Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ 16 Dec 2021 19:21)
Everyone: Hey, new variants are likely to happen so we should prevent spread and distribute vaccinations around to make that less likely
>Doesn't do that and hoards vaccines in Western countries
>Virus mutates
Everyone: Surprised pikachu face
Neither perpetual lockdowns nor a stringent test trace and isolate approach were ever feasible in third world countries. Once the virus had spread out of China and was seeded on all continents - which had happened in early- to mid-February (sic) of 2020 - the ship for keeping the global case load low had sailed. Note that all variants of concern except for Alpha emerged in third world countries. Beta, Gamma, Mu, Delta, Omicron - none of them is the result of us Westerners "not doing our homework of keeping cases low".
Regarding the vaccine equity point:
South Africa, where Omicron emerged, has more vaccines than people willing to get vaccinated and already started giving doses away to other African countries.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/exclusive-south-africa-delays-covid-vaccine-deliveries-inoculations-slow-2021-11-24/Quote
South Africa has asked Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) and Pfizer (PFE.N) to delay delivery of COVID-19 vaccines because it now has too much stock, health ministry officials said, as vaccine hesitancy slows an inoculation campaign.
Quote (SylvesterStallone @ 16 Dec 2021 19:03)
A variant that significantly evades the protection against transmission provided by vaccines or previous infection will first spread via the individuals which have the largest number of social contacts - students. This kind of empirical observation does not mean that the age profile of this variant differs from previous strains, or that the vaccinations
increase the risk of transmission.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Dec 16 2021 12:39pm