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Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by freeone3000 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @07:39PM (#28067865)
How in the world could vaccine rollout have been any faster? This is the fastest a vaccination program has ever been run, for anything, ever. We're at 60% population vaccination after SIX MONTHS, which is absolutely insane -- polio was slower, and they were allowed jet injectors! Vaccination is going as fast as possible, and policy was implemented to minimize all mixing of people, not just Vax/unvax.
Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by acituan on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:57PM (#28068876)
You misunderstand the problem.

We’re not talking about the total vaccination rate; it is a matter of how diffuse or concentrated it had to be for a particular locale to minimize variant training. Obviously it brings up questions of fairness thus was avoided by politicians.

> Vaccination is going as fast as possible, and policy was implemented to minimize all mixing of people, not just Vax/unvax.

It was a lofty aspiration but wasn’t/hasn’t been good enough. We could have had different levels of strictness from the beginning when lifting lockdowns, instead of going a full open and betting on a no variant scenario, instead of now with too late of an attempt, which will anger people and won’t be likely to work well.