People keep linking continued NPIs with ‘not enough people vaxxed’. But this is nonsense. The places craziest about NPIs & masking 2yos are also places with 90+% vax rates among adults. The notion unvaxxed rates in, like, Alabama is what’s keeping your NPIs in place is ludicrous.
This leads to a frustrating and signals-crossed discourse where folks in Bluetopias are like ‘yes, we need mask mandates and vax passports! more please!’ and then ‘damn those dumb Mississippians, making us do this, how do we get them to do the right thing?’ in the same breath.
There is no magical amount of vaccinated Mississippians that will lead your crazy Bluetopia to be able to drop its NPIs and mandates, by its own criteria. That’s just not what’s going on. Maybe change the criteria? Either way, think better please.
As a result of this confused thinking, the discourse around ‘reaching the holdouts’ is just a big non sequitur. I mean yes I assume getting more vaxxed will generally help *those people* avoid hospitals more, but that’s simply not what’s ‘keeping the pandemic going’. Y’all are.
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