The handling of Covid in this country is a disaster because it was made political. Pure and simple.
There is no mandate to get covid shots. The current president is clearly more serious about it than the former one, but he still is reduced to suggesting that getting vaccinated might be important. There has been progress, but there is still a lot to be desired.
My chiropractor's asst is a nice kid, but he won't get shots because he says it impinges on his "freedom." I still can't figure that one out.
And the sports commissioners, despite the millions being lost in revenues by players missing games because of covid, have stopped short of mandating shots for players and team personnel. So have the owners. Jerry Jones in his presser today said the Cowboys were "making progress" in getting his players vaccinated up to the 77% league target. Jerry is totally in on shots. But Goodell has been treading lightly. These commissioners think nothing of suspending players for half a season at the suggestion of "sexual harassment" or wife quarrels--often without a lot of proof. But they stop short on Covid. Roger could be a lot tougher.
I got a haircut at my local barber last week. There were five customers waiting without masks on. The sign said "masks required unless you've had your Covid shots." How do you know who has had their shots? Nobody is asking for the card you get when you get your shots. Everybody has one.
So it's a dilemma. It was made political, and now businesses are stopping short of doing what they need to do. That is, make it more difficult for those who refuse to be vaccinated, and who in doing so make it more difficult for themselves and the rest of us.
Did Ainge get vaccinated? I'll bet he did a long time ago. His whole family. They probably had access a lot sooner than most of us.
99.5%(or something really close to that) of all new cases, hospitalizations and deaths are made up of people that weren't vaccinated. Chew on that a minute.
Yeah, because of the Delta variant, breakthrough Covid is more prevalent, but it's still infinitesimally less likely to happen and when it does it almost never requires hospitalization.
I don't understand why this became so political. I know why. It was because it wasn't in the best interest of one person so he made it about sweeping beliefs. But why good, intelligent people of a certain political belief bought that load of garbage, is beyond me.
And, I don't get the anti-vax crowd, especially basing it on a decision regarding personal freedoms. I am guessing most of those people got measles, mumps, rubella and polio vaccinations as young children and are alive, healthy and not crippled today because they got those shots. But yeah, as an adult don't do something to keep you and your loved ones alive and healthy because somehow an inoculation is impinging your personal freedoms! I can't roll my eyes hard enough at that.
Now, being hesitant because of unknown long term affects, hesitant because as people of color there is a bad history regarding the government pushing vaccinations on those people, hesitant because the whole process was so fast....those things I get.
But the numbers don't lie. Almost the only people getting Covid are those that haven't got the shots. Get the shots everyone. Athletes who make gobs of money should have been getting their shots as soon as it opened to them. Not getting them is only hurting themselves and the teams and countries(in the case of the Olympics) they represent.
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