You’ve protected yourself against one thing. You haven’t protected yourself against a vaccine resistant variant. You haven’t protected yourself from increased insurance premiums and taxes. You haven’t protected yourself from a reduced level of care if a hospital is overwhelmed with patients. You haven’t protected yourself from reduced productivity if coworkers or employees are out sick for a prolonged periods of time.
What’s that? The virus can mutate? Sure it can and it probably will. But let’s be honest that’s going to happen regardless of vaccines or not. There is something like 10,000 mutations already(don’t quote me on that number but it’s close) it’s going to be an endemic virus like the flu. Some years will be better than others. So let me ask you this.....if it continues to mutate, which it will, are we to live the rest of our lives like we currently do? The answer for me is no. I’ll get the yearly boosters just like I do with a flu shot and move on. You can’t save everyone. Some people will let their ignorance shine and will never get a vaccine for it no matter what the true science says. It’s available so there’s no reason to keep doing what we’re doing now. And also last I checked, correct me if I’m wrong, the CDC isn’t a governing body. They’re supposed to follow the science. So why is it that they won’t ease guidelines for vaccinated people simply because they’re concerned people won’t follow the guidelines. That’s not in their purview. Their job is to follow the scientific evidence, which strongly suggests that vaccinated people don’t spread the virus.
I don’t think you understand what endemic means. But regardless the only reason this virus will be around like the flu is because we as a society have allowed it to be.
I guess what I’m trying to say is let natural selection run it’s course.....
We can't during a pandemic because the choices of some have a direct effect on everyone else.
They shouldn’t have any restrictions because the vaccine is widely available. And the CDC made the guidelines reflect what people were already doing. I’d hardly call that easing... I’m well aware of what endemic means. It’s here to stay in the US for sure.....
What effect do they have? If people are dumb enough to not get a vaccine at this point then they’ll really only directly effect the people who aren’t vaccinated.
You're ignoring everything people are telling you because it doesn't fit what you want things to be like.
I agree with this eventually. We just aren’t there yet. We are still vaccinating close to a million new people a day. The vaccine rollout isn’t over yet it’s just in the final phase. The pace has slowed but not stopped and people are going in when it’s convenient for them, that was always the plan. I think we can still get to 70% of adults vaccinated or more and when we do the community spread will be significantly reduced and it will be time to get rid of restrictions. In PA where I live we are already at 64% of adults with one shot and expect to get to 70% before the end of May. All covid restrictions but masks indoors will be dropped on Memorial Day and masks will be dropped once we hit 70% fully vaccinated. It’s not much longer to wait. Zero reason to get impatient now.
Little brats should be more responsible. While we’re at it why don’t we just get rid of the children’s hospitals and let natural selection run it’s course?
Last I checked, the reason we all post here relies a lot on those 20%. You can’t expect Disney to change until either new cases stop or vaccines are approved for kids.
The bold is simply untrue.
No it is, but only if enough adults get vaccinated to get to herd immunity.
www.nature.com
If more adults get vaccinated, which will happen if it’s incentivized better, then that would make up for the gap of kids who won’t get vaccinated
You are way off base here. My kids go to school. They can’t just not get together with anyone else. I would not take m kids to WDW today due to the overall situation. I think that will change pretty soon.
This is agree with. Except I’d change it to the more adults we get vaccinated the less risk there is to kids who can’t get the vaccine. That’s why we should wait until more adults get vaccinated to lift restrictions. In less than a month it’s likely that more than half the kids 12-15 will also be vaccinated and that will help to further reduce the spread. Having a target vaccination percentage where restrictions will be lifted is a direct incentive. We aren’t saying get vaccinated and maybe if cases drop enough we drop masks (no direct, certain outcome from getting vaccinated) we are saying if 70% of adults get vaccinated we will drop masks. That’s a clear incentive to get the shot and a certain outcome.
