America The Infected
The US now has two COVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use by the FDA.
As widely expected, the regulator cleared Moderna's shot on Friday evening, calling it "another crucial step in the fight against this global pandemic that is causing vast numbers of hospitalizations and deaths in the United States each day."
"Vast," indeed. The CDC's data (which I use for consistency, although it doesn't always match up perfectly with data from alternative sources), shows the US lost nearly 3,500 peop
Make a vaccine mandatory, in a country where citizens unlock the gun case when they are told to wear a mask? I wonder if H or someone like Yuval Harari have ever looked at the end of empire versus the penetration of propaganda in the general population. It seems logical that a nation can’t prosper when a significant portion of the population has lost touch with facts and the truth.
Most will get vaccinated, nobody wants to be first but they won’t be because thousands have already received it. My concern is that the virus is now so ubiquitous that it will mutate and the vaccine won’t be as effective as initially thought.
Already happening in the UK and the mutation spreads faster than the original (whether you believe it or not, the virus will evolve to survive). It doesn’t give damn about us, at least not yet. It will have to be careful not to kill too many of us, though.
Mutation is a reasonable concern. However rather than gloom in the numbers I see positives in the data presented in the graph. To achieve herd immunity with vaccines exhibiting stated efficacy is close to 60% vaccinated or recovered. If only 15% refuse vaccine then herd immunity is easily achieved with the participants and those infected prior. To be fair there are many potential concerns with any new medical treatment, that RNA vaccines (pfizer and moderns) are entirely new technology could give additional reasonable pause.
I think the vaccination issue is easily resolved. First under no circumstances should the Republicans be allowed to have any kind of lawsuit protection for businesses. As long as that does not happen businesses will require employees to get the vaccinations, because of fear from lawsuits. Then require schools that reopen to require the vaccination of all employees and students.