We finally got mandatory vaccinations for healthcare and retirement house staff or go on leave with no pay. Also the army (permanent and drafted) will get benefits like leave days to get the vaccines. Next step will be mandatory for teachers and professors. Punishment measures for the unvaccinated in the start of the delta wave are also starting. Now without a vaccine passport you have to pay a considerable amount out of pocket for PCRs to board a ship to go on holiday on an island and you can't sit inside a restaurant, bar or cinema. Only outside or in open spaces. All these are to force the 18-29 year olds to get vaccinated.
And you know what else the unvaccinated will bear? The brunt of new infections. https://news.yahoo.com/almost-covid-cases-u-among-164900645.html Almost all new COVID cases in U.S. are among unvaccinated The Delta variant now accounts for more than half of the new coronavirus cases in the United States —52%. Almost all of the new cases — 99.7% —are among people who have not been vaccinated.In Mississippi, a state with a low-vaccination rate, health officials urged people to avoid crowds. And in other vaccine-hesitant communities, there are new efforts to push back the Delta variant by encouraging more people to get the shot, Michael George reports for "CBS This Morning: Saturday."The NAACP put boots on the ground in Louisville neighborhoods where only 30% of residents have been vaccinated, hoping flyers and conversations get more people to get shots. The effort comes as cases are rising in 26 states. Hospitalization rates are up in 17 states — 27% in Florida, almost exclusively among the unvaccinated. The far corners of Utah are hit hard, too. "We're seeing people that are extremely sick with it," said Dr. Greg Gardner, chief of emergency medicine at Mountain West Hospital in Tooele, Utah. "A lot sicker than what they were the majority of the time in the winter time."The demographic is younger since then. Gardner said, "We haven't seen anybody that has been vaccinated." Fifty-five percent of all Americans have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and almost half of the nation is fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With the pandemic persisting and the country yet to achieve herd immunity, there are questions about how long vaccinated people will remain protected. Questions like: Will the 158 million fully vaccinated Americans each need a booster shot?Both the FDA and CDC said no on Friday; the fully vaccinated "do not need a booster at this time." But both Pfizer and BioNtech officials announced they were seeking emergency-use authorization for a booster because antibody levels in the blood may decline six months after immunization, though studies dispute that, and leading physicians are counseling a go-slow approach.Dr. Celine Gounder, a New York infectious disease specialist, said, "I think the headline here is that if you have received both doses of the Pfizer, or for that matter, the Moderna vaccine, you are fully protected against severe disease, hospitalization and death, even with the Delta variant."
He is absolutely 100% correct. Vaccines are against nature. Other things against nature: clothes, television ,airplanes, fridge etc What is this guy doing there being against nature he should be in a cave hunting bears with bare hands.
Completely off topic, I disagree. I love that we humans decide what is "nature." A hermit crab takes on a shell. We wear clothes. Termites in Africa build huge mounds. We build skyscrapers. Monkeys groom one another to remove little parasites. We find ways to super-charge our immune systems. We're on a tiny planet in an immense universe and we do a bunch of strange and idiosyncratic things, but it's all part of nature. So a new vaccine technology is, to me, as natural as developing spoken and written language, domesticating animals, or combing our hair.
I wonder if there will be rise in health insurance premiums for those who don't vaccinate. Some employers are already incentivizing employees to better their lifestyle by giving discounts on health insurance premiums. Is there legal issues stopping companies from giving employees a discount for vaccinating (which in essense is a price increase for the non-vaccinated people)?
Curve keeps flattenin. Who am I to judge their natural idiocy? It has always been a first world privilege to complain about these issues as a matter of rights I guess we'll see if a Whisky Tango Foxtrot variant sprangs from some random cpac superspreader conference but most likely what'll do us in is the lack of vaccines for the rest of the world.
Since we are a part of nature and therefore everything we do can only be natural then a nuclear holocaust that destroys all life on yhe planet and destroys the ecosystem is also natural.
yes, that’s the spirit. Us terraforming our home planet would be a lot like earlier organisms that transformed atmospheric oxygen levels. Without them ruining the “natural” oxygen levels of 2 billion years ago, earth never would have evolved things like mammals. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/origin-of-oxygen-in-atmosphere/
There should be. Insurance works on a risk pool model and if someone is increasing their risk they should be expected to pay more into the pool.
