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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
It depends what you think ‘herd immunity’ means.
It doesn’t mean total immunity, it means resistance to the spread of the disease. There’s no doubt the the vaccination programme has achieved that.
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Getting our booster vaccines that incorporate the latest variants.
It’s not the end of the world yet.
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Absolutely agreed. I’ve been saying this from the get-go. It was clear very early on that lockdowns only delayed the spread of the virus, but for some reason I can’t fathom, some people scoffed at this at the time.
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You're right, it's absolutely not the end of the world yet, but nor as many profess or believe is the situation completely over.
we don't know how long it will take to reengineer and test updated booster shots.
The virus can mutate much quicker than we can react, the more people infected the greater the probability of a mutation....
I haven't seen anything by the government as to what the plans are should there be shift to a vaccine/antibody escape variant that can causes more serious illness and/or death and which either retains it's rate of transmission or has an increased rate of transmission.
To ignore the fact that the above is an entirely plausible is no better than two and a bit years ago when Boris said that it would be over in a few weeks
The government would be wise to remember the 7 Ps but, they won't