re: Breaking: President Biden to require quarantine for international travel, masks on planes

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I wish the politicians would say, "Hey, we have a vaccine. If you want it, go get it. It's your choice. But we're opening everything back up." But that ain't happening. We're going to have to wait until the numbers reach a certain point and that's going to take frickin' forever while those of us with some youth left are watching sand run through the hourglass instead of out having fun and enjoying our lives to the fullest.

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That's basically what they're doing. It's not like everyone can just go get a vaccine in one day. They're manufacturing them as fast as they can and giving them to front line workers and the most vulnerable first. The number I've seen from the CDC is 70%+ vaccinated and we'll have "herd immunity." That's approx 231 million people. It's just not possible to have 231 million people vaccinated in the snap of a finger. It takes months, especially when the two vaccines at this point are two doses that will take around 6 weeks total to take full effect. Hopefully by July/August we'll be getting very close to that number. I sure hope so because I have a trip to southern Utah planned that I had to reschedule from last May.

And the data still isn't there to show that you can't carry the virus if you're vaccinated. So, you may be vaccinated and go to a country that has very few vaccinations, get it without symptoms because you're already vaccinated and pass it on to an untold number of people in that country. I've seen some data on the Moderna vaccine possibly making it so that those that are vaccinated can't get it, but it's still too early to tell.

And just because you want to travel, that means all those retired folks who want to travel too have to sit at home? My parents have had to cancel two big trips due to this. You don't think they want to live their lives too? They have much less time left than you, so you better believe they want this to be over fast. That's an incredibly selfish way to look at this.