It’s depressing how anti vax people never accept that doing things that might reduce the chance of serious infection, or might reduce the time they can spread it to more at risk people or possibly reduce the viral load is worth their consideration or inconvenience. Last time I checked, a college environment has a broad range of people of all ages, some of who are (far) more at risk.
So it goes. I hope the politicalization of covid does not reduce willingness to take vaccines in general. Or makes people ignore the next novel virus. Recall that before omicron showed up covid was far more serious. And, in the case of related viruses sars and mers the “healthy” age cohort did far worse than those most affected by covid due to cytokine storm.
Nature is what it is, and no amount of wishing will make it conform to somebody’s world view. I think it’s good and appropriate to look out for others who might not be doing as well as I am. I’m also quite interested in whatever biological hacks might keep me in the game.
So it goes. I hope the politicalization of covid does not reduce willingness to take vaccines in general. Or makes people ignore the next novel virus. Recall that before omicron showed up covid was far more serious. And, in the case of related viruses sars and mers the “healthy” age cohort did far worse than those most affected by covid due to cytokine storm.
Nature is what it is, and no amount of wishing will make it conform to somebody’s world view. I think it’s good and appropriate to look out for others who might not be doing as well as I am. I’m also quite interested in whatever biological hacks might keep me in the game.