The messaging around these vaccines has been tragically bad. "If you're vaccinated you may still spread the disease" should be messaged as "It's expected that you cannot be a spreader but we're waiting for the evidence to come in."
That's really good news. I guess we never did need 14 years to prove the safety and efficacy of all those other vaccines. Sometimes I think immediate data lacks context and accuracy over long-term retrospective analysis, but then I remember that vaccine skepticism is built on straight up lies. Thanks Bob.
For instance, I have a friend who is a neurosurgeon. She was trained to toss a mask after every use and not to treat it as reusable as it could become a vehicle for germs, whether spreading to herself or her next patient.
Fun scifi, I'd say Hyperion is the way to go.
Iain Banks also wrote some pretty fun and eccentric scifi stories. Player of Games is very enjoyable.
There's always Hitchhiker's Guide.
And if fun fantasy is your thing, anything by Terry Pratchett is golden.
If you like really heady scifi, definitely check out Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's pretty conceptually dense, but has a good punchline. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem is my favorite scifi, but it's slow moving and philosophical. Hyperion is a fun romp and considered one of the greats, couldn't recommend it more.
Is there anything you're looking for specifically that you tend to gravitate to?
Interesting. Went immediately on the list and I picked up the epub from Archive.org. What gravitated you to that?