Quote (thundercock @ 4 Aug 2021 21:34)
I'm not sure how we'll have a "long dark winter" if most of the population is vaccinated. As long as we triage properly we should be fine.
Well, the CDC, various public health experts/"experts" and blue state governors are already chomping at the bit to reintroduce restrictions.
Also, vaccine uptake is not only bad in MAGA country but also in heavily black or hispanic places. So it's not like only the red states will be hit badly. And let's not delude ourselves: for political reasons, politicians will not allow a large-scale triage of their own base. Red state leaders will never tell the antivaxx hillbillies to get fucked, neither will blue state governors or mayors accept a wildly disproportionate death toll among their vaccine-sceptic black and hispanic voter base.
Sure, in places with a sufficient vaccination rate among the primary group at risk, namely the persons aged 50+, we will not even come close to hitting the mortality from last winter aagain - but for many people, a winter with similar restrictions to the last one just won't cut it, even if it comes with a lower death toll. Also, this whole "keeping the economy on life support by literally showering everyone and everything with money" approach cannot be kept up indefinitely. Aaaand of course there's still too many places with an insufficient vaccination rate anyway.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 4 2021 01:55pm