Are you willing to get the Covid vaccine when offered?

not2rich said
Well, at the hospital where my wife works, the ICU is filled beyond capacity with COVID patients on ventilators. ALL unvaccinated. They also get patients who come in for other conditions, who are in bad health, who are fully vaccinated, who also test positive for COVID. Yet, they aren't in the ICU, and aren't on ventilators.

So from what I can tell, you're right in that being vaccinated doesn't prevent you from getting COVID or transmitting it. But it does seem to prevent severe illness (i.e., needing to be in ICU on a ventilator) and death. At this point, trying to stop the spread is kind of pointless. Now it's about making COVID something manageable, which the vaccines can do if only people will take them. But for whatever reasons, some people think it's smarter to avoid the vaccine until they eventually get COVID (which they sooner or later will) with no protection whatsoever.

So with that said, I'm as sick of "mandates" and masks as everyone else, but I firmly believe that once all children (or at least the ones with parents who will let them) get their shots, it's time to move on, and let the unvaccinated take their chances. Everyone's had more than reasonable opportunity to get vaccinated, so if you're one of them and get severely sick, don't blame those who are vaccinated. Blame yourself for your own stupid choices. The rest of us deserve to move on.

I 100% get what's going on at the hospital but how much of the population is that? How many in the hospital that are on ventilators are those with underlying issues? I'm guessing most. We hear about all of the deaths but when will anyone say that out of the 800k deaths reported, almost 750k are age 50 and above? The smallest population in this country is responsible for easily most of the deaths. I say all of that to say this. This approach made no sense at all to me and we just want to throw the vaccine out there indiscriminately. We are talking about vaccinating children when majority of them have mild to no symptoms. We lost WAY more children 18 and under to pneumonia than we have COVID but we want to heap this on them? Why?

For those in the medical field, why would focusing on the most vulnerable (those over 50 and those with underlying issues and overweight), monitor how it affected the rest of the population and putting real research into long COVID not work; what would be the advantages or disadvantages? What made vaccination for everyone 5 and up the "better" option?

Sad thing is most will see this and just want to argue or leave clowns (which usually makes me laugh when left without comments, for reasons). These are legitimate questions and concerns. But we live in a "trust the ever changing data and ask questions later" age of COVID.

*looks at reactions..called it*