@manhandler said in CDC now says Vaccinated are the ones spreading the new Delta variant.:
This is because all the places with the new covid cases are in the vaccinated. Now they are saying that the vaccinated are super spreaders and need to mask up again, even though they got the clot shot.
The sad thing is, some people will believe this absurd "spin"....
Let's share the WHOLE story, shall we? It's not that vaccinated people are the one's spreading the Delta variant of COVID-19 (as-if they're the only ones)... it is that vaccinated people carry just as much virus in their upper respiratory systems as non-vaccinated people - and therefore can spread the virus just as easily as non-vaccinated people. (not more, not less, just about the same as the unvaccinated...)
Mind you, the vaccinated REMAIN unlikely to be hospitalized from the infection - many still non-symptomatic (which makes things worse, because they spread it while not even aware that they're sick!) - but vaccines have never completely stopped viruses from spreading - they've ALWAYS been ways to "spike" our immune systems into a position so that we can FIGHT the infection more easily, not GET SICK from it, and in many cases (like the Flu, Polio, Chicken Pox, Measles, etc) prevent it from spreading... which, over time, can all-but eliminate the spread of the virus entirely...
True, the CDC and NIH are still learning new things about COVID-19 (esp. the different variants) every day... and it's also true that they've gotten some things wrong (like contact spread - when's the last time they told you to wipe-down your groceries in the garage before bringing them into the house?).
No one claims we've figured this thing out completely... yes, we're still learning... but we're idiots if we don't moderate our behaviors based on what we DO know, and modify them even more when we learn even more!
The facts from Florida (USA) are this:
- 183 people died from COVID-19 on July 30th (the last day I could find stats)
- 180 of them were non-vaccinated prior to being hospitalized (according to that liberal media monolith, the Miami Herald)
It seems to me that we (Republicans) have taken the idea of "voter suppression" (the Dem's characterization - one I do not share, but it is illustrative in this point) to new heights.... but we're doing it to ourselves... and permanently!
A VAST majority of those 183 now-dead souls are (more factually: were) Republicans who believe the misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and refuse to be vaccinated.... putting themselves, and their communities (of mostly also-Republicans) at higher risk - and this Delta strain is a real pisser when compared to the one we were looking at last year!
Over 90% of hospitalizations in Florida are non-vaccinated people, and the vast majority of them are Republican voters who are buying into this "vaccines are a way of controlling us" (or worse) bullshit!
We are LITERALLY killing our own voter base!
The vaccines are a direct result of the scientific research prompted, prodded, and spurred on by President Trump! This is, in many ways, his vaccine program! All the Dems have done is distribute the Trump vaccines...
More importantly, though: come November 2022, it's going to be hard to keep Rubio as our US Senator if literally thousands of Republican voters can only vote from the grave!
Statewide races in Florida are often decided by fewer than 10,000 votes - if not even 1,000 votes!
180 people a day times 400+ days is more than 70,000 voters!
...and it's getting WORSE, not better!
I just filled out a survey for the Nat'l Republican Congressional Committee... it talks a lot about needing to unify the party... and I agree... but to do that, shouldn't we be looking forward and not backward?
