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Originally Posted by John Mercier
Because it is a pandemic, it is reasonable to presume that variants from other parts of the globe will emerge and enter the US, NH, and even the Lakes Region.
Because those 12 and under cannot be currently vaccinated, we should expect parents and those in direct contact with children - even for short periods of time - to change their habits regardless of government mandates or media.
So we were never really going to vaccinate our way out of this.
My expectation is over time, COVID will react like the Flu. It will have annual variants, that some of us will get vaccinated against, others will take their chances... and tens of thousands of Americans will die from it or associated complications each year going forward.
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One problem that vaccine skeptics have in their thinking (and I'm not saying this includes you), is that they keep looking for sure things, and then do nothing when they realize there are no 100% guarantees.
So with that in mind--to a large extent we have already vaccinated our way our of this. We have hundreds of thousands of people saved over what would have happened, and we have much more safety/freedom from disease than we would have had.
As we move toward this being like the flu in some ways, we will be helped be higher vaccination levels and the kids getting vaccinated soon. Trials are underway now