Given that it seems to be the case that the delta variant has had (at least partial) vaccine breakthrough ( https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1408582695794483204?s=1... ), this sounds about what I'd expect
From the original WSJ source [1]: “Analysis by England’s public-health agency suggests vaccines provide significant protection against Delta after two doses, reducing the risk of symptomatic illness by about 80% and the risk of hospitalization by around 96%. That is only slightly weaker than the protection vaccines confer against Alpha, also known as B.1.1.7.“
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/india-warns-of-new-versions-of-...
Fully vaccinated Delta-variant carriers are infecting other fully vaccinated persons.
Wasn't this the whole point of vaccination: to allow virus circulation among vaccinated population without negative effects?
If we're going to "optimize" life for as "little risk as possible," then optimizing for the wrong things is inevitable. I can see WfH if commute times, costs-of-living, and 99% of coworkers are assholes, but then there's social interaction, facetime, and how are people going to get promoted if their effort goes unnoticed.
I say this because it leads me to view the situation less as a threat to my personal safety, and more like a mass Darwin Award candidate, or nature’s version of a voter registration purge.
I’m eagerly awaiting the day when we can vaccinate young children against COVID.
I see what you did here. Lockdown psychosis is not a joke.
I guess we’re just waiting for a 2nd wave in the US.
Yes, we haven’t had mass deaths and hospitalizations. I’m very thankful I’ve been here instead of the US, or many other places. But dont pretend it’s some utopia that’s escaped the troubles of the last year.
I wouldn’t expect so. You have 2/3 the population of California and almost the size of the USA (although populated all along the coasts).
I also don’t agree with dude it’s some Covid utopia. But, just density-wise it was never going to be very bad there.
In December when you you had a handful of deaths, we had one every three seconds. Every hour. Every day. For over a month.
People go shopping with cough and fever. People gather with family and friends without any consideration whatsoever about the consequences.
I had someone come to my house one day after two of his co-workers tested positive for covid. Zero considerations.
It's an epidemic of stupidity here. You have absolutely no idea what it's like here.