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Obviously a lot of people have been talking about this op-ed, but I think it's honestly worth

just walking through and rebutting sort of as much as possible.

And, you know, I do want to note that while, you know, over the weekend, the Boston Globe did

publish a set of actually very good letters to the editor rebutting a bunch of Ashish's statements

here, all saying kind of variations of the same thing, like fuck this article, fuck off

Ashish. I think it's still like worth getting into. There are a couple of things I think that

we'll talk about that i haven't

seen people address elsewhere in their criticism to this so i think that this will still be like a

very useful exercise shall i shall i start this up yeah yeah okay so again without further ado

july 31st twenty 23 this is a she's jaws boston Globe op-ed, no longer working for the Biden administration, quote, with a few basic steps, most of us can finally ignore COVID.

It begins. On a recent warm and humid summer night, a group of public health colleagues and I were approaching a restaurant for dinner. Inside or out? I asked.

Not long ago, COVID-19 would have decided, outside.

But not that night. We ate inside, where it was cooler.

Like so many others, we are living with COVID.

The virus isn't going anywhere, but how safely we live with it has changed dramatically.

Literally, what does that even mean, though? I'm sorry. We live in our own little fugues of time.

Most Americans have resumed the full range of their pre-pandemic activities, concerts, parties,

summer camps, and family events.

The rest of America, we've completely fucked over.

But with the virus still circulating, many who have gone back to pre-pandemic life still worry

if they are safe.

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