Quote (Black XistenZ @ Aug 6 2021 12:31pm)
Yup, and that's why a fundamental strategic decision about the future course of the fight against covid has to be made soon. That's the strategic disagreement I was talking about. Politicians had hoped that the vaccines would also keep cases down so that they could continue the path back to normal without having to go back on their previous messaging about how each infection is one too many and must be prevented, even at great social and economic cost.
The lower-than-expected degree of sterilizing immunity provided by the vaccines means that we cannot have both things at once, low case numbers and low restrictions, at least not during the coming winter. Therefore, we as a society have to make a choice between keeping cases down with increased levels of NPI, which effectively means new (partial) lockdowns, or letting cases soar and rely on the vaccinations to protect the healthcare system and the risk groups.
Lmao man you really are doing intellectual gymnastic on a non logical foundation. NPI and vaccines have no effect what so ever on the seasonality of a virus. Cases itself is an invalid metric and is the foundation of this crisis. It never made sense to test for asymptomatic people and it doesn't make sense today either.
Serious question do you question yourself regularly asking what if I was wrong? Curious cause I have been asking myself this question probably the last 500 days.
Tobacco and alcohol estimates says that it kills about 11m people a year, that's much more than the total amount of covid death. Why are we okay with this? Do you think it could be money related? This crisis is picking up big in speed with the vaccination passports across the world, this is a very very dangerous thin line for the future of the humanity. There are serious question that needs to be asked and answered.