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Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
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Sooner or later this problem will solve itself. It's just a question of how long it will take and how many people will have to suffer and die needlessly before that happens.
Isn't the issue that a small percentage of people who get vaccinated are not protected (or the vaccine doesn't take effect), AND there is a small population that cannot get vaccinated due to compromised immune systems or other health issues? Then, by maintaining a large pool of susceptible hosts, we just create a "mutating wonderland" for these viruses to evolve further.
It becomes a lot of people's problems after that. They are already obstinate people refusing common sense health practices that could become refugees when their state system collapses.
Oh absolutely, this is everyone's problem. If it only affected the knuckle-draggers that made the decision it wouldn't be an issue. If it only affected them and their unvaccinated kids it would be sad but at least contained. If it was limited to their own community it would be similar to a lot of other egregiously bad policies that make life worse for the people living under them. Instead, what we have is a policy that will radiate harm into the world around it.
All I was pointing out is that vaccines (and masks, and self-quaratining, etc) still help and in the long term, natural selection will favor those who choose vaccination. That may happen slowly over many decades, especially as the current generation of nurgle worshippers gradually age out and die. Or it may happen rapidly due to some particularly nasty strain of something sweeping through the population. You never know when the next pandemic will hit, and if something particularly deadly comes along while these asshats are still adamantly opposed to literally anything that reduces their own risks, we might see that timetable accelerate considerably.