For me - the vaccine is an unknown (first of its kind) but so are the side effects and long term effects of COVID. I went with the vaccine because at least there’s some control to it. I feel bad for all these old people that keeping getting kicked off their computers trying to sign up for it. But I also don’t think it should be mandatory for anyone.
Don makes good points about what quarantining has been doing to children. They are out of shape, not being supervised, getting way to much screen time via remote learning and video games (which is their new babysitter for parents that have to work from home) Getting depressed. And yeah no one has been reporting the increased ODs amongst kids not going to school. I hear from hospital staff this has been a problem. think that the policies are just not following common sense. Like during summer and fall our rates were super low - they could have opened up schools then and then shut them down during winter when we all new cases would increase. Then they could open windows or hold class outside. Just no common sense - why open up college campuses but keep elementary schools closed ? College kids can learn remotely and there was lots of spread - elementary kids cannot - and they’re has been very little spread amongst the classrooms of younger ones. .
The arbitrary selection of what businesses were allowed to be open and which ones had to close outraged a lot of people too and made them not take the guidelines as seriously. Why is it ok to eat in a restaurant but not go to school with masks? Why are public school administrators sending their own kids to expensive private schools?
And I’m saying all this as someone that identifies as a progressive liberal. (Not a libertarian)
