The post quoted above brings a few thoughts to mind.

For some time now I've been noticing an ever-widening gap between what we read and the reality of what we're reading about. Case in point: the Minnesota Metro newspapers will occasionally run stories about this-or-that situation or occurrence in Florida. The gap was not nearly so evident to me before I moved here as it is now; after spending nearly a year now it is becoming apparent that a lot of these stories try to make a point by presenting or reinforcing a stereotype. Florida is NOT filled with ignorant violent hayseeds being led around by the nose by some cowboy officed in Tallahassee. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Closer to home: if all one ever knew about The Villages is what one reads here in TOTV, it would be very easy to get the mental image of the population here as a group of fogies (not ALL the fogies, but a lot--probably the majority--of them) are people hidden behind masks, lining up for shots, and rigorously enforcing social-distancing when they're rarely out in public. Again, the reality is far different. Last Wednesday evening my wife and I attended a meeting over fire and rescue services in The Villages that was held at the Wildwood Community Center. Standing-room only: probably 350 people there at a minumum. Mainly the aforementioned fogies but also a sizeable number of young firefighters and paramedics. Out of those estimated 350 attendees, I saw maybe a total of 30 people wearing masks, if even that many. Social distancing? Forget it. Not happening.

So why this disconnect? Message boards, Twitter, newspapers...people have always been able to seek out views and interpretations of events and situations that reinforce their particular points of view, at least up to a point, but today it seems to be an epidemic. An epidemic that, in my opinion, is far more dangerous than COVID.

People need to see REALITY. Forming your opinions based on what other people say or write has always been dangerous, but never more so than today.

Nothing adverse in the data? You need to do some research on VAERS data. I got my shots and will likely get a booster, but not everyone has been so lucky. There have been a ton of adverse reactions. That is likely holding up full approval.

https://www.openvaers.com/images/fil...rt07-30-21.pdf

The frail person should get vaccinated. If I were in an at risk category, I would get vaccinated…

I see this everywhere. That is a good point and I see the masks down all over the place not because people refuse to wear them; but rather what I see and hear is it is just the delay in getting them going on again like it was originally with people that are finally glad to have been able to finally remove them. It took a long time to get them routine in the first place and this time it is going to be more difficult just for that reason. But they obviously worked as the numbers dropped everywhere there were active laws and guidelines.

Very well put with few words!! Wish I had done that.

Not everyone is dying. Those that are, predominantly are obese. You can read the entire report from the CDC here:


https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/pdf/21_0123.pdf

Among 4,899,447 hospitalized adults in PHD-SR, 540,667
(11.0%) were patients with COVID-19, of whom 94.9% had at
least 1 underlying medical condition. Essential hypertension
(50.4%), disorders of lipid metabolism (49.4%), and obesity
(33.0%) were the most common. The strongest risk factors for
death were obesity (adjusted risk ratio [aRR] = 1.30; 95% CI,
1.27–1.33), anxiety and fear-related disorders (aRR = 1.28; 95%
CI, 1.25–1.31), and diabetes with complication (aRR = 1.26; 95%
CI, 1.24–1.28), as well as the total number of conditions, with
aRRs of death ranging from 1.53 (95% CI, 1.41–1.67) for patients
with 1 condition to 3.82 (95% CI, 3.45–4.23) for patients with
more than 10 conditions (compared with patients with no conditions).

Nothing in your comment is pertinent to the subject, or to anything I have posted.

ADE problem?

Blame the unvaccinated
 

Sure, blame the unvaccinated not the medical community for not knowing something because they have not run the vaccines through long term trials before vaccinating millions of people. You are the trials. They do not know because they have not had enough time to know but keep on believing them. There is lots of money to be made on that belief.

Anti-body dependent Enhancement.

It's a vaccine boogey man and is a real thing for some vaccines. There is no evidence that any of the current Covid vaccines cause it.

Essentially what happens in ADE is that you are vaccinated and when exposed to the actual pathogen, you get _really_ sick and often die.

There are definitely people having adverse reactions to the vaccine, there are definitely people that have died from it. The sample size however is massive so it's a risk-reward trade off. There is no doubt that anyone at risk from this disease should get vaccinated.

Kids? Pregnant moms? I think I'd wait on that but it doesn't really apply to me. I'm in my 50s, everyone around me in family is 50+, so we're all vaxxed. I had a pretty robust reaction to the 2nd Moderna shot(2 days wiped out), to the point I'm not getting a booster as I'm not really at risk other than age.

Sorry. Analogies. Supposedly the best way to make a point in "certain cases". I thought everyone knew.

Tos

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So another change since 7/11/21???

Fauci told CNN's Jake Tapper that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration is saying right now, "given the data and the information we have, we do not need to give people a third shot, a boost, superimposed upon the two doses you get with the mRNA (Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccine) and the one dose you get with (Johnson & Johnson)." I’m out with participating in the ongoing clinical study!

I'm done with the vaccine game.