What’s wrong with this picture?

Everyone in this picture has been vaccinated for months. They work together every day.

Yet they are wearing masks and socially distancing like they fear for their lives. Why would we expect people to get vaccinated if there is no return to normalcy for those who do?

This is the absolute worst example to set for Americans, living in fear forever, even after being vaccinated.

Overcaution kills, Pt 2

The use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been paused because 6 women had blood clotting problems, one of them fatal. This was out of 7 million doses given so far.

The pause will result in avoidable deaths due to the delay in getting the population vaccinated.

An evidence based approach would take into account that women are well known to have more clotting problems than men and that the combination of smoking and oral contraceptives results in a much higher incidence of clotting problems.

There is no reason at all to pause the use of the J&J vaccine in men, as there have been no cases involving men.

There is very little justification for the pause in women, but if the very rare events are a concern, then continue the use of the J&J vaccine for men and give women Moderna or Pfizer while the issue is studied, especially if they have other risk factors like past clotting problems or they smoke or take hormones.

But it is idiocy to leave J&J vaccine on the shelf while people are still dying.