I sincerely hope that she’s able to get the vaccine somehow. I hope that we can convince people to get vaccinated too. I hope that we can stop the pandemic with

I sincerely hope that she’s able to get the vaccine somehow. I hope that we can convince people to get vaccinated too. I hope that we can stop the pandemic with as little loss of life as possible. I really personally hope that your partner stays safe and isn’t infected throughout this. That being said, many people are treating it as a political issue, or feel the risk is low enough for them that they don’t need to get vaccinated. Many people have never taken the pandemic seriously, and still don’t. We need solutions that either inoculate people who are eligible or can convince people to voluntarily get inoculated, because the economic effects of lockdowns and other pandemic controls are far too destructive to apply unequally or over a long period of time. The efficacy of things like lockdowns also goes down over time. If we want these tools to work for future outbreaks and pandemics, we can’t always use them. I sincerely hope your partner is able to stay safe. I hope that you can find a way through this together. Unfortunately, it’s just extremely difficult to get people to collectively work on this problem. In a way, news articles like this don’t help. We should really reserve alarms for quantifiable metrics and risks, not hypotheticals. It just adds fuel to the fire for many, and that isn’t helping get people vaccinated faster.