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Hi Jerry, I think you've hit the nail on the head. Anti-vaxxers (doesn't matter if they are 'general' or 'Covid-specific'), flat earthers, moon landing hoax types, 9/11 'truthers', fools who believe that Trump won, even creationists. They ignore science, they ignore reality. Anything that proves them wrong is either 'fake' or 'wrong' or whatever. They have convinced themselves that it's true. Getting the 'anti' types to get vaccinated is going to be virtually impossible. They've made their minds up and NOTHING is going to change that. I still remember when Ken Hamm had the 'debate' with Bill Nye. The question was asked of both of them: What would make you change your mind on this? Nye answered "Evidence". Hamm answered "Nothing". That tells you all you need to know about 'educating' the anti-vaxxers. You can't. I'm done feeling sorry for them. Bigun's sister has apparently recovered. She may or may not have long term effects. She likely has a pretty big bill for the services. Some of the unvaccinated will get very sick. Some will die. I've seen & heard reports that there are places where the infection, hospitalization and death rates for the unvaccinated are similar to what the entire country was experiencing last winter. Only the fact that almost half of the adult population is vaccinated is keeping it from getting as out of control as it was. Stupidity has consequences.

About all I can offer is to start asking and educating my circle.

Thank you BIGUN & wolfriverjoe

It probably should have been written something like 'those who received a single dose of a two dose vaccine'. The UK prioritized first doses to as many as possible, not worrying as much about the second. There's a fair amount of debate about it, and it has downsides. But it got at least some immunity into a lot more people.

Wanna bet?

My granddad said "It's going to be horrendous on the roads this weekend, snow is forecast". "Tell me something I don't know" I replied. "I can get my whole fist up your Nanna's arse" he said .

Hi Keith, We live in a world where a fart into the wind is now filmed via smart phone. If you want to deny saying something, then just do not say it. What, for me, is most telling about this vote is that every one of his GOP colleagues voted against him. Jerry Baumchen PS) For those who want to read a little more about this: Oregon House expels state Rep. Mike Nearman, plotter of state Capitol incursion - OPB

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Randall Monroe who writes xkcd replied to a similar question in his "what-if" series. "What would happen if a pitcher was able to pitch a ball at 90% of the speed of light?" https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/ The answer is yes.