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Originally Posted by destroycreate
My brother and his family are all boosted with the the exception of one of their two toddlers, who is 2 and not eliglble (but by far the least risky age group). But they are stating how proud they are for not eating at a restaurant or going into stores since Feb 2020. I'm like...ya'll realize if there was ever a time to get Covid it's now right? And trying to outrun this virus is going to just exhaust you. This variant is so much milder the ones of the past and if you're boosted you have such high protection from severe disease. But they live up in Berkeley where people are just crazy paranoid about Covid.
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I agree with you completely. And I'm speaking as a parent of an immunocompromised child under 5 who's not vaccinated yet. There's literally no reason for the humans who are fully vaccinated--to
not go about their normal business as they would have in 2019. People like me still have to take caution because of a legitimate reason--but that's
my responsibility. Every other person without with an immunocompromised young child--literally the only demographic at this point that has legitimate reason to be worried because a vaccine is not yet available to them--can literally just move on with their lives.
It's obvious that COVID hysteria is now a mental affliction, just as the pandemic-deniers and ardent anti-vaxxers are also mentally afflicted. They both have to be called out and addressed.
The truth about this whole pandemic, and the appropriate action to deal with it, has always been the middle ground. We've done literally all we can at this point. We've flattened the curve, we've vaxxed up, we've masked far, far longer than ANYONE would ever admitted to in March 2020, to the extent possible ad nauseum. The next chapter is finally here.
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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
Anyway, I agree that for most vaccinated people, omicron is not a big deal if they get it. Vut even ignoring the antivaxxers (who even if are idiots, don't deserve to die), there's a substantial part of the population (I don't know, I'd guess at least 10%?) that even if boosted, still has substantial risk of serious illness or other adverse effects (stillbirth for pregnant women, which can apparently happen even when the woman is asymptomatic, long covid, whatever). Obviously they're better off than if they'd been unvaccinated, but it doesn't make sense to abandon measures to attempt to slow the spread, though of course people are tired of it and would like to pretend like it doesn't matter.
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The spread has already happened, or it will happen regardless of mitigation. I think that's what many have been trying to argue--it's really a fool's errand at this point. You're only delaying the inevitable.
And to my above point, if you're also one of the individuals who still are concerned or will apparently never have good enough immunity to be in a normal public setting ever again, that's never going to stop being true, even "after the pandemic." The point is, COVID will never be eradicated.
At some point, people have to be expected to take responsibility for their own immunity, and if that means that they have to lock
themselves down for a while, so be it. That's that only logical response at this point after
nearly 2 years of a pandemic.