Originally Posted by
Nantonaku
Did health officials weigh these different options last year when mandating lock downs and home schooling? It doesn't seem like economic destruction, social isolation or mental health was factored into any of the bureaucrat's decision making process in the last year. If it prevented one death they wanted to do it at any cost. So now that we can leverage vaccines as a carrot we are going to put these other issues back into the collective decision making conscience? Doesn't surprise me one bit, the political class has used every tool in their arsenal to force what they think is the best for the people they rule over.
The carrot moves often. Was reading about the Guam restricted segment. Guam has an 80% vaccinated rate and is still having issues with the local paper stating that 40% of their hospitalizations being vaccinated people.
Here on the mainland there is a theoretical 70% herd immunity campaign.. in Guam that did not happen so now the governor is threatening to lock it all down again. They’ve already instituted jabbed only activities like in person eating and bars..etc. The schools are shut down only doing online learning. It’s a moving goal post. No way to score a win.