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Vaccines and Quarantines

 


What might a discerning historian of , say, twenty years from now write about Covid-19?

He might have in front of him a primary source like this:  

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/02/vaccines-should-end-the-pandemic-despite-the-variants-say-experts/ 

That is an optimistic appraisal from a month ago. Perhaps despite all the deaths, all the devastated families, and all the long-haul injuries even of survivors, much of the worries about the "variants," at least, was overdone. The vaccines that have been developed can, it seems, cover a wide rage of Covid-19-ish infections and allow us as a species a chance to give ourselves herd immunity. We as a species will get through this without too much more damage.

The following statement might seem more shocking than the above: All the social distancing and mask wearing and locking in seems to have come out a wash. There is no consistent correlation between the rules in place in the area and its susceptibility to this illness. Personally, I've worn a mask while out and around because it has become the equivalent of a "hall pass" in junior high school. I have no interest in causing useless trouble -- I'll carry the hall pass. BUT ... there is no consistent correlation. A wide variety of measures seem to have accomplished nothing other than giving us non-scieniists something to do, a chance to think we were helping. 

  


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  1. HenryMarch 29, 2021 at 2:31 PM

    Christopher,

    The link you provide supports your statement about variants, but it does not address your statement that social distancing and mask wearing and locking in seems to have come out a wash. What is your authority for that statement? It surprises me, because when Trump and others held events without social distancing and mask wearing, they turned out to be superspreader events. At least that's what I remember reading; I am not going to look for authority, because I'm merely a commenter, not a blogger. ☺

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