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VP: "We didn’t see Omicron coming.” -- (link)

Posted by budice Dec 17 '21, 17:12

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Unfortunate quote (twitter.com)

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In context, she *seems* to be saying that the scientists can not predict when new highly infectious variants will arise. -- (edited) - ty97 Dec 17, 17:19 8
- BURN DOWN THE SCIENCE LABS!! -- nm - Beaker Dec 17, 17:20
- It’ll be skewered with or without context because nothing matters anymore. -- nm - Qale Dec 17, 17:20 6
  - It's poorly worded even to the most sympathetic reading, so it's kinda deserved to an extent. - ty97 Dec 17, 17:26 5
    - Except that the people likely to howl the loudest about this are the same recalcitrant f*cks who are making it have a bigger impact than it needed to. -- (edited) - znufrii, boosted Dec 17, 17:40 4
      - Yes and no. Omicron likely comes from a country that we (we = the global first word countries) haven't prioritized helping to vaccinate. -- (edited) - ty97 Dec 17, 17:45 2
        
        If everyone was vaxxed here, its impact would be a lot less and we wouldn’t have to worry as much about its emergence. -- nm* - znufrii, boosted Dec 17, 17:56 1
        
        NYC has a very high vax rate and people are still worrying about so I'm not so sure? -- nm - ty97 Dec 17, 17:58
      - yup -- nm - Beaker Dec 17, 17:43
"That's a pretty stupid thing to say during flu season!" -- nm - Uncle WhatTheBuck Dec 17, 17:18

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