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Your original point was we got lucky with the Delta variant because our current vaccines still work. I'm saying it doesn't matter - even if we had a 100% vacci
by Alupis 5y ago
Your original point was we got lucky with the Delta variant because our current vaccines still work.
I'm saying it doesn't matter - even if we had a 100% vaccination rate, some new variant will develop someplace that's being ravaged right now (say, India) and spread to the US eventually anyway. If our vaccines still work - great... if they don't, well.. where are we then?
Lastly, the numbers already indicate it's statistically not a threat to the overwhelming majority of the US population as-is.
- revalo 5y agoI wasn't talking just about the US, I think we need very high levels of vaccination everywhere to make it statistically not a threat. We need to control the spread of the virus to levels where it's not mutating at evolutionarily scales, _everywhere_, and the only way to effectively do that is vaccines. It's not a threat at this very moment, for this very point in time, but since we're allowing the virus to spread at such evolutionarily scales, inside and outside the US, a new variant popping up that evades vaccines is statistically very possible, and pose a significant threat to my own and society's well being. I'm trying to argue that this is not a personal choice issue, rather a public health one.