Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

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(09-07-2021, 10:49 AM)bengaloo Wrote: 40% is too many for something pushed as a vaccine that would stop the pandemic. Natural immunity is far superior, as we all know now. However, early treatment for covid is what could really actually save lives and end the pandemic. 500 million doses of monoclonal antibody treatments were shipped all over the US a long time ago. These treatments can save lives, yet most of them are collecting dust on the shelves while people keep pushing the vaccines. Its time to use some common sense. If you want the vaccine, get it, but whether your vaccinated or not, early treatment should be on the table and its insane that most clinics dont treat active covid cases with the plethora of treatments that can treat it. They are sending people home until they get sick enough to be hospitalized. Enough is enough. All options should be on the table. We either take saving lives seriously, or keep pushing vaccines that are showing to be less effective than we were told. 

That 40% is against a variant, and the vaccine was always just one strong tool to help end the pandemic. But early treatment for covid alone Can't end the pandemic either. Vaccinations, masks, and social distancing will.Treatments can save lives and prevent more deaths, but they won't stop the spread.

Natural immunity is a critical part of the puzzle too (though whether it is superior on its own compared to vaccines is up for debate in various studies), and researchers are finding most effective immunity is a "hybrid immunity" of people who got sick and then later got the vaccine. The problem is trying to infect everyone first will lead to mass deaths, both from the sheer number of people infected and the degree to which it would overwhelm our health infrastructure.  

No one is going to argue against a safe, proven treatment, but they will push back against pushing the idea that treating covid alone is all that needs to be done.