photofly wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 9:32 am
The vaccines aren’t as effective as initially determined, and the delta variant is one reason.
Of course, we will never get to 90% vaccinated status while you maintain a moral objection to having your children vaccinated.
Why would I vaccinate my children, when the data shows they are at less risk to covid than the flu, when someone else in the world is at 5x the risk of death when compared to the flu?
I’m very much a conservative and believe in the individual first. However if I’m to take the more social, do the right thing for the greater good attitude, it makes zero sense to vaccinate kids. How selfish would that be for me to vaccinate my kids when people will die for this in other parts of the world? Maybe if a child is at risk for health reasons they should be given the vaccine, but they are the exception not the rule.
I’ll tell you why vaccines probably aren’t as effective as we thought. The media and politicians have been telling lies about what vaccines actually do.
The vaccines were designed to reduce symptomatic and sever cases. They have done a great job at that. Reducing transmission is not what the vaccines were designed to do, it’s just as added bonus if this happens. So far we know vaccinated people are still spreading covid. So the messaging around vaccines is flawed. I think people expected unicorns with vaccines, they didn’t realize vaccines just mean we have to live with covid just like we live with the flu.
I don’t even know why we toss around the term herd immunity anymore. It should just be stated herd immunity is not a possibility.