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Originally Posted by Wyseguy
And now we have the mu variant waiting in the wings. The mu variant does not respond to the current vaccines. Peoples' trust in gov't (such as it is) gets eroded more and more every day. They must let us have access to all information. I understand they try to paint a pretty picture to increase the percentage of people getting the vaccine. When the public is told that the vaccine is the key to no masks, to concerts, public events. When we are told the effective rate is 97%, only to drop to 70 something, When we are told how breakthrough cases are very few (using June figures. July and August will show increased ineffectiveness). When we see that all of these statements had to be walked back, the people lose faith in what they are being told. On top of knowing that, everyone knows information from scientists and doctors are being censored. This has been handled poorly.
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The effective rate of the Pfizer vaccine WAS 97% (or around that and over 90%) AGAINST THE ALPHA VARIANT. The around (?) 70% effective rate has to do with the WHOLE NEW, different animal - the DELTA variant. So, the 97 % number has been rendered to be useful for modern Historical purposes only to discuss the early variants. Life changes and each year it changes MORE rapidly (I will not say exponentially). Imagine the year 2170, which many grandchildren will live to see (barring nuclear winter) - how fast that will change! Since the word conservative means "prefers things staying the way they are or were for long periods of time", How can anyone "conserve" at all (for longer than 1 day) when things will possibly change at an exponential (defined as 10 X) rate ?