Google’s vaccination announcement strangely affecting

I feel it’s not entirely healthy that an ad consisting of nothing more than search terms can elicit an emotional response.

On the other hand, as many others have commented when this spot ran during the Final Four this weekend, the message here is far superior to that of the CDC. Last week, Rochelle Walensky’s store told us alternately that we were facing “impending doom”; that vaccinated people could not carry the virus; that actually vaccinated people it could they carry the virus, but they can still travel; and that they shouldn’t travel anyway, just in case.

Compare that to the simple elegance of Google’s argument: go take the picture and get your life back.

In an advertising competition between a private entity that has to earn money or die and an irresponsible federal agency, I think we should not be surprised that the corporation wins. Watch and read on.

Americans are getting the injection and taking their lives back. On Friday and Saturday, we averaged four million doses a day, pushing the seven-day average north of three million. That is about one percent of Americans every 24 hours. At the current rate, assuming we can find enough disposable containers, we could have at least one dose in 70% of the population as of June 15. Among the elderly, we have already exceeded this limit. More than 75 percent of adults 65 and older gave the first injection and more than half the second. What does this look like in practice?

It looks like this. The number of people most vulnerable to dying from COVID is decreasing.

Fewer deaths in a year. In Israel, where an even larger percentage of the population has been vaccinated, scientists now speak openly about the end of the COVID game:

After a block during the second wave, infection rates soon increased and never dropped until another block was imposed. But after the third wave, “the effect of the vaccines has started”, [biologist Eran Segal] said. The R number (the growth of infections) has since dropped to its lowest level in the pandemic, he said, although the economy is more open than it was a year ago

In the coastal city of Tel Aviv, the beaches are crowded for the Easter holiday. When the sun goes down, thousands of people go to bars and restaurants. Although indoor locations should scan people’s green pass, which has a QR code, many bars seem to assume that their customers are immunized …

Adi Niv-Yagoda, a health policy expert at the University of Tel Aviv and a member of the Covid-19 advisory panel of the Ministry of Health, said he believed Israel may have almost reached an end to the pandemic.

Meanwhile, here in the United States, our public health bureaucracy is unable to explain why vaccinated people should not travel and only now, after 13 months, has finally managed to officially inform the public that viral transmission through contact with contaminated surfaces is unlikely. Experts will not go back to normal without kicking and screaming, but they will end up getting there. We will drag them on following Google’s advice.

I will leave you with Scott Gottlieb once again encouraging the Walenskys of the world to be realistic about their health guidelines. He and she noticed today that younger people are driving the increase in cases in some states, which is what you would expect given the amount of elderly people vaccinated. Spring has come, restrictions are easing, young people are unprotected and want to be together. It is a race between the virus and the vaccine to see if we get a real wave of it or not.

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