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I hope so too. Extrapolating from studies I've seen, I'm not optimistic. I think it's 50/50. My impressions (and I do want to emphasize limited evidence here)
by gibba999 5y ago
I hope so too.
Extrapolating from studies I've seen, I'm not optimistic. I think it's 50/50.
My impressions (and I do want to emphasize limited evidence here):
- The vaccine doesn't provide sterilizing immunity -- you catch mild COVID, and then your body fights it off quickly.
- It does well for stopping original COVID fast, but newer mutations get pretty far before the vaccine stops them.
- The olfactory symptoms are neurological, and the phase when brain damage happens.
We'll see in a few months.
- eloff 5y agoAll I can say is I hope you're wrong on some of those points. It's inevitable that myself and my family will be exposed to covid19 at some point in the future. I think the same is true for most of us.
- gibba999 5y agoAll I can say is that humanity, outside of Asia, has consistently had "all I can say" responses. It's a preventable slow-motion train wreck. I could be wrong, but there's no reason to believe delta and gamma are the last mutations we'll see. COVID was astronomically cheaper to exterminate pre-mutation, and astronomically cheaper before it spread. At each point, people wished things weren't that bad, only they turned out to be worse.