to hear the full episode become a patron at petriam.com slash netpanel pod. The thing that I'm saying basically is the vibe that I get off of the FDA and CDC decision is like, we don't totally know yet. Let's just fucking do it. Whatever. You know, let's just do a third dose. I'm not like, you know, I'm sure it's fine. It's just like I feel like it's being sold as a solution that it's not. And obviously the thing that would protect

immunocompromise people the most

would be it's just like I feel like it's being sold as a solution that it's not and obviously the thing

that would protect immunocompromise people the most uh would be making sure that the virus is fucking

squashed in the general population overall right and anything that would actually tackle the pandemic

but I digress the second well no I mean but it is I think that's important to think about, like, what is the end game?

Right.

Right.

The, I think, I think that the sort of...

The strategy right now is, like, what we don't want the end game to be is, like, it is, like, intellectually

impossible for people to think about, like NPI's as being something that's necessary for any length of time, right?

Even mild ones, right?

Like the reaction to like masking and something like that or like the idea like that that's just like so politically impossible, right?

Forces you down this path. But then like what's the end game there like like i i i'm asking because i i don't

actually know what just no no serious npi's and just hope hoping against hope that like like, that people are going to get a booster shot despite the fact that it's still as hard as it is to get a vaccine.

Like to get the first dose in the United States, right?

Like, I saw the first mobile vaccination clinic I've ever seen in New York last week.

I hadn't seen one.

I have driven around Milwaukee a lot.

I have not seen a mobile vaccination clinic before.

And I'm sure that they exist.

But like the idea that we're doing everything we can do,

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