(May 15, 2021 at 1:00 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Of course, the antivaxxers are the sort of people who thought getting a vaccine (or two, depending on the type of vaccine) was a greater inconvenience than the death of half a million Americans.
Honestly, I suspect that the CDC's advice hinges on the assumption that enough Americans are going to take the vaccine that we reach herd immunity. And I don't think that's going to happen.
(May 15, 2021 at 3:14 am)Ravenshire Wrote: More importantly, every antivaxxer who won't get their kids immunized increases the risks to those who medically can't be immunized.
We may not reach herd immunity - and it's obviously the case that peoples attitudes toward vaccination effect people other than themselves. To put a pin in something I think is important...the trumpets are just flirting with the idea. They weren't antivaxxers before and won't be antivaxxers in future. I bring up antivaxxers as in the real deal. The people whose attitudes toward vaccination aren't a temporary effect of having lost their minds to trumpism. We didn't abandon those guys, before - and I can't see us doing that now, to trumpets.
That might mean masks forever, as a relatively docile measure. It can go another direction, and almost certainly would, in the worst case scenario. Exclusion, quarantine.
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