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It took over a year and a half to come close to vaccinating everyone. Omicron infected the world in something like 2 months. Your statement that "An intention
by mrjangles 5y ago
It took over a year and a half to come close to vaccinating everyone. Omicron infected the world in something like 2 months. Your statement that "An intentional policy of inoculation is faster" is clearly wrong.
Not saying this is a good idea though.
- snowwrestler 5y agoIn the U.S. there have been about 75 million cases reported (this includes Omicron), while about 211 million people have received a full dose of vaccine.
- lmilcin 5y agoThis has nothing to do with your statement on how fast we are able to deploy a vaccine vs infect population with a virus. Obviously, vaccine is preferable IF people were getting vaccinated. Also, it is normal for viruses to infect vaccinated people. The point of most vaccines is not to protect any single person, it is to protect the population. This happens by making it difficult for the virus to find a new host. When enough people are not vaccinated the virus is perfectly "happy" to mostly spread through unvaccinated population and hit the vaccinated population in the process. Think about this way: imagine a town densely built with wooden houses. Any fire would quickly consume entire town. Now imagine replacing 25% of wooden houses with brick houses. The fire will still consume entire town and it will still consume most or all of the brick houses. Does this mean that brick houses spread fire as readily as wooden ones?