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Originally Posted by Gulfcoast
Members of my household have been going to their service industry jobs and dealing with the public face to face throughout this pandemic. Even when dentists and primary care physicians had closed their offices and weren't seeing patients, there were workers heading to their jobs at grocery stores, pharmacies, food service, gasoline stations - day in, day out.
That has helped to shape my perspective as to the risks of this virus. When you live with the risk daily, you get a pretty good idea how bad (or not so bad) things really are, at least in terms of yourself and your own family.
I'm the 55 year old mom who had healthy, active teens going to their jobs and schools plus activities. And, I was also the whippersnapper who was out running errands for her elderly mom. I haven't had the luxury of "staying safe" but thankfully we did manage to get through the better part of a year without a vaccine.
Now that the cases are falling, vulnerable people have gotten vaccinated and the actual risks of catching Covid have been greatly reduced we are now supposed to run out and get vaccinated even though we have likely already had the virus, albeit mild cases of it?
Why?
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Cases are falling in part because people are getting vaccinated. They have fallen to about 35,000 new cases per day and 600 deaths per day. A yearly death toll of about 220,000 does not seem acceptably low.
It is likely that each of the deaths (over 600 per day) was someone who said, "we are now supposed to run out and get vaccinated?"
While "the actual risks of catching Covid have been greatly reduced," the vaccination goes farther and reduces the risk by a factor of 20.
The arguments against Covid vaccinations sound similar to the arguments against measles vaccinations which led to the outbreak in early 2019. We need to learn from the past and avoid a Covid resurgence in the fall.