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Experts who warned about authoritarianism were called alarmists. Experts who warned about Covid were called alarmists. Experts who warned about the courts and abortion were called alarmists. Experts who warned about climate were called alarmists. Perhaps it's actually alarming? Actually, no zoonotic disease has ever been eliminated this way. We eradicated polio. There is absolutely no reason we can’t all get vaccinated and eradicate COVID. Saving lives never had to be political. I am ceding control of covid policies and determining what gets graded to a committee of students in my politics and science class this term. How do we think this is going to go? This was the bit of data that had me worried about in person instruction … so glad to hear it was a testing error Please blast far and wide: the story that Rice was experiencing an unexpectedly high rate of Delta spread among a population vaccinated in the mid-90% range led to panic and despondency across Twitter. Nearly all the troubling results were false positives https://coronavirus.rice.edu/news/covid-19-response-weekly-update-august-22 Our deadline is this Monday, get your applications in soon if you are interested. We (@UM_CommStudies) are hiring in Political Communication this year! Come join an awesome department and area (@UMichPCWG). Search is open rank (Assistant/Associate/Full). https://twitter.com/UM_CommStudies/status/1405520458032857088
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