“Cases rising” is really essentially meaningless at this point. Most of the people likely to suffer severe effects from the disease have already been vaccinated and are essentially immune. COVID-19, with its more infectious variants, is spreading mostly among the unvaccinated. The unvaccinated are mostly younger and healthier than average and don’t suffer severe effects from their infections. Their infections give them natural immunity adding further to our approach to herd immunity.
It’s over as a pandemic. NO MORE MASKS OR OTHER RESTRICTIONS!
“The unvaccinated are mostly younger and healthier than average and don’t suffer severe effects from their infections. Their infections give them natural immunity adding further to our approach to herd immunity.
It’s over as a pandemic.”
Mrsmith posted a link on another thread recently, where an academic projected how Delta might burn through the unvaccinated in the USA.
The gist was another 10-11% of the population likely to get exposed, and develop natural immunity.
If there is a rapid rise in cases for a while, that might also give a shot in the arm (little pun there) to vaccination rates as well. When you add all that to our currently already strong vaccination/natural immunity status, this is the last hurrah for COVID, if it even still qualifies as a Pandemic or Epidemic. (I don’t think it does any longer)