Better Late Than....?

This is basically same thing @GovChristie said on ABC yesterday. https://t.co/FxQSjINvN5

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 26, 2021

No, probably not; but the reports seem to show that experience alone is the teacher the unvaccinated will listen to (well, not even all of them).

If I had a dime for every story I've read about unvaccinated people in hospital beds, or with loved ones on ventilators, regretting that they didn't get the vaccine, I'd be a rich man.  Vaccine participation is up:

Vaccinations picking back up — about 790k in past 24 hours per @CDCgov report. Might be the biggest 24-hour period since early July. Thanks to everyone involved. https://t.co/KcxAfoIxnI

— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) July 25, 2021

But it doesn't follow that all insults and prevarications suddenly ended and the light shown on the ill-informed and they rushed to present arms.  It's much more likely as covid spreads again, people are, one by one, recognizing "This is not a hoax, this is real."  The problem is, from your deathbed that's a rather belated realization.

There is no generic answer to this problem, no one set of "bad guys" to conveniently blame.  This is a very human tragedy.  Contrary to received punditry expectations, people do not always act in their own best interests.  They certainly seldom act in the best interests of the people around them, until the damage is done and they realize some kind of clean-up is in order.

Hindsight is still 20/20.  And it's still easier to find a scapegoat, than to actually do something about the problem.