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Re: wut "breakthrough vaccine cases"? (4.00 / 3)

Vaccination is not a panacea. Still have to mask and practice personal protection protocols.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Aug 12th, 2021 at 01:17:57 AM EST
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Re: wut "breakthrough vaccine cases"? (4.00 / 3)

I'm never going to stop being mad that we have these borderline miracle vaccines and we're wasting them. The CDC mask burning party. The absurd waffling here in Europe.

Just mandate the vaccines and keep mask mandates in place. The vast majority of anti-vaxxers are over-privileged whiny babies. They'll buckle the moment they face real pressure.

We as a society are already gambling that the vaccines will solve most of the problem for us and no one really gets to opt out of the let-it-run-rampant-and-hope-for-the-best strategy. Unless you're in semi-conductors and have workable Mandarin.

by generic on Thu Aug 12th, 2021 at 08:34:58 AM EST
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Re: wut "breakthrough vaccine cases"? (4.00 / 2)

And of course even with the best possible vaccination rates you're looking at this:

by generic on Thu Aug 12th, 2021 at 08:37:15 AM EST
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Re: wut "breakthrough vaccine cases"? (4.00 / 2)

What we need is a cheap, patent-free, virus-sterilizing one-shot (nasal) vaccine (or dozen) that can be administered to most people on the globe within six months.

And a cheap, patent-free, over-the-counter antiviral treatment (or two) for those cases where people are infected anyway.

Then, and only then Covid would go the way of the smallpox. Maybe.

by pelgus on Thu Aug 12th, 2021 at 12:03:39 PM EST
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SARS-CoV-2 (4.00 / 2)

is going the way of common influenza, an endemic mutating pestilence, whose etiology and the morbidity associated with chronic respiratory infection is well-respected. Likewise, expect seasonal vaccine formula adjustments and administration to the usual suspects--the very old and the very young bracing doctor recommended advice to everyone aged between.

General confidence in a stable, predictable standard of treatment to alievate COVID-19 symptoms--as with other viraly or bacterial respiratory diseases-- would be nice, though.

by Cat on Mon Aug 16th, 2021 at 05:34:13 PM EST
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