05-17-2021, 11:53 AM
(05-16-2021, 02:54 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I think the CDC guidance is too confusing and has too many exceptions and wherefores. Someone would have to show their certificate to prove they are vaccinated, and it's a lot of trouble for every store, workplace or public place to ask for it. This guidance just gives some cover to those who think masks infringe on their freedom. I think there should be a national mandate, either everyone wear a mask, or not, based on the best evidence available and best judgement of the need.
Antivaxxers sure aren't helping, that's for damn sure. Lots of folks just have the general idea too that the "authorities" or "the mainstream" can't be trusted. So rather than protect themselves and others against a disease that has killed almost 600,000 Americans and almost 3,300,000 people in the world, they think that the danger of side effects about which they know nothing is worse.
These anti-vaxxers and those reactionary science-deniers will be the last wave of victims of direct death and possibly slow death from organ damage of COVID-19, and they will leave behind grieving spouses and offspring.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.