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Unfortunately it does appear vacc'ing/boosting is the only and most efficient way to expedite some form of manageable, endemic, new-normal tho. Imho anyway.
Otherwise our health systems will continue to be overwhelmed, since unvaccinated/unboosted people continue to account for the majority of hospitalizations, serious illness, and death due to covid (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e2.htm). All a let-it-rip approach does is hoard beds, equipment, and clinicians/human resources away from the rest of the population who continue to need primary care, specialist care, surgeries, etc too.
But this isn't the first disease outbreak to occur in modern history, even for us in the West, and we've vaccinated our way to elimination (or in some cases, eg. polio, eradication) for those too. We're afforded the luxury to take our time learning, researching, or even not thinking about diseases like measles, polio, etc precisely bc a ridiculously high percentage of people were vaccinated against them as kids.
So everyone just needs to work together towards the same goal, that's all. But that requires true leadership, consistency, transparency etc.. and I do agree with you that govs as a whole (not just the US, and not just federal govs) have struggled with their strategies and messaging on this. That eroded trust.
At this point, I'm starting to wish someone like Dr. Jim Yong Kim (former WHO, World Bank, etc) would run for office (somewhere lol...anywhere), bc it's looking increasingly like the only (global) leader who can dig us out of this mess MAYBE by 2025 is somebody with all the skillsets... medical, diplomatic, progressive, on the ground experience in developing regions fighting shit like TB, HIV/AIDS etc. We need a superhero lol
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