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>Vaccine+masking/distancing should be enough to get rid of it. It's not clear vaccine alone will do that. The public is treating the vaccine for like the vacci
by jdhn 6y ago
>Vaccine+masking/distancing should be enough to get rid of it. It's not clear vaccine alone will do that.
The public is treating the vaccine for like the vaccine for polio, which is that once you get it, you're good. If 80%+ of Americans get the vaccine and we still have to mask and social distance, you're going to see a lot of angry people.
- jmcqk6 6y ago>If 80%+ of Americans get the vaccine and we still have to mask and social distance, you're going to see a lot of angry people. Then people need to do better. Getting angry at reality doesn't change it. If this is how things work out, throwing a fit only makes the situation even worse. Carl Sagan once pointed out the perils of basing a society on all this science and technology, when only a few people (relatively speaking) actually understand it. I didn't truly understand this warning until this pandemic.
- woofie11 6y agoWe've seen a lot of angry people. Prior to COVID19, I was quite frankly unaware of just how good Americans had become at denying reality. When COVID19 hit China in January, it was clear it was coming to the US. At the time, I thought the US government was preparing. Nope. Complete denial. When it hit in March, I thought schools would prepare. Nope. Complete denial. It's 2 weeks. 4 weeks. It'll be gone come the summer. And so on.... ... Anger against reality has led to over 400,000 deaths so far.