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by nzk 5y ago
The dead comment is unfortunately correct, there will probably be no herd immunity with these vaccines. That's what I hear from every virologist/epidemiologist lately anyways, and the real world data with highly vaccinated countri
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by nzk 5y ago
Values such as politicians not insulting a group of people on television, not taking their rights away because they might potentially get sick eventually, generally not judging before proven guilty, not forcing someone to put something in t
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by nzk 5y ago
Yeah, it's possible. I tried to word it carefully. There seems to be a trend in Bavaria though, Saxony maybe , but it's too soon to tell. Those two were the first to be hit by the current wave, and some areas of Bavaria had the h
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by nzk 5y ago
... yeah, okay, I disagree with everything. I don't think it's acceptable for a government to insult its citizens, and I do think boundaries should be respected. Nothing more to say, our worldviews are too far apart.
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by nzk 5y ago
No, it's not the goal. The goal is also not to split society in two and create a group that'll hate everyone forever, just because our leaders can't own up to their mistakes. The goal is to get through the pandemic best we ca
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by nzk 5y ago
Fair enough, thanks for the info, I'll check it out. But let it be 2594 then, that is still too many given that we should have increased it by any means possible before starting to publically insult 20% of the population. I'm not
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by nzk 5y ago
Growth isn't exponential forever, cases appear to be going down again in Germany already. Delta waves seem to be only about 8 weeks long (check data from different countries, or here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/0
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by nzk 5y ago
In three months, the booster efficiency might start waning again, we don't know that yet. These vaccines so far aren't looking like they are the solution to the pandemic either, better vaccines or better treatment might be. I&#x27
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by nzk 5y ago
Thanks, that was an interesting video. I had to rely on auto-translated subtitles but from the little Dutch I can understand, it seems like they got the gist across. Yeah, Germany has a ton of ICU beds in comparison, and yet, we're str
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by nzk 5y ago
What we're seeing here is one of the wealthiest countries in the world with a population of > 80M people crumbling over a few thousand ICU patients because of long-standing issues that were never addressed. The staffing problems in
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by nzk 5y ago
I agree with you on everything, except 94% is out of date. 35% of ICU patients are now vaccinated, 46% in the 60+ age group. And the percentage keeps rising, especially in the most vulnerable group > 60. Check out their weekly reports, t
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by nzk 5y ago
There are currently no lockdowns, but we had an eight-month long one last winter and plenty of people are afraid of having it repeated. Indoor mask mandates yes, I think there's only one state that lifted it, but could be one or two mo