Whom did she coerce to get vaccinated, then, or what mandate did she impose? She's employed by Brown University. They have a vaccine mandate and she doubtless approved of it at the time, but she didn't make it happen. That would have been done by the administration (president or board of trustees), who don't solicit the opinions of ordinary professors about such decisions any more than certain manufacturers asked their line workers whether they wanted to be coerced to vaccinate. If one is going to accuse people not just of promoting bad ideas but of specific acts, there needs to be something more than guilt-by-association backing it.
Oster also supported opening schools much earlier than many liberal academics, and got bashed for it. In an alternate universe where the covidian left took power and tore up the Constitution, she might get hauled into a tribunal for having spoken in favor of open schools that she herself had no power to open. Among other things, that shows that people and their beliefs don't just cluster into two tight distant groups that can be conveniently labeled Good Guys and Bad Guys. I am a fan of some of Oster's work and believe/hope that she is rational enough to change her mind on vaccines as scientific evidence emerges. Many people may not be, and that's their misfortune.
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Date: 2022-11-06 03:54 pm (UTC)Oster also supported opening schools much earlier than many liberal academics, and got bashed for it. In an alternate universe where the covidian left took power and tore up the Constitution, she might get hauled into a tribunal for having spoken in favor of open schools that she herself had no power to open. Among other things, that shows that people and their beliefs don't just cluster into two tight distant groups that can be conveniently labeled Good Guys and Bad Guys. I am a fan of some of Oster's work and believe/hope that she is rational enough to change her mind on vaccines as scientific evidence emerges. Many people may not be, and that's their misfortune.
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