Testing is why the Yankees game got cancelled. LA County, CA has initiated the mask wearing rule for everybody again indoors. They are doing this for the same reason as before - to stop the spread.
Those vaccinated can still carry the virus and there are break-through cases. You can pretty much be assured that you will not die if you have been vaccinated. That's the saving grace [ good odds] of the vaccine even though NO vaccine is 100%.
Since nobody really knows who has or has not been vaccinated and cases are still rising in every state, they are just continuing the mitigation methods in place before. I think this is a wise decision and each of us that are vaccinated can do the same.
To create herd immunity, pretty much the whole world has to be vaccinated sooner or later cause we travel around A LOT.
Have you forgotten about the Cutter Polio Vaccine incident - That didn't go over too well - kids got the virus - but people did start getting their kids vaccinated - but it took (5) + years to reach 97% gone. Even in the 70's there were still a few cases popping up here and there - caused by the vaccine itself (oral). It wasn't until 2000 that we went back to the injectable type.
A similar thing happened with the pertussis vaccine (whooping cough) - it morphed due to side effects - they weakened it to avoid this and that's why we have to have boosters.
People deny all sorts of things based on some belief or suspicions they may have.
According to Peter Salk (Jonas Salk's son) , in a 2014 The Atlantic article, part of it is that all this bad info and suspicions come about because people have become complacent because these diseases aren’t rampant anymore. Like the KHN article I link - some of these people had not been affected at all by covid, nor at the time did they know of anybody that had been affected by covid.
It is a great article - I have highlighted some of the point here in my post but here is the link to the whole thing:
The Atlantic : 10/28/2014 - The Anti-Vaccine Movement Is Forgetting the Polio Epidemic
Peter [Salk] spoke with an interviewer in a 2014 article done by The Atlantic. He reflected on why so many Americans came to distrust life-saving vaccines such as the one his father [ Jonas Salk] helped bring to the world.
Don't you remember the different vaccines for polio - the oral one and the injectable one. Yes, there was controversy - although back then, everybody did not have a public podium -
He also said that today [2014] there is a lot of concerns about living naturally and not wanting to be exposed to things that are made in a laboratory.
Back in the 1950s, people really looked to science and medicine as something that would make their lives better. But once the fear of these diseases began to subside, people started looking at other large-scale forces in the world—the Vietnam War, the government, and so on—and wondering, Can we trust large institutions? Can we trust pharmaceutical companies? I think that that’s something that’s driven people also: a sense of alienation.
Polio itself still hasn’t been totally eliminated in some countries. What’s holding that up?
Salk: The people who are working on polio eradication are doing everything they can, but there are still countries where there are conflicts, religious differences, cultural differences, political differences—and these are the countries where some kids haven’t been able to be reached with the vaccine that’s been used. India finally eliminated the wild virus a few years ago. Pakistan is the greatest problem right now, with all its internal turmoil. The disease still persists in Afghanistan, but that’s largely a result of what’s happening across the border in Pakistan. Nigeria has also so far never eliminated the wild virus.
We’ve now got vaccines that should be able to get rid of this virus forever. But until we can deal with these human interactions in a more constructive way, we’re not going to get there. That’s what holding things up. It’s not the scientific level; it’s the social level.
The world around us is so hugely complex, and that complexity comes from us.
The fundamental element that is evolving now in our sphere of existence is not matter, not life—it’s consciousness. The unit here is the mind. My father called this the metabiologic realm; it’s driven by choice. He often said that we are the products of the process of evolution, and we have become the process itself. It’s our responsibility to be making wise choices.
I feel certain that we will get there but maybe not for a good while -
