it keeps you out of my emergency department, keeps you from leaving your family and it allows the entire system to work like it should. and for the skeptics who are saying, this disease seems to just produce mild symptoms, so should i worry about getting vaccinated? isn t it partially, too, preventing more variants like these from popping up? absolutely. i mean, globally that is certainly true, and even in this country, like the county that i work in with over 50% who are unvaccinated, these variants pop up. and when this virus is spread around between multiple people. but really in the end, we don t want people dying, we don t want people in the hospital for four or five weeks, ending up on disability or rehabilitation hospitals, learning how to walk, bre greeting again. that is the reality of covid for unvaccinated people. and we still don t know about omicron for the unvaccinated. in south africa the data looks