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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
And the improvement IS due to increased vaccinations. Which, strangely, you have ALWAYS spoken against. What happened? A change of heart? A return to reality?
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I am sure the vaccines have had an impact. As I have stated before, the previous Covid viruses MERS & SARS weakened on their own. One lasted less than two years and the other outbreak lasted less than three years. There was no vaccine for either.
Many high risk individuals have died with Covid. A large number of the remaining high risk group have been vaccinated. At this point, roughly 1/2 of the US population has been vaccinated but Covid deaths are down at a considerably more than 50%.
I have always believed that if you are at risk, you should strongly consider getting vaccinated. However no one knows if there will be any long term side effects from the mRNA vaccines. So I still believe that personally, the potential risk outweighs the reward, considering I am not in the at risk group.