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1a - Lockdown wise - 100% with you - Don't put all society on hold to protect the vulnerable. Protect the vulnerable and leave everything else alone; vaccines -

• junon 5y ago
  The whole "vulnerable vs. non-vulnerable" debate is null once you actually understand how viruses work, though. The whole point of preventing spread was to also prevent mutation/variants - the same reason why everyone getting vaccinated is important.
• lamontcg 5y ago
  There was proper testing of vaccines. You only ever need six months of it. https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/andrew-l-croxford-long-term-safety-argument-over-covid-19-vaccines https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/andrew-l-croxford-lo... And its a myth that the virus only affects some neat tidy subpopulation like those over 70. Places like Idaho are rationing care in their hospitals where the ICUs are full of unvaccinated younger COVID cases. Care for COVID patients is also resource intensive and requires weeks in the ICU which makes its impact on the hospital system disproportionately high for every single case. https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1038180254/all-the-hospitals-in-idaho-are-rationing-care-because-of-covid-19-surge https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1038180254/all-the-hospitals-... Doctors are now deciding who is going to die by denying people medical care because there isn't enough to go around and practice the kind of triage that that we haven't even practiced in war zones for a long time.