Author: SecondTry
Date: 2021-05-13 01:44
Paul: I agree that to some extent the pandemic has left people to figure out things for themselves when it comes to the risk they are personally willing to tolerate, but I also think the US has done its level best to present timely and accurate information about the pandemic, despite our former leadership, and especially in light of our current leadership.
Sadly, I don't think herd immunity will ever come as it's predicated on not only a large percentage of the world population being inoculated, but to get this way quick enough to minimize virus mutation.
More likely, IMHO, Covid, like Flu, will be a chronic condition. Hopefully new variants will not be diverse enough from the protection via shot to cause mortality levels like those we've seen, and yearly booster shots I suspect may become the norm.
Fuzzy: I can respect your beliefs that get inoculated should be more about personal choice, but I don't support this decision myself. This isn't sunscreen. Those who opt out of taking the shots are not simply accepting the risks they want to, they pose risks to others/society. I have no issue with any programs, public or private, which incentivize shots with privileges and sanction those who opt out with restrictions.
Were it, say, sunscreen, as much as I would urge the masses to use it, the absence of such protection, from premature aging to death by melanoma, and all in between isn't communicable (as sure as when wage earners others depend upon die, society often provides the safety net to the survivors--see motorcycle helmet laws.) Accordingly, I think mandating sunscreen would tip the scales unfavorable against the individual over society.
But communicable disease? The operative word in public health is public.
I felt like crap after the second shot. I'd do it again in a heartbeat if the symptoms were twice as bad. I consider it my patriotic duty, my worldly duty.
I respect that you feel differently, especially in terms of other people's rights, perhaps you too have or would get the shot(s).
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