Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Day 319: The End of Anti-vaxing?

Massachusetts cases were up 2% today and have exceeded 300,000; we are officially eyeing Alabama's #18 spot. While Florida has doubled down on allowing dining, California has gone freakishly far by banning outdoor dining, leading to outright rebellion and, of course, lawsuits. In a similar post-COVID spirit, Planet Fitnees calls a tool a tool in their loud protests of Boston shutting down gyms.

It's not clear whether the feverish "together-apart" celebration of the Pfizer vaccine will spell the end of anti-vaxing. The news cycle is a harsh mistress and has already jumped on an adverse reaction in Alaska. PlagueBlog can hardly imagine that the same innumerates who couldn't tolerate the 99.9% survival rate of COVID-19 will be able to put up with an equally miniscule rate of vaccine side-effects, but you never know.

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