Céline Gounder's Dilemma

Céline Gounder is a vaccine expert much in the same way that Emily Oster is an expert on the subject. Their claim to fame is based on their willingness to promote a drug that they know next to nothing about. They sold their soul to the devil, as it were. They saw in the pandemic an opportunity, and they grabbed it with both hands.

However, this type of opportunism usually comes with a cost. Emily Oster recently joined the great vaccine pivot. She's suddenly promoting herself as a vaccine sceptic. In doing this, she let her readers know that she knew next to nothing about viruses and was basically just parroting the official narrative. The reactions to her change of heart were not as positive as Ms Oster may have hoped for.

Emily Oster has presumably stopped taking her boosters. But those who still haven't joined the pivot are still taking them. Assuming that she followed her own advice, Almyra Oveta Fuller took all her boosters, and she's now dead. The same can be said about Grant Wahl, a sports reporter who died in Qatar while covering the world cup in football.

What's interesting here is that all of the above mentioned people were part of a relatively small elite of influence peddlers. They all knew each others. Céline Gounder is Mr Wahl's widow, and she has almost certainly been in contact with both Ms Oster and Ms Fuller.

This means that Ms Gounder knows what shame and controversy comes with a sudden change of heart after having pushed vaccines and lockdowns for two years straight. She also knows two people now dead after taking all the boosters.

Ms Gounder is a hard-line vaccine pushers who promotes the idea of getting boosted every five months. She's no Emily Oster who could at least point to a few fragments of scepticism. If Ms Gounder changes her opinion now that her husband is dead, it will result in very little sympathy, and she will also loose her position as influence peddler, hobnobbing with the elite.

Will Ms Gounder continue taking her medicines, or will she have a change of heart? If she does change her mind; will she tell us?

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