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Recently, I read that when A.I. made medical recommendations, it was accurate 25% of the time.

This is a dangerously low level of correct diagnosis and relief.

As you can plainly see, 75% of its health related pronouncements were wrong.

When dealing with our well-being, we require a better roll of the dice.

Yet, I have also read that medical professionals (aka physicians and such) were relying on this technology.

If your doctor misdiagnosed you 3/4 of the time, you would seek help elsewhere.

If your doctor is relying on a robot that is wrong 3/4 of the time, perhaps s/he should rethink the situation.

Related: AI algorithms and Medicare Advantage.

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FDNY marchers against the city’s vaccine mandate.

The recent right-leaning election results are being attributed to a slow pandemic recovery. But if Covid-19 ain’t over, it’s in large part thanks to the anti-vaxxers. That cohort is largely a right wing crowd according to polls and analysts.

Democrats have tried bribing, cajoling and demanding that we all get the shot. Covid-19 vaccines are free and readily available at your local pharmacy. And not just at the large chain druggists but from the little guy on the corner. Those of us lucky enough to be over 65 can also get a booster to help with immunity.

It’s been scientifically established that our individual immunity will lead to collective immunity. In other words, when we get the shots we contribute to the well-being of our friends and neighbors.

Conversely, the fewer of us who are vaccinated, the more likely the virus is to stick around, mutating and killing. It is not a personal choice. To vax or not to vax is an existential decision. It affects us all.

The slow pandemic recovery is a self-inflicted wound. You shot yourself in the foot and now you are yelling at me cause you’re hobbled.

The pandemic has crossed borders and wreaked havoc everywhere.

Let’s finish it. Roll up your sleeves and take two for the team.

Let’s end this

Walking along a street in my neighborhood I encountered several people. Some walked alone and others in pairs.

Most notable about almost each of them was the look of having the wind knocked out of their sails.

The relatively well-off among us are not accustomed to living in uncertainty. This past pandemic year+ and ongoing is just full of the unpredictable, the unexpected and the frightening.

We hit gales, figuratively and what with climate change, actually. The winds blow on us and at us at varying speeds and intensities.

There is no way to shelter from the storms that bring new variants. That is as long as so many of our fellow citizens fail to get their shot. To protect themselves as well as us. To #StopTheSpread.

You can’t convince me this is a personal choice when so many others are effected.

Punishing

It’s the carrot or the stick…. if you are so stubborn as to prefer death over taxes, so be it. Your employer may have to tax you an unvaxxed surcharge. You get a dose of each.

So I hear from my Axios Vitals enews.

Wouldn’t it be easier to just get that FREE Covid shot?

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