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Re:The UK’s delta surge is collapsing by AndrewBissell on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:43PM (#28043623)
> Here's a worst-case scenario if people do get vaccinated: everyone is vaccinated, COVID-19 starts going away

How do you figure that last part?

If we're talking worst-case scenarios from mass vaccination I would think you would need to put Marek's or ADE type outcomes on the table.

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Re:The UK’s delta surge is collapsing by manwe150 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @12:54AM (#28045829)
Those are already the complications associated with not vaccinating, so putting them on the table again would double-count them.

Not sure I agree with their ‘hundreds of millions (per year)’ figure. That seems like unnecessary fear-mongering. But maybe ‘hundreds of thousands’ or ‘millions’, which is still not great.

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Re:The UK’s delta surge is collapsing by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @08:55AM (#28048564)
I'm not fear-mongering; I'm just a pessimist. My scenarios are “unbelievably unrealistic” and “apocalyptic sci-fi”, respectively, but I wanted to make sure I got an upper bound on the worst-case. I don't know much about the topic, so I had to go into “I know this is unrealistic” territory for that.

See also: https://xkcd.com/2261/ and https://xkcd.com/883/.

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