Being an antivaxxer is soon going to be like being against school closings. At one time it meant you "didn't want grandma to die", but now if you were for school closings you must hide in shame because of the damage you did.
Almost there on masks. Getting there on vaccines. Read and weep
www.beaumont.org
Yeah...the number of vaxxed and boostered patients is almost even with the unvaccinated.
(Which is why I have always been against vaccine mandates)
My biggest beef is that people are fighting the wrong fight.
We actually have predictive modeling of the future variants of Covid. They got them down. The initial pandemic was caused by three variants but all were preventable by one vaccine...Beta and Delta were also easily stopped by the same vaccine.
However...
That didn't mean that they were truly surprised like they claimed about omicron and omicron+ variant. And they knew that the current vaccines are worthless. But the baloney is that the current mRNA vaccine manufacturers wanted to already be in production of the vaccines they might begin to distribute this spring... LAST YEAR.
Others in the Virus Research Community were talking about it as well but a lot got drowned out by people still arguing about masks and whether they should get vaccinated and boostered or not. Not to mention that vaccine mandates really stoked those arguments.
So instead of discussing which variants are coming next and how to best prepare...we were stuck discussing vaccine mandates for a vaccine that won't be relevant this time next year. Nevermind the blizzards of Abstracts that were fraudulently written claiming nutter garbage.
If people would stop listening to politicians and political rhetoric we could actually end the pandemic. We could actually get to the new normal and move on.
But we seem to be stuck arguing until the stampede finishes trampling us to death while arguing over what to do about it.