White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Moncef Slaoui, chief adviser of Operation Warp Speed, offered conflicting takes on Sunday regarding herd immunity as a result of COVID-19 vaccines.
B. In the meantime, we need more economic support â lots more and the right kind â which means we also need more pressure against the austerity scolds.
ETA: OT and feel free to skip but this is bugging the hell out of me.
It isnât just the hypocrisy, itâs the apostasy: People like the Falwells et al are Mammonites â believing that material good fortune is a manifestation of Godâs love â a sign of his favor and their personal virtue; the obvious corollary being the low status and unworthiness of those not so favored. The entire prosperity gospel â lock, stock, and lucre â is a damnable Christianist heresy.
And it does not stop with Christianists. The argument that the unfortunate should receive support as well as government welfare generally is objectionable to Mammonites writ larger too: money is Godâs or Fortuneâs favor and the notion that it is a commodity with value determined only by exchange, that you can actually just give the stuff away or gain it through sheer luck rather than âearningâ (AKA deserving) it is anathema; it challenges their view of themselves as someone deserving their place on top of the heap (the ego boost you get when passing the poor slobs lower down is just a perk).
At its heart arguments for economic austerity, particularly at this point in time, have little or nothing to do with economics.
That also means (getting back to topic) that the vaccine needs to be âfreeâ â fully subsidized by the government with the goal of at least 70% population coverage (thatâs the point you can actually start seriously talking about herd immunity).
This isnât exactly a disagreement. Theyâre not sure how many people will get vaccinated, and your thought about that puts your conclusion in a different place. Thatâs about it. The article would seem to want to put them at loggerheads but I donât think they are.
âTeeth create a narrowing effect in the jet that makes it stronger and more turbulent,â Kinzel says. âThey actually appear to drive transmission. So, if you see someone without teeth, you can actually expect a weaker jet from the sneeze from them.â
One way to boost the uptake in the vaccine is for major private venues â like sports stadiums â to require evidence of vaccinations before theyâre allowed to attend events and functions there.
âIf you donât want to be vaccinated, thatâs your choice, but you donât get to be a superspreader in our house.â
It would seem these vaccines are as ânovelâ as is Co-Vid 19 itself. To my knowledge,there is no information available on long-term effects of attaching foreign material to RNA and/or DNA. While I am pro-vaccination in every other case, this one gives cause for concern.
âHerd immunityâ means that a sufficient proportion of the population are resistant to the virus, such that in the epidimiological sense, when the virus does flare up, it canât find enough human hosts to keep spreading. But life (and the deaths) for those experiencing the flareup will continue to be hell. A 95% effective vaccine still means that, when exposed, youâve got a one in twenty chance of being infected. Now multiply that âone in twentyâ by the daily or weekly count of high risk behaviors you are currently avoiding, and your odds of infection move back to or worse than without a vaccine. We have to get vaccinated, then continue virus safety practices for as many months as it takes for the virus to die down to near nothing, like ebola.