I’m not sure how strong that evidence is. I’m willing to assume that on average, vaccinations reduced the severity of covid symptoms. But the Times delicately refrains from mentioning that this isn’t how the vaccines were promoted. Health “experts” including, as I recall, Joe Biden, told us that if we got vaccinated we wouldn’t catch covid. They claimed we had a moral duty to be vaccinated because then we wouldn’t spread the disease to others. And on that basis, they fired people, and imposed other sanctions on people, who declined to be vaccinated.

This turned out to be a vicious exercise in fascistic control. Getting vaccinated didn’t prevent you from catching, or spreading, covid. The people around you caught covid (or didn’t) regardless of whether you were vaccinated. Maybe vaccination tended to reduce the severity of symptoms, and if so, you could benefit from it. But the idea that you had a duty to others to be vaccinated–the foundation of liberal covid totalitarianism–turned out to be a fraud. ...

I am pretty sure that the public has, indeed, “grown weary” of endless blather about covid. If covid isn’t in our rear view mirror, it should be.