Originally Posted by crystalworks

You are a more optimistic person than I Maruzo. And that's nice. Leads to less worry in life I'm sure. My father is like that. He's an ardent believer in democracy and our system. I believe in democracy as well. I just don't believe that's necessarily what have now. I think we are more an oligarchy now. And the powers that be are sowing the 50/50 split of the country because it's easy to maintain the status quo when you do that. Career politician should not be a thing. The Sacklers should not walk away with billions after poisoning a generation. You could go on and on.

But I digress. I don't believe that any amount of vaccination is going to eradicate CV19. China has the strictest policies in the world and they just had a flare up. If I thought there was at least a decent chance (I don't know >=25%) to eliminate covid I might be more inclined to support mandates.

The most important thing for me is that the vaccine does its job in me, my family, and my friends. We'll keep wearing masks indoors/crowds and avoid large indoor gatherings. Eventually, like other virus' there will be a mutation requiring a new vaccine, or a booster of the current. Well, we're already at that point I suppose.