Don2 (Don1 Revised)
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Simply put, with the vaccinated contracting it, what can be done other than accept it, and everyone gets it. I'm currently pushing for the super-spikes where enough people get it, we develop herd immunity and a lucky 10 or so percent of people never get it.I've been talking about the Next Big Variant for some time now and why that should be a concern. I think the press is starting to catch on now, though they are starting to become focused on delta-plus too much. In many developing countries, vaccine rates are so low, that if delta-plus is not the NBV, then some other variant will be it there.
And so I have to jump ahead again.... There is basically no stopping it any more. The world has failed to stop the spread of sars coronavirus-2. It has become part of the fabric of society, in a sense like seasonal flus but more dangerous. We have to just admit it and then decide how we want to deal with this fact.
I'm just throwing this out there. Do we need to adapt to this change forever now?
- Vaccines every year for covid made available to general public, like we do with flu;
- More vaccines every 6 months for elderly, obese, and other at-risk persons;
- Vaccinations required for health care workers like with flu vaccines;
- What other groups ought to be required for vaccinations for the REST OF OUR LIVES?
- A significant change in Western culture to adopt the Asian cultural practice of mask-wearing when we believe we are sick with respiratory illness. Is that even enough?
I no longer think herd immunity is an option...more like herd resistance, i.e. vaccinated people get it, too, at a large rate. This isn't like polio because vaccinated and previously infected get it but less severely. And the severity mitigation may stay in place for a few years...but because the world cannot synchronize vacvinations, there will always be a NBV. TNBV will always be risky to breaking the prevention and treatments. So it's a never-ending war. IMO.