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Unlike MegaMillions and Powerball winners, vaccine lottery winners can be anonymous, so the world doesn’t have to know you won.
I'm sure the IRS will know that you've won....
I didn't realize until his monologue last night that Bill Maher is a breakthrough case. He was fully vaccinated yet got covid. Fortunately with no symptoms.
Did Maher say which vaccine he had? I found it interesting the Yankees cases were all J&J (which has a lower efficacy rate than Moderna or Pfizer)
meaning, the vaccine is doing its job of keeping people safe from symptoms, hospitalizations, and death with a virtual statistical anomaly when it doesn't.
So when people hear that it's 95% or even 100% effective. They think it will prevent them from getting covid. That was not a consideration for the trials. Which leds to risky behavior since many vaccinated think they are invulnerable. They aren't.
Which is the endpoint of the vaccine trials. To prevent death. Unfortunately that messaging has been bungled. So when people hear that it's 95% or even 100% effective. They think it will prevent them from getting covid. That was not a consideration for the trials. Which leds to risky behavior since many vaccinated think they are invulnerable. They aren't. With dropping the mask mandates, we've set up a great environment to breed vaccine resistant covid. The un-vaccinated will spread it freely. Some vaccinated will catch covid. As evolution goes, we've set up the environmental conditions for variants to see if they can defeat the vaccines. There's a reason that you are supposed to take the entire course of antibiotics even after you feel better. It's to try to kill the bacteria that have a predisposition to be antibiotic resistant. Killing the normal bacteria and leaving the ones that are resistant just evolves more resistant bacteria. Which is what we are dealing with now. Knowing all that, we still decided to forego all those concerns with covid.
1. I agree that messaging from the CDC and elsewhere has been bungled, and still is today. It’s one reason why we are seeing lotteries now to entice people to get vaccinated. As for masks requirements being relaxed, gotta show that vaccines are legit and do as advertised. So far, they are and the current numbers show it.
2. Trust the vaccines especially the good ones the US uses. You have been saying to trust science since last year, but not now? Regardless, stay positive. This pandemic will be beat.
3. Live. Wear a mask after being vaccinated if someone wants to, but live. Focus on yourself and use good judgement, but let others be. Overall, we all will get the virus, and we gotta accept that, but the main goal in getting vaccinated is to not play Russian roulette with the virus. Also, SARS-CoV-2 is not Ebola. It’s still a naughty virus, though.