and vaccines?...well our flu vaccine is probably only 50% effective if that, and we have no vaccine for the common cold, which is a corona virus....
Or do we....?
Somewhere around June of this year, I became convinced that a virus tends to herd immunity regardless of any efforts to eradicate it.
lockdowns and masks have not worked...masks help, akin to covering your mouth when you cough...but stopping a virus is nearly impossible IMO....
and vaccines?...well our flu vaccine is probably only 50% effective if that, and we have no vaccine for the common cold, which is a corona virus....
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Slight slide ...
I’ve mentioned that my mom has been sick with something (not covid) and my dad and his wife have covid. Dad’s wife has advanced dementia, and they caught the virus from a caregiver for her.
We’ve gotten home health involved with my mom so they are coming in, two here this morning. One of them works at the hospital also, and I asked him what was his opinion on herd immunity. He didn’t exactly agree that that would happen but he said that while cases were really up here, people weren’t as sick, and that the virus is weakening. He said that people were still being admitted, but again, not as sick.
Like this guy - Hispanic, told my mom they had turned off Fox now. :-) (Had my mom coming down the stairs and back up, walking around the living room when I could barely get her to sit up and eat for two weeks.)
(My dad was scheduled for a followup surgery on Thursday and wants to get a clear test today so that he can have someone drive him to Bham for that. Sigh. I can’t fix everything I’ve discovered.)