A few months ago, I read a story about a Brooklyn-based company called Threes Brewing. The CEO and co-founder, Josh Stylman, stepped down from his position as chief executive. The leadership change came after Stylman tweeted about COVID. Even though he was “fully vaccinated,” he was under fire to resign because of an opinion that was controversial at the time but entirely sensible. It turns out he was right all along.
Articles published in the media in response to his tweets were clickbait. They were written to have readers jump to conclusions without even taking the time to read the nuance or understand the historical context of the original thread that set off the controversy.
This was one of them: https://www.bkmag.com/2022/03/01/threes-brewing-ceo-stepping-down/
Josh Stylman viewed the vaccine mandate NYC had in place at the time as discrimination. He felt it created a two-tier society based on arbitrary biomedical status.
In his First, Principles post, he writes:
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