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Feb 12, 2022Liked by Mark Changizi

A fourth way to not protect the frail elderly from covid is to isolate them in solitary confinement, refuse all communal activities, and meals with others, and refuse all in person visits from loved ones. It's important to do this for the better part of a year if you want to get the best effect.

In the words of one elderly inmate of an "assisted living" facility: "why am I being punished?"

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How about frittering away precious political capital and limited healthcare resources forcing masks, vax, and boosters onto near-zero risk college kids and schoolkids, and in spite of increasingly skeptical and resistant parents? While older adult vaccination rates (you know, the ones actually at risk) fall further and further behind? Let’s applaud that one too

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