Close to half of Americans are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, roughly 150 million of us. We vaccinated folk are now being urged to wear masks, mostly because it protects those who are not vaccinated from any virus we spew.
It appears those making policy believe, with some reason, that many of the vaccinated don’t much care about protecting those who have chosen to be not vaccinated. Which means the policy makers have an incentive to try to convince us that we vaccinated folk can still catch Covid-19, so we’ll mask up.
Bottom line - I suspect the CDC and others in government of intentionally exaggerating the frequency of so-called “break-through” symptomatic infections among the vaccinated. It seems the most parsimonious explanation of the very mixed messages that we’ve gotten from Fauci, Biden, and Walensky.
On the other hand, the decision by the Israeli government to begin giving booster third shots to their elderly, and perhaps to others, suggests maybe the danger is real. Claims and counterclaims, it is hard to know what to believe.
Let me be clear, I don’t have “truth,” whatever that turns out to be. These are hunches, guesses made from incomplete information and some insight into human motivation.
