Florida's COVID Model Right for Future

With new variants popping up nearly every few months, some now question the vaccines' efficacy in the future. But those who most often complain about vaccination rates in states such as Florida ignore the facts and embrace monumental levels of hubris.

Ironically, lack of faith in our own institutions and their messengers continue to drive the contempt for the vaccines they themselves built within conservative communities. It is okay, they tell us, to attend a BLM rally, but not veterans' funerals or Memoral Day services. The double standards peddled by many of our leaders do not go unnoticed, even by the "rube" Trump voters.

As a strong believer in vaccines, I received my shots in May and June. Right now, it is simply the best tool we have to protect ourselves. And lucky me, so far my skin hasn't boiled, nor has my doctor found any trace of computer chip trackers in my body from Bill Gates' secret lab.

But putting humor aside, in America, people deserve the right of choice, regardless of how outlandish their viewpoints may be. More importantly, however vital to the protection of public health vaccination may be, we must ask two very difficult questions: 1) How long will the vaccines last before new variants take over? and 2) Do protective measures like masks really work?

It seems rather easy to answer question number two by wearing a mask into a public restroom or while cooking in the kitchen. If larger particles from human waste or food can get through masks, logic tells us smaller ones must as well. Even the country's top experts admitted early in the pandemic, before backtracking, that masking only remains slightly effective when worn by the infected. Any common sense onlooker will see the futilty in this thumb-sucking excersize.

Nevertheless, the nation's health experts continue to peddle nonsense without cultivating and deploying real solutions.

As to question one, let's examine the government's current messaging. Anthony Fauci, U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told reporters recently: "If you allow the virus to circulate you could get another variant that could be more problematic than Delta," 

What's most intriguing about this comment from Dr. Fauci is that he basically ignores the global reach of the virus and lack of vaccine distribution infrastructure. The United States is not the only country in the world. When we consider the fact that even if every single person in the United States were vaccinated, nearly all Third World countries around the globe would still not be equipped to vaccinate every single one of their citizens.

At no point will the current vaccine or any vaccine be able to catch up to the pace of viral evolution due to this lack of infrastructure in most developing countries. Some estimate the Spanish flu was nearly 100 times more deadly than the coronavirus.

It’s time to suck it up and acknowledge the obvious — that we live in a mortal world. Of course we should get the vaccine if an effective dose is available to us... anything to save lives. It is heartbreaking to witness loss of life and we must prevent it.

But health experts in our government need to look at the broad span of human history and come to terms with the sad reality that we can’t stop the world and just jump off. Masking, mandates and lockdown suggestions need to stop and we must be allowed to move on with our lives.

Florida's mortality rate remains high, but I believe in the long run, the state's model holds the best outcome for society as a whole. Although America's vaccine roll out got off to a slow start, the country's medical infrastructure is more than up to the challenge of distribution. The problem with vaccination rates, contrary to the prevailing belief among our nation's elites, does not derive from Republican voters being uneducated or misled by their leaders, but rather, the condescension the mainstream media and academics wield toward the public.

The best advice a trusted friend might give to Dr. Fauci? Shut up.