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I'm unvaccinated, we can both be right. The data is clear about the following: - The vaccine is better than nothing for most people. - If you're over 50 and
by disambiguation 5y ago
I'm unvaccinated, we can both be right.
The data is clear about the following:
- The vaccine is better than nothing for most people.
- If you're over 50 and unvaccinated you have a high risk of severe outcome.
- The vast majority of people have low / negligible risk of severe outcome.
- Stopping variants was never possible.
- Stopping the spread was never possible.
- Slowing the spread is only meaningful among people who will get hospitalized -- e.g no reason to lock kids out of school for 2 years.
As for demonizing, I think there's little evidence this is encouraging the unvaccinated to switch sides. It begs the question why leaders haven't imposed mandatory injections at this point? Surely it would be less painful than this.
Maybe governments want the division as an excuse to push some agenda? who knows.
- MerelyMortal 5y ago> no reason to lock kids out of school for 2 years. Maybe they didn't want the kids spreading it to people who would have been hospitalized?
- disambiguation 5y ago> Data now suggest that many changes to school routines are of questionable value in controlling the virus’s spread. Some researchers are skeptical that school closures reduce Covid cases in most instances. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/briefing/american-children-crisis-pandemic.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/briefing/american-childre...
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