So now those anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers can all claim they are vaccinated even though they're not and start spreading again. Feel real bad for health departments in heavily anti-mask/anti-vaxx areas. Grocery stores and restaurants aren't going to request vaccination cards for entry and even if they do, they're easy to fake or pretend you left it in the car or at home or something. Not a fan of this one. Prefer we go on a state/county level for percent vaccinated to life masking orders. Localized health rules are better than national ones anyway as they can be tailored to a population. What a shit show this is gonna be for a lot of the country. Hoping it doesn't allow a variant better able to escape the vaccine to spread and rip through our country again.
ohhhh... so you've met my sister-in-law. Yes. Now she says "I identify as vaccinated" so that she can not only insult science, but throw a little side-jab at the trans population. ahhhhhh family.anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers can all claim they are vaccinated
tinfoil hat time? If you're halfway vaccinated, this is enough to scare you into being all the way vaccinated. If you were on the fence? This pushes you off the fence one way or the other. If you're vaccinated? You're fine. If you're not vaccinated? You're most likely in the age group that experiences mild symptoms. And if you're not, you're sick now. And all your friends see it. And the places that are not prepared for this are about to show their asses and everyone gets to go "whoa holy shit vaccines work." I think this is the United States public health apparatus going "we double dog dare you." 'cuz let's be honest: if you haven't gotten vaccinated by now, it's probably a choice. And if you have gotten vaccinated by now, you are 100% protected from severe COVID.
I think it's a tacit acknowledgement that everyone who wants a vaccine has a vaccine and everyone who doesn't won't so either we wear masks forever or we change the calculus. I mean, the Republicans have been saying for over a year they'd rather have mass death than economic hardship so fuckin' take 'em at their word.