The "universal vaccination" chimera

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Each stage of the American Covid-19 pandemic has been marked by a singular public-health message that crowded out all other perspectives.

From early calls to “crush the curve” with shutdowns and pleas to stay at home, then to claims that face masks would end the pandemic, these messaging strategies have sowed unrealistic expectations and delayed public acceptance of reality.

The most recent message is “universal vaccination,” an aspiration whose unattainability may further delay the country’s return to social and economic normalcy.

How did we arrive at this point?

The media’s campaign to stoke fear about "collapsing health systems", along with their portrayal of severe illness as the inevitable consequence of infection—despite a thousandfold difference in risk between old and young—contributed to an atmosphere of distrust.

Animosity toward Donald Trump fueled this campaign.

Health officials abetted the discord by abandoning longstanding public-health tenets that emphasize harm reduction and a nonjudgmental outlook.

Instead, these self-proclaimed experts promoted mandates for the healthy and public shaming of people who strayed from their ever-changing guidelines.

Now the fear and distrust have made a substantial proportion of the U.S. population unreceptive to a vaccine.

Many of the estimated 100 million Americans who aren’t interested in vaccination are unlikely to change their decision voluntarily.









https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-universal-vaccination-chimera-11612466130#refreshed?mod=opinion_lead_pos7
 
What also isn’t serving vaccination efforts: the lack of transparent communication from public-health officials that meets people where they are and sincerely acknowledges the concerns of millions who view Covid-19 vaccines with suspicion.

Concerns have been dismissed or derided as “misinformation.”

It’s true that serious adverse effects appear to be uncommon ... according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

But responding to these worries by insisting more loudly that the vaccines are safe isn’t an effective strategy.

A wiser strategy is to address these concerns with data about what is known, and honesty about areas of uncertainty—such as vaccination in pregnant women.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-universal-vaccination-chimera-11612466130#refreshed?mod=opinion_lead_pos7
 
What I am watching is the experts becoming increasingly concerned that at the rate this bug is mutating it will not take long before the current vaccines become useless or nearly so, which causes them to call for doing what ever we can to speed up giving shots in the arm to slow down the pace of mutation. The problem is that from an individual standpoint every day the current vaccines payoff becomes less because the length of time the are likely to work becomes less. However the risk of taking these experimental shots is still the same as it always was, what ever that is, we dont know. From an individual standpoint every day the risk/benefit equation looks worse.
 
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Each stage of the American Covid-19 pandemic has been marked by a singular public-health message that crowded out all other perspectives.

From early calls to “crush the curve” with shutdowns and pleas to stay at home, then to claims that face masks would end the pandemic, these messaging strategies have sowed unrealistic expectations and delayed public acceptance of reality.

The most recent message is “universal vaccination,” an aspiration whose unattainability may further delay the country’s return to social and economic normalcy.

How did we arrive at this point?

The media’s campaign to stoke fear about "collapsing health systems", along with their portrayal of severe illness as the inevitable consequence of infection—despite a thousandfold difference in risk between old and young—contributed to an atmosphere of distrust.

Animosity toward Donald Trump fueled this campaign.

Health officials abetted the discord by abandoning longstanding public-health tenets that emphasize harm reduction and a nonjudgmental outlook.

Instead, these self-proclaimed experts promoted mandates for the healthy and public shaming of people who strayed from their ever-changing guidelines.

Now the fear and distrust have made a substantial proportion of the U.S. population unreceptive to a vaccine.

Many of the estimated 100 million Americans who aren’t interested in vaccination are unlikely to change their decision voluntarily.









https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-universal-vaccination-chimera-11612466130#refreshed?mod=opinion_lead_pos7

I think they just run crap up the flagpole to see how long they can keep their little donkey and carrot game going.

By definition, Universal vaccination would include kids. That will go over like a fart in a space suit. In fact, they can kiss the suburban moms goodbye with that. So I expect that flag to be quietly pulled down the pole.

For months they told us masking would allow us to open up and/or return to some semblance of normalcy. So mask mandates were put in place. Well, we never came close to opening or normalcy. Then a strange thing happened: the numbers, inexplicably, start dropping. Inexplicably is the right word, because it couldn’t be on account of masks.

Maybe it was the election lol.

