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Anonymous wrote:We knew this over a year ago.
Between the Covid restrictions and the ridiculous remote "learning," many people have decided they prefer the freedom red states have to offer.
That is why Covid policy is a big deal when voting. If you liked the blue states' policies, vote for them. I'll stick with the route the red states took.
I love the freedom that Texas gives women over their own bodies.
Versus the blue cities, like Los Angeles and NYC, who unethically pushed Covid vaccines on 12 year olds to attend public school.
No freedom for our families and our kids, I guess.
No one ever had to be vaccinated to attend school before, right? What a bunch of delusional dopes.
This is what is so bizarre to me. Even in college in the '90s I had to prove that I had basic vaccinations or a religious exemption. I had to provide vaccination records for my children's school and their daycares from the time that they started so at about 6 months. Never has it been so controversial until Trump told people to start drinking bleach.
It was controversial because the vaccine didnt go through the normal FDA process that assures safety. Im fully vaccinated, but it's not unreasonable for people to be wary of new vaccine with less stringent controls. Very frankly, I was glad I had no risk factors and had to wait at the back of the line.
That's not why it was controversial. That's an excuse some people gave. But they don't know anything about the other vaccines they take, don't know anything about the food they ingest, scarf down all manner of food and drugs that are bad for them, and didn't get the vaccine when it was well proven and received by millions upon millions of people without incident. So, it's clear that the "not sufficiently tested" explanation for reluctance was a pretext. For a variety of reasons, COVID mitigation efforts of all kinds became tribal and political. The vaccine became controversial because Trump supporters were opposed to COVID mitigation measures generally.
People who are hesitant to vaccinate themselves or their child with a vaccine that is still under EUA and wanted to wait, are not the same as people who wouldn't take a vaccine at all, who thought it made them magnetic, was population control, was killing people, that COVID was a hoax. Labeling all vaccine hesitancy as political is just not helping anyone, nor is it true.
The vaccines were approved by the CDC and are perfectly safe. Stop beating this dead horse.
You are misinformed. The pp is correct. Covid vaccines didnt go through the same testing and authorization requirements that normal drugs and vaccines go through. Here, let the FDA speak for themselves:
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emergency-use-authorization-vaccines-explained
Yet when all was said and done, the vaccines DID end up with far more testing than most other drugs have ever had - and the result is that after hundreds and hundreds of millions of doses given, the number of actual proven cases where the vaccines did any meaningful damage was a microscopically small percentage, far smaller than most other vaccines and drugs on the market.
I'll need to see a source for your claim that the covid vaccines have a side effect rate "far smaller than most other vaccines." I suspect you are making that up.
Even if that were true, the fact remains that using a vaccine that has not been through the testing required for FDA approval is riskier, and some hesitation is rational, not conspiratorial. Moreover, the vaccines arent particularly effective, so at this point, it doesnt make a lot of sense to care whether other people are vaccinated. Once it became clear that vaccines do nothing to slow the spread of the virus, I decided it wasnt my business if other people choose not to take it. It doesnt affect me either way. The mandate, however, affects all of because it is contributing to a worker shortage.
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