The non-vaccinated do not cause or contribute to the immunocompromised becoming ill.
That is just factually, mathematically wrong. If you are vaccinated you are far less likely to contact the disease and therefore far less likely to spread it. You don’t even need to read the studies on that, just look around. The virus is surging everywhere where vaccination rates are low.
It helps to think this through, logically. A person who is immunocompromised --- but VACCINATED --- is no more likely to catch COVID from a person who is vaccinated than from someone who is not, because they are immunized. That's the whole point of the vaccines. Whether you're immunocompromised or not is inconsequential to whether you're vaccinated.
So again, the non-vaccinated do not cause or contribute to the immunocompromised becoming ill. It's on the immunocompromised person to get the vaccine.
It is, first of all, a pretty dishonest characterization of what the left is doing. Lockdowns occurred early on before we understood what we were dealing with and how to combat it.
That is incorrect, although consistent with what the politicans at least claim. "Who could have possibly known lockdowns wouldn't work?" and "We all did our best under the circumstances!" they say. All bullshit. There was not then, nor has there ever been, any kind of scientific consensus that lockdowns were a necessdary or even appropriate response to any pandemic situation of the type COVID presened --- even as COVID was understood before and during the initial wave of lockdowns. That was an unsupported, fringe scientific opinion supported by exactly no one that had never been implemented and had no established efficacy rate. It was complete speculation to think they'd ever make a difference, and it turns out they did not.
Many, many people made this point at all relevant times before and during the first wave of COVID inside and outside of this country. But they were attacked by the scientifically and mathematically illiterate on purely partisan grounds. It was unconscionable what took place.
So I shouldn’t trust any doctor who explains anything publicly, but if they say nothing publicly then I never hear from them at all. Sounds like heads I win tails you lose.
I said be automatically skeptical, not "do not trust."
What democrats comprehend is how science works.
Some of them might, but if the evidence you're going to cite in support of their scientific competencies is the modeling used to justify lockdowns, I've got some bad news for you. They might be able to repeat the conclusions of others, but they don't understand the first thing about the methods used to reach those conclusions.
That's the key difference: you can't claim to "understand science" or "comprehend science" with just the results; because results are often wrong, especially where they're the product of unreliable methods not recognized or adopted by others in the field.
We can talk about why if you like.
By the way, I am not implying that republicans (unlike democrats) understand this either. But Republicans don't hold themselves out as being competent when they are not.
We take his word as representative of the best available information to date, not as the ultimate truth. It’s not his fault so many are scientifically illiterate and so many other talking heads are willing to prey on that.
So that's the problem. People took Fauci at his word when his peers spoke under their breath the entire time this fiasco was going on that he was off his rocker.
And no one even bothered to question him. Even though there was no shortage of subject matter on which to question nearly all of what he said.
Science is not a process wherein all-knowing-sensi "top doc" proclaims to the world what "the science" says. It's a discursive process based on the application of repeatable methods that are recognized to produce reliable results, to figure out what is objectively true in the world. What Fauci did is the exact opposite; and the efforts to censor anyone who says otherwise, like Rand Paul, are reflections of the extent to which this was never about science at all. It's about politics and power, which is why Fauci has no credibility whatsoever.
