Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Approved

Yesterday the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine received full FDA approval. This opens the door for more places to require patrons/employees be vaccinated. For anti-vaxxers, it might mean the goalposts have moved (from, "they're taking so long to approve this, there must be a problem, I don't trust it!" to "they approved it too quickly, I don't trust it!")* But hopefully this move pushes over some of the people who were on the fence pending approval, or a mandate. (A lot of unvaccinated people said they would get it, "if they had to.")

Just in time, because the surge of new cases and hospitalizations is really crazy in some areas. I just read that Orlando has to ration water for weeks, because the oxygen that is used in water purification is needed for breathing oxygen in hospitals. 

* Of course, the latest thing with anti-vaxxers is that they're treating themselves with horse de-wormer (and poisoning themselves) .. so maybe not big on FDA approval or safety one way or the other. 

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