It’s starting to get bad again.
Don’t let the low numbers and lax masking rules fool you.
We are heading into another Covid surge and unless people smarten up and get vaccinated, we will soon be in the same mirky soup we were in last fall.
School is at risk.
Livelihoods are at risk.
Lives are in the balance.
There are a few statistics and facts you need to know.
#1 – in the last 6 months, 99.5% of Covid related deaths were in non vaccinated people! If you refuse to believe the numbers, no one can help you, but you’ll be begging for help when you get sick! That should be enough to convince anyone to get vaccinated. Period.
#2 – 80% of new cases of Covid are from the Delta variant which ravaged India. It is 2x more infectious as the previous variant which was 2x more infectious than the original virus. It affects kids much more and is more lethal.
#3 – We have a significant proportion of the population, kids under 12, who are not yet eligible for vaccination. They can get Covid, especially the delta variant, and they can transmit covid to all those unvaccinated people.
The delta variant is such an issue because it attaches to the ACE 2 receptor more vigorously and the average person infected with it produces 1000x more virus in their respiratory tract than the previous versions of the virus. Infected people have been described as exhaling a “cloud” of virus.
As far as concerns for the vaccines are concerned, more than 300 billion doses have been given and we have plenty of data on their safety. Any complications seen with it, such as clots, heart inflammation or neurologic issues, are lower or equal to background numbers and are irrelevant.
I just spoke with a patient of mine who is an EMT (emergency rescue worker). Even in the county where I live where 80% of eligible people have been vaccinated, he has seen a dramatic increase in Covid cases, almost all in unvaccinated. He is heading down to Arkansas to assist with an emergency field ICU since they are overrun with Covid cases, essentially all in unvaccinated people and almost all from the Delta variant.
If you have not received the vaccine, please educate yourself about the actual facts and stop being selfish.
It’s not about you. It’s about everyone else.
Stay safe and be well.
AC