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Originally Posted by Annie66
I understand your skepticism, but having worked in the field, as you have heard, viruses mutate, often quickly. We have seen this with this year's flu virus (H3N2) that bypasses the vaccine. This is what we are beginning to see with the Omicron variant of Sars-Cov-2. With more people being infected, a higher number of mutations occur. Most are innocuous with little effect on the broader population, but some like the Delta and Omicron variants have staggering impacts. It takes some time to determine the effects of a new variant and then determine the best steps to mitigate it. The data is interpreted by the medical experts who too often interpret the data differently.....thus the confusion.
In the end, you have to make your own decisions. This does not mean ignore what you hear. Unfortunately, too many folks seem to be doing that these days. My concern is with the prevalence of Omicron infections world-wide, we stand a significant chance of having a more transmissible variant mutate that is much deadlier than what we have experienced, or it is unaffected by the current vaccines. Will we ignore the medical advice until it is too late?
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People are people. We expect, no we demand, perfect answers. They do not exist.
Reality, we are, I AM retired it is far easier for me than when I was working-contacting far more people-using public transportation. The business I was in has surely slowed down. I'm sure people are not paying bills. I'm sure collecting past due bills are being made tough due to the people running these things.
As far as ignoring medical advice, no matter what we think, you can find AN EXPERT to agree with you and another EXPERT who says the other EXPERT is wrong.