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<blockquote data-quote="Which Tyler" data-source="post: 1036420" data-attributes="member: 73592"><p>TBH, and purely for the UK - it's not the "original" version of Covid we need to be worried about now.</p><p>Our numbers are low, and our vaccination rate is high - especially in those most in need of protecting. We can't start thinking about herd immunity yet, especially with the targetted vaccine roll-out; but we've got it nailed in the at-risk groups.</p><p>Opening up too soon - especially high-risk social opening - for pubs, parties etc; will see a new wave, but it should be mostly "contained" amongst the young and healthy - there will be deaths, there will be hospitalisations, there will be social and economic impact - but we <strong>should </strong>be talking about 10s of deaths, not 1,000s.</p><p></p><p>What worries me now (again, purely for the UK) is the variants. We need to be doing everything we can, to get as much of the world's population immunised as possible - which includes charity, it includes education - especially combating anti-vax sentiments, and vaccine hesitancy in general, it includes exporting expertise.</p><p>The more humans carrying and spreading the virus, the more mutations will occur, and more likely it mutates nastily (it really has been on "easy mode" so far, with an easily identifiable spike protein, death by soap, and starvation by social distancing), or mutate around the current vaccines (if that spike protein becomes less essential to it, then we're screwed).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>ETA: This <strong>may </strong>be starting already - though the article is geo-locked for me (therefore I'm quoting from elsewhere, and get at any nuance - eg. do they mean actual hard numbers? or as a percentage, no that the older populations are generally immunised?; it looks like the former, but I can't get my teeth into it) - it' also media, not scientific publication:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/01/992148299/covid-doesnt-discriminate-by-age-serious-cases-on-the-rise-in-younger-adults" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/01/992148299/covid-doesnt-discriminate-by-age-serious-cases-on-the-rise-in-younger-adults</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Which Tyler, post: 1036420, member: 73592"] TBH, and purely for the UK - it's not the "original" version of Covid we need to be worried about now. Our numbers are low, and our vaccination rate is high - especially in those most in need of protecting. We can't start thinking about herd immunity yet, especially with the targetted vaccine roll-out; but we've got it nailed in the at-risk groups. Opening up too soon - especially high-risk social opening - for pubs, parties etc; will see a new wave, but it should be mostly "contained" amongst the young and healthy - there will be deaths, there will be hospitalisations, there will be social and economic impact - but we [B]should [/B]be talking about 10s of deaths, not 1,000s. What worries me now (again, purely for the UK) is the variants. We need to be doing everything we can, to get as much of the world's population immunised as possible - which includes charity, it includes education - especially combating anti-vax sentiments, and vaccine hesitancy in general, it includes exporting expertise. The more humans carrying and spreading the virus, the more mutations will occur, and more likely it mutates nastily (it really has been on "easy mode" so far, with an easily identifiable spike protein, death by soap, and starvation by social distancing), or mutate around the current vaccines (if that spike protein becomes less essential to it, then we're screwed). ETA: This [B]may [/B]be starting already - though the article is geo-locked for me (therefore I'm quoting from elsewhere, and get at any nuance - eg. do they mean actual hard numbers? or as a percentage, no that the older populations are generally immunised?; it looks like the former, but I can't get my teeth into it) - it' also media, not scientific publication: [URL]https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/01/992148299/covid-doesnt-discriminate-by-age-serious-cases-on-the-rise-in-younger-adults[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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