this is the real key re: vaccination
there are people who are clinically vulnerable who cannot have the vaccine - like those on various cancer treatments
the only way to protect those people properly is by having high uptake from everyone else - so this idea that it doesn't matter because "some folks don't need them" misses the whole point of how herd immunity works in public health terms - you get the vaccine to protect those around you as much as you do it to protect yourself
that being said he makes a good point about outpatient care - but it must also be pointed out that a number of therapeutic treatments for covid have been created, tested and made available for use in the last few months alone
but i do reiterate - the vast majority of hospitalisations around the world are unvaccinated - it is clear that the easiest way to mitigate poor outcomes from covid is to vaccinate as many people as possible
but i also think the way governments and populations should advocate for mass vaccination has been really awful - there's been this looming threat of vaccine passports and vaccine mandates when we know that negative strategies are far less convincing than positive strategies based around rewards - the easiest way to decrease vaccine hesitancy is to further reward people for getting it not to make life harder for those who dont
that being said you do have to have some different protocols for different people in different scenarios based on various risk factors (including vaccine status) but having easier protocols to follow is clearly not enough of an incentive to get vaccinated
but it's also overstated how much of an issue it is in the NFL just because some unvaccinated figures have been very loudly decrying how unfair it is when something like 85% of the players and 100% of all tier 1 and tier 2 non-playing personnel are all vaccinated - which is much higher than the general population basically anywhere in the world
