The good news on vaccines

[Johnny2X2X]

The US recently got to over 70% of the total population vaccinated with at least 1 dose. 59.4% are fully vaccinated. 12.4% have gotten boosters.

We don't yet have evidence Omicron is vaccine resistant. And Omicron might be more mild than Delta for illness.

Slowly, but surely, we're getting to a better place. The vaccine mandates are working, very few people are quitting their jobs because of the vaccine. This will end some day, it just will.

And for adults, the % with at least 1 dose is now over 80%, so we're really talking about less than 1 in 5 Americans who are anti vaxxers. they're outnumbered 4-1 by people who generally care about the health of their communities. This 1 in 5 gets a ton of coverage, but they're a shrining minority.

[Throck]

1. Have they ever figured out where Covid came from?

I feel like a human pin cushion.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Other than academic curiosity, what does it matter?

Getting one shot every six months or so is hardly 'pin cushion' range.

[Throck]

8. Naturally occurring or man made would make a difference.

Humans screw with nature with bad results.

I would think if it's natural it would be evolution at work and easier to fix.

If developed in a lab, maybe someone has some answers they'd like to share.

Certainly worthwhile questioning.

[Haggard Celine]

2. I disagree about one thing.

I don't think it's going to end. I think it'll be around in one mutation or another just like influenza. We'll probably have to get a vaccine of some sort every year. I'm not a scientist or a doctor, but I'm seeing how this has gone thus far and it doesn't seem like something that's just going to go away one day.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. If it's like the flu it will weaken

That's the natural course of most viruses, to weaken and then just be here indefinitely. So Covid will likely just become another flu in coming years. We'll get the latest Covid vaccine with our flu shot each year. But it's simply not going to alter life much more than the flu in coming years.

[Haggard Celine]

5. I agree with that.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. Let's hope you're right.

[anti stupid]

6. we will

have to get yearly boosters but here is something to think about. 1 in 5 =20 percent. 20% of 300,000,000(approx us population) is 60,000,000. @ 2 percent mortality for covid that's a possible 1.2 million total deaths for unvaccinated and 60,000,000 incubators for new virus mutations.