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Re:The Silent, Vacinated, Impatient Majority by crispypotatoes on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @08:09AM (#29978459)
> What makes you think vaccinating everybody will hasten the end of the pandemic?

It makes it harder for the disease to transmit from person to person

Less disease means less of the pandemic

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Re:The Silent, Vacinated, Impatient Majority by smegsicle on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @01:31PM (#29983564)
Maybe the pandemic would already be over if only the high-risk had gotten vaccinated?

Less immunization to the spike protein means less mutation of the spike protein

Less mutation of the spike protein means less hospitalization of those immunized directly to it

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Re:The Silent, Vacinated, Impatient Majority by moistly on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:49PM (#29987259)
> Less immunization to the spike protein means less mutation of the spike protein

Virus mutation doesn’t work that way.

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Re:The Silent, Vacinated, Impatient Majority by smegsicle on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:21PM (#29989555)
immunization wouldn't function as a form of evolutionary pressure?
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Re:The Silent, Vacinated, Impatient Majority by crispypotatoes on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @07:16AM (#29992674)
Not if you only did the elderly, as you've suggested.
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