Coronavirus:

[rogruth]

Percentage points are all over the place . On who wants a vaccine. 34 percent of the female population does not want it. 28 percent of the male population does not want it. 39 percent of black Americans don't want it.

I don't like shots but I got mine because death from covid seems to be pretty awful ( I suppose all death is.)
I do not understand most reasons given for not getting this shot.

[robert.]

Bottom line. Those people don't trust it or the government. I would bet 98 percent of the people that don't trust this vaccine. Have had other vaccines in their life

[MartyE]

Well I got my first jab. IMO after everyone that wants one gets it the mask and all the other precautions need to go away. I don’t care if you don’t want the vaccine, that’s none of my business and all on those who refused but I’ll be damned if I’m going to continue to wear a mask and all this other stuff when there is a vaccine to protect those that don’t want the vaccine.

Again it’s not my place to say get it or not but the masks and everything that goes with it needs to go.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Well I got my first jab. IMO after everyone that wants one gets it the mask and all the other precautions need to go away.

One shot does protect you 100%; even after the 2nd shot it's still 2+ weeks until you are 90+% protected. Maybe after that you can feel invulnerable to all harm again. The rest that are refusing to get shots can be nominees for Darwin awards.

[MartyE]

When I say gets one, I mean when they are fully vaccinated.

[gregj410]

Fauci’s gonna tell you you have to wear 2 masks after you get vaccinated.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Fauci’s gonna tell you you have to wear 2 masks after you get vaccinated.

So? You can still act as a carrier/transported of virus to those that are not vaccinated. Why take chances?

BTW, Tony can only recommend and advise. You can do whatever you like.....until you get to a business that has a sign on the door requiring a mask.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

When I say gets one, I mean when they are fully vaccinated.

Yup. you'll be just like Superman then,

[MartyE]

Fauci’s gonna tell you you have to wear 2 masks after you get vaccinated.

So? You can still act as a carrier/transported of virus to those that are not vaccinated. Why take chances?

BTW, Tony can only recommend and advise. You can do whatever you like.....until you get to a business that has a sign on the door requiring a mask.

Sorry but that's no longer on me to protect people that chose not to get vaccinated. When everyone has had the opportunity this should be over with the precautions if the vaccines are as effective as they say. Folks want to take a chance and not that's fine with me but I shouldn't be wearing mask and being inconvenienced by their choice. I'm sure that sounds insensitive but I am all for freedom of choice and they made their and I made mine.

[HONDO74]

Just because you have had 2 shots doesn't mean you are out of the woods this year.

Pfizer, Moderna Say Booster Shots Probably Needed
https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19 ... bly-needed

April 16, 2021 -- People who’ve received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccines will probably need a booster shot this year, top executives for those two pharmaceutical companies said this week.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said people who’ve gotten both doses would likely need a third shot within 12 months and might need an annual shot thereafter.

"There are vaccines ... like polio that one dose is enough, there are vaccines like pneumococcal vaccine that one dose is enough for adults, and there are vaccines like flu that you need every year," Bourla said on a CVS Health Live event, “Race to Vaccinate.” "The COVID virus looks more like the influenza virus than the polio virus."

A top Moderna executive said the United States is in a good position to move into booster shots because of its vaccine rollout, whereas many other nations are still getting first vaccinations.

"It is likely that the countries that have already achieved high vaccine coverage are going to be ready to shift their focus to boosters in 2022 and possibly even starting at the end of this year," Corinne M. Le Goff, PharmD, Moderna's chief commercial officer, said during a call with investors, Business Insider reported.

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel made similar comments to Business Insider this week.

"I hope this summer to get the vaccine authorized for a boost so that we can help people getting boosted before the fall, so that we all have a normal fall and not a fall and winter like we just saw in the last 6 months," he said.

Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky told CNBC in February that people may need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 annually, just like seasonal flu shots.

[robert.]

A shot every year.

[gregj410]

Yes, let's put scientific illiterates like Steve Scalise in charge . Did he take high school biology? Or we could rely on arrogant ignoramuses who don't know what they know and don't know like Scott Atlas. The worst kind of physicians are those who have no clue what their limits are. Politics can be the enemy of good science and public health.

Hence our Republican leaders are responsible for the fact that 50% of self-identifying Republicans don't plan on being vaccinated. Natural selection at work in theory, but, unfortunately too late, as these misguided Republicans are beyond reproductive age and have already passed their stupidity genes along to their offspring .

Clearly you haven’t watched the video and a we already know your a partisan hack.

I don’t know why you’re attacking Steve Scalise. Steve Scalise is simply holding your hero boy and Joey B accountable for what they and you see fit for the country.

I know you get a little sensitive when we talk about your hero. You probably have posters of him on the ceiling over your bed....poor Mrs Blumberg if there is one.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Sorry but that's no longer on me to protect people that chose not to get vaccinated. When everyone has had the opportunity this should be over with the precautions if the vaccines are as effective as they say. Folks want to take a chance and not that's fine with me but I shouldn't be wearing mask and being inconvenienced by their choice. I'm sure that sounds insensitive but I am all for freedom of choice and they made their and I made mine.

Okay, not everyone has had the opportunity. This should be over.

Famous last words - "This should be over"

Still have a lot of people to vaccinate until this over...........and even then it might not be over.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Just because you have had 2 shots doesn't mean you are out of the woods this year.

Yup.

A shot every year.

Seems increasingly probable.

[robert.]

Pennsylvania went to antibody 16 or over . Problem is sites have shutdown. Without j&j Pa has a real shortfall. Time will tell on that one