Coronavirus
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This is worth your time:
https://noahpinion.substack.com/…
TL;DR:
• "...there’s a good chance that Omicron will be able to bypass existing immunity to a much greater extent than other variants."
• "...although Omicron was first detected in Southern Africa just a few days ago, it has probably been circulating internationally for a while" (making travel bans somewhat useless)
• "the age when we could expect to stop the virus with non-pharmaceutical interventions — lockdowns, social distancing, masks, test-and-trace — is long, long over. Not only has popular appetite for this strategy waned to almost nothing, but new variants are so contagious that these strategies just aren’t sufficient ...Vaccines will be our first line of defense."
• The mutation pattern has taken a much larger genetic leap than Delta / past variants leading the WHO to believe that Omicron has a higher reinfection risk than other variants:
• Solutions such as variant-specific boosters are already in the works along w/ multi-variant booster, sort of like what we use for flu shots.
• American specific point: "America has been doing an absolutely awful job of rolling out booster shots... This isn’t because of antivaxers, who, while a pernicious force, are only about 20% of the population. Instead, it’s because America’s public health authorities dragged their feet on recommending that Americans get booster shots..."
• "...the biggest reason for this was that U.S. agencies like the CDC are extremely provincial, and basically ignored evidence from other countries. That’s very bad, and it fits with the general narrative of a crisis of competence at the CDC."
• Silly American specific politics: "...some public health officials in the U.S. saw boosters as taking away vaccine doses from developing countries. With America now mostly vaccinated, these officials decided that recommending a third shot would harm global equity. The head of the WHO certainly made this argument, calling booster shots a “scandal”. There were op-eds in major papers and articles in reputable journals pushing the idea, and it was so widespread that there were articles about how to deal with guilt after getting a booster."
- May I just WFH all the time, and relocate to a quiet spot on the planet. Capital cities and office life bye bye, never loved ya.shapesalad
- ^just did this actually <3
Left a 1.6M pop. city for a new State not even the size of the city we left (1.3M).PonyBoy