Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Ugh. Not sure how many times we have to say this. The vaccine will not necessarily prevent infection. It will prevent you from getting any sort of serious complications from an infection. The reason these are being exposed as "breakthroughs" is because there is rigorous testing in professional sports. You and I may very well be infected but will feel nothing nor shed nothing toward others, but we won't know because we aren't being tested every day.

 

Meanwhile, from the left coast, the Giants have achieved 85 percent immunity. Gabe Kapler is managing the Giants without a mask for the first time tonight.

 

How fucking hard is it for you guys to put him on ignore? I did. It's easy.

 

It's amazing how people fail to understand this.

The vaccine doesn't make you immune, bulletproof or immortal. It means that you're much, much less likely to die as a result of possibly contracting COVID and likely won't suffer from symptoms severe enough to require hospitalization. What too many of the idiots who have been politicizing this virus either fail to realize and/or refuse to listen to those who know a lot more about the science than any of us won't acknowledge is that masks and getting vaccinated also greatly reduce the chances of those who are around you – some of them actually loved ones, family and friends – from contracting the virus.

Imagine that. The fact that this country used to be all about the greater good has turned to too many for themselves ... turned up to about 13. How many of those sorts realize that 598,000 in this country and 3.35 million on this planet – and counting – have died from this virus? Are they suffering from cranial-rectal fusion from listening to only the SPC, Alex Jones or a propaganda channel all about politicizing this worldwide health crisis? Or are they truly that stupid or drowning in denial?

Yeah, it's obvious to many of us. But for those busy b_tching about "taking away your freedom, forcing us to wear those awful masks and those #$%$ liberals" have ignored and/or are too ignorant to realize, this is actually news. Sad!

 

Hundreds of Epidemiologists Expected Mask-Wearing in Public for at Least a Year

I’m assuming they’re trying to incentivize vaccination and depoliticize the situation by lifting the mask recommendation for vaccinated people indoors.

I don’t know if it will work, but I have to assume this abrupt change on masks is an attempt.

This also might be Biden making the executive decision to go ahead. It was going to become necessary for a non-scientist to eventually push the timeline, but I hope it’s not too early for large indoor gatherings.

I guess we’ll find out.

 

Can anyone show a story that has information with the percentage of new cases being vaccinated people.

For instance, if my state has 1,000 new cases today, how many were unvaccinated? 100? 10? 1? 0?

 

No question it is. But people aren't putting the masks back on after this.

Thursday afternoon, for whatever reason - hopefully good journalists find out - the matrix of university professors, health department officials and nonprofit health advocates got backbenched. The randomness and suddenness of it was Trumpian, and there isn't any way he could have gotten away with it - we'd be reading "Donald Trump just killed another 100,000 people" headlines in The Atlantic today. Biden's team can get away with it, though, and even if there is backlash from a community of folks with broad authority in the last year, it's been done.

 

The difference is 43 percent of the population is fully vaccinated.

You’re desperate to play gotcha.

This isn’t Trump questioning masks a year ago or promoting a drug that doesn’t work. It’s a questionable timeline but nowhere in the same stratosphere.

There isn’t going to be surge because of this. If there is, it will be because Trumpists didn’t get vaccinated.

 

When was that? When people were complaining about gas rationing in the 1940s, and cheating whenever they could? When we were industrializing and belching more pollution into the air than any other country?

Why the US bears the most responsibility for climate change, in one chart

"The greater good" is what Soviet schools taught and is a culture in other countries (Japan, etc.). It's the opposite of what America has been about.

 

I think the CDC can be pushed by the bully pulpit of the Presidency. I think it was nudged here. And polling probably played a part of it.

I don’t think it’s Trumpian. I don’t think it will be disastrous. But it also won’t accomplish what it’s attempting to do.

This can’t be depoliticized. That possibility ended with Trump in March 2020.