I know the vaccine isn't perfect but it's pretty damn good at dealing with covid.
Yup, like most vaccines we may eventually need an extra shot aka " booster".
Howard, the notion that the vaccine is "pretty damn good" at dealing with COVID is your opinion. For instance (and no lie here), I have at least 3 friends that have recently come down with COVID and were all vaccinated (2 doses). They luckily got better, but went through the worse flu of their lives (no hospitalizations required, but they also didn't have any major comorbidities). In a strange sense of irony, most of my unvaccinated friends with the exception of 1 (to be fair) have not gotten COVID. So, just as you have an opinion, my opinion is that the vaccine isn't "pretty damn good". I think it can help, but to call it a solution is farfetched and a clear reach on your end. If it truly eliminated COVID (like for instance the Hepatitis C drug that cures you of Hep C - Harvoni), then I would say it's a solution. Solution provides finalization, this is just some type of help. Also Howard, most vaccines don't require a booster and you know this. I don't need to research that for you, so lets not bestow that on this novel vaccine.
Covid is a much more serious threat to the public health, then the common cold or seasonal flu.
Come again Howard? The Flu has killed over 293,000 Americans over the last 10 years as per the CDC (these are the low end numbers based on their true and estimated stats found here:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html). We can downplay the common cold, but what you can't downplay is that the common cold is also a coronavirus that has never been cured or eradicated. How will we eradicate a super coronavirus?
Ok, so your idea is to basically accept/ignore the virus as it's " No big deal?"
Howard, when did I state that the virus is "no big deal"? I've said it before. I believe COVID is real. Here's another fact Howard, I had COVID and I did just fine (no hospitalization). I might have been lucky. I did have the worst flu-like symptoms of my life, but recovered at home with hydration, Aspirin, Vitamin C, D, Zinc and Magnesium. No antivirals or vaccinations. And guess what Howard, I've had my antibodies checked after having COVID over 9 months ago in 2020 and I still have antibodies for it. Why would I get a vaccine when I have naturally acquired antibodies for it that are more effective and produced by me?
In my judgement, you're trying to minimize the actual threat.
Not at all. COVID is serious, but I am also trying to give humanity a chance to fight this off by way of natural immunity.
Answer this, do you think that unless Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson wouldn't have produced a vaccine, that humanity would become eradicated?
Or do you believe that our bodies would assimilate, learn, and gain natural immunity to the virus?
Remember 1918 Howard, the world had a little pandemic called the Spanish flu. There were no vaccines for the Spanish flu back then, nor are there any vaccines for it now. You know how many people worldwide were killed by the Spanish Flu? By the CDC's estimates 50 million worldwide. Now why didn't the Spanish Flu just finish off humanity? It had already eradicated a 3rd of humanity. Our immune systems got better at fighting it off. With that same token Howard, why not give humanity a chance to fight COVID off?
You made a reasonable post, but, your ideas are no solution.
With that attitude we'd still have Polio outbreaks crippling countless victims . I'll go with the vaccines and trying to eradicate this terrible virus from the public health scene.
The problem here Howard is that we do not have a "true" solution. The vaccine can help, but it doesn't solve the problem. If it cured you from COVID, that's a solution. We don't have that yet.
If I had an idea that could lend itself as a solution, I'd be rich and posting from a yacht somewhere. I wish I did Howard, but I am not that smart. Also, keep in mind that I do believe you are coming from a good place Howard. I believe that you do want what's best for humanity. You have taken the side of pushing for everyone to get vaccinated and I don't think any less of you. With that same token, you have to be open to the idea that not getting vaccinated doesn't mean you're making matters worse. If it did, what do you make of people with natural immunity to COVID after having had the virus?
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