Wisdom from Zeynep

"What if better is worse? Well, you know what? Better is almost never worse." It's painful to read her litany of Biden failures and own-goals in the fight against covid, but she seems to be right. Too bad the political alternative is an insane death cult. 

Up your game, dudes

The gender gap in vaccination rates is about ten percentage points. The article presents a variety of theories that might explain this, but never quite gets to the most logical explanation, which is that–relative to women–men are (1) dumb and (2) selfish, not necessarily in that order. Pretty far down in the article it is noted that men are more likely than women to be Republicans, and Republicans are more likely to be vaccine skeptics, but this seems to me to be a corollary of my base theory.

The title of this post is ironic, because there is little reason to expect it to happen.