“My university professor brother in law declared that the vaccine is safe and masks work. Sigh.”
Your brother is a university?
J/K, what department is he in? Science?
Unfortunately university people/academics are among the most imbecilic and totalitarian-minded there are today.
As far as “the vaccine is safe and masks work” the former seems generally true and deaths have greatly decreased since introduction of the vaccine.
The idea, though, that someone not being vaccinated will hurt those vaccinated is irrational and the attempt to socially stigmatize unvaccinated is reprehensible and irrational.
But mask use has not correlated in any way with deaths or cases.
Masks have become more a talisman than anything.
Vaccination also is taking on supernatural/superstitious properties in the hysterical and irrational general liberal mindset.
He’s in the science department. I tried to read one of his papers on line and my head nearly exploded.