Dilbert_X wrote:
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Two doses of vaccine were expected to be plenty.
Most countries are well behind, Britain is at 54% 3rd booster, Aus 30%, your precious South Korea at 38% - not really miles ahead
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jesus christ you are just so thick.
2 vaccine doses were plenty … for 6 months. until another variant appeared, which diminished then very slightly. then, 6 months later, another variant again. at this point those ‘2 doses’ were based on formulae that were 2 years old. what don’t you get? “people were saying based on hundreds of data sets and results that these vaccines were highly effective! their 2 year old studies lied to us!!!” "i took 2 flu jabs in 2006 and 2007. shouldn't that be plenty? big pharma lies!"
of course those differences in boosters are not trivial. it depends (a) HOW recently people were vaxxed/boostered and (b) WHICH groups of (c) WHAT demographic profile. the simple fact is that australia is lagging at the back of the pack of 70+ western nations on their booster programme.
if a country is 40% boostered and has a young population, that’s significantly different from one which is 25% boostered with an ageing population.
if a country boostered pretty well their entire elderly population in short order, in about a month this winter, as korea did, then that ‘only 38% boostered’ stat paints a relatively robust picture against the winter wave. they precisely targeted the most vulnerable/most shielded and delivered the boosters in a well-timed manner to tackle the brunt of a new wave. this is what 'living with covid' looks like: deploying resources to those who are at risk and letting the rest of society RESUME normality.
55% of the U.K. have been boostered. so let’s say the majority of everyone who is over 50. omicron is NO risk to young people.
get it, thicko?
Last edited by uziq (2022-01-21 03:02:50)
