Covid 19 conspiracies dump

[Rev. Rye]

When did I admit that a vaccine mandate wouldn’t prevent the spread? I said it would prevent spread if a sufficient number of people took the vaccine.

Because you're giving a big hypothetical that's not realistic in the least bit. In your ideal situation, such and such amount of people would get vaccinated and that would have such and such impact on spread. Well, that's never going to happen and that much is beyond obvious. Millions of people are not going to get vaccinated, and if they haven't chosen to do so by now, it's probably not happening, and these people have tens of millions of children that they would never allow to be vaccinated. You're talking about your ideal world, and that's the problem. I'm dealing with the world we're actually living in, not my ideal.

Because presumably, you don't live in a world where people have managed to immunise enough of the population against any disease to make it not be a problem. Presumably, in your world, smallpox and polio are still a problem you have to deal with.

The level of immunization necessary can be done. Just ramp up enforcement. Get rid of as many loopholes as you possibly can. If you don't have a medical condition that makes vaccination not work, or maybe if you don't belong to a religious movement that was anti-vaccine prior to March 2020, don't allow the unvaccinated any excuses to not do so.

If that can't happen now, it's only because we've got a major party that's decided to default to being pro-disease now.