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Originally Posted by Escape Artist
Why does the CDC/govt. entities keep pushing the vaccine and admonishing those who don't get it if you can contract and spread the Delta variant anyway? Isn't that what this is all about - the need for a booster because the original COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective against variants?
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Are you serious? I mean seriously, they have answered this question numerous times.
The reason, assuming you are serious, is that vaccination, social distancing and mask-wearing are the 3 best methods available to reduce the spread of the virus.
NONE of them are perfect.
The mutating virus is a moving target and they constantly have to update recommendations as conditions and mutations occur.
And they have to do all this while struggling to get actual real data from states that do not report accurate data - some have even stopped testing, so there is no reliable data on infection rates, only on death and hospital admissions of people that have symptoms. The CDC itself says these numbers they are getting are no doubt seriously underreporting the actual number of infections. Without that number all the other numbers are questionable. And, just to inject a little politics, which states are underreporting, and bragging about it - well, Florida for one.
Scientists are doing the best they can do. The virus is new, never seen before, hard to predict, but just as serious, we have not had this much misinformation being spread ever - and they have to fight that also.