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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by lovecg on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:34PM (#29555353)
But has this been true in practice? Was any variant successfully stopped with lockdowns? I suppose hypothetically if there’s a new strain with like a 10% fatality rate there will be new extreme measures where that could be the case, but it hasn’t happened yet. Even the extreme early 2020 measures failed to stop the virus.
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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by lb0 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @02:53PM (#29556609)
Which lockdowns in our hemisphere had the goal of stopping the virus? All I know about (or have been part of) never stated that goal, only goal was to break waves and avoid overload of health care systems, which most at least helped with.

And then it goes on because measures are reduced, and zero-covid never was a goal... would even go so far that some few countries pretty successfully did zero-covid strategies and stopped their virus, though sure, that is a pretty futile thing if the world is not "globally" doing this and you are likely not isolating forever/completely - so we just start to live with it.

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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by Heliosmaster on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:08PM (#29556809)
> Was any variant successfully stopped with lockdowns?

Statstically speaking, almost surely yes: with millions of infections there are thousands of variants, every day. If somebody was prevented from infecting somebody with their variant (as patient 0) technically we stopped variants with lockdown. Maybe they more favorable for us, maybe they were more dangerous from us.

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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by not2b on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @06:55PM (#29559880)
The mu variant, which caused a lot of worry, went away. It apparently escaped vaccines better than delta but spread much more slowly, so delta out-competed it. Perhaps if there were no restrictions it would have done better. Hard to say though.
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