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In case you missed the news being vaccinated is not a free pass on delta. Vaccinated people are being hospitalized and sometimes dieing from delta. The ‘learn to live with this’ attitude is why delta is ****ing up the healthcare system right now. Everyone stopped giving a **** because it was boring and now all the icus are full and half the nurses and rts quit because it’s too much to watch the nightmare happen over again except to a bunch of younger people.
It matters because now those kids are stuck at home for 10 days. Unless they already have a stay at home parent, it now means the parent(s) have to find childcare which almost certainly means staying home with them because who else will stay at home with someone else's COVID positive kid?
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That is a meaningless statistic because it is actively happening right now. And like everything in life death is not the only thing that matter. For example how many people end up disabled for months if not permanently? How many survive on a weakened state just to die of something else? How many are going to die or be harmed from the substandard or delayed care being delivered across the nation due to healthcare overburdening just so we can all go back to normal? What happens if a new variant comes along that get immune people sick all over again just have to do this again because booster shots are not normal but a healthcare system in shambles is?HumCo Records Three More COVID Deaths, Including First of Fully Vaccinated Person
Three more Humboldt County residents have died of COVID-19, including one in their 20s and the county's first fatality in a "breakthrough" case in a...
The death rate in vaccinated people according to the CDC is .0011%. What’s the death rate in an average flu season in vaccinated patients?
It’s clear the public health vaccine push simply isn’t working on a large proportion of the population. Slowly businesses are requiring the vaccine but this will continue to be slow. You know what has worked and worked fast? Actual infection. Vaccination rates skyrocketed in MS/Alabama after things went nuts. Unfortunately that’s the reality we live in. It sucks, the attrition of nurses sucks, the stress sucks. Once the wave passes and a combined number of natural immunity with vaccine immunity climbs to a threshold, the risk of flooding health care facilities will also pass.
Mild illness can still be infectious hence the need to isolate. If COVID was simply like Influenza epidemiologically, we wouldn't have the same fatality rate and reproductive number as we are dealing right now. Honestly, humanity will just need to learn to live and adapt with COVID. The problem is some people fail to recognize its inherent virulence and refuse to exercise the minimal protective measures against it as if everyone has the immuncompetence to withstand the infection or can afford a lengthy stay at the ICU. There is always the risk, but people need to participate and lower it as much as they can collaboratively so that society can prosper and move forward with the most favorable outcome. Sadly, this isn't the case because personal freedom matters more than concerns of public health, so I guess now it's a game of survival of the fittest or the wisest.
The answer to this is already known--we get vaccinated, we get boosters as variants arise, we wear masks indoors in public areas, depending on local situations we might need to work from home to slow things down with little warning. It is super ****ing simple but our critical mass of complete ****ing stupid can't tolerate these 'draconian' measures for some reason so instead we get to have a dumpster fire chaotic response and traumas, cancers, MIs are getting either no or crappy care and suffering as a result of these decisions.
It is not. It's been pretty clearly shown by now that the vaccinated are much less likely to cause spread. This has been addressed at length in other threads, w/ links to several different studies provided. Do you think it's a coincidence that an area w/ a relatively high vaccination rate like SF bay area has not only avoided being hit hard, but has completely suppressed their curve?
The teachers aren't kids. Plenty of teachers are older and high risk for any number of reasons. There are only so many substitute teachers and so much risk teachers are willing to put up with before they say no.
But, if you have a populace who is willing to wear a mask and self-quarantine at the slightest hint of being sick, you don’t need a vaccine to help control the spread, the populace is already doing that for themselves.
I believe depuy is doing just this. Heard a rep saying something about it while in a room the other day. Need more companies just saying F it and going the nuclear option. It's the only way these *****s listen.
