You’re trying to prove what exactly? While the red state/blue state explain some of the national numbers by far the biggest driver is age, if you’re >35 around 50% have been vaccinated, 16-34 around 30%. We need to get the young adults to do their part.
How dare you bring science into this conversation. A few here are on a roll!
Oh. I know. Makes it more stark, wouldn’t you say?
I’m trying to prove that the dismissive attitude that anyone who’s not getting vaccinated is some moron hillbilly is bull plop.
I’m not saying political divides don’t exist there. That’s human nature. I’m saying their conscription laws (of which there are any number of exemptions) might help when moving toward the greater good is needed. Vaccines and the use of vaccine passports is way different than political arguments about how to teach common core math or even what to do about their place in the region - it’s more like sugar rationing in the war effort where it’s just “something you do” because at the end of the day the people you argue with about day to day minutiae are still people worth working to save.
If anything, their conscription laws divide them more.
Probably because of the free beer your governor is touting if one gets a vaccine in May.
Fair enough. I still think we can and will get to 60%. I actually think that end number is higher, but not much. Maybe 65 (70 is a stretch but likely in some areas). What we’re hitting now is a wall based on geography and work schedules conflicting with clinic schedules. Of course, there are plenty of considerations and conversations we can have with the unvaccinated to speed that up and get us to 60% as fast as you and I would like, but we’ve reached the point where we either need patience for a couple months or a passport system.
How is this relevant?
How many years has it been since woman were expected - let alone required to wear any of those things?
Nope, not accepting your framing. Business championed temperature checks and cleaning because it provided an alternative to closure, and was at a cost they were willing to accept. Upon learning that temperature checks are unreliable, and cleaning is unnecessary for this virus, what we should have done is closure until we identified what would work and could implement it. Studies have confirmed indoor spaces for longer than intermittent contact are unsafe, so preventing SARS-CoV-2 infections required something. Business signaled to policy makers what they were willing to do, and everything else followed. So if you have a problem with what happened, you should direct your energy to the unhelpful influence business had on public health policy.
It's a very gruesome thing to think, however, we may never know exactly how many have died from Covid in India.
Remember how long covid stayed alive on various surfaces?
I Never said I had a problem. I Never said that businesses should not have temperature screened people or cleaned and sanitized surfaces. I simply pointed out that what was once deemed "necessary", turned out NOT to be necessary.
I went with the chorus of Ah Ha's Take On Me. But I didn't sing it aloud as I thought people had enough to frighten them with the virus already.
If we're still struggling to reach the hold-outs in the fall, I would more than support creative solutions like this. Look at each region, see what motivates them, and make an appropriate policy to target the hesitant. Of course, I would have loved to see an international working group come up with a common interchangeable standard for a vaccine passport, but we shot that pooch already...
We are 45M first shots away from 60% of the US population. We are on pace to hit it by July 4th even without kids under 12 being eligible. The cases in Israel really flatlined when they hit 55% which is around 29M additional shot. If you count kids 12-15 once they are approved we may get there by end of May.
