Vaccine Hesitant? A Doctor Responds

Honestly with Bari Weiss

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🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

So much of the conversation about Covid-19 is angry and full of finger-pointing. Dr. Vinay Prasad has consistently been able to cut through the noise, the confusion, and the endless bickering. He does this by consistently avoiding the blame game and following the data wherever it leads. Dr. Prasad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. His writing, videos and tweets have been among my most reliable sources for information throughout the pandemic. His positions are nuanced, well-considered, and show exactly the kind of level-headedness and evidence-based decision-making that you want from someone you’re trusting your health to. The conversation covers what the pandemic has revealed about the state of scientific research; policy questions like masking, vaccinating children, and vaccine passports. And, most importantly, vaccine hesitancy. Dr. Prasad explains why shaming, blaming, and censoring the unvaccinated is a losing strategy -- and what might be a better one. Follow Vinay on Twitter, if you like: https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	I'm Barry Weiss and this is honestly.
0:39.0	Remember 15 days to stop the spread? Remember thinking that this COVID thing might mean
0:45.4	just a few weeks out of offices, maybe a few months of wearing masks in public?
0:50.5	Sometimes these days I just sit back and laugh when I consider how all of that has
0:56.0	morphed into nearly two years of all of this and rolling lockdowns and at least two shots but probably a booster every year going forward until you die.
1:06.0	And yeah, masks indefinitely.
1:09.0	And yes, that means at restaurants during moments where you aren't forking food into your mouth and also for kids and yes that includes kids in preschool
1:18.1	I could go on but the thing is you already know all of this
1:22.0	COVID is one of the rare things every single one of us has lived through or rather is living through together.
1:29.0	And yet that sense of togetherness, the sense of unity that we had in those first weeks and months.
1:35.3	Remember the daily cheer for the first responders, the ritual banging of the pots and pans?
1:40.3	Well, that's given way to pretty much exactly the opposite.
1:44.2	The same polarization and demonization that runs through our politics has come to infect our feelings
1:50.1	about, well, just about everything regarding this virus, the origins of it, the response to it, the
1:56.9	messaging around it, who's to blame for it, and the fact that it feels like it has no
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