Originally Posted by jfman

I'm far from gleeful, but as your own figures demonstrate we are some considerable distance from the herd immunity threshold.

The same principle applies that there is no living with the virus. The Indian variant and others will be given hundreds of thousands, if not millions of opportunities to further mutate without ongoing restrictions.

Defining vaccine escape as reducing vaccine efficacy to zero is needless semantics and doesn't change the inevitability of all of this.