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Anonymous
Not as of late December. https://www.npr.org/2021/12/28/1068417547/the-nations-capital-is-the-worst-place-for-covid-19-infections-right-now |
Anonymous
That was weeks ago. Currently DC is at 53/100k and being a city, has a lot more likelihood of transmissibility due to high urban density and frequency of contacts. Compare that to deep red states with much lower population density like Alaska, currently at 325/100k, Utah, 287/100k, Montana 223/100k. And even for its number of cases, DC had a far lower hospitalization and death rate than any of those states - because many more of us are vaccinated. |
Anonymous
Exactly the point. More are vaccinated, but omicron went through D.C. at a rate as high as anywhere else until it petered out. Being vaccinated did not stop people spreading it nor people catching it. It did lessen the hospitalization and death rates compared to elsewhere, but that is why PP is silly and the point regarding the vaccine passport being useless still stands. With omicron, the vaccinated and masked can and do spread COVID, so feeling more comfortable going out to eat with a vaccine passport is useless and based on exactly what she said, feelings, not facts. |
Anonymous
The point is, the vaccines lessened the impact of COVID A LOT. And ideally, with a highly-vaccinated population, we could lessen it to the point where it's no more of an issue than the common cold. But that WILL NOT happen with the right wing's anti-vax, anti-mask, lets-open-all-the-bars-and-go-hog-wild nonsense which have instead only resulted in prolonging and worsening the impacts of the pandemic. |
Anonymous
Not even remotely useless given how much the vaccines reduce the likelihood of hospitalization and/or death. |
Anonymous
As stated above...DC has a 85% vax rate. How much higher a vax rate do you want before you believe it isn't being spread by the non-vax'd? Cause the math would say it hasn't been to this point? |
Anonymous
UAE has about a 99% vaccinated rate and still had the same surge omicron cases that everyone else did. The last variants were from India and S. Africa. They were not generated in red states, and highly vaccinated areas did not have significantly lower rates of omicron. COVID is here to stay, and there will be always new variants emerging from all corners of the globe. We know the vaccines significantly help prevent hospitalization and death, so get vaxed and let's move on. |
Anonymous
No. DC still has a lot of unvaxxed people ending up in the hospitals and morgues. The math says it is a hugely disproportionate number, on a per capita basis. How many more debilitating illnesses and deaths, how much more burden will it take on the healthcare system, how many more destroyed families will it take for you to finally admit that the unvaxxed ARE in fact a problem? |
Anonymous
But they had a FAR lower death toll as compared to prior surges. The point isn't case numbers, the point is avoiding serious illness and death and that's where you anti-vaxxers are failing miserably. |
Anonymous
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I don't get it. What is it, that you anti-vaxxers, anti-mandaters, anti-maskers, anti-lockdown people even want?
You aren't saving anyone from anything. You aren't saving any lives. You've cost thousands of people their lives. You mumble "something something freedumb from authoritarians and leave us alone" yet you refuse to leave the rest of us alone, whether prolonging and worsening the impact of the pandemic, or filming yourselves self-righteously screaming in the faces of immunocompromised mask wearers at the store, driving massive burnout and frustration for America's valiant healthcare workers, worsening supply chain shortages and struggling small businesses because of outages by sick unvaxxed workers, and everything else. Don't tell us it's about freedom or anti-authoritarianism because when all is said and done, YOU are taking far more away and causing far more damage to the nation than the vaccines and masks are. |
Anonymous
None of the posts in the past several pages are anti-vax, so I have no idea what your rant is all about. I am fully vaxed. We are pretty much where we are going to be with people getting vaccinated, which is actually much higher than they stated as their original goal, before they started moving the goalposts twice. If they added the prior positives as being vaccinated as other countries do, we would have an even higher number. Large areas of the country have removed restrictions. European countries are removing all restrictions including mass transit. More liberal areas have higher vaccination rates, but still the strictest restrictions. It has become political at this point, not following the science, and now people are fed up and are understandably protesting. |
Anonymous
And how do restaurant vaccine mandates help you accomplish that? Hint: they don't. The vaccinated spread COVID, just like the unvaccinated. You only protect yourself by getting vaccinated. How have you not read that yet? |
Anonymous
| This is a weird obsession, OP, if you're not a troll. We're almost all vaxed and we almost all have photos of our cards on our phones. This is a non-issue for people who aren't trying to stir up trouble. Makes me think you're just here to cause trouble. |