It feels like a health supremacy test that in order to get the Covid vax in the States, you have to admit you’re high risk for Covid complications (which everyone who’s had at least one infection definitely is). So, if you can’t admit you’re high risk, you won’t get vaccinated, which puts you in anti-vax territory. Maybe you’re not really anti-vax, but to admit Covid is a problem is to acknowledge your role in its continued spread and mutation, which is why we need frequent updated vaccines.
Them: “Why are you wearing a mask? Are you sick?!”
Covid can spread without symptoms. I may or may not have Covid at any time. *You* may or may not have Covid at any given time. We could both be infected or not infected right now. Who would know?
That, dear heart, should scare you more than the sight of a mask. Or a respirator, which is what I’m wearing. Because I could possibly be infected and do not want to be responsible for getting someone else sick.
Nobody should have to justify their eligibility for a Covid vaccine when most everyone was eligible in 2021.
The reason we had eligibility by age initially was because the rollout was just ramping up and early supplies were still limited, so governments prioritized the most vulnerable, who tended to be the most elder.
There should be no age limits on vaccine eligibility. It only exists now because governments don’t want to pay for the doses necessary to cover their general populations.
Me screaming once again for being proactively consistent in virus mitigation.
• Wear a filtering respirator on your face to reduce inhaling a bunch of crap that could make you sick.
• Ventilate and clean the air in buildings you inhabit and frequent. Run air cleaners, open windows, crank up the fans. Keep the air moving to reduce the crap that could make you sick and prevent it from lingering in stale, still air.
