@LuckyCat posted:You are not taking it seriously. You are minimizing it. It is indeed here to stay and we will need to figure out how to live with it safely until we have a vaccine or more effective treatment so that it doesn't endanger anyone over 50 or with an underlying health condition. In the meantime, however long that is, we will need to do all the things our public health officials are urging us to do if we want any semblance of normal life and any sort of economic recovery. That is common sense and reality.
ETA: Perhaps we won't need to wait as long as we think. Here's a glimmer of good news. And I'm posting the study since I'm pretty sure you won't want to read the NYT.
Just like to point out this from the results:
"Solicited adverse events that occurred in more than half the participants included fatigue, chills, headache, myalgia, and pain at the injection site. Systemic adverse events were more common after the second vaccination, particularly with the highest dose, and three participants (21%) in the 250-μg dose group reported one or more severe adverse events."
It seems that a majority of students have side effects, which for young people, higher than having symptoms with covid (I read a study where it was 20%).
Not trying to read further into this, except to say that this may not be a panacea.... I'm hopeful, though.