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These Delta headlines feel like the powers that be prepping the masses for continued lockdowns. No vaccine is perfect. It’s possible to get vanilla Covid-19 after being vaccinated. The whole point is it’s a hell of a lot less likely, which severely reduces r0

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From their numbers it seems like the 20% of Israelis who are neither children nor vaccinated represent about 0 delta cases?

To be able to do such a rounding error in an article implies to me that delta is roughly as infectious in the vaccinated as vanilla was in the unvaccinated.

That's probably not a cause for concern for the vaccinated, as it won't even rarely kill them, but that does mean the herd immunity eventually will not be protecting the unvaccinated from a variant.

I think it's the powers that be trying to scare the unvaccinated masses into getting a vaccine. A much easier approach would be to give $100 to anyone who gets their vaccine.

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