Douchebag K
Well-Known Member
I believe I heard him say that. But we know there are breakthrough cases, and the efficacy was never shown to be 100%. That said, the evidence confirms that breakthrough infections are very rarely more than very mild, almost never require hospitalization, which is the very reason we do not have a true number of such cases, since we still do not test enough, and are often symptom free. One is clearly far better off having been fully vaccinated.
All that said, this surge in the delta variant is not expected to peak until October. It’s really a bad scene, which would be improved if more and more people vaccinated. And, it is a fact that those states with the lowest vaccination rate have seen a spike in vaccinations over the past week. Sadly, at least I believe, the politicalization in the direction represented by anti-vaccination misinformation and lies is very potent at the moment. Biden’s misstatement would not likely change minds anyway. JMO, vaccinations are up in the worse states, we can at least hope that trend accelerates. We don’t want to get to the point that the % of unvaccinated Americans is so far removed from allowing our population to attain herd immunity that much more virulent, vaccine resistant, strains develop. We don’t have to go in that direction.
So, Biden is wrong, but he certainly is not wrong in fighting the truly dangerous disinformation. Telling people they won’t get sick if vaccinated is not 100% true, just overwhelmingly true, to the best of our present knowledge, so his statement is not actually harmful. Anything that increases rates of vaccination is not something I would call harmful.
so lies and misrepresentation are ok if it's something you're cool with ??