[DoodleBob]

Stevens grew up in Scarsdale, New York and San Antonio, Texas. She attained a doctorate in comparative literature from UC Berkeley in 2001 with a dissertation on Fernando Pessoa: A Local Habitation and a Name: Heteronymy and Nationalism in the works of Fernando Pessoa.

She joined Slate in mid-2003, writing the magazine's Surfergirl column on television and pop-culture. Before joining Slate she wrote under the pseudonym "Liz Penn" on her own (now defunct) website/blog called the High Sign. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, Bookforum, and The Atlantic and has appeared on several occasions on Charlie Rose and The Brian Lehrer Show. She is a regular on Slate's Culture Gabfest.

Stevens has described herself as "an atheist raised in culturally Christian milieu". She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

[ScottinVA]

Americans are so easily conditioned into subservience.

[SkyDancer]

Where is the list of side effects? None of them have a list of potential hazards to your health the way every FDA drug you get at a pharmacy; even OTC drugs have them but not these wonderful super safe vaccines, that kill and maim people and kids.

[PROCON]

[Rummyfan]

She attained a doctorate in comparative literature from UC Berkeley in 2001 with a dissertation on Fernando Pessoa: A Local Habitation and a Name: Heteronymy and Nationalism in the works of Fernando Pessoa.

I've done a lot of reading in my life, but have never heard of Fernando Pessoa.

And if Ms Stevens wants to wear a mask, IDGAF.

[usconservative]

Went to my local Aldi's to pick up a few things today. I was the only person in the store NOT wearing a mask.

Sign on the front of the store said "per CDC guidelines, those who are NOT vaccinated must wear a mask."

Guess I was the only one who was fully vaccinated then?

C'mon people -- these stupid cloth/ear loop/neck gaiter masks never stopped a damn' thing. Take the stupid masks off!

LIVE FREE OR DIE.

[bagster]

But if...some of us simply find comfort in going around with a scrap of cloth on our face...

[Gene Eric]

>> The vaccines are remarkably effective

Show the data.

[Pilated]

I have no words about the stunning ignorance of this woman.

[sauropod]

I don’t care eithervway, Dana. Just don’t inflict your neuroses on me.

[fruser1]

Even if covid is eliminated, there are many other pathogens out there. People of all ages have died from influenza since it’s been around.

Do you know that no microphone is 100% safe? That thing she’s holding could electrocute her.

Though the odds of that one are low if it’s in good condition, the odds are much higher she’d catch a micro-critter from it. Maybe that’ll kill her.

If not, she still needs to get home. Car, bike, public trans? All 100% safe right?

Ok, so walk....
...and get raped/mugged.

[Still Thinking]

It says to those around us that, whatever our vaccine status, we value community safety.After translating from Karenish to English, that reads as "Don't bother me with facts, I'm virtue signaling here!"

[fwdude]

I’d love to take some 2 inch duct tape and make it count. Around their head a dozen times.

[Old_Grouch]

I’ll just venture a wild guess that she supports killing innocent babies in the womb.....

[unixfox]

I’ve always said that the only good thing to come out of Berkeley was Unix.

[dsc]

“The vaccines are remarkably effective”

They don’t stop you from contracting the ‘rona, and they don’t stop you from passing it to others.

Just exactly how are they “effective?” And how did these low IQ tubs of dog crap weasel their way into public life?

People scorn the notion that the vaccines are biological weapons. I have to wonder why they are so intent on giving everyone an experimental substance. Especially conservatives.

If I knew any leftards they wouldn’t want me to have an effective vaccine. They would want me to contract the ‘rona and die before I have a chance to vote again. So why are the leftards so intent on vaccinating everyone?

[Chad C. Mulligan]

I’m going to START wearing a mask.

I need one to hide my I-told-you-so smirk as I watch President*’s policies crash and burn.

[Irenic]

Who cares?

[familyop]

I hereby pre-excuse Dana. I didn’t even read her piece.

[HIDEK6]

She is a dumb ass.

[230FMJ]

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.