Jersey wants Oz back, or so the trolling videos go! I wanted this post to focus on the new boosters, but the reality is that even these shiny new tools are being expected to do too much for a general population that has collectively accepted the fiction that the pandemic is under control and we can go back to normal. A great but long quote from an article in The Atlantic:
The reality that most Americans are living in simply doesn’t square with an urgent call for boosts—which speaks to the “increasing incoherence in our response,” Sosin told me. The nation’s leaders have vanished mask mandates and quarantine recommendations, and shortened isolation stints; they’ve given up on telling schools, universities, and offices to test regularly. People have been repeatedly told not to fear the virus or its potentially lethal threat. And yet the biggest sell for vaccines has somehow become an individualistic, hyper-medicalized call to action—another opportunity to slash one’s chances at severe disease and death. The U.S. needs people to take this vaccine because it has nothing else.
But its residents are unlikely to take it, because they’re not doing anything else.
Another comprehensive, awesome post, thanks!
This answered my questions, and the other questions I have like real-world efficacy I understand can't be answered yet.
I'm glad to see no one is voting for Dr. Oz here either ;P
Jersey wants Oz back, or so the trolling videos go! I wanted this post to focus on the new boosters, but the reality is that even these shiny new tools are being expected to do too much for a general population that has collectively accepted the fiction that the pandemic is under control and we can go back to normal. A great but long quote from an article in The Atlantic:
The reality that most Americans are living in simply doesn’t square with an urgent call for boosts—which speaks to the “increasing incoherence in our response,” Sosin told me. The nation’s leaders have vanished mask mandates and quarantine recommendations, and shortened isolation stints; they’ve given up on telling schools, universities, and offices to test regularly. People have been repeatedly told not to fear the virus or its potentially lethal threat. And yet the biggest sell for vaccines has somehow become an individualistic, hyper-medicalized call to action—another opportunity to slash one’s chances at severe disease and death. The U.S. needs people to take this vaccine because it has nothing else.
But its residents are unlikely to take it, because they’re not doing anything else.