@Lali1 wrote:
The fear mongering is incredible. Most people who get the virus never end up in the hospital. People might as well just say what they really think of the people who won't follow their rules. I think it goes something like you deserve to be on a ventilator if you don't do what we say. The ventilator threat is so old and tired.
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@Lali1 I think a person's perspective of fear mongering is somewhat in play here as well.
Here is why it matters and yes, we can do quite a bit to accept the guidelines, understand the science, and do whatever one can to participate in a national goal to work productively to bring transmission as low as we possibly can.
One example: A nursing home in the eastern part of my state is now experiencing a fairly big outbreak. All of our long term residents and health care workers that wanted to be vaccinated have been vaccinated. An unknown strain of SARS-CoV-2 was brought into this nursing home by an unvaccinated health care worker.
There are now 41 residents and healthcare workers infected with this new variant. Of the 41 individuals testing positive, 83% are unvaccinated & 30% were vaccinated. 5 are now hospitalized. They decompensated pretty quickly and were all hospitalized pretty quickly as well. This is in an area of the state that does not have many hospitals and are challenged when they get a number of patients.
Good news is it appears that those that are vaccinated that have tested positive have fairly mild symptoms and are doing ok so far. So it looks like the vaccine is doing what anyone would hope it would do.
Bad news is this is a totally new variant that has not readily been identified before. It doesn't match the South African variant or the UK variant. They are currently conducting in depth genetic testing (very expensive. to do) to evaluate this strain.
The more the virus circulates, the more opportunity it has to mutate and produce more variants. That runs the risk of as your statement says the majority of people that get the virus never end up in the hospital going totoally down the drain. Especially if a newer variant becomes dominant that is more dangerous and people are out there espousing freedom and the right to make their own choices.
It is about more than just one person. There are people that blew off precautions during the early fall that now no doubt have literally hundreds of people in "their" chain of infection.
* Freedom has a taste the protected will never know *
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