(05-14-2021, 09:12 PM)Taem Wrote: I appreciate your response Jester! I honestly did not even consider that aspect of the virus since it is constantly mutating! So what do you think of the CDCs decision to stop the mask mandate for vaccinated individuals? Do you think people should be forced to get the vaccine to eradicate the virus?
Until relatively recently, the question of forcing people to get vaccinated has not been a big issue, because the supply bottleneck was bad enough that even people who wanted to be vaccinated couldn't be. But yes, were I dictator of the earth, I would make vaccination mandatory, with exceptions on medical religious grounds only.
The decision to end the mask mandate seems premature to me, mostly on messaging grounds. They're not wrong that vaccination has caught on enough that the vaccinated can probably resume their everyday lives safely...ish. The problem is, once some people are allowed not to wear masks, nobody will. No matter how hard they try and emphasize that it is still important for unvaccinated people to wear masks, people won't listen. Businesses can't actually tell at a glance who has been vaccinated, I don't think this is sensible, and runs the risk of the constant pattern everywhere: half-assed measures that are barely enforced, and retracted too early, then re-imposed just in time to fail to prevent the next wave. A single, decisive, draconian response would have led to better outcomes both for health and freedom.
-Jester