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This isn't a helpful or honestly very nice comment, considering you don't know the commenter's situation or risk profile. The article you linked even makes the
by lsy 5y ago
This isn't a helpful or honestly very nice comment, considering you don't know the commenter's situation or risk profile. The article you linked even makes the point that delaying onset of Covid until there are more vaccines and therapeutics is ideal. Even at high R0 with no precautions, large numbers of people never get an endemic disease, due to herd immunity. And for people with kids, it's very reasonable to try to delay onset until pediatric vaccines and therapeutics are available. The fact that Covid will become endemic is not a reason to abandon all precautions.
- nradov 5y agoThe Delta and Omicron variants are so contagious that there will be no significant herd immunity. Everyone will eventually be infected. Fortunately the vaccines and other therapies are quite effective at preventing deaths. https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immunity-not-possible-astrazeneca-developer-2021-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu... The risk to healthy children is virtually zero. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.30.21267048v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.30.21267048v...