Posted on 12/18/2020 9:29:45 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Target vaccines to the most vulnerable, and don’t give them to people who have already been infected.
The approval of several Covid-19 vaccines is an impressive technological development that should rapidly end the lockdowns and allow normal life to resume. But authorities like Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates argue that lockdown restrictions may have to continue through the fall and even into 2022, notwithstanding the catastrophic harms the lockdowns have caused, especially to young people, the poor and the working classes.
There is a sharp age gradient in the survival rate after infection. At least 99.95% of people under 70 survive infection; that figure is only 95% for 70 and older.
Children weren’t part of the vaccine trials and shouldn’t receive the vaccine unless it is proved to be safe for them. Not vaccinating those who have recovered will preserve doses for the vulnerable and still susceptible. Priority should be given based on medical risk, not politics, or else more people will needlessly die.
It’s unreasonable to require near-universal vaccination before a resumption of normal life. It will take until at least June 2021 to produce enough doses for the whole U.S. population and June 2022 for the world. This strategy would inflict months more of unnecessary harms. It would also divert doses away from vulnerable people in other countries, ultimately increasing the world-wide toll of Covid mortality.
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Because the local junior tyrants prefer to extend the troubles as long as possible; they enjoy the power trip.
In general, government has little interest in solving problems. Doing so might reduce the need for their ever expanding empires. Fix problems is bad for business.
Until the vaccine is widely used, how about making the Ivermectin / Vitamin / Mineral / Antibiotic / Antacid / Antioxidant cocktail available to everybody?
“ But authorities like Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates ...”
Gates is an authority? On what?
Nope. Paywalled at the fifth paragraph (which is unusually generous for WSJ).
WSJ has also found a way to defeat the “Bypass Paywalls” extension in Firefox. This is the first time I’ve seen “Bypass Paywall” not work on WSJ.
And Outline doesn’t work on WSJ.
“KD”?
Knock-down (as in Ikea stuff)?
Hasn’t it already been said that we still can’t return to normal even after the vaccine?
“Being a septuagenarian I will now retire to my safe room.”
I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of that religion.
Once a politician has tasted the ability to revoke the civil rights of citizens, they will always return to it, like a dog returning to its vomit
In general, government has little interest in solving problems. Doing so might reduce the need for their ever expanding empires. Fix problems is bad for business.
My opinion of Illinois Gov Pritzker and some others is so low, that would be giving them too much credit.
This is a power trip for them, they say rape is about power and control. This excites them.
You should see what our current situation looks like to a teenager.
I’m a high school teacher in bush Alaska, and our school has remained open, although it’s not a normal year. Everyone has to wear masks; kids are sitting six feet apart; there are clear plastic barriers between students at lunch. Sports and activities have stopped. Students are assigned groups that have to walk together to avoid contact with others.
I wonder about the younger kids, walking around wearing masks, being told that they could kill grandma by breathing on them. That’ll have an impact.
Most of the teenagers are sullen and disgusted. Everyone knows that they are the least likely to get sick. I have one student, a sophomore from a remote village, who tested positive for Covid-19, and he said he wouldn’t have even known if it hadn’t been for the test. When I mentioned that I would have a mask burning party when this whole thing was over, the students enthusiastically approved and wanted to join in.
On a bigger scale, people like Kamala Harris believe that they’re progressives, changing the world, helping the little people. Kamala is actually Marie Antoinette. I would not be surprised if masks were involved, maybe symbolically, maybe as a prop, with the reaction to the way the progressives are wrecking the world of our youth.
Karl Denninger. Well worth a few minutes.
Excellent idea. But what if it isn't over? Ever?
Mass. Civil. Disobedience.
He’s an authority on blue screens.
/sarc
Want to add lockdowns? Fire all Democrats and higher Republicans instead
“If something can’t go on forever, it won’t.” - Herb Stein
End lock downs today. If you don’t feel safe wear a mask or stay home and leave the rest of us alone.
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