danlb_2000
Premium Member
The feds can easily institute a nationwide lockdown
No, they can't.
The feds can easily institute a nationwide lockdown
Here for it! Anything that keeps the ball rolling!! I'll wear a hat, t-shirt, a gold chain, anything that proves I've got the vaccine so long as we don't have to reinstate any restrictions.I think vaccine passports are def the future.
Or further adding to the labor and supply chain crunches is another negative consequence that affects everyone.Yes, but if hospitalizations start putting a strain on the hospitals that is bad for everyone.
Actually with Delta we'll need to reach 98% fully vaccinated, and I don't think any country will ever reach that threshold.Covid-19 'is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,' CDC director says | CNN
With Covid-19 cases rising in all 50 states, health officials say it's clear that unvaccinated people are both driving the increase in cases and are most at risk.www.cnn.com
If this fall and winter season comes, we're screwed if we don't reach 70-80% people fully vaccinated
Question for you ... once you catch covid, can you catch it again? I ask because i often hear the term 'herd immunity'... but the big difference is that getting seriously ill from covid is now pretty much a choice instead of a random occurrence. Anyone who wants to have almost perfect protection from the virus can have it for free in 2 to 6 weeks.
And I have. The expectation of “no restrictions” is precisely why I’m not going any time soon. It’s a win for me and a win for anyone who will be taking my spot in line.Why not? Disney has set the expectation of no restrictions. So you should plan your trip according to that expectation.
Actually with Delta we'll need to reach 98% fully vaccinated, and I don't think any country will ever reach that threshold.
Plus, a major problem with the idea that this is the "pandemic of the unvaccinated" is that the CDC is not tracking breakthrough infections unless it leads to hospitalizations and deaths, which makes absolutely no sense since there's evidence that fully vaxxed people may still be spreading it to the unvaxxed. It also puts LA County's clain of 99.6% of cases unvaxxed in major scrutiny.
Yes, someone who previously had covid can catch it again.Question for you ... once you catch covid, can you catch it again? I ask because i often hear the term 'herd immunity'
Sorry if discussed before.
It's seems to be similar to the vaccines where there is an effectiveness component and and also a (as yet unknown) duration component to natural immunity.Yes, someone who previously had covid can catch it again.
That would literally mean tens of millions of American deaths, and since seniors have already been mostly fully vaxxed the main spreaders and casualties would have to be children, young people and those in poverty, all three of which have many barriers to getting vaxxed despite being the most eager of the groups to get them.If 98% is needed that's 98% immune not vaccinated. With the ease that delta seems to spread among the unvaccinated, it sing l won't take that long for the unvaccinated to have natural immunity.
Even a dictatorship wouldn't get 98% vaccinated.
It's seems to be similar to the vaccines where there is an effectiveness component and and also a (as yet unknown) duration component to natural immunity.
That would literally mean tens of millions of American deaths, and since seniors have already been mostly fully vaxxed the main spreaders and casualties would have to be children, young people and those in poverty, all three of which have many barriers to getting vaxxed despite being the most eager of the groups to get them.
Ring around the Rosie. I see what you did there, LOLThis thread is a merry go round LOL. Just keeps going around and around the same discussions. Ring around the rosie...
Don't forget excess mortality which basically doubles the total number of deaths.That number is way to high. Currently there are 35 million reported cases in the US and 624,000 deaths. So if we scale 35 million to the US population of 328 million, that is 9.4, so 624,000 * 9.4 = 5.8 million deaths, but that would be an unrealistic worst case. Reported cases is probably a significant under count which would lower the death number. Also, a significant portion of the vulnerable population has been vaccinated so we are not going to see the same death rate now as we saw earlier in the pandemic. Finally there are a lot of vaccinated people who are even less likely to die.
Letting everyone get infected will result in more deaths, but unless a far more lethal variant pops up it wouldn't be "tens of millions".
The Constitution states the federal gov’t (Congress) is empowered to provide for the general welfare. Under the delegation doctrines, Congress has delegated much authority to regulatory agencies such as the CDC. We also have almost 100 years of SCOTUS precedent stating that Congress can regulate commerce, including that anything that substantially affects it, even if it remains within one state. Even Scalia, a hardcore conservative, ruled in favor of this principle in Gonzales v Reich.How would that be done?
See my response to @Chi84 ; there is definitely a case to be made. I think it’s more a policy and political choice that is being made. It would be political suicide. But is it constitutional [a federal stay at home/lockdown order]? Yeah, I think soNo, they can't.
Unless a variant arises that obliterates all vaccine immunity, I don't see any reason why we would have lockdowns again. Mask mandates maybe, but not lockdowns. With working vaccines, a majority of deaths at this point are preventable. You are right that it would be political suicide - causing hefty economic pain in a time when many businesses are still struggling, solely to protect unvaccinated people who refuse to help themselves and who will continue to congregate unmasked anyway... there is little upside to that politically.See my response to @Chi84 ; there is definitely a case to be made. I think it’s more a policy and political choice that is being made. It would be political suicide. But is it constitutional [a federal stay at home/lockdown order]? Yeah, I think so
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