Whatever it was, since the donkey’s muzzle[?] was inching closer to the carrot—it’s time to move the carrot again. It’s easy to get the idea ‘they’ have no intention of *allowing us* [think about that] to open up or return to normal.

And so many people just accept it.
 
I think they just run crap up the flagpole to see how long they can keep their little donkey and carrot game going. By definition, Universal vaccination would include kids. That will go over like a fart in a space suit. In fact, they can kiss the suburban moms goodbye with that. So I expect that flag to be quietly pulled down the pole. For months they told us masking would allow us to open up and/or return to some semblance of normalcy. So mask mandates were put in place. Well, we never came close to opening or normalcy. Then a strange thing happened: the numbers, inexplicably, start dropping. Inexplicably is the right word, because it couldn’t be on account of masks. Maybe it was the election lol. Whatever it was, since the donkey’s muzzle[?] was inching closer to the carrot—it’s time to move the carrot again. It’s easy to get the idea ‘they’ have no intention of *allowing us* [think about that] to open up or return to normal. And so many people just accept it.

Indeed, lol.
 
The expert insistence that Covid-19 vaccination is a social responsibility, that getting vaccinated is “doing your part,” is a political philosophy and not a self-evident truth.

The natural instinct driving most health behavior—much like wearing a mask last spring before mandates—is self-preservation.

Altruism is a virtue and makes everyone better off, but it is foolish to rely on it as a public-health strategy.

Moreover, while "scientists" argue that widespread vaccination will prevent variants from taking hold, lessons from the past year should make it abundantly clear that our ability to stop the spread of variants is extraordinarily limited.

The possibility of Covid-19 vaccine mandates in schools deserves special attention.

There are almost no data on the potential benefits or harms of Covid-19 vaccination in children, and no crystal ball to predict disease epidemiology in a future that will likely include high vaccination rates among teachers and vulnerable family members.

Yet at least one school district—Los Angeles Unified, the nation’s second largest—has announced it intends to require the vaccine for students.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-universal-vaccination-chimera-11612466130#refreshed?mod=opinion_lead_pos7
 
While we instinctively know that no decency is possible from trumpanzees, our postulating on the matter is proven by the fact that more of them haven't had the decency to die from the pandemic yet.
The non-maskers should all be gone by now, but the disease primarily attacks humans. Most trumpanzees have devolved sufficiently to not be human enough to be seriously damaged by the virus.
At this point, it's proven scientific law, but unfortunately, they still have then ability to infect others--and they revel in doing it.

The virus won't be the key to eradicating trumpanzees and trumpism, but the future of our republic depends on something getting the job done.
 
While we instinctively know that no decency is possible from trumpanzees, our postulating on the matter is proven by the fact that more of them haven't had the decency to die from the pandemic yet.
The non-maskers should all be gone by now, but the disease primarily attacks humans. Most trumpanzees have devolved sufficiently to not be human enough to be seriously damaged by the virus.
At this point, it's proven scientific law, but unfortunately, they still have then ability to infect others--and they revel in doing it.

The virus won't be the key to eradicating trumpanzees and trumpism, but the future of our republic depends on something getting the job done.

That Casper likes this inhumanity shows how far my former friend has fallen.

I am embarrassed for him.
 
The expert insistence that Covid-19 vaccination is a social responsibility, that getting vaccinated is “doing your part,” is a political philosophy and not a self-evident truth.

The natural instinct driving most health behavior—much like wearing a mask last spring before mandates—is self-preservation.

Altruism is a virtue and makes everyone better off, but it is foolish to rely on it as a public-health strategy.

Moreover, while "scientists" argue that widespread vaccination will prevent variants from taking hold, lessons from the past year should make it abundantly clear that our ability to stop the spread of variants is extraordinarily limited.

The possibility of Covid-19 vaccine mandates in schools deserves special attention.

There are almost no data on the potential benefits or harms of Covid-19 vaccination in children, and no crystal ball to predict disease epidemiology in a future that will likely include high vaccination rates among teachers and vulnerable family members.

Yet at least one school district—Los Angeles Unified, the nation’s second largest—has announced it intends to require the vaccine for students.



https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-universal-vaccination-chimera-11612466130#refreshed?mod=opinion_lead_pos7

In order to keep the schools shut for another year because it will take that long to get them all vaccinated.....saving a lot of money.....saving a lot of work for the teachers and staff....many of whom get full pay for doing almost or exactly nothing.
 
