Decline in effectiveness of all three US Covid-19 vaccines over time

Re:Decline in effectiveness of all three US Covid-19 vaccine... by glogla on Sunday November 07, 2021 @01:02PM (#29141808)

I think it's quite brilliant! Unvaccinated people hurt others by spreading the disease to the vulnerable and clogging the hospitals (at much higher rate than vaccinated). Turning this around and making it so that their unvaccinated status is hurting them too, seem like a great balancing act.

And talk is cheap. I remember article about how police unions in whatever US city claimed that 10 000 police officers will quit if they have to get vaccinated. The mandate went through and the number who quit was 36 or so.

If less than 1 % of antivaxxers really mean it, when push comes to shove, that means we can still save the world.

But I also have no patience anymore, so I'm not the best role model of a delicate approach to those things.

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Re:Decline in effectiveness of all three US Covid-19 vaccine... by CapricornNoble on Sunday November 07, 2021 @05:28PM (#29144166)

>>>And talk is cheap. I remember article about how police unions in whatever US city claimed that 10 000 police officers will quit if they have to get vaccinated. The mandate went through and the number who quit was 36 or so.

I wonder what city this would be? Maybe LA? Chicago had to pause the mandate for law enforcement due to the union backlash.[1] New York lost ~9,000 public workers (not all police though) due to their mandate.[2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/02/police-vacci...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/01/new-york-cit...

>>>when push comes to shove, that means we can still save the world.

Except that the vaccine efficacy falls off of a cliff over time, so unless all 7 billion of us are gonna get boosters every 3 months, what is the real plan to "save the world"? If COVID is here to stay, at some point we need to add "COVID patients" to our baseline stats that drive our understanding of ICU bed requirements, and then just return to normal. At the very least "Asia normal" where people just understand to wear masks most of the day in crowded places.

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Re:Decline in effectiveness of all three US Covid-19 vaccine... by throaway46546 on Sunday November 07, 2021 @07:47PM (#29145097)

The reason only 36 were fired is because they had thousands apply for "religious exemption". In the end they either accept them as exempt making the mandate moot or they will end up having to terminate them.

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