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LOTS of breakthrough infections amongst the fully and partially vaccinated people. Iceland - the world's most vaccinated nation with over 90% done, is undergoing another outbreak amongst the vaccinated (few hospitalisations or deaths, but HIGH case numbers). In fact, the US CDC released data showing VACCINATED people actually are MORE contagious to unvaccinated people as they carry a larger viral dose in their sinuses since their own body cannot uptake it as much due to the SLIGHT conferred resistance via the vaccine.
3 out of the 5 Sydney deaths recently were vaccinated. There is still a stupid sector of our community that thinks vaccination = immunity, which it DOES NOT. It makes you SAFER, not safe. This needs to be drummed into the populace.
COVID 19 is a corona virus, just as the common cold is a corona virus. It's NOT going away, but it will mutate to not kill the host as readily (already has - Delta is FAR less deadly than the initial strains, but more contagious) and our bodies will acquire antibodies against it. Some suffer greatly from respiratory infections, yet many more don't. Being a novel virus that we haven't directly experienced before, it adapts, we adapt.
Canberra is still in lockdown until - at the moment - the 15th October (I sincerely doubt that will be the actual date - it'll be pushed through to November for sure) - we have on average 16 cases a day. Over half have recovered already. None have died. Less than 12 a day are in hospital, with 2 on ventilation on average. On average, approx 80% of the positive cases have been completely asymptomatic and only tested due to having been at an exposure site. Viral fragments have been reported in our sewerage for the past 1.5 years, showing we have ALWAYS had it in the community, again with vast numbers being asymptomatic. There are some troubling indicators emerging in the vaccinated, showing spike protein proliferation in the brain and in the gonads, so this could be a worrisome side-effect, particularly in the younger population (mental health and reproduction issues). We didn't have time to truly test the vaccines in terms of long-term outcomes, and this global experiment is now showing some interesting and in some instances, worrying trends.
There is a massive over-reaction to this virus due to a greater amount of misunderstanding and extremely short-sighted and best-guess policy (just watch one of Andrew's farcical press conferences - he doesn't have a clue, nor do his minions).
Like Glen said - it's not going away. The vaccine is not a cure, not a panacea. It just bolsters the bodies own natural defences.
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