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Well, shit
Apr. 13th, 2021 11:56 amJ&J vaccines are being 'paused' by the CDC. Possibly only for a few days while more data comes in, but that few days includes my appointment.
I woke up to lots of people on twitter being all 'dumb Americans being afraid of rare vaccines complications, wait until they hear about car safety!' type takes. But, guess what guys it's bad enough for CDC action. The government is pushing re-opening, they wouldn't do this without good reason. There is no political upside to slowing things down.
This stage of the pandemic winding down is such a mess. People are stressed out. Also, among those who want things to stay closed it's becoming very clear who the rational people were and what people have just fallen into abject paranoia. I am suddenly seeing a lot of 'you can be vaccinated and still die of covid, so everything should stay closed' takes on the local subreddits. I do think that things are opening faster than they should, but I am seeing a lot of takes on it driven by paranoia and stress rather than reasonable caution. And I am very into reasonable caution! I am STILL walking instead of taking mass transit.
Also, like, if you've got the vax go live your life. Seriously. Please wear a mask for now in stores, but don't let shouty people ruin shit for you. Go kiss people in bars or see how many people you can fit in a phone booth or whatever it is immune people do.
I am about ready to reply with this to everyone who thinks they can math better than the CDC. I mean, not really, I am going to ignore them not pick fights. There is no upside. But that is going to be playing in my head every time I look at social media. I need to figure out which Medlife Crisis video that clip is from.
I woke up to lots of people on twitter being all 'dumb Americans being afraid of rare vaccines complications, wait until they hear about car safety!' type takes. But, guess what guys it's bad enough for CDC action. The government is pushing re-opening, they wouldn't do this without good reason. There is no political upside to slowing things down.
This stage of the pandemic winding down is such a mess. People are stressed out. Also, among those who want things to stay closed it's becoming very clear who the rational people were and what people have just fallen into abject paranoia. I am suddenly seeing a lot of 'you can be vaccinated and still die of covid, so everything should stay closed' takes on the local subreddits. I do think that things are opening faster than they should, but I am seeing a lot of takes on it driven by paranoia and stress rather than reasonable caution. And I am very into reasonable caution! I am STILL walking instead of taking mass transit.
Also, like, if you've got the vax go live your life. Seriously. Please wear a mask for now in stores, but don't let shouty people ruin shit for you. Go kiss people in bars or see how many people you can fit in a phone booth or whatever it is immune people do.
I am about ready to reply with this to everyone who thinks they can math better than the CDC. I mean, not really, I am going to ignore them not pick fights. There is no upside. But that is going to be playing in my head every time I look at social media. I need to figure out which Medlife Crisis video that clip is from.
