I think the most important and future-impacting news come from Israel.
Translated: (Currently, with their >50% pop. vaccinated, and RT = 0.5) 100 people infect 50, who infect 25, who infect 12, who infect 2, who infect 1, who eventually no longer infect.
And if no one infects no one, that pretty much means that SARS-CoV-2 will get eradicated (i.e. the same fate of smallpox).
@DeWayfarer I think Dr. Fauci is playing cautious, I myself am someone who adopts the "always expect the worst outcome to happen from any non-competely controllable event/situation" approach in my profession (although I'm in a different field). There is also a greater-than-zero chance that vaccine-resistant mutations might arise later from one of those countries were vaccination rates are low and the spread is high such as indeed Brazil. That however doesn't mean those scenarios will inevitably happen, they're just hypotheses for now.
@DeWayfarer I've been quite pessimistic (and rightfully so, it seems) since the very beginning of this thing, especially considering it hit here sooner than almost everywhere else (minus for China and Iran), and I firmly believe we'd probably be in a (much) better situation now if the great majority of governments took the situation more seriously early on, which would include taking an "expect the worst" approach. But I think these first Israeli data look quite promising and we might realistically see the end of the tunnel sooner than we expect, too. 🤞🏻
@MrBrownstone But this is the first step that eradicates the control you mention. The covid test happened the day of the concert so that it could go ahead. I can't see your point..
@MrBrownstone Because a cure or vaccine has never been successfully developed yet. Covid has not been eradicated yet either .. the vaccines are only 98% effective with AstraZeneca for instance
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Yeah I saw that , they requested all guests to wear FFP2 masks. And even so there were people wearing it below their noses only 🙄.
I think this was more like a scientific experiment to see if those masks work in big crowds. Kinda nazi tho .
