The third wave is happening as I type.
It's driven by voting turnout. It's driven by apathy from people who previously had good intentions, but are now too fatigued to care.
Anti-gov, anti-mask, anti-biden sentiment is at an all time high. Conspiracies are booming.
Mandates are not enough, if anyone is even listening to the clueless lawmakers at this point.
Coming up: thanksgiving, black friday, christmas season, christmas, new year.
I predict 700,000 cases per day on the first week of January.
How is this country so horrible.
Talking with some peeps on another thread and my prediction is this thing is gonna mutate and keep spreading. Those that survived the first time might get overconfident when this wave comes and not take precautions thinking they can't get it again. The rich have the idea that it would be better to just let everyone die and get it over with and while this sounds like a cruel but pragmatic idea if this keeps mutating it will just be cruel and useless.
i am no good at science, so would it mutating make “herd immunity” not possible then?
SSJBlueStalin explained it to me like this.
Or, like you postulated. One good mutation, which is inevitable at some point, amd we get to do the dance again
So best case senario, when we get a vaccine set up and running, and widely distributed, it is an unknown and finite ammount of time before a new strain pops up. Just like how we get flu shots only without decades of instutional knowledge on how ro handle it.
His looks more hopeful but my hopes aren't that high.
ah jeez... and yet telling that to people who think the vaccine will solve everything will have them looking at you like youre crazy
Yeah but this might be part and parcel of being a loony leftist no? I desperately want to be wrong though and I am in a lot of ways but I don't trust the for profit healthcare system.