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1. Someon+87[view] [source] 2022-07-14 18:50:54
>>themgt+(OP)
I've never heard of "commonsense.news" before, but it is by Bari Weiss[0] who is trying to create an "anti-cancel culture," "anti-woke" University called the University of Austin[1]. Her Wikipedia on her history kind of speaks for itself, in particular the "2017–2020" section[0].

Why does this matter? Because most of the articles claims are based on "spoke to us" quotes from anonymous staffers which cannot be independently verified. So it falls to the reputation of those publishing and their journalistic integrity/process, and at that point I leave it to you to make up your own mind.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss#2017%E2%80%932020:_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Austin

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2. steven+OS[view] [source] 2022-07-15 00:15:40
>>Someon+87
She compared herself to Galileo being threatened with burning at the stake, talk about being a professional victim. Not only is the anonymous sourcing suspect, but she herself thinks vaccines are not as effective as previous infections of Covid-19 and a negative test is better than a vaccine(!) and we know from studies that both are patently untrue, she has ulterior motives in anything to discredit vaccines. I don't know why she claims to be a left leaning centrist, that doesn't survive the slightest scrutiny of her published writing/twitter.
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3. remfli+k11[view] [source] 2022-07-15 01:20:31
>>steven+OS
Your twisting of what she said is par for the course for religious zealots.

If you want people interacting with other people without tranmitting COVID, what she is is absolutely correct. She said that proving you’re currently negative is more accurate that just asking for vaccine status. This is scientifically correct since people can get reinfected and spread the disease regardless of vaccine status. I just got reinfected with COVID this past week after 3 shots plus prior infection in January. So vaccines do NOTHING in terms of preventing infection anymore. Of course, it protects from serious symptoms but that’s not what they were talking about. It was in the context of effectiveness of vaccine mandates for preventing spread, which it doesn’t.

You are the one spreading disinformation at this point.

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4. dang+381[view] [source] 2022-07-15 02:20:48
>>remfli+k11
> Your twisting of what she said is par for the course for religious zealots.

> You are the one spreading disinformation

Crossing into personal attack will get you banned here regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are, so please don't do that.

Your comment would be much better without those bits.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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