Covid — It’s About To Get Worse

By Howard Bloom

Less than two months ago, at the beginning of July, 70% of Americans surveyed in a Harris poll said that the worst of the covid pandemic was behind us. But just a month later, Americans had changed their minds. According to another Harris poll released August 2nd just 46 percent still said “the worst is behind us.” The majority, fifty-four percent, now had the opposite opinion. That “the worst is still ahead of us.”

Is that majority right? Yes.

Epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm, who leads the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, warns that “almost every single one of the 100 million unvaccinated Americans who hasn’t had COVID-19 yet will likely get it in the coming months.”

You heard that right. Osterholm says that if you haven’t been vaccinated, your odds of getting covid are almost one hundred percent. Or, to put it differently, if you haven’t gotten vaccinated, you’re setting yourself up for death.

And some doctors warn that covid is here to stay. Like the flu and the common cold, they say, you and I will get covid at some time in our lives. If you want to live through the experience, you have to be vaccinated.

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