Scientists are monitoring a coronavirus mutation that could affect the strength of vaccines
You can hardly accuse me of fake intel
I read about the south-african variant one or two weeks ago but for some reason no main media picked up on it. I fear the world still suffers from forced positivity in the face of something that has no human morals, good or bad.
And its counter-productive
what they say :
“I’m quite optimistic that even with these mutations, immunity is not going to suddenly fail on us,” Bloom said. “It might be gradually eroded, but it’s not going to fail on us, at least in the short term.”
Scientists do think the coronavirus could eventually change so much that the immunity provided by vaccines will be threatened, a process that will pick up as the number of people protected from the virus — either through vaccination or infection — grows and evolutionary pressure in turn increases. But they still anticipateit could take years
, and that when it does occur, vaccine makers can tweak their designs to match the newer variant, a process some companies have said would only take weeks.
my take :
belgium gets 100.000 doses every week starting february -
at 10 million people who need 2 doses each that's
four years
to get the whole populationrealfact ?
goodfact ...
seeing is believing
also : the smart people and experts are still talking about herd immunity in the classic sense of the word
thats because people get stuck in what they learned in school back in their day and everyone seems to forget books of knowledge are outdated the moment they hit the shelves for anything but standard mathematics and the basic laws of newton
herd immunity is what it says : "herd" immunity , like forex traders taking all data from 1920 to 2020 and turning that into a prediction, completely ignoring the times , climate, events and everything
the total population as a society is not "a herd"
a herd does not count essential cows for herd immunity
if certain chains get certain links broken then the overall herd immunity in the classic sense might apply
but everything would still be fucked
someone needs to educate your smart people
fast
(not for me - i think the planet could do with a few billion less, i just hope it aint me paying the price for your insolence towards her)