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>Right now, vaccine holdouts are really screwing things up for us who want to return to some form of normality. Is this even true anymore? Delta is highly cont
by hackinthebochs 5y ago
>Right now, vaccine holdouts are really screwing things up for us who want to return to some form of normality.
Is this even true anymore? Delta is highly contagious and the vaccines are leaky, thus it is not obvious that the effective R0 of Delta will be less than one assuming a fully vaccinated population. We already know that vaccinated people can still be infected, and not at minuscule rates, and once infected they are similarly contagious as an unvaccinated person. If Delta is endemic now, blaming the unvaccinated for the ongoing pandemic is just false.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoIt’s not true, because I know people with children under 5 who are prepared to socially isolate until their kids are able to get the vaccine because they believe you have a >50% chance of hospitalization due to COVID. Some people are playing the long game and blaming vaccine holdouts, which in cases like this is irrational (but who said people are rational).