Shocking... commodore touting an anti-vaxxer supporting an anti-vaxxer governor who is killing citizens of his state...
Oh, then the exemption note is simply invalid and schools do not have to accept them. Also, complaint was filed. https://www.mysuncoast.com/2021/09/...-who-was-signing-medical-exemptions-students/
If I see another picture of a vaccinated person properly socially distanced being (mis)used by some right-wing clown to try and make a point that really only serves to illustrate their own profound ignorance, I'm going to shed one tear from each eye.
Honestly I have no background/context on this, but if @Commodore did do that it doesn't surprise me lol
Met Gala is bad optics, but if duh vax dun werk, then dey all supuh spred demselvs to deth. Yay libtard plague! It finly hert da evil people it sposed to hert!! //NoSpiteAllLove
Meanwhile, the majority of Americans support mandates... and republicans are out of the mainstream on this issue as well...
The goal is to get as many people as possible vaccinated, because that is our best chance of returning to normalcy (and that is a science-based assessment). The science may suggest that people who were already infected have better immunity than people who were vaccinated. Doesn't mean they can't also benefit from vaccines. And if you're offering exemptions for people who claim to have already been infected, and the result is less people choose to get vaccinated (or people foolishly decide to purposely expose themselves to infection), you're not helping the situation.
Vaccines don't make you less infectious. A vaccinated person can do as much harm to others as an unvaccinated person. Getting a vaccine protects you from the effects of infection. Forcing others to vaccinate does not. This is why they are pushing the "hospitals are overrun" narrative. They have to find some pretense for mandates by claiming the unvaccinated are harming the vaccinated. They've also tried claiming we can eradicate COVID by getting everyone vaccinated, but our experience with the flu as well as countries with high vaccination rates seeing record number of cases makes this a weak argument.
The more people that get vaccines, the greater the chance a population achieves herd immunity. I believe that requires 70-80% vaccination levels and here in Texas we are less than 50% fully vaccinated (and in places like Montgomery County, even lower than that). The longer it takes to achieve that level, the greater the chance that new variants develop (we have seen two develop so far). So yes, people that refuse to get vaccinated are harming the vaccinated.
Breakthrough infections are much more rare compared to COVID infections in unvaccinated population. The amount of virus that people are able to spread to others is believed to be more in unvaccinated people than in vaccinated people with breakthrough infections. So what are you basing your statements on? The unvaccinated have collectively done great harm to the whole country. It's a fact. The thing all of us want, regardless of political orientation, is being able to move about freely without concern for whether we'll get sick or spread infection to our families, friends, or local communities. To get to that point, we need higher vaccination rates and that should have happened many months ago. And the downstream effects of hospital resources being stretched thin because of this irresponsible segment of the population is a legitimate problem. Not pretense. Most scientists seem to agree that COVID will be endemic, like the flu. Flu vaccines are vitally important (or do you disagree with that as well?). COVID being far more contagious, high vaccination rates against COVID will be even more vitally important.
