[ExI] covid cases worldwide going back up

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike, keep an eye on Mississippi - we just went full open everything.
 bill w

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:19 AM Ben via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 22/03/2021 11:10, Dave Sill wrote:
> > I take it these are infections, assuming zero false-positives, not
> > people who are actually sick and requiring hospitalization. If so, so
> > cares? What matters is the latter: serious illnesses and deaths. We're
> > told the vaccines are 90+% effective at preventing infections but near
> > 100% effective at preventing serious illness.
>
> I think that increasing infection rates are what we should expect, as
> vaccine take-up increases. People will be more confident, get out more,
> mix more, and transmit the
> (no-longer-dangerous-to-those-who-are-vaccinated) virus more, assuming
> you can still catch & transmit it after being vaccinated. And assuming
> nobody is silly enough to be doing antibody testing anymore (for which
> anyone who's vaccinated should test positive, as the whole point of the
> vaccine is to stimulate antibody production).
>
> There should be a soaring infection rate, and a plunging sickness and
> death rate, as everyone gets vaccinated, and becomes immune to the
> virus, so stops worrying about catching it.
>
> Eventually (soon, I hope), only the anti-vaxxers will be getting sick
> from it. And those who can't, for whatever reason, have the vaccine.
>
> --
> Ben Zaiboc
>
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