09-07-2021, 04:23 PM
(09-07-2021, 03:47 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Are they 100% effective? No, but vaccines do stop the spread and do prevent people from getting covid.
When you have high rates of community vaccination paired with other mitigation efforts, you both slow the spread and reduce the risk to those who do get sick.
Variants will pop up, and continuing mitigation efforts helps to reduce the impact of them.
With the vaccines, monoclonal antibody treatments, and the various other drugs that have shown to be effective, then we can save more lives. The answer to all of this in my mind is "D. All of the above"
By all means that we can save lives, we should. Whether its vaccines or treatments, or both. Remember, we are still talking about a virus with a very high survival rate. Going from 99.7 to 99.9% survival rate should be the common goal for us all. Obviously we cant sav everyone. People die from the common cold every year, but those folks are dying anyway whether they get it or not, sadly. I wish we could all live forever, but we cant...
