to censor ideas not covered by scientific consensus?
"and their answers should sit uncomfortably in all humans"
Because, also no. I do not feel uncomfortable. I am strongly against censorship. Open, unrestricted exchange of ideas. If the scientific way is the best (which I believe), then the crackpot approaches will fail naturally. But if you censor those other approaches, you might actually strenghten them.
From where I'm sitting, perceived authoritarian tendencies on the democratic side is a large part of what really motivates Trump voters. That's certainly a lot of the narrative, if you ever visit that side of the media landscape.
1. Don’t even entertain their distorted reality
2. Put a stop on the spread of misinformation
Stopping your anti-vaccine post from going viral on social media is in no way any different than a scientific magazine refusing to publish the same.
> put a stop on spread of misinformation
That’s what censorship is. A small group of people will decide what is considered misinformation and will censor everything that goes against that
I believe the government should not have a say in whether or not all information circulates, but ordinary people who build information sharing systems (and I don't just mean electronic ones) have an opportunity to figure this out. Should they not?
This is not censorship. Censorship is stopping you from expressing your thoughts. Not publishing your thoughts is not. You can say whatever you want but no newspaper is in any obligation to publish it.
Similar with social media, you can write whatever you want on your personal "page", but they are under no obligation to make sure it reaches other people's feed.
Nice euphemism for censorship.
Social media is common people writing and reading. And they choose which people to follow etc.
"stopping a post to go viral" means in this context activily manipulating and interfering what information does and does not reach other people.
That is something very different than a newspaper refusing to publish a certain article.
If you’ll permit a scientifically inaccurate analogy here: sunlight is the best disinfectant.
It all comes down to whether or not the community in question is one in which members can readily leave without cost. I don't agree with making anti-vaxxers change their ways by government force, but I'm into being intolerant of them in other ways to the point that they'll come around and obviate any need for governmental force in the first place.
Beliefs? Science, and scientific evidence became “beliefs”
That’s the problem right here.
But we DO have to convince people, we have to convince people by showing them how it works, and letting them decide that that makes sense, you can't just mandate belief as a science authoritarian.
And science is still performed by humans, and we're fallible, and our incentives aren't always good, and every time there's a public failure of the process, and every time a scientist goes on record to shill for a company's chosen viewpoint, it dings the general public's faith in science and scientific experts in general.
My fear that is that not enough folks will take the vaccine. I've been hearing a lot about anti-vaxxers lately. interesting bunch.
Reason is not a universal attribute of human beings. Some of us have it. Some don't (they just simulate it more or less successfully).
Most pro-vaxxers have simply picked up the dominant opinion from the surrounding society -- not a bad heuristic in practice. Most anti-vaxxers have picked up an opinion from a persuasive single source and then read some other sources that back it up.
I admit I'm in the first category, I certainly vaccinate my own children, but I can't really claim that I've come to this decision after a thorough understanding of immunology, I have simply followed the path of least resistance.
That particular version of antivaxxism is the one I would have the most trouble refuting. It's especially troubling since if it were true then the powers that be would have every incentive to try to keep it quiet and attack anyone who suggests it.
I mean, I make the same judgement call every year for flu shots. Is it at least plausible that I would be better off overall making the same call for some other disease?
> That particular version of antivaxxism is the one I would have the most trouble refuting.
What's hard to refute? I mean, the exceptionalism argument only sticks with sociopaths who believe society exists only to serve their personal interests without having to contribute anything in return.
That's not really true though. The risks involved in getting a vaccine are much, much smaller than the risks involved in not getting the vaccine, especially with diseases like Covid.