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Re:AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immun... by josephcsible on Thursday August 12, 2021 @11:34PM (#28165089)
> 1) We need to keep using all strategies - including masking, social distancing, and targeted lockdowns - to reduce large scale spread of the virus. If we don't, we're going to be playing "new variant whack-a-mole" until the end of time.

How long do you think we need to keep using all strategies for? We've been doing that for almost a year and a half now, with no end in sight, despite having a vaccine available to everyone so quickly.

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Re:AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immun... by glangdale on Thursday August 12, 2021 @11:43PM (#28165148)
"We've been doing that for almost a year and a half" - have we? A lot of jurisdictions have done lockdown light, if anything. A few fitful weeks of half-measures, then declare that "lockdowns don't work" seems like the most common measure.

Right now we're suffering from the fact that the measures in Australia had stupid holes in them - we could be delta-free if the geniuses behind our quarantine policy hadn't had unmasked, unvaccinated limo drivers driving around air crew from other countries.

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