ALT Fauci: Well, I don’t think anybody did anything wrong. What went wrong was that the virus did not act the way one would have thought the virus would act. We made an assumption that turned out to be an incorrect assumption — that this was going to act like other viruses.

ALT Fauci: The classical definition of herd immunity has been completely turned upside down by Covid. And let me go through the steps. Herd immunity is based on two premises: one, that the virus doesn’t change, and two, that when you get infected or vaccinated, the durability of protection is measured in decades, if not a lifetime.

ALT Fauci: With SARS-CoV-2, we thought protection against infection was going to be measured in a long period of time. And we found out — wait a minute, protection against infection, and against severe disease, is measured in months, not decades. No. 2, the virus that you got infected with in January 2020 is very different from the virus that you’re going to get infected with in 2021 and 2022.

ALT Wallace-Wells: Sometimes it seems to me we would be better off thinking of Omicron as an entirely different virus. It’s so distinct from not just the ancestral strain but also the early variants. Fauci: Exactly. The vaccines protected well against infection and disease with Alpha, Beta and Delta. Then along comes Omicron. It evades immunity so well that a vaccine doesn’t even protect very well against infection. So with a changing virus and a duration of immunity that doesn’t last — what is herd immunity for that virus?

ALT A reddit post by user Mecha-Jesus There are really 2 main issues that make the new Twitter verification system a complete nightmare. The first is user base. Very few normal users are willing to pay for a free social media site. Moreover, the main selling point of the service is to boost post visibility. The service inherently appeals only to people who both a) Care extremely deeply about their posts being seen, and b) Make posts that Inherently unappealing 2 other twitter Users, Since people with appealing interesting funny not weird posts would be able to naturally grow an audience on the platform if they want. So pretty much every single blue check is a hyper online weirdo who is deeply bad at posting despite being obsessed with Twitter metrics

ALT A photograph of text which states: The second is that verified replies get promoted to the top of every post. You have to scroll through all the blue check replies to even get the most Non blue check replies period this is true even for blue check replies that have zero engagement are completely off topic or Are just straight up spam or scams. As a result if you're looking for relevant discussion on a popular tweet you have to first scroll past the thoughts of some of the most terminally online inherently unlikeable People on the planet period so normal users are constantly exposed to the most offputting segments of the userbase. It's like if reddit Incentivized every anti social weirdo to post as much as possible to get their moneys Worth and then forced ever user to sort by controversial. It's a horrible structure that makes the product practically unusable for non weirdos which is just how elon likes that I guess.

ALT Msblairewhite tweeting Petition for @elonmusk to give all the celebrities who visited Epstein’s Island a red check.