bay fan said:
Why do you care if others have a more careful approach?
Btw, my daughter has Covid right now after receiving the J&J shot so nothing is full proof. Her room mate who had Covid in December is also positive as a reinfection right now. Caution is not inappropriate just because you personally don't believe it to be needed.
Others can be as cautious as they want.
The problem becomes when another individual doesn't see eye to eye, and the person wanting to be more cautious infringes on someone else moving forward who sees things differently. People are just going to have to start being okay with people moving on at different rates. No one is saying there is anything wrong with taking it more cautiously, but don't infringe on someone else who doesn't want to. Someone who is more than ready, has been for a year now, and are beyond sick and tired of people telling us just 2 weeks, just a couple months to slow the spread, just a few more months, just through the winter, just until the vaccine comes, just until a certain portion is vaccinated, and now just until we have more data on the vaccines. My guess is, soon we will start to hear some suggest we wait until we make sure the vaccines last, and that the variants don't start slipping through. For someone like Fauci, this may never completely end, as there will always be a potential scare on the horizon.
Instead of being the way Fauci has been, in my opinion, he should give the data we do have as best he can, and begin to let the people make the best choices for themselves more and more as we move forward. He should say that in the vast majority of cases, a vaccinated individual seems unlikely to contract covid, but not impossible, and that it does seem to have a strong correlation to preventing spread as well. While not 100%, if you wish to continue to social distance and wear masks, that could be wise for at risk folks who want to be more cautious. However, overall, spread from a vaccine is far, far less likely than before the vaccine, and far more likely to prevent it than a mask or social distancing has shown to have done in the last year. The masks are, and this is within statistical chance of other potential outliers, possibly about 0.5% effective daily based on our limited study, but vaccinations seem to be closer to 80% or more effected than non-vaccinated individuals. So a vaccinated individual even not wearing a mask is far less likely to spread the virus than a non-vaccinated individual wearing a mask.
I mean, if the goal is to not overwhelm hospitals, you have to go off the percentages, and not every last possible way to get covid, or shaping public policy to prevent every last case. If so, this will never end. Of course, this isn't possible, because fauci seems to only be able to speak off of 100% guarantees to move forward it seems. The vast majority of people I know, don't need 100% guarantees to live their life.
Also, my guess(and hope) is that your daughters case is extremely mild. and that her roommate(also extremely mild) who got it in December either never completely shed the virus, has a false positive, or has an extremely minor case, and was likely tested at the time her body was fighting it off(which is what immunity does), and had just enough to be positive. Most people who test positive twice actually don't have two separate, full blown contagious cases. She could be in the rare company that does, I don't really know. But again, it shouldn't' shape policy.
If they do, then their immune system might have some issues. You do seem to always present some rare cases, early on with the 20 something year old friend who I remember tragically lost her life, now a re-infection, and post vaccination infection. Kind of the trifecta on abnormalities. I am sorry to hear all that.
