I’m going to post this for like the 20th time since February 2020. I believe this article was originally titled “A Vaccine Won’t Stop the New Coronavirus”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/
Epidemiologists knew what this was almost two years ago. They knew coronaviruses mutate and vaccines wouldn’t work long term. They knew it was likely uncontainable and would become endemic. This is a rare nugget of truth that came before this whole thing became hopelessly politicized.
How long are we going to shut down industries because vaccinated people test positive and aren’t even sick? We are actually really lucky the most transmissible variant is the one that is the most mild.
But I anticipate the people who are delusional enough to still think we can “crush the virus” will demand we shut everything down again and everyone scared to death of liability will follow suit.
In the beginning it was all about trying to keep hospitals from being overrun. That was a rational response. Unfortunately Covid is now an entire fucking industry/religion unto itself. And industries and religions don’t like cannibalizing their own businesses and jobs so don’t look for this to go away any time soon. 🤦🏻
What a ridiculous take. Do you pump gas for a living or some other thing that requires zero critical thought?
First off the garbage take that since a vaccine is not an absolute, it's worthless. Unfortunately an even worse take amongst many of the vaccinated is thinking the vaccine *IS* an absolute. These are all tools we use towards a goal.
This quote is really the creme de le creme of fuzzy thinking.
"How long are we going to shut down industries because vaccinated people test positive and aren’t even sick?"
It implies that the companies are just doing the will of BIG BROTHER. Successful companies are successful because they make good decisions. If you're the CEO of say, United, there is NO WAY you're gonna fly with a flight attendant who popped a positive and the company knows about it. First off, that threatens spread across their workforce, and they could lose additional employees, to symptoms or because the employee voluntarily quaranteens (ordering a known positive employee to go to work would pretty much result in an employee strike and a passenger boycott). Operationally, it's a disaster. This is also the rationale for a vaccine mandate. Vaccinated employees are less likely to pop a positive, to spread before a positive hits, and will recover sooner (note also that a company like United is almost certainly self-insured for health care so an employee who avoids a hospital stay is a direct positive to the bottom line, they aren't paying buffet premiums).
The biggest deal is that if you are flying with a staffer with a known positive, and a passenger is infected and dies, that's an 8 figure lawsuit and a public relations disaster.
Here's a thought anecdote. Across the country, schools are having huge staffing issues. they can't keep full time staff, substitutes are very difficult to find. Teaching isn't a very attractive concept right now.
My son's school has mandatory masking, 2x/week testing of all students, faculty, and family of same. If you leave the state or fly, student must stay home two weeks and get a negative PCR. Layered on top of this is a generalized culture - "nobody is gonna get COVID. Period. Don't be stupid."
Sounds pretty awful, huh? The 8th grade teacher quit to move away to take care of his aging Mother. In an atmosphere where hiring is super difficult, in a high cost area - the school had 30 applicants for the job. Because for a teacher, knowing the school is gonna do everything it can to prevent an infection and the parents aren't going around accosting the faculty, that's a pretty damn attractive job. What's worse? Having to wear masks or not having a stable teacher situation?
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