its weird how little people are talking about and preparing for the B117. Like, we've learned nothing and everyone that I know that knows about what is going to happen is like "lol, yeah, its gonna suck, butwhatchagonnado?
so far overall cases are going down, so it "might" not matter and the vaccines "might" be enough to stop the spread. but i got my eyes on texas
So far it looks like they are so we should stop with the doomerism.
The vaccines are highly effective.
Yeah, I'm more worried about them fucking up distributing the vaccines than I am worried about the new variants.
I think the fucking up has been mostly overblown. It's a problem, but shots are getting into arms. It will have an effect.
Notice how it's shifted from "it's going to take years we're all doomed" to "not enough black people getting vaccines" (valid concern, they make up something like 40% of health care providers in NY and are barely getting shots).
The media wants you doomscrolling.
Weren't the vaccines found to be less than 50% effective with the South Africa strain?
Edit: looks like they're about 57-60% effective with the South Africa strain according to several articles.
That's still not bad. It's just as vital as ever that we vaccinate.
Getting a vaccine could be the difference between getting horribly sick and dying from the SA strain vs getting it and beating it without severe COVID. Even if it has somewhat evolved around natural immunity.
A guy I follow on twitter explained it as the goal of vaccines is to reduce COVID to a much less deadly disease. It still does that.
Certainly, I just think it's important that we keep in mind how rapidly new strains are arising and that vaccine and immune resistant strains already exist.