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Re:The case against masks at school by throwawaythekey on Thursday January 27, 2022 @08:36PM (#30109678)
Please refer to countries like Australia/Israel who are still experiencing massive case loads with a ~95% vaccination rate. It doesn't make it go away. For example please see

https://twitter.com/orwell2022/status/1486330027549544452

Sure, you can deny some people medical treatment if you want to reduce the load on the hospital by a bit but it does not go away!

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Re:The case against masks at school by BeefWellington on Thursday January 27, 2022 @10:07PM (#30110286)
> Please refer to countries like Australia/Israel who are still experiencing massive case loads with a ~95% vaccination rate. It doesn't make it go away. For example please see

I think people underestimate how big a number 5% of a population of most countries -- even small ones -- actually is, especially when compared against available health care resources.

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Re:The case against masks at school by throwawaythekey on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:30AM (#30110977)
About 1/3 of the covid cases in the ICU where I live [1]. No idea how that stacks up compared to total ICU capacity (I think <10% but am not sure on this).

https://twitter.com/VicGovDH/status/1486225759874486273

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