I am not a super well educated or scientifically minded person and the “focused protection” you guys keep referencing in this chat is exactly what I kept saying we needed to do when this all started. It feels as if them ignoring going that route was to deliberately destroy our economy, I can’t think of why else they would dismiss that.<br><br>It also makes no sense to force the vaks on everyone and anyone over age 5. That’s insane and totally unnecessary.,(reply>), "Focused protection" assumes mild infections are harmless. They aren't. Not only does simply getting covid <b>once</b> while unvaccinated nearly double your chance for blood clots, heart attacks, and stroke, each covid infection ages your immune system and downgrades your cd8 t cells, having the potential to eventually permanently destroy parts of your immune system entirely, similar to HIV. Multiple reinfections would have devastated populations, and still will. Covid is not just a mild respiratory illness, it is a vascular disease that has great potential to do long-term, irreversible harm to a substantial portion of the population, including children. This idea that because you've had a mild case, it's no worse than a cold, will kill and disable millions in the coming years, and lead to many, many early deaths that otherwise wouldn't have happened. Allowing the virus to rip through the population as we are now will likely be seen as one of the greatest historical blunders of the 21st century due to the long-term consequences of many, many reinfections that everyone is now guaranteed to get.