2 COVID Vaccines Approved, End to Pandemic in Sight??

[Seagull]

Ok, this is the last question for everyone: what is the deal with getting mad at people not washing their hands?  It's been mentioned a couple of times.  How would ME not washing my hands affect YOU if Covid has been shown to not get transmitted via touching things but by droplets, spread person-to-person?  So weird.  It's like people are TRYING to find reasons to be mad at other people.

Also, I would like to say that we left CA in July, and it is AMAZING to me how often I hear from my friends there use the word safe, refer to staying home, and just generally being fearful on a daily basis; and here in SC, yes people wear masks and physically distance, but they just do not talk about Covid nearly as much.  It's like a completely different world (and actually why we ended up moving here).  It's just weird to see this difference on a regular basis.  I now say "oh yeah, they're from CA where lockdowns are a major thing" to remind myself why they are having such a different experience than I am.

Ahah that brings it back to the political, in the fact that California is in the socialist grasp of the governor who is related to Pelosi, and they both adhere to socialism.

Not that I want to get into a political debate, but California has been pretty liberal for a lot longer than Newsom has been in office as Governor. While the state does lean towards a more socialist economic policy in as much as the people like to vote to spend money on social and environmental programs, I don't think that trying to limit the spread of this virus via masking and physical distancing really should have anything to do with politics but more with science and logic.

SC is a conservative state and so they more likely follow logic and things are more relaxed.

I also don't see how politics has anything to do with following logic. I'm sure everyone involved thinks they are acting rationally and logically according to their own perspectives. As for being less relaxed, I've always felt like California was extremely relaxed compared to how things are on the east coast, at least prior to Covid. People around here are definitely more neurotic since Covid though.

Science tells us we need to flatten the curve as much as possible until we have a vaccine since we won't reach herd immunity without one. Everyone doing their part to help that goal is logical since it has the best chance to keep our economy functional, plus it avoids the government stepping in to force the issue through lockdowns, etc. At least that seems logical to me and I come from a conservative family that is mostly Republican (though I personally tend to lean more Libertarian).

The problem is that people aren't doing it, which is why we're dealing with the current situation.

Science also shows that if diseases run their course, yes people die, but some are naturally immune and some develop immunity, that cannot happen if one is not exposed to it, it eventually occurs and it has always been the case for millennia. And the political factor is simply each state adopts a different leadership according to whom they voted for, so some states are not as restricted as others but the numbers in covid cases are no different.
The virus doesn't know boundaries or rules. And there is already 15 years of research on this type of virus.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/41/7/e67/310340