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Because it's a way to reduce spread of the virus. This story is an example of a 1) unvaccinated and 2) unmasked teacher who infected 26 other people. Had he been vaccinated OR worn a mask this likely would have been averted. Masks do not stop pathogens 100%. But surgeons have to wear them, because they help. How would you feel if your surgeon said "well, masks don't work 100% - some people still get noscomial infections in the hospital even when people wear masks. So for your surgery I'm not going to wear a mask. Or wash my hands. Because, you know, it's not 100%." Yep. And here's a news flash - if a new variant comes along, they are going to move again. Because you are suddenly playing a different game. Take a look at the goals in soccer, football and hockey. All different goalposts. Because they are all different games. What works to get a field goal doesn't work on a hockey rink. ?? N95 doesn't work 100%. It's right there in the name - it only stops 95% of aerosol particles between .1 and 1 micron. Vaccination doesn't work 100% either, but it does reduce your likelihood of becoming infected by a factor of about 3 with the Delta variant. So why do you understand the logic for one partial solution, but not the logic for another partial solution? Again, it's like skydiving. A reserve won't save your life 100%. Neither will an AAD, or a helmet, or an RSL, or goggles, or a good spot, or a safe airplane, or good student training, or exit separation, or a good breakoff, or a safe landing area. But some combination of those things makes skydiving safe ENOUGH to keep deaths down to a minimum. If we implement vaccinations and NPI's that are sufficient to get Re below 1, then the pandemic will slowly die off. People will still get infected and people will still die. But they will decline until it's no more dangerous than (say) the flu is now. That's the goal. Not 100% perfect safety; that's an illusion. And get enough exercise. And wear a mask. And get vaccinated. And avoid having parties with infected people. And distance where you can. And talk to your doctor if you feel sick. Do all of those things and you are in good shape. Do most of them and you're probably in good shape. Just "be in good shape" because you think that's better than vaccination? You might end up as one of those stories in the news about what not to do. ================================ Fitness enthusiast, 42, who rejected vaccine, dies of Covid John Eyers had been climbing mountains four weeks before his death in intensive care. Sarah Marsh @sloumarsh Wed 4 Aug 2021 14.11 EDT A “fit and healthy” 42-year-old who loved climbing mountains and lifting weights has died of Covid-19 after refusing to get vaccinated, leaving his twin sister and mother heartbroken. The two women warned others not to think they are invulnerable to the dangers of the virus. The father of one, John Eyers, a construction expert from Southport in Merseyside, was described by his sister Jenny McCann as “the fittest, healthiest person I know”. She added that her brother had been climbing Welsh mountains and camping in the wild four weeks before his death. But he was left in intensive care after catching coronavirus, and told his consultant before he was ventilated that he wished he had been vaccinated. His twin said his death was “a tragedy”. “He thought if he contracted Covid-19 he would be OK. He thought he would have a mild illness. He didn’t want to put a vaccine in his body. His was pumped full of every drug in the hospital. They threw everything at him,” McCann said on Twitter. “It should not have happened. He leaves a mum and a dad, a sister (me), and a 19-year-old daughter. My two children have lost their fun uncle. The uncle who would always play with them.” . . . “You can see it dawn on them that they potentially made the biggest mistake of their lives [in not getting the vaccine], which is really hard,” she said, adding that she had overheard people telling family members about their remorse. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/04/fit-and-healthy-man-42-from-southport-who-rejected-vaccine-dies-of-covid

Ok, enough about Brent (yes, you are keeping it to the arguments). More about Biden. Knowing, of course, that anything in here will provide fodder. Ain’t intellectual honesty fun? Wendy P.

Unless (because again, they've spent their entire lives living and fighting in Afghanistan and know how the seasons there work even better than you do) they'd have remained patient and taken over just as quickly in the spring. And then we'd be looking at the exact same evacuation clusterfuck only worse, because there wouldn't even be any troops there to protect Hamid Karzai Airport. Hey, is there an echo in here? Edit: Honestly after 20 years of pointless fighting, 20 years of abject failure in understanding how to work with the Afghan culture culminating in this moment, you're still sitting there with such arrogance and such hubris that you genuinely think you have one simple, easy magic bullet idea to fix everything that's gone wrong over the last month. Two whole decades and you have learned nothing.

I always thought the one word was "plastics".

And at the end of the day, considering all these facts, it's stupid and irresponsible to not get the vaccine.