...in all those states where Republicans told peopleA new model estimates the delta variant of the coronavirus will drive a steep increase in the number of deaths in the U.S. in the coming months. https://t.co/Br4ctzy7LD
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) July 23, 2021
An object lesson in how to read an article and ignore what it says. Yes, I disagree strongly with those who won't get vaccinated. No, I don't think the automatic and best answer is to fire everyone who won't get vaccinated. Working in elder care (v. a major hospital) is pretty much shit work anyway. Driving people away from those jobs is a pyrrhic victory for the people they care for. A little more consideration for all involved, even the people you don't like very much, is in order. Indeed, tell me the difference between that tweet and this response from an elected official:If there’s any group of folks who should be mandated to get the vaccine, it’s elder-care workers. Gobsmacking levels of callousness in this story. https://t.co/7miEzx9vTN
— Matt Ford (@fordm) July 23, 2021
Can we really do no better than this? This is one way of doing better:I was asked today why conservatives shifted tone on vax. My answer: GOP leaders/pundits believed in vax themselves, but didn't want to anger base, and assumed we were close to herd immunity between vaccines/prior infection, so pandering wouldn't matter.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) July 23, 2021
[Delta enters the room] https://t.co/MtV1x63MQV
Although, about what the governor said earlier: "Never mind!"Here is a quick version of what was announced today. This article will get much longer and better as the day goes on. https://t.co/ESNPAXfurT
— Brett Kelman (@BrettKelman) July 23, 2021
Anyone who didn't understand that "herd immunity" is a theory that REQUIRES the deaths of a very large percentage of the overall population to happen should be dope slapped. Counting on that ideological theory to protect the American People was guaranteed to do that. Of course those enlightened semi-socialists in Sweden bought into that too, which I have to say makes me wonder just how well they understood that aspect of it.
ReplyDelete"The herd" is rendered "immune" because those who were incapable of developing an immune response to prevent serious illness or death died out from it. And it's just a theory, there is just as valid a theory that there could be a virus or a variant of a virus that could develop in "the herd" that could wipe out all of them. For pity sake, a little "learning" is a deadly thing when it's this kind of thing the little learning covers.
I think it's inevitable that unless this thing goes away a vaccination mandate for those who deal with large numbers of people will come in. I dread to think of how many will die before then as much as I hope I'm wrong about that. The black death killed off a third of the population in a lot of places. A hundred million plus American deaths in this pandemic or another one? This again gets scarier by the day.