What are the thoughts here about the “Warp Speed” vaccine initiative?
Anti-vaccers need not reply - I already know what you’ll say.
Of course, there is always the possibility that a vaccine will confer only limited immunity, the virus may mutate around it, etc.
I do know this: Lacking an effective vaccine, in a great many business & especially small business environments, even modest mitigation efforts / precautions are a killer just from the standpoint of time and / or business resources involved per customer or worker. Even in “normal life” (sort of) activities, my ability to “get stuff done” is significantly impaired — and I don’t take precautions to quite the level some here do. In business particularly, automation can help with some of this, but at a cost. In some areas, well... welcome to your robot dentist?
I’d get the vaccine. My arm has been a pincushion for vaccines since I was a small child. You name it, I’ve been stuck for it. One more can’t hurt. So yeah, bring it on :)
There’s going to be 20% or so that will refuse. Which brings several philosophical questions:
Are dissenters criminally liable should they infect someone?
Are dissenters who become infected considered self-directed DNR’s and given only hospice care instead of intensive medical intervention?
Will certain job and social positions or methods of travel be restricted from the unvaccinated such as we see now with quarantines and travel restrictions (stay in your own county for instance)?
Only the overlords know for sure. But if the behavior of certain governors lately is any indication, they are questions that will be considered, especially under any ‘democratic’ admin. (and all the more reason to reelect Trump)
and just to add to my point about what dem overlords are thinking already, is this little article:
“This unholy, unscientific alliance of right-wingers, COVID-19 truthers and anti-vaxxers became very clear recently...”