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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.

>>steven+(OP)
> and a negative test is better than a vaccine

That doesn't sound like something she would say, and I've never encountered her making that claim. I'm pretty sure she got vaccinated and has encouraged other people to do so as well. She does seem skeptical of the ability of the vaccines to prevent infection by newer variants. To some degree, that's probably true right?

>>ch4s3+g1
I can't address your speculation or prove a negative, I can prove she endorsed or said those things.

It's in the wikipedia article linked by the GP. To help you out -

In September 2021, concerning COVID-19, she tweeted an article by Glenn Greenwald which argued that proof of a negative test is far more meaningful than proof of a vaccine, contradicting experts who argue that testing is insufficient and should be considered temporary to allow more time for vaccine hesitancy issues to be addressed.

Assuming she hasn't deleted her tweet:

https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1440687368957095940

She said she was like Galileo here: https://www.ft.com/content/5d840a5c-fa0c-4d08-9574-59f0d3e8c...

>>steven+M3
This was in the context of vaccine passports for entry into public places, not in general. The original comment removes that very important context. I have literally heard her advocate getting vaccinated, she’s on the record recommending it.

>>steven+(OP)
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.

>>remfli+w8
> 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