The smart people I know who started with J&J took this matter into their own hands some time ago, typically opting for an mRNA supplement. They are just "people," yet they had "skin in the game" and they are miles ahead of the FDA and CDC as formal institutions. Here is a research paper on the question. Here is another. And here is a Paul Sax tweet and Op-Ed: "Don't know anyone who disagrees with this, and the data have been highly suggestive for months." And this is after the authorities insisted for months that all vaccines will be treated the same.
Again, I will repeat the perennial question: do our public health agencies wish to maximize their own status and control and feeling of "having done everything properly as they were trained," or do they wish to maximize the expected value of actual outcomes for the citizenry? If it is not the latter, and too often it is not, I say they are oppressive frauds. (And please don't try to tell me this kind of craperoo is boosting their credibility -- in fact they have lost massive credibility with America's public intellectual class, both left wing and right wing and for that matter centrist.)
I really do not have much sympathy for Kyrie Irving and Bradley Beal and their ilk, but in fact their views are more understandable than you might think from reading MSM. Their generalized mistrust is not so crazy, even though they are quite wrong in this particular instance. By the way, don't take those aspirin any more!
Here is the full NYT article, cringeworthy throughout, and I thank Jordan for the pointer.
