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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
If it were project fear wouldn’t the boffins be implying that deaths are rising ?
Wfh vast majority of people will probably be loving that
Masks, hardly a major imposition.
I was however surprised regarding vaccine passports
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I still don't think masks are effective enough to consider the inconvenience but it's logical to do what has been and seems to have sensible exceptions. And if it does reduce transmission by a small amount even 5% that still makes a difference in a context of high infections.
Vax passports - well, quite. Given that the vaccines still do work against Delta in terms of hospitalisations, but have a marked drop off with infection against 2 doses compared to original strains or Alpha, then even then there was no guarantee if someone had a vax passport that they weren't going to have covid. And that Omicron has more of a drop off, so there will no doubt be more double jabbed people who get it - not too surprising considering this represents the vast majority here now. It seems that the "alternative" of a negative LFT is ultimately much more useful.
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Originally Posted by Paul
I think that was the number of Omicron infections, its replacing Delta.
From memory, it was something like 0.9% of all infections on his graph ?
It is rising fast though, as it takes over from Delta, and will almost certainly become dominant, just as Delta took over from Alpha
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Ok so the concern here is that Omicron is doubling every 2-3 days, which is a lot.
I'm sure you understand exponential growth, so not going to emphasise what that means.
But if it can overtake Delta, which the signs are that it can (it's more transmissible which seems to be the key) and that if it can infect more people who are double jabbed, this number will no doubt get very high very quickly.
And as we have no idea how many of these cases will reach hospital, if the jabs still work against this, or if the milder illness is the case and they won't get that sick anyway, then they have to assume it will, and try and slow it down.