" I'm done with COVID" is short for: "Continuing draconian restrictions at this moment is inflicting far more damage on vulnerable populations (especially kids) than benefit, and I will no longer participate in your inability to consider trade-offs"
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Vaccines have been widely available for anyone five and up.
An unvaccinated teenager has risks lower than a vaccinated adult.
Across this country people are opening up and returning to normal life, while some liberal elite zoom-based pockets refuse to.
An unvaccinated teenager has risks lower than a vaccinated adult.
Across this country people are opening up and returning to normal life, while some liberal elite zoom-based pockets refuse to.
School closures are poison.
They were never proportionate to the risks kids faced.
They were always in manifestation of adult anxiety. Same goes for kids masking. Which has zero randomized controlled trials. A stain on science. Moreover, the US went beyond WHO down to 2yo🤦♂️
They were never proportionate to the risks kids faced.
They were always in manifestation of adult anxiety. Same goes for kids masking. Which has zero randomized controlled trials. A stain on science. Moreover, the US went beyond WHO down to 2yo🤦♂️
Asymptomatic testing, prolonged quarantines. These fuel anxiety. And lead to societal disruption with negative externalities. Whether they will do anything to bend the pandemic spread is unproven, And unlikely.
The virus is not going away, and we will all eventually be infected multiple times in our lives. Even St. Anthony of Fauci said as much, But a powerful contingent of zero COVID devotees believe that it might. I worry that they are taking up deer hunting. (See seroprev data)
Wearing an n95 to avoid the virus after vaccination is futile. You will eventually stop wearing it. And then you will eventually get hit with a subsequent epidemic wave. Or catch the virus between waves.
We can't boost our way out of this with an MRNA construct from a few years ago.
Even new constructs will be unlikely to arrest the transmission permanently.
Mandates have no justification, and will further disrupt society and lead to schisms.
Even new constructs will be unlikely to arrest the transmission permanently.
Mandates have no justification, and will further disrupt society and lead to schisms.
What can we do?
We can focus on elderly and vulnerable people.
We can administer boosters to them, they're still substantially unboosted
The data that these further lower hospitalizations at these ages is good ( but not in young men)
We can focus on elderly and vulnerable people.
We can administer boosters to them, they're still substantially unboosted
The data that these further lower hospitalizations at these ages is good ( but not in young men)
We can become a fair global partner and launch a global campaign to vaccinate every person who wishes with at least one dose. Will do immeasurable good.
But further disrupting normal life will strain the mental health of those who are already at the breaking point, will destroy the lives of marginalized and vulnerable children, and serves no purpose other than smug moralizing.
It will also cost elections.
It will also cost elections.
So " I'm done with COVID" is the honorable, equitable, altruistic, egalitarian, pro-science message that we need right now to combat the delusional thinking that ignored trade-offs for so long and would have us live in a bunker forever.
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