Guest wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:50 pm
Birdy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 4:25 am
Vaccination is the only way to stop this.The U.K. fucked up at first but has now gone from a peak of 2,000 deaths a day to 7 deaths on Sunday because 55% of the population are vaccinated and pretty much everyone in a vulnerable group and nearly all over 50’s are vaccinated.
Compare that to the rest of Europe that have vaccinated bugger all in comparison and many of them are in a 3rd wave.In one day last week France recorded 44,000 new cases.
Then we have the problem that we all need another booster jab every year like the flu vaccine to deal with the mutations.
Or because it got warmer and the respiratory diseases are seasonal. Look at last year stats before vaccinations: there were very few cases in summer, because people are outside, getting sunshine and breathing fresh air. Respiratory viruses don’t like that, it’s been known since forever. Somehow people got dumber in 2020.
Vaccinations will help, but not as much as hoped for and certainly less if people are locked and restricted as they have been.
Yeah, flues are seasonal, and it helps to be outside in Freedom air.
Vaccinations will work, simply because they do bring down the R0 (significantly). So, the risk you meet somebody with Covid-19 will go down significantly and as such, the risk you get infected will go down significantly and as such, the risk you pass on to somebody else will go down significantly.
IF keeping >2 m permanent distance would be feasible, we would not need vaccines, because the R0 would be far below 1 and the virus simply dies out.
We see that happening in the UK. With sufficient vaccination level, the cases go down pretty rapidly. Unfortunately, the EU does really screw up with their vaccinations, with the argument "We have a determined vaccination priority, so we stick to that", with the result, things get delayed.