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Speaking for the US at least pursuing a covid zero approach now that we have vaccines that are very effective against hospitalization and death just doesn't mak
by jimmyjazz14 5y ago
Speaking for the US at least pursuing a covid zero approach now that we have vaccines that are very effective against hospitalization and death just doesn't make sense. You act like doing a "real" lockdown would be trivial but we have already seen that even light lockdowns have had serious side-effects.
Its not March 2020 anymore, we have an answer and it is vaccines. Every public policy decision we make going forward should be assessed by asking the question "will this policy encourage better vaccine uptake?".
Personally I think forcing people to continue to socially distance and such even after getting vaccinated leads to more vaccine hesitancy.
- dongping 5y agoUnfortunately, our current vaccines are simply not good enough. Just take a look at the data from Israel and Iceland. From the article, it was clear already from last year. How many other variants do we need, as we let the apply yet another selection pressure with the leaky vaccines? (AY.12 variant is now the dominant variant in Israel).
- jimmyjazz14 5y agoYeah you are going to have to back up your arguments with more than "look at Isreal and Iceland". We have dealt with the flu using leaky vaccines for decades, how is this different?