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Originally Posted by jfman
Not every few months for a significant portion of the population, no.
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Yet the
ONS study is showing that pretty much all adult groups over 99% of people have covid antibodies. The lowest is 16-24 but not by much, and school kids (lower down) 94.5 from 8-11 and 95.5. from 12-15, however none of these three groups are at more risk of the virus than older adults provided they don't have any underlying conditions.
The level of infection we are getting now is low, especially serious ones, with the country fully open to pre-pandemic freedoms. But the levels we are getting are more than the 1% - but then they always said omicron was easily capable of getting through some of the vaccine protection. In any case, this isn't how vaccines or antibodies are supposed to work anyway, they aren't 100% preventing infections in people, they just train the immune response.
We need better vaccines to stop it, but do we need them that much? The immunity from the ones we have is still good enough to significantly reduce infections and serious illness. Right now I seem to recall some scientists saying that the best immune protection now is being 3x jabbed and then infected. Whilst we shouldn't practice covid parties (and should still probably stay home if we might have it) being jabbed isn't enough to stop getting it and getting it, whilst unpleasant, is no longer the serious issue it was for a lot of people.
We should probably stop worrying about it, but those who consider still wearing tinfoil hats, should be respected for their views, as should those not.