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Originally Posted by walfreyydo
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Antibodies wear off after ~7 mos (so does the vaccine). Those of us who have the vaccine will get a booster and stay protected. Those of you who got sick, wont be protected forever. Source
The longer this goes on, the more damage to society and economy. Continuing to be unvaccinated (or in time, unboosted) will only prolong the crisis. Not wearing masks, will prolong the crisis. Allowing the virus to continue to spread and mutate, especially among the unvaccinated, will prolong the crisis. We all want to get back to normal, but right wing polticians and pundits want to continue chaos to score political points (party over country). Hence they actively undermine progress by making everything political. Because simple minded people who lack critical thinking see the world as binary, so they portray the choice as binary (ie: freedom). This has been happening on right wing news for years/decades now....
I see this response a lot and a very basic review of the numbers shows that the covid is like 10 times more deadly than the flu. I know that you know this. Source
Mostly the people who believe all this bullshit misinformation is to justify their selfishness and liberal grievance (even though science is not liberal, its just portrayed that way in right wing media). They are "cut off their nose to spite their liberal face" types. No knowledge or facts, just against whatever "liberals" are for, which is based on what they read and see on right wing media. |
You ignored the part where I pointed out that the death rate from covid is barely yet understood. The virus has only existed for 1.5 years. The flu has existed for literally one hundred.
What is more likely; that the death risk of covid will *increase*? Or that it will be widdled down, just like the death risk of every other disease, as we understand more about what actually constitutes a "covid death" and what doesn't? You're just taking the "650k dead in america" at face value and applying absolutely no skepticism or critical thinking.
And again I'm NOT AGAINST vaccines, I just don't think they should be mandated for everyone.
If the flu is only 10% as deadly as covid (which it almost certainly isn't, in fact current data suggests it is far more deadly for kids and the young and healthy), surely we should at least take 10% of the measures we are now taking for covid for a flu season? Yet we don't. Nobody cares about that at all.
The point, is that our response to covid is completely incoherent, and whether you support it or not splits almost PERFECTLY along party lines. That fact alone should concern you.