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A comment on India’s second wave. Parent comment

Re:India’s second wave by loonster on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:42PM (#26893780)
People don't understand that the area under the curve will remain the same. Mask or no mask, the same percentage of people will be needed to reach herd immunity.

The only exception to this is vaccinations. They may give you immunity without being infected. (They are not without risk though.)

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Re:India’s second wave by Marsymars on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:26PM (#26897158)
Not quite - the faster the rise in cases is, the more you overshoot the herd immunity threshold by.
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Re:India’s second wave by JoshuaDavid on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:00AM (#26899245)
As far as I can tell, we got lucky this time and the approved vaccines are close enough to "without risk" that you can round it off to "no risk" unless you are extremely risk-averse (if you drive 100km without thinking about your risk of dying in a car crash, you are not risk averse and probably shouldn't spend time worrying about risks from the vaccine).

Still requires that vaccines are available though, which is not a given worldwide yet.

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