Eh, I just want to remind them of their views at one point that the apparently no longer hold when it comes to the President and his health in regards to covid.
They were absolutely livid when Trump had it, now itās a great big meh with Biden. No ore shouts for contact tracing, where did he catch it, how dare his doctor not keep us informed, what treatment is he getting, OMG his age!!! blah, blah, blah.
Trump caught COVID in 2020 about a month before a presidential election after downplaying it, before a vaccine existed, etc. among innumerable other different factors two years later. Getting COVIDāwell on its way to becoming endemicādoesnāt mean the same thing, have the same implications that it did two years ago, etc. So the coverage is different.
Addressing painstakingly dumb arguments like this makes me feel like Iāve wandered into a room with a bunch of toxic solvents and chemicals in the air. I can feel my IQ lowering with each word and moment I spend in its presence, and as I decline into dotage, I canāt afford to lose any more points.
The most commonly used flu shots protect no more than 60% of people who receive them; some years, effectiveness plunges to as low as 10%. Given that a bad flu season can kill 50,000 people in the United States alone, ā10% to 60% protection is better than nothing,ā says Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. āBut itās a terribly inadequate vaccine for a serious public health threat.ā