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As in the case of influenza, the vaccine against COVID has to be annual, one or two shots. It must be part of the vaccination schedule. Each year the vaccine must be adjusted to fight the dominant variants.
You mean as a part of the vaccination schedule it has to be mandatory?
Why do you think a vaccination rate of a 100% instead of the 95% we have now is going to make a difference?
<br>The vast majority of deaths occur among unvaccinated people. In this sense, a vaccination passport must be required, as in the city of Rio de Janeiro, where I spent New Year's Eve. Those who do not have a vaccination passport cannot stay in hotels, cannot go to restaurants, cannot visit tourist attractions, cannot go to concerts, sports shows, etc.
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Is that correct? I remember when I looked at the data, vaccinated people
compromised around ~70% of the hospitalized. <br>Yes, the unvaccinated are
~10% of the population and compromise 30% of the hospitalized. <br><br>It shows
that mandatory vaccination wouldn't change anything much. If the risk is
x3 for the unvaccinated, that 10% of the unvaccinated compromise 30% of
the hospitalized, so you'd just have a less than a third decrease.
<br>Instead of 10 000 deaths, you get 7000. <br><br>That third makes the difference for the removal of all
other measures?<br><br> Let's humor the idea and say people don't die anymore when the remaining 10% are vaccinated. <br><br>The immunity of the 100% vaccinated expiry date is 10 weeks.
How does the old normal start if protection starts expiring in 10 weeks time?<br><br> Do we mandate booster shots 4 times a year (every 3 months) until death of the citizens?
From 18 years of age to 80, 248 shots?
There will never be old normal until they give up on protection one day in the future.
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Is that correct? I remember when I looked at the data, vaccinated people
compromised around ~70% of the hospitalized. <br>Yes, the unvaccinated are
~10% of the population and compromise 30% of the hospitalized. <br><br>It shows
that mandatory vaccination wouldn't change anything much. If the risk is
x3 for the unvaccinated, that 10% of the unvaccinated compromise 30% of
the hospitalized, so you'd just have a less than a third decrease.
<br>Instead of 10 000 deaths, you get 7000. <br><br>That third makes the difference for the removal of all
other measures?<br><br> Let's humor the idea and say people don't die anymore when the remaining 10% are vaccinated. <br><br>The immunity of the 100% vaccinated expiry date is 10 weeks.
How does the old normal start if protection starts expiring in 10 weeks time?<br><br> Do we mandate booster shots 4 times a year (every 3 months) until death of the citizens?
From 18 years of age to 80, 248 shots?
There will never be old normal until they give up on protection one day in the future.
When does it end 4,5,6...? Perhaps a little glimmer of light, the game changer might be the high R naught replication of Omicron - a milder upper airway infection- by rapidly displacing lethal Delta strain- group immunity for Covid might come about very soon for many areas. Perhaps due to the high R naught value, the old time tables change, all the extra boosters will not be needed(cannot keep up to each individual tailored strain), as well as PPE N95/non 95n masks, goggles, identity QR passports, social distancing, lockdowns. Maybe we will be done here in Ontario by end of Jan/ Feb, hopefully everything will go back to completely being normal.
I doubt it will get worse. The trajectory with most viruses is that they get less dangerous with time. Let's hope this sticks to that pattern.
As to the Omicron variant, it is definitely milder, but it is no joke, either. I've had the flu, and this thing is worse, although doubtless different people have different reactions. My son shrugged it off in three days, although they weren't a pleasant three days.
After my flu experience, I get the flu shot every year. I have no problem with getting a covid shot every winter.
What annoys me is the misinformation and hyperbole on both sides of this issue. The "vaccine" is not like the measles or mumps vaccine, which confers lifetime immunity, and probably one cannot be created against a SARS virus. Fauci and the WHO should have said that from the beginning, and emphasized it would work in that way for a certain amount of time, and would mitigate symptoms. Instead, they made hyperbolic claims for it, and that just fueled distrust and skepticism.
On the other hand, some of the anti-vaccers, I'm sorry to say, seem hysterical to me. Hundreds of millions of people have taken the shot and it's harmless for all but a tiny percentage. Hell, if some of these people looked up the side effects of aspirin or ibuprofen they'd never take another tablet again, which in my opinion is ridiculous. Most women wouldn't be able to get through their monthly menstruation without ibuprofen, or at least wouldn't want to, or how about those of us prone to migraines, or older people who take half an aspirin a day to ward off heart attacks. Am I going to suffer through migraines because I fear I might be the 1/100th of a percent of the population who might have a problem with it? No thank-you.
This damn thing was bad enough as it; I don't even want to imagine how bad it might have been without the vaccine.
Measures that were contemplated when the variant was very virulent and we didn't know how to handle it or which people might me particularly vulnerable are not, imo, appropriate now.
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