Albuquerque Journal - 19% of new cases are vaccinated

[patphil]

10. I think we may be going into a situation similar the yearly flu vaccine.

The Covid style virus may be with us a long time. As a result, we will probably have to have booster shots each year. And as the virus mutates, current vaccines will have to be modified to maintain immunity.
I'm sure Pfizer and Moderna are looking into the delta variant, and also the theta variant. They need to keep their vaccine current to maintain their status as the leading providers of covid vaccines.
Even with booster shots, and modified vaccines, some years may have high infection, and possibly high fatality rates, and other years may be very low.
Eventually the anti-vaxers will run head on into a variant that will take them down hard. But, we can't afford to wait around for each new variant to rage through the population as the anti-vaxers continual to play the denial game.
We'll have to play hardball with them as regards to employment and the cost of treating their illness. I think a strong hit to their pocketbooks is the only way to get them to take the responsible path.
Right now they want the freedom to choose not to be responsible, while expecting the medical system to fix them for little or no cost to them.

In a Democracy, there is always a balance between freedom and responsibility. During good time, freedom is the more desirable path. But when things get rough, like in a pandemic, freedom must give way to responsibility.

Right now, with the latest surge, it looks like a lot of anti-vaxers are taking the freedumb path. They demonstrate their freedom by being stone cold dumb.

Freedumb is a personal choice to be a self-absorbed jerk.
Freedumb is putting everyone around you at risk by refusing to be a responsible adult.
Freedumb is never having to say you care.