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Originally Posted by the urban politician
Mandating the vaccine is really the best hope. Obviously we can’t grab people and force them to get shots, but making it so that life is very difficult without a vaccine should be a strategy.
Some thoughts for US States:
1. Mandate a vaccine card to enter drivers license renewal facilities
2. Heck, require a vaccine card to enter any State or Federal building or office
3. All schools, Universities, Colleges need to require vaccine for 12 and older
4. To get the die hard Trumpians, require proof of vaccination to renew hunting or fishing licenses, for commercial driving licenses (truckers, etc)
5. Proof of vaccination needed for all trade incense renewals (GC, plumbing, electrical, etc) as well as most other licenses that involve working with the public (medical, dental, dental hygienist, hairstyling, pharmaceutical, tattoo parlor, liquor, etc)
I realize these are a long shot and legally questionable, but we need to get creative with the vaccine hesitant fucktards
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I don’t even think we need to, or should, cross that particular rubicon.
- We have vaccines that are widely available and free
- The vaccines provide very strong protection against serious illness or death; 98% of hospital admissions in the US are now unvaccinated people
- The healthcare system is no longer under significant strain due to Covid
- Younger people were never in any meaningful danger from Covid
- It is extremely unlikely for the virus to mutate into a highly vaccine-resistant variant in the near term
- It is practically impossible to completely eliminate Covid globally through vaccination
All of this taken together means we’re done.
You offer people the vaccine, they can have it or take their chances. Vaccinated people aren’t actually at risk from infected people around them - that’s the point of the vaccines.
While a vaccine-resistant strain is theoretically possible, it’s very unlikely to just emerge all of a sudden. Perhaps with mutation on mutation on mutation, if we’re unlucky, but that would take time and the scientific/medical community will obviously be monitoring it and developing targeted boosters as necessary.
Further lockdowns should not be tolerated, this mask-wearing nonsense needs to end, and there is no justification for the step toward authoritarianism that vaccine mandates entail.