Delta Variant Upends Assumptions

Almost nobody in the UK is unvaccinated; a few nutters, children under 12 etc..  We have opened up fully (except for international travel) masks are optional in England (still mandated here in Scotland, thankfully) and our daily death rate is down from over a thousand to a tiny handful (still too many, but better by far than it was).

A few people are getting sick even after vaccination.  That is the reason for the 92 and 96% effectiveness scores, but very few by comparison are dying.

Make no mistake, I think our government's policies to be downright stupid and irresponsible.  We are begging for a new and even more contatgious/deadly strain to emerge with our behaviour.  

But it is working for the present.  Until said variant shows up, all but the most vulnerable people are reasonably safe (nothing on earth is 100% safe) and when I say: "most vulnerable" I mean nonogenarians  and older, those on immunosuppressants for various diseases (transplantees like my friend and sufferers of extreme auto-immune diseases), HIV+ people, cancer patients, those born with severe immunodeficency and of course the terminally stupid - who are still unvaccinated.  Almost no one else is getting seriously ill.

So we can stop worrying for a bit.  We need to watch new variants as they emerge, because a nasty-enough-to-avoid-the-vaccine one will come around eventually.  But most of us (not a couple of my friends! Grrr!) can relax - for now.

That was no brain fart, that was perfectly normal  paranoia.  No bad at all!

That type of paranoia keeps you alive (Just because you are paranoid, does not mean they are not out to get you.) after all, no one gets out of this world alive.

ViQueen24 wrote: Note: my bad, I had a brain fart and posted this, and I see Carbon had already done so.

Don't worry about that.

I do it too,see something,think that's interesting,think I'll post that ......

It just means we are on the same chapter..... lmao....

Take care all 😷😉 👍