[DaveZ]

Reading this debate and others about Covid, masks, cruises, etc. is like watching a computer playTic Tac Toe and losing repeatedly against itself. War games; the only way to win is not to play. The only difference is that computers aren’t fallible in the game because the rules are simple so there is no chance of doing something stupid; not so much with Covid debates.

We have vaccines that if aren’t the most effective ever created, they stand alone as the best ever. 95% doesn’t mean 5% chance of catching disease, it’s less than .6% after vaccinated immunity.

It’s pointless to argue about passing a disease to someone else that you can’t catch yourself. We have no useful example of that. It’s also pointless to say that masks will be needed to protect the unvaccinated because there will always be unvaccinated people and thus masks in perpetuity.

The likely outcome of the cruise debate (and judgements) will be the same as the one about the squares, outdoor speeches, and spring breaks that ended up cats (Tic Tac Toe lingo) this week. When we relearned that a virus without a body like Covid doesn’t travel well outdoors and dire predictions of widespread death didn’t happen.