Posted on 08/20/2021 7:14:56 PM PDT by lightman
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued updated guidance on masking indoors in public spaces in areas of high transmission for those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The move came after the CDC uncovered new data about the delta variant, one of the most transmissible strains of the coronavirus, that suggested even fully vaccinated individuals who catch COVID-19 can still pass along the virus to others.
The delta variant is responsible for more than 98% of COVID-19 cases in the United States.
All of these recent discoveries by the CDC lead to one question: Can COVID-19 be contained before it spreads to nearly everyone in the world? Is COVID-19 here to stay?
Researchers with the World Health Organization (WHO) leading the fight against the pandemic effort said late last year that vaccines alone would not defeat COVID-19 for good.
In a survey of more than 100 health researchers working on the coronavirus in February, nearly 90% agreed that COVID-19 would become an “endemic” disease, meaning that the disease spread is consistently present and localized to a particular area.
Since then, more scientists have made their beliefs public about COVID-19 becoming a regular cause of human disease, such as infections like the common cold and influenza viruses.
“We’re transitioning from this being a pandemic to being more of an endemic virus, at least here in the United States and probably other Western markets,” Scott Gottlieb, former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said last week. Will everyone get COVID at some point?
The answer is not quite as simple as saying yes or no.
Health experts agree that the delta variant has been a game-changer this summer, but it’s still not known what that means for the long-term future of COVID-19.
Andy Slavitt, the former White House Senior Advisor for COVID Response, recently posted a detailed thread on Twitter that addressed the question of whether everyone will get the virus at some point.
“Given delta’s contagiousness & the fitness of future mutations in order to beat it, this means SARS-CoV-2 will be contagious enough that everyone will get the virus,” Slavitt wrote as part of the thread. “The aim is simply that more people get it be vaccinated when they do so fewer get COVID.”
But not everyone agreed with Slavitt’s take on the subject. Dr. Ellie Murray, an epidemiology professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, said in a tweet Slavitt’s commentary was “such a dangerous take.”
“Just because a virus is highly contagious does NOT mean ‘everyone will eventually get the virus,’” Murray tweeted. “We have public health tools that work against COVID.”
Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota told The New Republic “you can’t run out the game clock here.”
“If you think, ‘I haven’t gotten it yet, I’ll just wait another six months and this whole thing will be over with, I don’t have to get vaccinated’ — this virus will eventually find you,” Osterholm said. “It will find you.”
Dr. Sandra Adams, a professor of biology and virologist at Montclair State University, had a more nuanced take on the subject.
“There is a distinction between infection and COVID disease. It is possible that all of the unvaccinated will eventually get COVID disease because of the increased infectious rate of the delta variant,” Adams said.
“Vaccinated individuals may become infected with one of the variants. This scenario (unvaccinated getting COVID and vaccinated becoming infected) is the more dangerous route to the majority of the population obtaining antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and its variants,” Adams added. If COVID-19 is here to stay, will vaccines make it manageable?
It seems that COVID-19 is staying put, but living with the virus does not mean letting the virus spread uncontrolled.
High vaccination rates may not prevent the spread of COVID-19 altogether, but they will still control the spread of the virus and its variants.
This will lead to fewer cases in the community, and that control will buy the world time in getting more people vaccinated in the event that more deadly strains crop up.
“The vaccines don’t work like sunscreen, stopping the virus from entering your body,” Slavitt wrote. “They fight for our cells. What they do is train our immune system to recognize the virus, attack it, & fight it to a state where it minimizes damage.”
Right now, more than 32% of the world has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and over 24% is fully vaccinated, according to Our World in Data.
Honestly, I hope so...except for the very most vulnerable.
Reality check.
COVID-19 is airborne.
That means, “in the air, everywhere”.
It is ENDEMIC.
We will ALL get exposed..over and over. MANY of us will “test positive”, mostly without symptoms. SOME of us will be “symptomatic”, and a subset will be really sick. And (unfortunately) a FEW of us will die.
This is NOT the Bubonic plague. This is NOT the Spanish Influenza.
Tear off that face diaper. Breathe deeply. Inhale some COVID. Build up your immune system.
Stop cowering... ...and LIVE!
If you have a muscle myopathy that can make you susceptible to MH.. This is interesting
https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3181064
Btw..if you dont know what constitutes muscle myopathy see the muscular dystrophy site. They cover a lot of diseases...
Everyone has VID
My grandma and my dog ‘ol blue
(VID, VID, VID)
The pope has got it and so do you
(VID, VID, VID, VID, VID)
C’mon everybody we got quilting to do
(VID, VID, VID, VID, VID)
We gotta break down these barricades, everyone has
VID, VID, VID
VID, VID, VID
VID, VID, VID
-With apologies to Matt and Trey
x1000!!!!
To that, I would add: Stop sacrificing your freedom for the ILLUSION of safety! Especially when you are expecting that “safety” to come from despicable, dishonest, immoral, self-serving sacks of political sh*t.
Too many unknowns in that description to point to one thing or another as to what the cause was.
Looking at the data anecdotally (not scientifically), the variants started in the high vaccinated areas. That was the origin of them. I’m a guessing (not scientific) that the jabs weren’t enough to kill the virus. But the virus mutated as a result of the “vaccine”. So the more vaccinations and booster doses, the more variants will appear. This will only make the virus stronger and will end up killing more people than if noone was vaccinated. That’s my theory which I expect will be in the New England Journal of Medicine any month now.
Bkmk
Yes...but i can tell you from personal experience that the medical profession has a lack of knowledge when it comes to MH in some cases...as it pertains to certain muscle myopathies.
How is this repeated "fact" calculated since there is no easy test for the Delta Variant? Made up? Interpolated from BS?
Yes everyone will be exposed and have to fight it off or perish.
Will our owners ever let us move past this scamdemic?
NOPE.
The only way to get out this Rich Man’s Trick is meet our maker.
I'll take my meds and move on.
I will not get the Mark to buy/sell (passport).
Those are really, really good.
“...Will everyone get the coronavirus at some point?...”
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What does “get the coronavirus” mean?
Will everyone be exposed to the coronavirus at some point?
Yes!
...and most will probably never even know it.
Also if you have a muscle myopathy you might want to be sure to inform ER you could be susceptible to MH as per MDA....and helpful to have that printout because you might get someone that doesnt even know it could be a problem
Just because you didnt have a problem before doesnt mean you wont the next time.
I alert them because i will sue if they dont take precautions and i have a problem
There is no way possible that you can avoid getting the ChiCom Virus.
Its been in the environment for over a year now.The only way you could avoid it would be living in a submarine or on the International space station during that same period.
Everyone has gotten the virus so it makes absolutely No sense to get the “vaccine” that Feds are pushing on the Public.
Nope.
I had it. My husband did not catch it, my mom did not catch it, my dad did not catch it, my pastor and his wife did not catch it. These were all people who were around me when I should have been transmitting it.
So it will hit some people, others have a better bouncer at the door who kicks the snot out of germs and then calls them sissies.
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