Regarding Covid Vaccine
by enorbet from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5MYJ8)
If you haven't been vaccinated yet you might not want to read this because I'm angry with you. My Ex-wife just died in a hospital in St, Croix and not from the liver problems she was in for but simply because half the nurses refused vaccination. She died over a 4 day period from respiratory failure brought on by Covid 19. The governor went on TV and Radio to mention her case in an appeal to get people to vaccinate.
More generally in the past couple weeks communities like Cape Cod and other locations around the world with very high rates of vaccination opened up publicly no longer requiring masks. Since the same sorts of people who are too skeptical about vaccine are very often those who are also reluctant if not refusing to wear masks (which BTW mainly protect others from you, not you from them) now, when we should have reached herd immunity, we haven't... and you who who don't trust any and all experts (as long as the field is about you rather than say plumbing or your car) are to blame.
Here's the real skinny since enough time has passed to gather solid data. Right now there are for example a few hundred new cases in Cape Cod which has well in excess of 70% vaccination rate, but thousands of new cases in places like Missouri and Alabama (you know... the veritable bastions of intellect and civic responsibility) are proportionate to the 30% rates in those states. In every location new infection rates follow the rate of vaccination. More vaccinated, less new infection. Oh yeah and the death rates are climbing like crazy because of the Delta variant.
I'd say I started this thread to appeal to anti-vaxxers but I'm not because I doubt you're going to listen to anybody until those close to you start dying off in large numbers. I am writing to you to ask you to notice how many governments are now considering MANDATING VACCINATION!
Bottom Line - The vaccines work as proven by the difference in rates and conversely are undermined by the numbers who don't get vaccinated and now you have given the government an in, a good reason to force it and set a possibly dangerous precedent. Brilliant strategy! <sarc>
More generally in the past couple weeks communities like Cape Cod and other locations around the world with very high rates of vaccination opened up publicly no longer requiring masks. Since the same sorts of people who are too skeptical about vaccine are very often those who are also reluctant if not refusing to wear masks (which BTW mainly protect others from you, not you from them) now, when we should have reached herd immunity, we haven't... and you who who don't trust any and all experts (as long as the field is about you rather than say plumbing or your car) are to blame.
Here's the real skinny since enough time has passed to gather solid data. Right now there are for example a few hundred new cases in Cape Cod which has well in excess of 70% vaccination rate, but thousands of new cases in places like Missouri and Alabama (you know... the veritable bastions of intellect and civic responsibility) are proportionate to the 30% rates in those states. In every location new infection rates follow the rate of vaccination. More vaccinated, less new infection. Oh yeah and the death rates are climbing like crazy because of the Delta variant.
I'd say I started this thread to appeal to anti-vaxxers but I'm not because I doubt you're going to listen to anybody until those close to you start dying off in large numbers. I am writing to you to ask you to notice how many governments are now considering MANDATING VACCINATION!
Bottom Line - The vaccines work as proven by the difference in rates and conversely are undermined by the numbers who don't get vaccinated and now you have given the government an in, a good reason to force it and set a possibly dangerous precedent. Brilliant strategy! <sarc>