In order to keep the school shut for another year....saving a lot of money.....saving a lot of work for the teachers and staff....many of whom get full pay for doing almost or exactly nothing.

The public education unions fund the DEMOCRAT Party. Their rank and file volunteers during campaigns. What do you expect?
 
The public education unions fund the DEMOCRAT Party. Their rank and file volunteers during campaigns. What do you expect?

I know that the Revolution turned the schools into indoctrination centers, that they sabotaged the project of education, but up to now I expected that the teachers gave some fuck about the kids.

I have now been taught otherwise.
 
The public education unions fund the DEMOCRAT Party. Their rank and file volunteers during campaigns. What do you expect?

Their is no American political party named the "Democrat Party."
The two major parties are the Democratic Party and the Q'Anon Trumpanzee Insurrectionist Party.

The latter is required to hate the teachers as education and knowledge are kryptonite to them
 
I know that the Revolution turned the schools into indoctrination centers, that they sabotaged the project of education, but up to now I expected that the teachers gave some fuck about the kids. I have now been taught otherwise.

Teachers unions have steadily amped up their political involvement: From 2004 to 2016, their donations grew from $4.3 million to more than $32 million -- an all-time high. Even more than most labor unions, they have little use for Republicans, giving DEMOCRATS at least 94 percent of the funds they contributed to candidates and parties since as far back as 1990, where our data begins.

Two organizations account for practically all of the contributions made by teachers unions: The National Education Association (about $20 million in 2016) and the American Federation of Teachers (almost $12 million).

Both groups -- which compete for members, but also collaborate with each other through the NEA-AFT Partnership -- are consistently among the organizations that contribute the most...

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=L1300
 
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We control everything and you losers are engaged in an internecine bloodbath on whether or not a totally crazy depraved corrupt loony Orange dumbfuck is the absolute ruler of
your impotent shitstain party. Why would anyone fight over that prize?

Everything that matters is all ours. Not in my wildest dreams. Suck on that, losers.:cool:

Ha! I love it.​
 
Teachers unions have steadily amped up their political involvement: From 2004 to 2016, their donations grew from $4.3 million to more than $32 million -- an all-time high. Even more than most labor unions, they have little use for Republicans, giving DEMOCRATS at least 94 percent of the funds they contributed to candidates and parties since as far back as 1990, where our data begins.

Two organizations account for practically all of the contributions made by teachers unions: The National Education Association (about $20 million in 2016) and the American Federation of Teachers (almost $12 million).

Both groups -- which compete for members, but also collaborate with each other through the NEA-AFT Partnership -- are consistently among the organizations that contribute the most...

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=L1300

What you need to understand is that this is exactly like what people like Bret talk about with cops....if you constantly shit on police and good policing as you promote the Revolution you will likely always find people who are willing to be cops, but they will increasingly be the last people you want, they will be woke abusers. The best teachers, the ones who were there for the right reasons, were competent, and do their best tend to not stick around now that schools are indoctrination centers rather than places of education....going to work everyday is too soul crushing.

I knew that long ago...what I just got taught is that the situation is already worse than I thought, I knew that the quality of the teachers was in decline but it has gotten worse than even I, with how I am, had expected.
 
We control everything and you losers are engaged in an internecine bloodbath on whether or not a totally crazy depraved corrupt loony Orange dumbfuck is the absolute ruler of
your impotent shitstain party. Why would anyone fight over that prize?

Everything that matters is all ours. Not in my wildest dreams. Suck on that, losers.:cool:

Ha! I love it.
 
While we instinctively know that no decency is possible from trumpanzees, our postulating on the matter is proven by the fact that more of them haven't had the decency to die from the pandemic yet.
The non-maskers should all be gone by now, but the disease primarily attacks humans. Most trumpanzees have devolved sufficiently to not be human enough to be seriously damaged by the virus.
At this point, it's proven scientific law, but unfortunately, they still have then ability to infect others--and they revel in doing it.

The virus won't be the key to eradicating trumpanzees and trumpism, but the future of our republic depends on something getting the job done.

There’s no more Trumpish state in the union than WV and it leads the nation in vaccinations.

How’s your blue state doing?
 
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