As someone who is a) worried about vaccine hesitancy & impact this news might have b) worried about impact instances of clotting might have on same c) aware that Black patients are more likely to experience clotting events, including in response to COVID itself...

d) currently on day four of J&J in my bloodstream, with family & personal history of blood clotting e) not panicked about what appears to be 1/million risk & grateful for medical safety protocols f) more concerned about hitting difficult communicative balance in crucial moment...

I want to reflect on why the most amply rewarded impulse in the world is to react to complex, perilous situations like this by screaming, essentially, "Everyone else but me is stupid and fucking this up! People will die because I am not in charge!" https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1381925025964515330?s=20