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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]CDC says vaccinate, mask, and test. I trust CDC over anonymous ODD poster.

Do your part as a member of society. Perhaps this is something you could discuss with your therapist.[/quote]
The CDC is looking at this from the perspective of lowering the risk to ALL (vaccinated and unvaccinated). Healthcare providers are nice like that.  At this point in the pandemic, we are seeing that cases resulting in hospitalization are almost exclusively unvaccinated adults.  At the risk of sounding like a jerk, I NO LONGER CARE about keeping unvaccinated people safe in NOVA.  It is the CDC's job to care, but me and my kids don't have to go out of our way to protect the willfully ignorant any more.  We vaccinate, we mask, we social distance, we don't go to crowded indoor places.  I draw the line at quarantining healthy kids for the less than 1% chance that they may test positive for Covid.  [/quote]

[b]My understanding from other discussions is that the majority of people in Arlington who are not yet vaccinated are from underserved or poorer communities, often communities of color, who either work several jobs at a time and don’t have the free time to get vaccinated or who have sometimes been underserved by government medical efforts in the past and are less trusting that the vaccinations will be safe for their communities. [/b] Can you see why it is inherently inequitable to write off people who have less access to the system than you and have fewer resources?  I know you guys are all “me, me, me!” but can you see how that behavior is unfair here?

That said, if you were a medical professional risking their life every day, personally I would give you a pass if you wanted some level of triage. But medical professionals are often the most outspoken about wanting to save the lives of everyone possible. [/quote]
NOPE, NOPE, NOPE! I could maybe buy this argument back in summer of 2020 when there had been fewer doses administered and when you needed an appointment to get vaccinated.  It has been a full year, and there has been no epidemic of vaccine side-effects, and no shortage of grocery stores, pharmacies, big-box stores that offer the vaccines.  People who have not yet gotten vaccinated DO NOT WANT TO BE vaccinated.  I say this as someone who grew up poor and in an immigrant household and who is still tied closely to the immigrant community. [/quote]

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