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.

  • rozako [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    i am no good at science, so would it mutating make “herd immunity” not possible then?

    • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]
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      4 years ago

      SSJBlueStalin explained it to me like this.

      So yeah, there are two routes to that. Most other type corona viruses we have experience with have strong immunity on the order of nine months. So all the progress towards natural herd immunity will go away within an 18 month period as best we can tell.

      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.

      • rozako [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        ah jeez... and yet telling that to people who think the vaccine will solve everything will have them looking at you like youre crazy

        • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]
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          4 years ago

          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.