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Where the Delta variant is spreading..

Earlier this week, the Washington Post shared a leaked CDC slideshow illustrating just how contagious the Covid-19 delta variant is: more transmissible than the common cold or “Spanish” flu of 1918, on par with chickenpox. 

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document noted that the recent surge in cases—some of which are, yes, vaccine breakthrough cases—will all but certainly erode public trust in vaccine efficacy. “Important to update communications describing breakthrough cases as ‘rare’ or as a ‘small percentage,’” the presentation explained. The tweeters of the New York Times were not so cautious, adopting precisely the kind of panicked tone that the CDC is worried might drive vaccine hesitancy, never mind the detail in the article itself about the far lower rates of transmission by vaccinated people. 

Social media gleefully ripped the Times’ tweet—engineered to generate maximum fear, maximum clicks—from its context and began using it to confirm whatever priors they held. “Lol ​​good to see people jabbed that poison in their arm for no reason,” said one user. “This nonsense is absolutely ridiculous! How are people believing this bullshit?!” asked another. And as a third put it: “Nobody knows anything.”

Perhaps it is more accurate to say that we have the opposite problem: not a dearth of information but an overabundance, facts and “facts” of dubious accuracy pouring from many speakers all blaring at equal volume—on social media platforms that privilege the most outrageous voices, sure, but also in a culture that champions self-reliance and institutional distrust.


Source: The Baffler Magazine
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