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@Captante said, Red's a good guy. Been around here for evah. He just doesn't seem to be able to grok the COVID/Vaccine science. Lot's of people can't. There's just so much one can do to help. In some respects, it not surprising. Between some mixed messages in the early information on SARS-COV-19, due to a lack of understanding, and the horrible job our mass media has done in helping people understand what we need to do now** - too many people really are confused about what to do. Never mind the trash heap of information that social media is
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** News outlets in America died when media corporations decided they had to be 'profit centers'.
I guess my point with all this is I'm just sick of seeing the crazy narrative behind wanting EVERYONE vaccinated and the two tier society they are creating in order to try to get to that point. There will always be people who don't want it and as long as the percentage of overall vaccination is high, which it is now, then we should really just move on from all of this. The whole thing with firing them or not letting them anywhere, and having vax passports etc is just too far IMO.
The risk factor of being close to someone unvaccinated vs not, is not THAT high if you are vaccinated. It's not like you are GUARANTEED to die if you are close to someone unvaccinated, but that's the narrative they seem to be pushing and it has created a hostile society that celebrates anything bad that happens to the unvax and it's getting ugly. Especially now that they can't even get EI when they lose their job as the government will not give EI to someone that lost their job due to not being vaxed. Some of these people are legit worried about what the vax can do to their bodies especially with all the reports of people just dropping dead after taking it. I took my chances as I did not know about the potential heart complications before I took it and I figured risk of covid is higher. But not everyone sees it that way.
As for risk being near unvax, there are a lot of factors to account for, such as if they even have the virus, then the actual virus load that you get, and then whether or not the vaccine works to protect you. By the time you factor all these odds, the odds are in your favour for you not to even get sick. So I say who cares if there are unvaccinated people around, it's their choice and they are the ones putting themselves at risk more than us. We should be moving on from this and getting rid of all the new laws that have been created since 2020 and also get rid of the new ID system and cancel the digital ID that is coming in 2022.
I don't think this virus is ever going to go away due to how easily it spreads. We should focus on how to treat it at this point and expand hospital capacity as needed. We could have eradicated it at the start if we had proper lock downs with zero traveling even between cities but now it's too late.
There are people who think the horse dewormer stuff works, has this actually been clinically tested or just shot down without consideration? Is there perhaps another drug that might work? This is what they should be working on right now, try to find a way to treat it, either with existing drugs or a new one.