There is no finish line. It will just evolve. Whether a variant comes from unvaccinated people in the US or it evolves in South America or India or Africa, as a respiratory airborne virus the worse variants will eventually reach our shore.
You know what the finish line is? Natural immunity and or acceptance.
Some people have actual health reasons for being wary of the vaccine. We are already seeing that it can trigger long-term effects in people with chronic conditions. I am one of those people. So now I am “half-vaxxed” with my doctor advising me not to get a second. It’s completely wishful thinking to think that there is a vaccine or any drug that is “safe and effective” for everyone. That simply does not exist and pretending that it does is willfully naive. It also completely denies the fact that almost all who get COVID recover without medical intervention. So those insisting that a healthy immune system cannot protect you are of course going to be seen as exaggerating and denying the facts. The politicization of the issue has made nuanced discussion impossible.
"Get us across the finish line."
There is no finish line. It will just evolve. Whether a variant comes from unvaccinated people in the US or it evolves in South America or India or Africa, as a respiratory airborne virus the worse variants will eventually reach our shore.
You know what the finish line is? Natural immunity and or acceptance.
Some people have actual health reasons for being wary of the vaccine. We are already seeing that it can trigger long-term effects in people with chronic conditions. I am one of those people. So now I am “half-vaxxed” with my doctor advising me not to get a second. It’s completely wishful thinking to think that there is a vaccine or any drug that is “safe and effective” for everyone. That simply does not exist and pretending that it does is willfully naive. It also completely denies the fact that almost all who get COVID recover without medical intervention. So those insisting that a healthy immune system cannot protect you are of course going to be seen as exaggerating and denying the facts. The politicization of the issue has made nuanced discussion impossible.
Amazing how the Democrats, critical of the vaccine because Trump developed it, suddenly supported it after Biden was in the WH.