I'm not the one trying to influence or shame people into doing something or not doing something. Keep your own front porch clean.
I hope you are right. Fingers crossed.
I listened today to an interview on NPR with an Oregon doctor. He was not as optimistic as you seem. Hopefully he is just a pessimistic guy. He said that unvaccinated people are acting as if they were immune now that everything is opening up. 100% of the new patients at Oregon hospitals are unvaccinated.
And millions of us regular people scratch our head at young healthy people running to go get vaxxed. If you’re obese or old then yea go get vaxxed. Stop ignoring the science is what I tell everyone.
I have two 12-year-olds on my street that got infected and developed Dis-C. One of them nearly died and has enlarged organs still. Yes, the percentages are low, but, you know what? I'm going to error on the side of caution and go with getting my 12-year-old twins vaccinated. Others can do what they want, but I'd rather their chance of getting really sick be the lowest it could be. That's not ignoring science. Young healthy people get sick, some die. The numbers aren't high, but I have no interest in one of those kids being mine.
I think the statement you are referring to was that an already infected person doesn't need a second shot. I don't think he was referring to a person who has never had COVID needing a second shot. He also made a statement that a previously infected person develops the same levels of antibodies four days after either a vaccination shot or a re-infection. I haven't read the studies he was referring to and do not know how true the statements are. It seems he was questioning whether a person who has already been infected even needed a vaccine at all.
That is obviously YOUR opinion. Most of us see that Fauci is the one who looks like a moron, or worse. In fact, in this case, his obvious lies reveal him to be nothing less than a traitor.
We all obviously have our own opinions but what do you think Rand really accomplished there? He barks out some obscure accusation that he obviously doesn't have all of the details about and Fauci tells him he is completely wrong. He then reiterates the same point and Fauci again tells him he is wrong. He does this several more times until his time runs out. I guess he was trying to convince the TV audience that Fauci personally funded the creation of COVID in a lab in Wuhan. Im sure everyone believes that actually happened.
I suggest that instead of offering your personal, apparently uneducated opinions, you read the May 2 article by long-time NY Times Science Writer Richard Wade concerning the origins of the Covid virus. He says that he will not offer any conclusion of his own but merely present the facts as currently known. There are 2 theories of origin, and he discusses both thoroughly. Included in his discussion of the lab-originated virus, he mentions every thing that Rand Paul asked about yesterday, such as Fauci's personal involvement, NIH funding, and coverup. In response to hearing these questions for apparently the first time in a public setting, Fauci got angry and highly defensive and, based on fact available, flat-out lied on multiple occasions. So don't try to say that what Rand Paul was saying was obscure, because, though not proven (according to Wade), there are definitely FACTS available that make his questions and accusations not only plausible, but probable. If you would like to know the truth as known today about both theories of origin, then educate yourself by reading Wade's highly informative and knowledgeable column. It is very long (a 43 minute read), but if you read it then you might understand more and not rely on typical uneducated and biased talking points. https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038
I'm tired of seeing the goalposts moved for the herd immunity threshold. There was a New York Times article last week saying that it was unlikely the U.S. would get to herd immunity which makes little sense to me. Here is another Medium story in their science publication, Elemental, that I think offers a better explanation for the herd immunity concept.
I'm having a hard time finding that data. I hate being one of 'those guys' asking for you to cite the info... and I'm sure you're correct, I'm just genuinely interested to see how all the states line up.
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You seriously underestimate the mentality of the ruling elite. They often feel obligated to lie to the unwashed masses for the good of the masses, since they know so much better how the rest of us should behave. This mentality is particularly true amongst those educated in Ivy League and who remain in the echo chamber of the liberal northeast (which runs down to DC).