Sam Harris

The virus has evolved to the point in this context where it seems less dangerous.

Again, I'm going more on the seemings than on research that I've done at this point, but I'm certainly less worried about getting COVID.

I've had it once.

I've been vaccinated.

So you ask me now, how do I feel about getting the next booster?

I don't know that I'm going to get the next booster, right?

So I was somebody who was waiting in line at four in the morning, hoping to get some overflow vaccine when it was first available.

And at that point, given what we knew,

or given what I thought I knew based on the best sources I could consult and based on anecdotes that were too vivid to ignore, both data and personal experience, it was totally rational for me to want to get that vaccine as soon as I could.

And now I think it's totally rational for me to do a different kind of cost benefit analysis and wonder, listen, do I really need to get a booster?

How many of these boosters am I going to get for the rest of my life, really?

And how safe is the mRNA vaccine for a man of my age?

And do I need to be worried about myocarditis?

All of that is completely rational to talk about now.

My concern is that at every point along the way,

I was the wrong person, and Bret Weinstein was the wrong person, and there's many other people I could add to this list, to have strong opinions about any of this stuff.

Right?

Yeah, but I knew we were going to disagree about that.

I saw his podcast where he brought on these experts who had

many of them had the right credentials, but for a variety of reasons, they didn't pass the smell test for me.