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Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan
You make a good point.
Let's say that a million come across the border. And let's say NONE of them accept the offered vaccinations - just to have one less point to nitpick.
If we have 100 million (maybe more?) Americans unvaccinated the immigrants will make up 1% of the unvaccinated.
It seems a LOT of people here feel stopping that 1% is our top priority - while the 99% are a bigger problem.
Maybe, just maybe it isn't that they are unvaccinated, it is that they are here illegally? So wrapping that up in a COVID bow, is how to sneak politics into a COVID thread?
Hmmm...
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It's not politics unless YOU are making it so. If ONE illegal that is infected comes into the country, that is just one more INFECTED that should not have been here to begin with. If we had enforced the laws, that person would not be infecting and passing on the virus. It has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with how many non-vaccinated CITIZENS are here. The ONLY politics involved would be why the laws are not being enforced. And that is a leadership problem, not a political one.
About 40% of our population is children under 12 years of age. They CANNOT be vaccinated yet. Over 70% (exact number is give or take a few)of adults in our country have at been vaccinated. That leaves about 30% of the adults that still haven't been vaccinated. According to the CDC Approx. 35% of US citizens have been infected with COVID. About 38% of adults have not been vaccinated and about 58% of children 12-17 have not been vaccinated.
So, if 35% of adults have been infected with the virus and have been told NOT to get vaccinated, that leaves only about 3% of the adults still unvaccinated that probably should consider getting their shots. To be honest with you, I think that children unless they have medical issues that indicate a need for protection should wait on getting vaccinated. So far children are in most cases handling the virus very well.
So 3% of adults still need to be vaccinated. I don't know the figures but that is probably a lower number than those that DON'T get the flu shot every year. I know that some of the resident experts will argue with my reasoning but I am just looking at this from an average citizen's view, not a medical professional or scientist. We all know that numbers can be manipulated.