Isaac put it very well, although with some fudging. If you have gotten your shots, the pandemic is over for you. You won't get sick enough to matter, and you won't spread the Rona to others.
If you do not get your shots, you will surely come down with covid eventually, because it is that highly infectious. For this reason, if you do not get your shots, you have an obligation to be masked, always, indoors and out.
The true reason for mask mandates, which no one seems to mention, is that there is no way to know whether any particular person has had their shots. The vaccinated person who cannot infect you looks no different from the unvaccinated person who is a walking case of covid just waiting to happen.
Not sure I get your cost/ benefit argument. "but mask mandates and social distancing rules have serious costs " is pretty vague. Please do not conflate a mask mandate with a lockdown, the latter has a serious cost, but masks are selling today for under $1 at Amazon. Can you be clearer on how you arrived at your cost figure? It matters what the cost is, since you seem to be willing to suffer more deaths (just 2% immune compromised, yes). And we haven't even gotten to any effects that may result from minor COVID cases that develop later in life. Think lead water pipes.
To make your argument, both cost and benefit numbers are required.
Isaac put it very well, although with some fudging. If you have gotten your shots, the pandemic is over for you. You won't get sick enough to matter, and you won't spread the Rona to others.
If you do not get your shots, you will surely come down with covid eventually, because it is that highly infectious. For this reason, if you do not get your shots, you have an obligation to be masked, always, indoors and out.
The true reason for mask mandates, which no one seems to mention, is that there is no way to know whether any particular person has had their shots. The vaccinated person who cannot infect you looks no different from the unvaccinated person who is a walking case of covid just waiting to happen.
Not sure I get your cost/ benefit argument. "but mask mandates and social distancing rules have serious costs " is pretty vague. Please do not conflate a mask mandate with a lockdown, the latter has a serious cost, but masks are selling today for under $1 at Amazon. Can you be clearer on how you arrived at your cost figure? It matters what the cost is, since you seem to be willing to suffer more deaths (just 2% immune compromised, yes). And we haven't even gotten to any effects that may result from minor COVID cases that develop later in life. Think lead water pipes.
To make your argument, both cost and benefit numbers are required.
I don't think 597 billion is correct haha! But no worries typos happen!