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Old 08-04-2021, 07:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Robbie0723 View Post
Delta just dramatically pushed the herd immunity threshold higher.

And immunized individuals can still be carriers.
Just to cheer you up, take note of the Lambda variant, for which the vaccine seems not to work or not to work as well. I read yesterday in Newsweek online that it’s the dominant form in Peru, and there are about a thousand cases in the US so far. Don’t throw away those masks and gloves or that hand sanitizer. What if new variants keep popping up and shutting us down for the next century? What if a new variant also has a much higher death rate?