PolitiTweet Archive
Home Figures About
Donate
Profile Image

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538 ↗

  • Overview
  • Archive
  • Deleted
Deleted No
Hibernated No
Last Checked March 25, 2022

Created

Tue Feb 01 19:02:50 +0000 2022

Likes

448

Retweets

29

Source

Twitter Web App

View Raw Data

JSON Data

View on Twitter

Likely Available
Profile Image

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Part of the problem is the vaccines were *so* effective early on that people thought they could reduce risk to ZERO and/or bring about herd immunity, instead of REDUCING risk to the point where it made sense to "return to normal" since avoiding in-person activity is very harmful. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 1, 2022

Preceded By

Profile Image

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Expectations relative to when? The vaccines work much better (and came out much faster) than I'd have thought in February 2020—I'm very happy to have taken a vaccine/booster that reduces my risk of severe outcomes by ~95%—though maybe worse than I'd have thought in February 2021. — PolitiTweet.org

Brandon Friedman @BFriedmanDC

Why is consumer confidence low? My view: - The vaccine saved millions of lives, but did not meet expectations or m… https://t.co/O7bKu2YlLG

Posted Feb. 1, 2022

Followed By

Profile Image

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

@mattyglesias Yeah, and I do think there's some messaging blame to go around there since always were SOME breakthroughs, and there was some reason to think there would be more over time between waning immunity and evolution of the virus. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 1, 2022

© 2025 Politiwatch. Tweets and other media belong to their indicated owners; all other materials are licensed CC-BY-SA. If you use PolitiTweet professionally, please feel free to let us know. Note that PolitiTweet stopped archiving new tweets on April 3, 2023, when Twitter disabled our API access.