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Sam Harris Q D A Gift a subscription 3. Elon and I didn't converge on a common view of epidemiology over the course of those two hours, but we hit upon a fun compromise: A wager. Elon bet me $1 million dollars (to be given to charity) against a bottle of fancy tequila ($1000) that we wouldn't see as many as 35,000 cases of Covid in the United States (cases, not deaths). The terms of the bet reflected what was, in his estimation, the near certainty (1000 to 1) that he was right. Having already heard credible estimates that there could be 1 million deaths from Covid in the U.S. over the next 12-18 months (these estimates proved fairly accurate), I thought the terms of the bet ridiculous and quite unfair to Elon. I offered to spot him two orders of magnitude: I was confident that we'd soon have 3.5 million cases of Covid in the U.S. Elon accused me of having lost my mind and insisted that we stick with a ceiling of 35,000. 4. We communicated sporadically by text over the next couple of weeks, while the number of reported cases grew. Ominously, Elon dismissed the next batch of data reported by the CDC as merely presumptive while confirmed cases of Covid, on his account, remained elusive. 5. A few weeks later, when the CDC website finally reported 35,000 deaths from Covid in the U.S. and 600,000 cases, I sent Elon the following text: Is (35,000 deaths + 600,000 cases) > 35,000 cases? 6. This text appears to have ended our friendship. Elon never responded, and it was not long before he began maligning me on Twitter for a variety of imaginary offenses. For my part, I eventually started complaining about the startling erosion of his integrity on my podcast, without providing any detail about what had transpired between us.
I guess we should retire the expression "avoid it like the plague given how little effort people put into avoiding an actual plague
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"Freedom" also always means consequences. Freedom isn't just a right but also a responsibility. Freedom doesn't mean "every opinion is treated equally" no matter how much people want it to be true. It just means that you have the right to hold that opinion.

Yes you can "choose" not to get vaccinated. No it is not a violation of your freedom if you can no longer enter stores or restaurants because it is the businesses' freedom not to do business with you in that case.

And it is the government's duty to protect the health of it's citizens, so them making laws of "make sure to minimize infection risks or close up" is them acting on that duty. "Minimizing infection risk" to many stores will then mean "vaccinated only". After all what do you think inspections of restaurants are? Same thing! And it's not a violation of freedom to close restaurants because of mold and vermin infestations!

Again, nobody is wrestling you down and giving you a vaccine against your will, but a reduced quality of life because of your own choice is not necessarily incompatible with the principle of freedom. It's just the consequence of the action you chose to take.

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