No wonder why we're slowing down. Canada sitting at almost 74% first/66% second. Barely increasing first dose shots by 0.1% a day. Regional polls been showing single digits won't get the shot. Once we can get the under 12, hopefully will get to around 85% Lucky our covidiots not enough to slow down our vaccine pace. But yeah new cases up day over day still > _ <
LOL 85%? I haven't looked at the projections in a while, but optimistically that would be an entire year??
We have a huge swath of the GQP electorate who will never get a COVID vaccine. That's not hesitancy or indifference, it's idiocy that you will never be able to crack through.
Honestly, I'm way past caring whether covidiots want to endanger their own communities or not. Yes, they are Americans too and I wish them no direct harm. Yes, innocent people such as children will be swept up by the madness. But on the bright side, the number of young children who get severe COVID is extremely low. That's no solace for the families that do experience it, but sitting here and wishing GQP voters come to their senses isn't rational either.
Experts are semi- divided on whether this summer wave will be the last one in the U.S. In all probability, there will be another surge over the winter holidays, but if we're lucky, it will be less extreme than last year's devastation. I'm not good enough to predict the end of the pandemic, but there is a growing consensus that a year from now, we'll be out of the woods because people will either have gotten vaccinated, or gotten natural immunity from infection (or both). If another 200k people die by then, that's apparently acceptable to us as a country. The thing is all the people who are most likely to contract SARS-CoV-2 have already decided that the pandemic is over. Restaurant reservations are back to pre-pandemic levels. College football games are packing stadiums with very little mask wearing.
The federal government is taking one last swing at boosting vaccination rates, but otherwise our nation has collectively decided that stamping out fires is our path forward. As responsible adults, we can sit here and lament how people aren't taking common sense actions to bend the curve but the reality is all that stuff ended around July 4th.