(04-04-2024, 10:24 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(04-04-2024, 09:32 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: That you still think the vaccine didn't work taints your whole perspective.

I'm with you on taking it if you are at higher risk (i.e. age or pre-existing respiratory ailments), but what is your position on getting the vaccine for otherwise younger, healthier individuals? Especially those who have natural immunity/resistance from having had Covid once or multiple times before?

My position is that otherwise healthier and younger individuals were dying or requiring significant amounts of resources to treat and the vaccine helped us to conserve our health system resources that would've otherwise been completely overwhelmed. I don't think people realize just how limited critical care and inpatient facility resources are in a place like Jacksonville where over million people have just 1,000 beds for which to compete if they need care (58,000 for 22 million people in Florida total). The science indicates that even those with natural immunity benefited from vaccination after illness and we didn't have to admit them either. Boosters were developed to help with emergent strains of the virus and we've reached the point on the curve that only the most at risk need to worry about it.

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