How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and still call itself free?

Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by nindalf on Thursday September 02, 2021 @01:27PM (#28394867)

The funny thing about India is that at the beginning of 2021, Covid was considered a thing of the past. Cases flat lined. The government was so confident it was trying to export vaccines to curry diplomatic favour.

Then delta came. Turns out being infected with one variant doesn’t offer as much protection against another variant as being vaccinated. (https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-genera...)

> The new evidence shows that protective antibodies generated in response to an mRNA vaccine will target a broader range of SARS-CoV-2 variants carrying “single letter” changes in a key portion of their spike protein compared to antibodies acquired from an infection.

So yeah, life is back to normal in India. Until the next variant.

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Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by option_greek on Thursday September 02, 2021 @11:55PM (#28400262)

That is not true. There were some known cases of reinfections but not at a higher rate than breakthrough infections. And recent sero surveys have reported 60-80% of population is exposed to the virus either through vaccines or infections. On top of that nearly 60% is now vaccinated and new vaccinations are hitting 10 million per day. And yes, neither the government nor people here want lockdowns or masks (people at least).

So no. Next variant might affect India but no more than the other countries still enforcing crazy lockdowns.

Source: all over the news

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