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>It’s time to stop listening to Doomer politicians and bureaucrats until vaccinated people start dying at rates similar to March 2020. people overall are still
by Barrin92 5y ago
>It’s time to stop listening to Doomer politicians and bureaucrats until vaccinated people start dying at rates similar to March 2020.
people overall are still dying at comparable rates to the first two waves right now (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html)
Covid deaths in 2021 will outnumber 2020 and currently both hospitalization and death rates are not extremely far off from the first wave. Of course vaccinated people are better protected, but the "it's over" thing is kind of meaningless. And right now this is before the holidays and new years. Omicron is probably not even remotely close to having peaked yet.
- endisneigh 5y agoVaccinated people are not. If people don’t want to be vaccinated and want to take the risk, fine. The supermajority of the country is fully vaccinated. It’s time to move on.
- chinathrow 5y agoThere is no moving on while e.g. heart patients in need of urgent surgeries need to wait for weeks to get a guaranteed ICU bed after surgery. Is this so difficult to understand?
- endisneigh 5y agoThat’s happening because this country is allowing unvaccinated people to hold everything hostage. Low priority for Covid treatment if you’re not vaccinated. Problem solved. If you want anti vaxxers to hold the entire medical infrastructure of the country hostage indefinitely be my guest.
- cweagans 5y agoI'm guessing you've never worked in healthcare.
- jerlam 5y agoOfficial Covid deaths for 2021 already outnumber 2020 (https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211122/us-covid-deaths-2021-surpass-2020-total https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211122/us-covid-deaths-202...), although using calendar years is misleading since the December 2020 wave likely caused deaths in January 2021.