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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by nradov on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:45AM (#29120911)
I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated, but at this point there is zero possibility to stop the spread. Your "team" never had a chance. We can all expect to get infected eventually.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by jayknight on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:00PM (#29122669)
By "stop", I guess I really mean slow/reduce/flatten-the-curve, etc. It's all a game of probabilities, and I guess I'm on team lets-work-together-as-a-society-to-reduce-the-chances-of-getting-and-spreading-sars-cov2. But that's slightly less catchy.
Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by angelzen on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:42PM (#29123223)
Are there any other considerents in life, or reduce-the-chances-of-getting-and-spreading-sars-cov2 is the only metric of relevance? Can you conceptualize any possible anti-covid measure that has too little of a benefit for too high of a cost, such that we should not deploy (or mandate!) it?
Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by aakresearch on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:43PM (#29145952)
Perfect question, I was thinking of asking it here as well. I'll just expand it with a couple of points:

- What would the properties of vaccines need to be (efficacy, etc.), for experts to deem the vax mandates not reasonable?

- Same about face masks. How low the estimated efficiency must be for mandates to not be acceptable?

- Bonus point: how more soul-crushing the curfews and other movement limits need to be for them to remain in the realm of personal choice?

In other words, I would like to gauge how "falsifiable" is the "scientifically-informed" reasoning behind covid-enthusiasts' defense doctrine.