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Calling this entire argument out as non-factual. Oregon, Washington and Hawaii all are leading the nation in vaccination rate per capita. The idea of natural im
by greedo 5y ago
Calling this entire argument out as non-factual. Oregon, Washington and Hawaii all are leading the nation in vaccination rate per capita. The idea of natural immunity is unfounded. You might have immunity BECAUSE you already had COVID.
The idea that "infections per capita" trumps vaccination rate when determining future infections rates is just ridiculous.
And claiming this is a hit job on a red state is just as foolish. Arkansas is one of the laggards in vaccinations, and the Delta variant is showing why they're paying the price.
- MarkLowenstein 5y ago(1) If "natural" immunity is the wrong term, I mean to say "acquired", i.e. had the disease. (2) Yes, you're right that vaccinations also lower the amount of "dry wood" available. I try to add those into my estimates but it made too long a description so I left it out. But until 3 months ago it was only a small factor. (3) More evidence that it's a hit job: the actual breakdown of current COVID cases is not red states vs. blue. It is urban vs. rural...as you'd expect on the upswing of a new conflagration. But the high-rates map is hugely correlated with urbanization, whereas "Trump country" is barely affected yet. That would be the real story, if there was one, which there is not. Have you seen stories on the crises in NYC and Long Island? Maybe I've missed them.