Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Interesting Statistics Date:   5/19/2021 10:46:20 AM

Yep, it seems the social distancing and personal hygiene don't seem to matter.  We will have to agree to disagree on the masks but it seems my biggest concern with them, the false sense of security causing people to ignore the other measures I thought actually worked (social distancing and hygiene), was probably true but in the end really didn't matter. That's the most disturbing part of this entire mess, how pretty much everything we were told by the "experts" at CDC and NIH was either wrong or a lie.  And even when they turned out to be correct their messaging was such a mess that they created doubt about anything they say.

Soon enough the mask wearers will be limited to those that deny the science and probably don't want to be identified as Republicans.  Some insight into how these people really think.  As for the vaccines, I agree that for most people they are worth the additional risk.  But you can be sure that the number of adverse reactions and deaths from the vaccines are vastly higher than the normal flu vaccine.  The numbers I saw is around 160M Americans get the flu vaccine every year and the number of deaths associated with them are probably around 10% of what we are seeing with these mRNA vaccines.  I have no idea why this is the case but it is worrisome.  But again, if you are older and/or have one or more co-morbidities the vaccines seem well worth the risk of an adverse reaction versus the risk of getting the virus.  I do think giving it to children is absolutely unecessary.  They don't transmit the virus and they don't die from it.  But that battle is probably lost and my only hope is that there are no long-term negative impacts that we will not know about for some time.