Another anti-science sentiment common among vaccine passport proponents is the denial of natural immunity,” the DeSantis spokeswoman wrote. “People who already had COVID and recovered are at very low risk of being infected again, at least as low risk as vaccinated people.”
I have heard this argument and it is mind numbingly stupid. I don’t think anybody denies that a “natural immunity” develops among those who have been infected and recovered, but it is reasonably clear that the protection provided by natural immunity isn’t necessarily the same as provided by vaccines. I would note that Donald Trump famously had Covid but he and his wife Melania who was also infected, quietly received Covid vaccinations as soon as they became available.
In a public health context it is just easier to document when someone has been vaccinated. An illness might not be Covid. You just don’t know unless you have been tested. Most, especially in the early days, weren’t tested.
People who make this spurious argument are just looking for a way out of being vaccinated.
Which unfortunately explains why Republicans may have an increasing lock on the electoral college. The red states, many of which used to be swing states, just keep getting redder because anyone with any sense or decent instincts gets out as soon as they can.
My birth state of Missouri is a perfect example. The home of Harry Truman was once the quintessential swing state and has now gone fully over the deep end. Nobody in their right mind wants to live there, including me.
Masks are much better at preventing an infected person from transmitting the virus to others. Most types of masks will trap the exhaled droplets that contain the virus and lessen the amount of virus in the air. They are much less effective at stopping airborne virus from being inhaled. One really needs a well fitting mask of proper design to be worn properly for protection of the wearer. In the general population, a mask is worn for the protection of others.
I wish my school board were courageous here in Idaho. We are about to pull our son out of in-person because they decided last night that masks will only be recommended.
I’ve never been happier to live in a school district with rules that are more strict than either the CA state or CDC requirements (think antithesis of the insanity in Texas).
Remember, we’re not asking cons to “co-parent with the gubmint” since they can home school their covidiots themselves, if they don’t want to follow the rules everyone else is.
I like Judge Parker just fine, but the language in that temporary restraining order is totally standard. if there isn’t imminent and irreparable harm, you can’t get a TRO, and the order is required to state what that harm is.
And I hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but the order was actually written by Clay Jenkins’ attorneys, not the judge. She signed it, of course, but you always have to submit a proposed order to the court.
ETA: And now that I have read the whole order, it is worth noting that it prohibits Abbott from enforcing his anti-mask mandate orders at all, not just as to Clay Jenkins or even just Dallas County. That may get her in trouble with SCOTX, as it doesn’t take into account what conditions are like elsewhere in the state or in different contexts where the anti-mandate rules might make more sense.
“I’m a First Amendment absolutist and believe in two things completely — the First Amendment and boobs,” Travis said on CNN in 2017.
That they exist?
The GOP has veered into a bizarro cult in so many ways, but the sheer creepiness of Donald Trump/Matt Gaetz/Kimberly Guilfoyle doesn’t get enough attention.
The whole party talks with an evangelical minister’s cadence, while acting like they’re at a fetish club.
