Vaccination free for-all

[Like2Plan]

This could be the reason why people are skeptical about it, not me but those who choose not to get it. I'm on a vaccine of sorts craze now. Last week I took my 1st dose of Shingrix at CVS (I'm 55, recommended for 50+). Next I'll do Hep A & B. Later maybe MMR & Tetnus diptheria. I'll be glowing in the dark fluorescent green.

LOL. But, good for you. I put off getting my pneumonia shot (was due in February), because I wanted to get my 2 COVID shots and I wasn’t sure when I would be able to get an appointment. But, now that I have had my 2nd COVID shot 6 weeks ago I can go get up to date.

[QuarterMillionMan]

What I find interesting is how attitudes about vaccines have changed since I was a child.

Personally, I think the fact that they were able to come up with an effective vaccine against COVID in such a short period of time is amazing.

This could be the reason why people are skeptical about it, not me but those who choose not to get it. I'm on a vaccine of sorts craze now. Last week I took my 1st dose of Shingrix at CVS (I'm 55, recommended for 50+). Next I'll do Hep A & B. Later maybe MMR & Tetnus diptheria. I'll be glowing in the dark fluorescent green.

[Like2Plan]

How about no more $1500 stimulus checks or rich unemployment benefits until you get a vaccine?

Actually, I think that is brilliant. But, I don’t think there will be anymore stimulus checks. (And, some folks don’t qualify for any of these benefits).

[Like2Plan]

What I find interesting is how attitudes about vaccines have changed since I was a child.

Polio vaccine, for example. When my mother was a child the mechanism for transmission was not well understood. They closed down schools. They closed down pools and beaches. (One way to get polio is from “contaminated” water. Thank goodness for sewage treatment plants.)

“Polio is an infectious disease caused by a virus that lives in the throat and intestinaltract. It is most often spread through person-to-person contact with the stool of an infected person and also may be spread through oral/nasal secretions.”

http://www.idph.state.il.us/public/hb/POLIO%20HB.2012.pdf

The results of getting polio could be devastating or fatal. So, when they came up with a vaccine— my parents were very grateful that a vaccine could prevent the disease.

Growing up, I don’t ever recall someone saying—“we/our children could potentially just get a light case of polio- so, we are just going to take our chances with natural immunity.”

So, attitudes about vaccines seem to be different now a days.

I think what Dr Fauci has been saying is that we won’t achieve herd immunity unless we get more participation with folks taking the vaccine.

Personally, I think the fact that they were able to come up with an effective vaccine against COVID in such a short period of time is amazing.

[disneysteve]

I'm in agreement. Currently it seems like the vaccination process has slowed and something different needs to be done.

It has slowed but they’re still giving about 2 million a day I believe so it’s not like it’s dropped off wildly. Still an incentive couldn’t hurt.

[QuarterMillionMan]

I'm in agreement. Currently it seems like the vaccination process has slowed and something different needs to be done.

[disneysteve]

Ok I would add the incentive of $100 bonds up until June 1, then my plan takes effect. Without timelines people will procrastinate and never get it done.

I’m good with a deadline on the incentive. June 1 is a bit soon since it’s only been 2 weeks since vaccination opened to all. Add another month or two and then cut it off.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Now we are talking Texas. You speak my language.

[TexasHusker]

How about no more $1500 stimulus checks or rich unemployment benefits until you get a vaccine?

[QuarterMillionMan]

Ok I would add the incentive of $100 bonds up until June 1, then my plan takes effect. Without timelines people will procrastinate and never get it done.

[disneysteve]

With the vaccine supply now outweighing the demand and vaccine sites closing due to low demand, if I were advising Biden this would be my plan of action. Free vaccination up to June 1, thereafter pay half of retail price (ie, $199/2) of $99 per shot. Then beginning July 1 and thereafter pay full retail price of $199 per shot.

How would charging people help encourage folks who have been reluctant to get vaccinated? I think we should be doing just the opposite and incentivizing vaccination which some places have started doing.

[QuarterMillionMan]

With the vaccine supply now outweighing the demand and vaccine sites closing due to low demand, if I were advising Biden this would be my plan of action. Free vaccination up to June 1, thereafter pay half of retail price (ie, $199/2) of $99 per shot. Then beginning July 1 and thereafter pay full retail price of $199 per shot.

[TexasHusker]

I was surprised when for schools they changed it from 6 feet to 3 feet social distancing. Someone or something powerful allowed the change to occur.

"We're just following the science!"

[QuarterMillionMan]

I was surprised when for schools they changed it from 6 feet to 3 feet social distancing. Someone or something powerful allowed the change to occur.

[TexasHusker]

It's interesting how the state run media works. I have been observing the media treatment of Cuomo in opening New York and NYC. He is being claimed as a brave hero by the left. Yet just two months ago, Texas governoor Greg Abbott was tarred and feathered for doing the same thing and was publicly scolded by President Biden and called a Neanderthal.

https://deadline.com/2021/05/broadwa...19-1234748780/

https://abc7ny.com/health/businesses...n-ny/10577752/


And just as a matter of coincidence, the science of the CDC and Fauci has taken a dramatic turn in the last two days. Fauci was adamant that we would need to reach as much as 90 percent vaccination to reach herd immunity. See this article from just 2 months ago:

https://www.healthline.com/health-ne...-herd-immunity


Oops! Science changed! That's not really going to be necessary after all!

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/04/polit...ity/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/ne...ay/4915586001/


What a bunch of idiot clowns.