As we get a significant portion of the population vaccinated it still seems like case rates are steady or increasing in a lot of places. Like is this the new state of things? Are we going to be doing risk calculation for public events and family gatherings for the next 5 years until we develop a coordinated strategy to mitigate seasonal outbreaks, while “essential” workers and families continue to bear the brunt of the negative effects? I’m starting to get the feeling that getting 70% if people vaccinated isn’t going to be enough to bring things back to normal and this is just our new reality.
I think you’re preaching to the choir a bit, but I agree. I couldn’t get mine fast enough.
My authority figures have been saying “we hope to get back to normal in a few months” for, you know, months. Years even. Even if there was a coordinated plan, we don’t have the capacity to execute it.
I trust the public health guidelines that get put out for what to do, to get vaccinated, and that this will hopefully be over by the end of the year.
However, I don’t trust the “scientists say vaccines don’t work against new supervariants that kill you instantly, cause you to shit your pants, and email your mother your hentai search history” because, being a bio major, I know aspiring scientists and they all have anxiety disorders & pessimism/doomscroll-induced depression.
It seems like the corporate media is trying very hard to convince everyone that coronavirus is over or that the end is just around the corner. I assume the strategy will be similar to the approach adopted in response to the Great Recession: just pretend that everything is okay, that a few band aids are enough to staunch the bleeding, even as the wound continues to gush.
If covid does, in fact, come to an end, there are many, many other problems that could explode into catastrophes that make us miss the good old days of the plague.
USA is going to choose the individualistic solution. Any vaccinated individual can still get Corona, but won’t likely face any real issues from it. However, as we all know, the vaccinated can still spread the disease. So, the vaccinated minority will resume social ‘normal’ while the underserved and unvaccinated will either do what they can to avoid getting it, or simply give up and accept their fate. It will probably never be fully eliminated (in USA), maybe after some serious time has passed. The only way to really eliminated it is with coordination at the national level, and the usa seems to be structurally incapable of that.
