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Faunsdale, AL | Your tiny fraction has resulted in over 700,000 deaths in the US.
And there’s more at stake than the deaths. There’s the cost of the healthcare to prevent that tiny fraction from being several times larger. That doesn’t come for free. We are all paying it. It’s a drag on our economy and our personal financial ability to reap the rewards of our labor.
Then factor in the burden of the COVID cases on the healthcare system at large, Filling up emergency and critical care capacity, preventing elective procedures being scheduled, and the effects go on and on.
And then there’s long term effects from even mild cases not to mention how long those with severe cases take to recover.
And the reason for the divisions in our country is the resistance of a part or our population to taking one of several safe and effective vaccines. If there was any good reason for not taking it, if it was risky, I could understand. But, it’s much less risky than getting the virus as a naive person with no immunity or even a recovered person with low immunity.
If a person really has questions, you can get them answered by people who know what they’re talking about and what the best information says. Or if you just want an excuse why you ain’t gonna take it, I guess you can keep listening and reading the ones that are feeding you this misinformation.
It’s plain for anyone to see that if we had high vaccination rates, this whole business and the divisions it’s causing would be over and done with. I realize there’s a catch 22 in there.
Most anti COVID vaccine people want to set up the straw man that we should have effective treatments. Yes we should and they’re coming. Unfortunately the “moon shot“ process this country and others across the world paid for to develop the vaccines did not extend to development of new treatments.
We left that up to the private sector. And they’re delivering at a pace that’s probably faster than they usually would have, but still slower than the development process for vaccines that leveraged decades of prior research and centuries of accumulated knowledge.
Vaccines were picked as the most likely solution to COVID, by every country with the capability and resources to develop solutions and every organization formed for the promotion of health across the whole world. And for good reason. Where they work, against viruses and some bacteria, they are a more effective and cheaper solution than treatments because they harness our own immune systems to prevent disease in the first place. Treating disease after we get sick is always more costly in money, illness and death. Only when there’s no vaccine available are treatments the best route to take.
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