The Covid vaccine is such a great story.

[RegularJam]

Yet it's not enough.

Many parts of the last year an a half will stick with me and have left me in a bit of shock. None of it will top what has happened to the vaccine. From the amazing positives of it to the horrifying negative when it comes to individuals refusing to get it.

We have the ability to almost completely stop the spread and it's widely available. It's extremely easy to access the answer to our problems. Shockingly, at this point in time, close to every American adult should be vaccinated. We nailed it. Of course we aren't even close, but we should be. If things went as they should have we would currently be in a race to vaccinate the world, not our own citizenry.

Instead, we have decided that we are going to be very pro-variant. That is the story at the end of the day. Very few of the currently unvaccinated persons are going to die from Covid. A small percentage will get sick to the point they will need hospitalization. A larger percentage will miss work. An overwhelming majority will be just fine.

What won't be fine are the variants we are creating by way of increased spread. We should have been world leaders. Our populace should be world leaders. It's not just about the good old USA. Since we cannot take care of ours at home we are not able to devote as many resources abroad to stop the worldwide spread. The world is a virtual variant petri dish.

So much brilliance. So much fail. All of the people who acted responsibly will pay a price for the anti-vaccers.

[Yavin4]

1. We should get a lot more aggressive with the anti-vaxxers.

If we can mandate masks and social distancing, we need to mandate the vaccines.

[RegularJam]

2. I don't see how we are going to do this without mandating the vaccine.

Yet I don't see us mandating the vaccine. There are some ways to get more people to take it over time and that will help. Without a mandate we are simply building variants.

[Pobeka]

4. Well said. n/t

[abqtommy]

5. If the variants and the idiots refusing to mask or get vaxxed and corrupt political/religious

leaders don't kill us then the next pandemic will. I'm beginning to feel like natural selection
and evolution don't like us humans very much.

[RegularJam]

6. Humans have found ways to avoid natures natural protections.

It's a frightening aspect of our being on this planet. Vaccines play the biggest role in that.