Most likely. People should be careful when walking barefeet in highly vaccinated states.
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Returning to the topic: Hereâs an interesting article on who is unvaccinated.
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Behind a paywall. Can you summarize?
40% cite âWaiting to see if safeâ
FDA - Letâs dot those Iâs and cross those tâsâŠâŠHow many more GS 13s do you need.
âHannah Reid, 30. If the F.D.A. approves the vaccines, she said she and her husband will feel somewhat less apprehensive but will continue to do their own research and pray.â
Everybody is a researcher nowadaysâŠ
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Paywalls can often be circumvented by pushing the stop loading âthingyâ before it finishes. Iâd try that, because itâs a very worthy to read (and long) article with graphs for various demographics, etc,.
It breaks the unvaccinated up into groups of âdefinitely notâ vs âwait and seeâ and they provide a lot of quotes (reasons) from actual members of both groups.
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Letâs try this:
Who Are the Unvaccinated in America? Thereâs No One Answer.
If you donât like a thread, donât read it.
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To be fair, some people like to watch trainwrecks. 
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My BIL finally got vaccinated recently, but only because his employer required it. His wife still refuses. They are both seniors, and she is diabetic. SMH
This thread made me less judgmental towards unvaccinated.
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<<<In Arkansas, where the governor on Thursday reimposed a state of emergency and reported that all pediatric ICU beds were full, the number of vaccine doses being administered over the past month has gone from 27,000 a week on average, to 70,000 on average now.>>>
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Ok, better late than never but sure would be lots better earlier.
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While electrons might be free, it would easier to look for someone who isnât to blame to the point they deserve special recognition
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Anyone who voted for and continued supporting the governor of a state that didnât shut their schools down⊠I would have to look it up, but itâs going to be a pretty short list.
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Small credit goes to those who argued, long ago, that Sweden was going to end up at a close enough place to everyone else that the US response was going to cause more harm than good.
As to whoâs to blame? Almost everyone else, including myself. Living in Alabama, kids long out of the house, I went along with our governor closing. Didnât disagree enough to be disagreeble enough to notice, until way too late.
Special recognition awards:
-The Imperial College epidemiology team that forecast an unbelievable Armageddon.
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The IHME modeling group that has been so spectacularly wrong, so often, that only an idiot wouldnât believe theyâve been lying. (freshly minted STEM graduates Iâm sure, following the science of the âepidemiologists and virologistsâ that Iâve been told more than once are the only ones qualified to speak on many of the covid issues)
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Our media and politicians.
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And any voter that is still going to let their school districts put masks on elementary age kids.
Weâre telling vaccinated people to mask up, because of the fear of them infecting an unvaccinated person.
Weâre not New Zealand, on that I think we can agree. Whether or not theyâve only delayed their appointment with covid, since the vaccines arenât looking to be the bang-up deal they were hoping to bail them out⊠weâll eventually see.
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Oh good grief. Any vaccine that turns a potentially devastating illness into a mild cold IS a bang up deal.
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Anyone who thinks Sweden âwonâ really should google to see how they compared with their neighbors Finland and Norway instead of comparing them to totally different countries with respect to borders, tourism, and weather.
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Who said they âwonâ?
All things being equal, reporting and standards and such, we wouldnât be looking at neighboring countries stats as the comparable. That said:
I suspect⊠say, Indiaâs final covid numbers might end up a little more flattering than, for instance, New York stateâs. Canât imagine why, other than the interplay of reimbursement vs prestige.
And I donât know where Holman Jenkins of the WSJ got it from, likely official UK data gathering, since that was the focus of todayâs piece, but he stated:
â⊠reinfection rates are low, less than 1%, and cases are milder.â (From memory, not cut&paste.)
Everyone who wants it should get it and leave the rest to their fate.
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Why compare to New York state? Why not Alabama?
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More downsides of getting COVID.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/health/covid-cognitive-decline-alzheimers/index.html
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