RolStoppable said:
It seems that vaccination has hit a block in the road in most (or all?) developed countries. No shortage of vaccines anymore, but a shortage of people who are willing to get their shots.
I just hope there's no stubborn insistence that the world has to become corona-free, but that instead we move on to accept that corona will continue to be around and won't have to deal with nonsensical measures anymore.
People who refuse to get a vaccination may be a potential problem for spreading the virus, but as I understand it, the only people who are in actual continued danger of current and future spreads are unvaccinated people, because vaccinated people at the very least are safe from severe symptoms even in the case that they do get infected. If people choose the risk of a severe infection for themselves, then let them. The world has no obligation to protect people's lives who don't want to be protected; if a construction worker refused to wear a helmet during his job and eventually died from something falling on his head, then we are clearly looking at a case of a person whose life wasn't worth protecting because they didn't care about their own safety in the first place.
Somehow I don't quite manage to make this post flow to my actual conclusion that our modern society has had things backwards. What strikes me as incredibly stupid about all these corona measures we've had is that the young generation was sacrificed for the very old generation. This is as if in the sinking ship analogy the crew would declare that the least important lives should be saved first instead of children and women.
Apologies for this being more of a rant than well-constructed writing. |
Normally you have pretty astute takes on just about everything, but this post seems to omit the reality that as the unvaccinated continue to incubate and spread new variants the vaccines we make will have to continue to alter and may in fact not be able to keep up with the superbug being created. It's fine if you want to stop observing safety measures, but as some point those safety measures might be all that keeps you safe from the omicron variant, or whatever has surfaced. And your analogy of a construction worker wearing a helmet doesn't at all fit with this situation. It would be more like the construction worker increasingly leaving things (in increasing size) to accidentally fall on people's heads, and then exclaiming that the people wearing a helmet never have anything to worry about since they are protected from just such an incident.
You are right, we will never be corona free and I don't think anyone thinks that that is the end game at this point, but we have a long hard road ahead of us to fight this thing and it happens through multiple measures and they aren't nonsense, as much as they are annoying for many individuals.
