The laws are merely "societal contracts" made formal and put into writing. It's an unwritten and unspoken societal contract that we don't walk around kicking each other in the shins. If that became "a thing", there would be a law passed forbidding it. We all agree to live by societal contracts simply by living in and participating in society. (Unless we're a loner and just decide to go live off the grid somewhere.)
I’m not anti-vaccine. I got it as soon as I could like everyone else should. I’m just saying with all of covid theres just a lot of hope guessing and speculation more than known long term science
I forgot mine while walking towards Shoprite yesterday.
The weather change has made me forget a couple of times, too. So thankful I keep a box of disposable masks in my truck.
We don't know the long term of any of this, because the long term hasn't happened yet.
Yes, I have several in my glove compartment.
Exactly my point
I’ve posted it before but it makes no logical sense why they would. I’m going to focus on the RNA vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer) because they are the most prevelant. In less than a day all RNA from the vaccine is destroyed by your body (half life of minutes) and in less than 2 weeks all the spike proteins the RNA made is destroyed (half life of hours.). After that period the only thing remaining from the vaccine are the antibodies (and antibody making B-cells) and T cells your body has made to fight the spike protein. These cells do not change, do not mutate and quite frankly over time will slowly decrease in numbers. If those antibodies and cells were going to cause a reaction, they should do so starting within a month (to be generous) of your shots. Millions of people all over the world have gotten these vaccines with no major side effects your immune system cells are not going to suddenly change.
That’s not really the point though. We don’t know the long term of anything ever until the long term happens. I only change my behavior if there is an anticipation that the long term has the potential to actually cause harm. I don’t change my behavior because there is always a chance of something going wrong.
You may not be anti-vaccine but you are repeating a baseless anti-vaccine talking point in a manner that gives it credibility. This is how these movements grow, by using seemingly innocuous means of suckering us into giving them credence. If they are right/reasonable about this one big issue then they might be right/reasonable about other issues as well.
Yup. The questioning "sounds reasonable"...but when you do actual research and learn about how vaccines work, it really isn't.
Your insight is amazing. My RN daughter was told by an oncologist at the hospital she works that the mRNA vaccines were unsafe to be taken repeatedly due to the fact that they target spike proteins and spike proteins are found in the body naturally; i.e. the liver (bear with me, I am not in the medical field so I struggle). So he suggested that this could create an auto immune issue in later years. This was really brought up because I asked her if she planned to vaccinate the granddaughters when approved. She understood from the oncologist that it wasn't a good idea because the girls had such a long time left in lifespan for this autoimmune issue to surface. I read your explanation yesterday to her that explained the short term mechanism and how such an autoimmune response was possible but it was a non issue in the long term. Great explanation! She actually then dug in a little harder and found nothing to back up the oncologists assertions and backed up your explanation entirely. She was a little taken back and chagrined that she had taken it on face value.
Nailed it!
On the good news front the Orlando theme parks without a Mouse as their main mascot have changed their distancing to 3 feet and dropped the temp checks (Disney dropped temp checks too but no change to distancing). Orange County FL is close to hitting 50% of adults with 1 shot which triggers phase 2 and the outdoor mask mandate will be dropped for the county. Cases and percent positive in FL and nationally are trending down again as more people get vaccinated. The FDA is expected to amend the EUA for Pfizer to include kids 12-15 this week and Pfizer has also started the formal application process for full FDA approval for their vaccine which is expected by the end of May.
The trouble is, there is anti-vaxxers coming at this from both sides. Just look at our leaders in their double masks despite being fully vaccinated for example. The message should be, the vaccines work, they are effective and safe, we believe they work and are modeling that belief. But no. You get the maniacs saying they are gonna kill you and the maniacs saying they aren’t 100% so nothing can change. It’s foolishness.
You mean dropped the distancing to normal. I’m not overly bothered by it but the 3 ft markers are laughable/non existent.
This is why every state should have a percent vaccinated target for lifting restrictions. In PA now we know that once 70% of adults have gotten the vaccine the mask mandate is gone. Lets see those people put their money where their mouth is or in this case since the vaccine is free all they have to do is roll their sleeve up. If the only way to get these people vaccinated is to tie the removal of restrictions to vaccination rate then in theory we should not remove any restrictions now and actually should be adding more to make it even more of a good deal to get vaccinated. I’m sure that wouldn’t go over very well.
