Kagan’s opinion is that “this is the policy that is most geared to stopping all this.”
This policy most certainly will not stop it. It just kicks the can down the road until another variant or strain pops up and starts killing people all over again. We've had annual flu and cold seasons for thousands of years. We will never vaccinate our way out of this.
“There’s nothing else that will perform that function better than incentivizing people strongly to vaccinate themselves. So, you know, whatever necessary means, whatever grave means, why isn’t this necessary and grave?” Kagan said.
False. Better diet and exercise is the best approach to save the most lives, long term. Vaccines are only 1 of 6 different major methods you can use to combat VRIs with being healthy the best measure by far.
“We do not contest that COVID is a grave danger,” Scott Keller, attorney for the National Federation of Independent Business, retorted. “But when the power for it to be necessary… an agency has to consider and explain alternatives.”
False. It is not a grave danger. It is primarily a danger to elderly (55+), immunocompromised, and the obese - none of these mutually exclusive. For the vast majority of people who are not land whales, this is just a seasonal cold.
Justice Stephen Breyer echoed Kagan’s sentiment that the COVID-19 vaccine would prevent the spread of the virus in the workplace.
Mixed truth and falsehood, here. Specific high quality HVAC filtration is the best measure to prevent the spread of VRIs according to research done by MIT. See last point for why this one is mixed.
Justice Elena Kagan suggested that getting the vaccine reduces the spread of COVID-19, a dubious claim that’s contested by the rapidly rising number of breakthrough cases worldwide.
This is not a dubious claim. Many many studies confirm this and the best available data lands us on 5x less. The vaccines work and work quite well. But it is not the best long term solution.
Omicron is proving to bypass both natural and acquired immunity meaning all of those numbers are going to increase per 100K.
They count every one who has a jab unvaccinated until 2 weeks after their last booster. The statistics are completely fucked
They count every one who has a jab unvaccinated until 2 weeks after their last booster.
Most of the research I look at measures this shows unvaccinated, first dose, and 2 weeks post second dose.
Only if you consume the absolutely retarded and dishonest leftist MSM will you see that type of bullshit.
And, these days, some of the newer research is including the boosters as a separate category, as well.
Such as this study on boosters:
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