COVID-19 2020

[grateful]

US regulators give full approval to Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

https://twitter.com/jemillerwbal/status/1429816153564647430?s=20

"Per the FDA--
Pfizer's now fully approved Covid vaccine will be marketed as: Comirnaty, for the prevention of Covid-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older"


How is that even pronounced? Come-'ere'-Natty?

[Starsky]

Another step


https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/08/23/covid-vaccine-mandate-biden-506609?__twitter_impression=true

[Justin Tonation]

Got comorbidities? Get Comirnaty™!

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apparently TFG said that the vax was good and people should take it this weekend in AL

Alex Jones: Trump is a dumbass

wow...this is getting weird, who can you trust

[sweetcell]

apparently TFG said that the vax was good and people should take it this weekend in AL

he also got booed when he said it.  he immediately backed off, saying that he got it and maybe others should consider it too but you have your freedoms so do whatever you want...  i guess it's better than nothing (which is more than we should expect from that POS).

[Starsky]

Federal government needs to start compelling people, organizations and businesses to ensure more people get vaccinated… carrots and stick

I wish it hadn’t proved necessary but for many reasons it’s now evident it is

This is a battle that could go on for years so might as well get started… there doesn’t seem anyway around it

[sweetcell]

Federal government needs to start compelling people, organizations and businesses to ensure more people get vaccinated…

Biden urges employers to require Covid vaccination
The president’s call for schools and business to require vaccination comes amid stiff resistance by some Republican governors and lawmakers.

carrots and stick

"And every little bit — carrots, sticks and even a dose of fear — helps." (from: Opinion: Time to say it: We’re done with the vaccine refusers)

[Justin Tonation]

"And every little bit — carrots, sticks and even a dose of fear — helps." (from: Opinion: Time to say it: We’re done with the vaccine refusers)

This:

All of this, we can hope, will create an atmosphere in which being unvaccinated by choice will mean voluntarily marginalizing oneself from society. If you’re determined to make that statement about yourself, that you’re the kind of person to whom “freedom” means taking the chance of infecting other people with a virus that has killed millions, we’re going to do everything we can to isolate you.

[Justin Tonation]

From the same op-ed:

Experts now say we’ll never reach true herd immunity; rather than covid being eliminated, the pandemic will end with it becoming merely endemic, a part of our lives that never goes away but is suppressed to a level of infections and deaths we can tolerate, like other viruses.

I'd like to see an age breakdown of vax refusers. I have a sense that they're mostly over 40, even 50, and thus will age out of society (die) in a couple of generations. Younger generations will routinely get vaxxed for school and COVID may get to be a mumps-like rarity.

[Justin Tonation]

Never mind, goddamn it... (sorry, Forbes.com link)

The KFF poll, conducted May 18-25, found that the highest share of unvaccinated respondents were 30-49 years old (41%), followed by 29% ages 18-29 and 20% ages 50-64, while only 9% of those unvaccinated were 65 and older.

[Space Freely]

Never mind, goddamn it... (sorry, Forbes.com link)

The KFF poll, conducted May 18-25, found that the highest share of unvaccinated respondents were 30-49 years old (41%), followed by 29% ages 18-29 and 20% ages 50-64, while only 9% of those unvaccinated were 65 and older.

So you were wrong. It makes sense that younger people would be most likely to go unvaccinated. COVID is less harmful to younger people, and they're probably cautious in terms of getting a vaccine that hasn't been around for a long time.

[Starsky]

Never mind, goddamn it... (sorry, Forbes.com link)

The KFF poll, conducted May 18-25, found that the highest share of unvaccinated respondents were 30-49 years old (41%), followed by 29% ages 18-29 and 20% ages 50-64, while only 9% of those unvaccinated were 65 and older.

So you were wrong. It makes sense that younger people would be most likely to go unvaccinated. COVID is less harmful to younger people, and they're probably cautious in terms of getting a vaccine that hasn't been around for a long time.

Doesn’t make sense to me…

[Space Freely]

Never mind, goddamn it... (sorry, Forbes.com link)

The KFF poll, conducted May 18-25, found that the highest share of unvaccinated respondents were 30-49 years old (41%), followed by 29% ages 18-29 and 20% ages 50-64, while only 9% of those unvaccinated were 65 and older.

So you were wrong. It makes sense that younger people would be most likely to go unvaccinated. COVID is less harmful to younger people, and they're probably cautious in terms of getting a vaccine that hasn't been around for a long time.

Doesn’t make sense to me…

Younger people are less affected by Covid, so they're less like to get a vaccine that's been around for less than a year. Maybe 18-29 has higher rates than 30-49 because colleges are mandating it . 50+ are getting it because they're more affected by Covid.

[Starsky]

Don’t they have parents, grandparents, new babies being born, children under 12, imunnosuppresed people in their families and among friends?


I repeat: makes no sense to me.

You are trying too hard…

[sweetcell]

in the early stages of the pandemic, COVID was described as an old person's disease.  folks were dying almost exclusively in nursing homes and palliative care units.  the news loudly proclaimed that young people were not affected by the disease (took us a while to realize this wasn't true).  folks hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest - so plenty of folks in their 20's and 30's still thing it's not something that will affect them, or at least their risk is very very low.  throw in some disinformation and a dose of peer pressure, and voila...