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Originally Posted by cromag
Yet another reason I'm glad our governor has stuck with the stricter regulations.
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There is that for sure.
And there is also my lack of confidence in medical science. I'm in my sixties, and over the decades I’ve watched several relatives slowly and horribly die of cancer, including my mom and oldest brother and several aunts and uncles. In each case the doctors fed them with false hope, telling them they could easily beat the cancer, even when it was in stage 4. The sad truth is, the medical science just doesn't have a handle on many cancers yet, not even close. So they try the placebo psychology thing where they tell the patient all is well even though the doctors know it isn't.
I definitely believe in science, and we are certainly way farther advanced than we were a century ago, but we are still not as advanced as we need to be for treating cancer and other diseases, especially pandemics that pop up and rapidly take root. In the USA we have a terrible healthcare system compared to other 1st world countries. They do not fill me with confidence. I'm confident they are doing all they can to understand this pandemic, but my confidence level in their current state of knowledge is far from 100%. It might be safe for the fully vaccinated like myself to stop wearing masks in public, but until I feel completely confident that it is, I will err on the side of caution and keep wearing my mask, and I will avoid public places where masks are optional. I do this not for myself as much as for those who have not been vaccinated and/or have survived COVID-19. I care not whether they are anti-vaxers or simply can’t take the vaccines, I don't want to accidently spread it to them.
As I said, just because this study or that one says fully vaccinated people can’t spread COVID-19 doesn't mean that is true. It just means someone "thinks it is". Far too often we have read studies that say one thing, then a few years later read studies which proclaim the opposite. Currently, I'm simply not confident enough in these studies to fully trust them yet.