Originally Posted by
zechs
With stats like 4% of those who catch covid are hospitalized, or 1% make it into the ICU, you really shouldn't be worried to begin with.
Thats based on 18,400 active cases, and we know that number is underreported because you can have covid and not know it. The hospital numbers also don't account for how high hospitalizations are in much older age groups relative to their smaller population proportion. By taking out people over the age of 70, you effectively cut those % in half.
2% of people who catch covid are hospitalized. 0.5% make it to ICU. For shits and giggles, lets say that decreases by another 50% for double vaccinated.
We are well below the threshold for it to matter to anyone, especially since we now know masks don't do anything and vaccine passports certainly won't do anything either.
Let alone being vaccinated. Of course, vaccine effectiveness is down to 60% already after two shots and dropping rapdily.
With 70% of Albertans double vaccinated, R0 is still over 1.0.
Really makes a person wonder. Curious as to when the direction changes and people are finally sick of all of this, its becoming clearer there is no miracle bandaid.
If R0 doesn't drop below 1.0 with everyone vaccinated, then what? What if vaccine efficiency drops further?