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Nothin' ta cee heer. Kari on, hey?
Get vaccinated. In places where the delta variant has taken hold, vaccinated people are not being hospitalized.And my desire to go back to wearing a mask is about at 0%. I have done what I need to do to make society safe. If others don't want to do what is painfully obvious that they need to do, that's on them.
So you don’t care what happens to them? I’m trying to think of a word to describe that.
Inevitable. Americans won't because we have the narcissistic mindset, but we should start wearing masks again.
I care very much what happens to them. Unlike you, I don't want them to get sick and die for the sake of scoring political points. But they control their ability to be healthy and to live. It's not my fault that they don't take advantage of that.It's similar to my feelings that my ability to buy Ho Hos should not be infringed because some people have an obesity problem.
If history is an indicator, this probably is wrong but one thing Americans love is, willful ignorance.
So you're not at all concerned that the millions upon millions upon millions of people who refuse to get the vaccine -- most (but nowhere near all) living in the south -- will enable COVID-19 to mutate into something that even vaccines won't prevent?
And of course, it isn't just people affecting themselves now. For example, anti-vax adults are preventing their teenagers and other kids from getting vaccines. And kids are very susceptible to the highly contagious Delta variant. And those kids can pass it on to others. As the article said, it's the young people who are starting to fill up the ICUs. It's akin to an adult who doesn't want to wear a seatbelt being stoopid enough, but as soon as he also won't let his kid wear a seatbelt, he's worst than just stoopid.
Am I concerned about that hypothetical? Sure. That's why I want people to get vaccinated. But as an asymptomatic vaccinated person, I would only carry a minute amount of the virus (at most). Not enough to spread to others.Right. Which is why I want people to get vaccinated.Me wearing a mask really doesn't help much - if at all.
Let's be honest, masks never really did.Wasn't until vaccines that people were safe. Open with masks gave a false sense of security that allowed people to resume much of their lives, but coincided with the worst run of infections since this began. Optics porn at best.
Let's be honest, masks never really did.
Like others have said, I hope we can get to a point where there’s 0 deaths and we are beyond this.
Absolutely shocked how the focus and blame attributed to any rise in infections has shifted from the Republican president down to the Republican governors now. No fault or blame being pointed towards Biden or the many states run by democrats who are seeing increased rates.
I don’t want them to die either. But if they choose to do so, then I don’t care.
My concern boils down to this. I look at what is happening around the world due to the delta variant. I look at how it is projecting in the under-vaccinated areas of the USA. Vaccines aren't forever. Eventually, the vaccinated are going to need boosters. Eventually, because of a failure to sufficiently control the virus, there is going to be a breakthrough variant that renders the existing vaccines ineffective. Yes, square one. Well, maybe not quite square one as big Pharma will use knowledge gleaned going forward. Don't throw away your masks yet.