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EricHiggin on 14 July 2021
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haxxiy said:
EricHiggin said:

The vax doesn't make every last person 100% immune. How do we know this possible, much deadlier mutation, won't come from someone who is already vaxed with their defenses supposedly prepared? Most of the time you don't bother upping your game much unless it becomes necessity, due to efficiency.
 

Possible, yes, who knows. Just like it's possible H1N1 becomes like the 1918 strain again. Or adenovirus serotype 14 becomes much more transmissible etc. Is it worth spending time thinking about it, though? We do have emerging evidence, at least, that the virus mutates much less in vaccinated people.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259833v1

And it can't respond to evolutionary pressure if it doesn't have the time to mutate.

Exactly. Who knows? That's why everyone has to decide for themselves what's best for them in the end, and hopefully it works out well enough for everyone.

Well the poorly handled lockdowns certainly didn't help. Short minor lockdown after short minor lockdown just gave it more time. Not to mention all the protests and riots. Letting it spread like wildfire wasn't seen as an option though as that would've likely led to more deaths but would have burnt it out, assuming it's not prone to mutating that quickly, in which case we'd have a far bigger problem anyway then.

Lots of easy targets don't require laser focused execution. You can send out the 'troops' of your alliances fairly willy-nilly. However, if you have one strong main enemy, who knows your tactics well, you have to take more time and plan much more to get around their built up defenses with a highly coordinated attack. Sounds like the virus is doing exactly what you'd expect it to so far.

Last week in the news, there were a few stories about Canadians coming back from foreign countries who got vaxed while they were there, and yet their vax isn't being seen as valid by our own health care system. Talk about ridiculous. Countries like China and Russia. Canadians returning to our country had to quarantine for two weeks before they could go home, but the Gov changed that to, as long as they were vaccinated, they could skip quarantine. Well turns out that's only if you've gotten our vax. Which makes you wonder, talking about the odds, why isn't our healthcare system ok with vaxes from other countries? Are they seriously going to ban all of Russia or China? That's obviously highly unlikely, so why make a fuss about other countries vaxes now?

Last edited by EricHiggin - on 14 July 2021