Why would social media ever lead me astray?

I know. I know. You're tired of hearing about all the vaccine problems (and successes). Let's just get on with it.

But the raw data in Colorado that I saw today indicates that counties with higher rates of vaccination are experiencing LOWER rates of Covid infection. And not at all surprising, counties with lower rates of vaccination are seeing higher infection rates. 

There will always be some people who refuse to be vaccinated, I suppose, though it is interesting that there seems to be a hierarchy of refusal. Most children get the measles vaccine, for instance, and the CDC website claims that about 90 percent of American children have received that vaccine before they are two years old.

But today's New York Times found that a large percentage of parents say they won't be rushing to get their children vaccinated against Covid when the CDC makes that possible. The reason may be as simple as the measles vaccine has a long history of not causing dangerous side effects and has been proven to protect people from what used to be a dangerous disease.

A lot of parenting is done by "feel" and faith, and a lot of decisions parents make are based on what THEY remember their own parents doing. A family doctor can certainly be influential. But no one wants to put their child at risk, even though logic says that even worse things might happen if children's immune systems are left to themselves.

Mesa County in Colorado, a firmly red area of the state, has found at least four cases of the nasty Indian Covid variant this past week.

Want to guess about the area's vaccination rate?