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COVID-19 Magic Thinking Does No One Any Good
Wishful thinking is no help
Three myths of the pandemic persist.
We can return to everyday life. All of this just happened by chance. It’s okay not to pay attention to leaders and what they say. This last bit is perhaps more critical.
What we want is often different from what is.
Pay attention to the pandemic facts
Vaccinations do not cure COVID-19. Vaccinations cannot guarantee that the vaccine will protect you from infection by the virus that causes COVID-19.
Vaccinations do not prevent the vaccinated from infecting other people with the virus that causes COVID-19.
One hundred percent jabs still hold the potential for infections and hospitalizations — there would still be the potential for deaths — by definition.
That is true even if it all means that the vaccine is working as designed. It’s true no matter what.
Boosters are already in play
I remember suggesting this scenario to friends last year. I told them, the vax comes out, we take it the same way we take flu shots. We must take boosters each time the variant changes.
