if they stay unvaccinated and don t wear masks, ultimately they re going to wind up getting infected, and that s what we re concerned about. it is, as we said, a pandemic of the unvaccinated. if you re vaccinated, you or very well protected against getting infected. since no vaccine is 100% protective, there will be what we call breakthrough infections. that s the bad news. the good news is almost invariably that will be an infection that is either without symptoms or minimally symptomatic, which means the vaccine still protects extremely well against severe disease leading to hospitalization and deaths, but the interesting and unfortunate thing that we found out that gets to the mask issue is that this virus is so easily transmissible that if a vaccinated person gets a breakthrough infection which will happen, chuck. you can expect that because no
this is much bigger than january the 6th. this is about, of course, an election, but it is also about the big lies that the administration and complicit republicans have spread about covid. both have cost lives. january the 6th, you just covered it sadly and beautifully, have cost lives of police officers, whether in the line of duty or in the line of duty death-by-suicide. but now look at it with covid. i just had the chance to be with my four grandchildren over the course of the last few days and i m so worried for them and all of our children. we have republican legislators, republican elected officials who are saying, don t get don t wear a mask, you don t have to get the vaccine. putting our children at risk. our children are not eligible for the vaccine. the adults around them are, and i hope that every adult around them gets the vaccine to protect
that s just a very good point that you just made, to remind people this is a novel virus meaning it s brand new and scientists are learning. but the important thing is that they are sharing the knowledge with us pretty much in as best they can in realtime. and that s why we seem to be having these conflicting messages. don t wear masks, wear masks, don t wear masks, wear masks. that is why. doctor propst, in texas have you met parents who are concerned or afraid their children to send their children to schools without masks? absolutely. there are pediatricians who are extremely concerned about sending their children to school this coming school year. we are in a situation, unfortunately, where our governor has really tied the hands of local municipalities, public health departments, school districts and mandated
that is why we seem to be having these conflicting messages, don t wear masks, wear masks, don t wear masks, wear masks. that is why doctor propst, in texas, have you met parents who are concerned or afraid their children to send their children to schools without masks? en - absolutely. there are pediatricians who are extremely concerned about sending their children to school this coming school year. we are in a situation, unfortunately, where our governor has really tied the hands of local municipalities, public health departments, school districts, and mandated that mask mandates are illegal. and school districts will be fined if they require students to wear masks. which is exactly what the american academy of pediatrics and the centers for disease control explicitly recommends,
every day. don t we? the left is hysterical. they are being karens about all this. and they can t stop yelling about how some people aren t getting vaccinated. so they are deciding to punish everybody. the left is talking about covid cases are up, but they are not talking about the low number of deaths. this is the least deadly month since the pandemic began. we are talking about cases now because deaths are so low. the left overreacts because that s what they do. it s not possible for the country to function if americans aren t willing to put up with the tiniest amount of risk. but again back to masks. they want you to be like secretary of defense lloyd austin. can you believe that? wearing a face shield and a mask. how embarrassing. first they said don t wear a