It's one reason I haven't been in a hospital for over a year. My doctor wanted me to get a flu shot and provide them a blood draw for routine checkup purposes. I said no dice, no way, not until I'm vaccinated. In 4 days I'm officially totally vaccinated. I don't know if I'll bother with the flu shot, maybe. I'll give them that blood sample.
I'm fully vaccinated now (well, officially in 3 days, but realistically, yeah, fully) and I will continue to mask up in public, even outside, until we're practically at herd immunity. I really don't give a damn. My 3M N95's (bought for the wildfires in 2017 in N. CA) don't bother me at all. My glasses don't fog up, I can breathe in them fine, even doing aerobic exercise. If you can't see the bottom half of my face, so fucking what? If that bothers you, you have no imagination. In my mind, it's a public service announcement to do your part.
I heard on TV couple nights ago that the summer Olympics are a go, at least officially. Also, IIRC, that Japan is contracting with I believe India to provide vaccine to bolster the project. I think there's a lot of time for them to get their act together and obviously they have a huge financial incentive to do so. Add that to the legendary Japanese stick togetherness, and I think there's a good chance they can fill the stadiums and venues to capacity. They may have mask mandates in effect, depending. Maybe check temperature at entry gates. They could conceivably cut back on crowd size or eliminate in person attendance entirely. The TV rights must be a monumental financial deal, that can go on. Of course, having the participants vaccinated would be very important. Presumably the IOC can work with all the countries on that.
People are stuck on stupid and think that there is some grand conspiracy where pharmaceutical companies took shortcuts so that they could ruin their reputations and kill all their customers.
My impression personally is that pharma is making a lot of friends here. I have seen little to no evidence that they cut corners at all. The ~95% efficacy for the mRNA vaccines was just a giant OMG hell yeah from the medical community, near as I can tell. The actions of pharma in putting out the vaccines, increasingly as much as they can within the constraints of the difficulties of production are near as I can tell, just great. Covid antivaxxers are dumb asses, near as I can tell. I haven't spotted any with a leg to stand on. Some people are at risk getting vaccinated because of conditions, age, possibly pregnancy, they are doing studies, but that's not the general public over 16. They are doing studies on the kids taking the vaccine, and other sub groups.
Are science-folks this daft at grasping how to evaluate single data points?
The irony
You don't need to publicly release everyone's private medical records to the public to build trust. Plus, under HIPPA in the US, regulators can get access to private health information in certain circumstances, and I would bet incidences like investigating adverse events that mag or may not be related to a medication would be one of those exemptions. I'm sure something similar must be in place in other jurisdictions.
Quite the arrogant strawman there, showing a lack of nuance and that you follow authority more than science itself. You might prefer a satisfycing response. I demand near-perfection from an industry whose job is to save as many possible and has plenty of money to throw around for failsafes.
I've actually realized that I don't miss dining out much at all. Really the only dining experience I really miss is a good Chinese Buffet. Other than that, I cook healther/better at home, it's quicker, and don't have to deal with orders being wrong or poor service, etc. I'm worried I'll fall back into the habit, but hoping not.
