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Its a breakdown of trust in our nations institutions. The older ones who refuse mostly don't believe the vaccines will work. So based on that wrong fact, they

Its a breakdown of trust in our nations institutions. The older ones who refuse mostly don't believe the vaccines will work. So based on that wrong fact, they are acting in their self-interest. Bad faith exploiters who peddle fake news are much to blame. But our institutions should reflect on why people trust dumbasses on facebook more than them. Our public health officials 1) aren't really competent on average, 2) have been constantly wrong, but worse 3) have lied (with noble intent I guess) about covid. Nobody trusts the media in general. It's all biased and sensationalist.

lamontcg 5y ago
Its not really the older ones though. We're seeing a lot more 30-40 year olds packing the hospitals and the kids ICUs are filling up in the hotspots. The message was that only 80 year olds die of this disease. But while the risk of death halves with every 8 years younger you are the risk of hospitalization only halves every 15 years. So while a 20 year old is 161 times less likely than an 80 year old to die, they're only 16 times less likely than an 80 year old to be hospitalized (roughly a 1% chance with the alpha variant so probably 2% chance with delta). And that's enough when spread across the entire population because of how resource intensive COVID patients are. Agreed though about public health officials. They are all MDs who were better at playing politics than they were at medicine.