Here’s my take on the anti-vaxers. Do you see many Boomer I and II’s in the meetings red faced and screaming about masks and the vax? No. Because these are people, who as children, had measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, and polio. The common childhood disease, not fatal but extremely contagious, lifetime scarring in the case of measles and chicken pox, dangerous during pregnancy with rubella, and just damn miserable with mumps. Vaccines were a dang miracle! Who wanted their kids to be sick, crippled, or scarred? So the Boomers vaccinated their children. Chicken pox (Varicella) was usually only childhood disease common to Gen X and early millennial kids and there has been little pushback from millenials getting their kids vaccinated before Kdg. UNTIL…..the emergence of the conspiracy regarding autism and the MMR vaccine. No credible link ever found by science, but still resistance by some parents (who never had these diseases) with religious or conspiracy buy-in or conviction against vax for their kids. Thus, rise in especially measles in elementary aged kids in past decade. Rise in home schooling because of not participating in school requirements for vaccinations. So stage was set for Covid vaccine to be shunned by many in light of political and conspiracy implications.
And now Tennessee grabs the headlines. Watch others follow before school openings in August and September.
This sounds like a lot of children as sacrificial lambs so to speak to prove and support a political ideology. Crazy town.
My conclusion based on what is going on in my hometown? Trumpists just are not going to be able to bend Covid to their will. It will mutate. And a lot of people are going to get sick. And perhaps die. And it’s going to be unvaccinated people. And the stampede will pick up towards the vax lines. Abandoning their MAGA hats in the wind. Self preservation usually trumps kissing a ring.
Yes. And this group who are now safe as well as having their children vaccinated and having received the Covid vaccine see it as a safe stage (for them) to join the fray to get at their real angst…. Being kicked off their place on the caste ladder and lose their white privilege. It has nothing to do with truth. They know the vaccines are effective. If only it could have been for “whites only”.
Just an additional point on the mutation/variants: So far, our vaccines are good. We will have a whole new level of challenge when the coming new variants no longer respond to the current vaccines. Humans dealt with the bubonic plague for 400 years. We are dancing with the devil thinking COVID is over. As Ted Keyes pointed out on HCR, "none of us are safe until all of us are safe."
And talking about sacrificial lambs...this is insanity.
Morning, TC!! "Impressive" list! My cousin, now in his eighties, contracted polio some time before the vaccine for it became available, but was able to get it once it became widely distributed. It saved his life. I am not sure whether one individual should be taking all those vaccines, however. Hard choices when one doesn't know which disease(s) a person would be most vulnerable to.
Not understanding the last couple of sentences. The pediatric/ephebiatric vaccine program is pretty standard and required for school attendance across the country. Although TN may become the exception...
Here’s my take on the anti-vaxers. Do you see many Boomer I and II’s in the meetings red faced and screaming about masks and the vax? No. Because these are people, who as children, had measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, and polio. The common childhood disease, not fatal but extremely contagious, lifetime scarring in the case of measles and chicken pox, dangerous during pregnancy with rubella, and just damn miserable with mumps. Vaccines were a dang miracle! Who wanted their kids to be sick, crippled, or scarred? So the Boomers vaccinated their children. Chicken pox (Varicella) was usually only childhood disease common to Gen X and early millennial kids and there has been little pushback from millenials getting their kids vaccinated before Kdg. UNTIL…..the emergence of the conspiracy regarding autism and the MMR vaccine. No credible link ever found by science, but still resistance by some parents (who never had these diseases) with religious or conspiracy buy-in or conviction against vax for their kids. Thus, rise in especially measles in elementary aged kids in past decade. Rise in home schooling because of not participating in school requirements for vaccinations. So stage was set for Covid vaccine to be shunned by many in light of political and conspiracy implications.
And now Tennessee grabs the headlines. Watch others follow before school openings in August and September.
This sounds like a lot of children as sacrificial lambs so to speak to prove and support a political ideology. Crazy town.
My conclusion based on what is going on in my hometown? Trumpists just are not going to be able to bend Covid to their will. It will mutate. And a lot of people are going to get sick. And perhaps die. And it’s going to be unvaccinated people. And the stampede will pick up towards the vax lines. Abandoning their MAGA hats in the wind. Self preservation usually trumps kissing a ring.
Unfortunately, some of the most adamant anti-vaxxers I know are Boomers who had all their vaccinations as children.
Yes. And this group who are now safe as well as having their children vaccinated and having received the Covid vaccine see it as a safe stage (for them) to join the fray to get at their real angst…. Being kicked off their place on the caste ladder and lose their white privilege. It has nothing to do with truth. They know the vaccines are effective. If only it could have been for “whites only”.
Just an additional point on the mutation/variants: So far, our vaccines are good. We will have a whole new level of challenge when the coming new variants no longer respond to the current vaccines. Humans dealt with the bubonic plague for 400 years. We are dancing with the devil thinking COVID is over. As Ted Keyes pointed out on HCR, "none of us are safe until all of us are safe."
And talking about sacrificial lambs...this is insanity.
Morning, TC!! "Impressive" list! My cousin, now in his eighties, contracted polio some time before the vaccine for it became available, but was able to get it once it became widely distributed. It saved his life. I am not sure whether one individual should be taking all those vaccines, however. Hard choices when one doesn't know which disease(s) a person would be most vulnerable to.
Not understanding the last couple of sentences. The pediatric/ephebiatric vaccine program is pretty standard and required for school attendance across the country. Although TN may become the exception...
Taking them all at once
That doesn’t happen. Vaccines are scheduled over many years. Thanks for clarifying.