Quote (theCrossbones @ 5 Aug 2021 17:13)
I think they need to change that direction, and focus on severe infection moving forward.
I think with the fatality rate so low with the vaccinations the infection rate although hard to ignore could be much more tolerable as long as the ER system can handle it. I also think the "vaccine passport" is legit and has been used before in the US without all the FrEEdom crying and the gov't didn't send them to gas chambers.. It was so harmless half the country has forgotten. I think for the COVID denier is time to put up or shut up. You part of letting private business make their own decisions or are you really about state mandates only when it benefits your perspective. I hope they start making people without a vax pay for any treatment, or some sore of REAL punitive reaction. Everyone wants a way out.. The vax is the way to make COVID actually like the "flu"
Yeah, this is also what some other public health experts have been saying in recent days.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/29/cdc-mask-guidance/Quote
“I think the central issue is that vaccinated people are probably involved to a substantial extent in the transmission of delta,” Jeffrey Shaman, a Columbia University epidemiologist, wrote in an email after reviewing the CDC slides. “In some sense, vaccination is now about personal protection — protecting oneself against severe disease. Herd immunity is not relevant as we are seeing plenty of evidence of repeat and breakthrough infections.”
The document underscores what scientists and experts have been saying for months: It is time to shift how people think about the pandemic.
Kathleen Neuzil, a vaccine expert at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, said getting more people vaccinated remains the priority, but the public may also have to change its relationship to a virus almost certain to be with humanity for the foreseeable future.
“We really need to shift toward a goal of preventing serious disease and disability and medical consequences, and not worry about every virus detected in somebody’s nose,” Neuzil said. “It’s hard to do, but I think we have to become comfortable with coronavirus not going away.”
I, personally, don't mind vaccine passports as long as they're safe from a data privacy point of view. What I fundamentally disagree with is the government making vaccination status a prerequisite for participating in social life. If a gym or club wants to become a vaccinated-only affair, that's fine. What is not fine is when other facilities and businesses would be willing to open their doors to unvaccinated, but are barred from doing so by their local or state government.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 5 2021 09:51am