zackster
I don’t want to call it a miracle cure, as that’s hyperbolic, but what these vaccines are doing, currently, is remarkable.
My job is in OMG. Laughable, I know, but it’s the Outbreak Management Group (stupid name, the name not my call so leave me alone) and we’ve been tracking facilities; shelters; encampments; for basically a year now. January was a disaster - 600+ a day - and right now we don’t have much to do (hence me finishing up my 2004 EM ranks). We had, I think, 55 last Saturday (?). Or thereabouts. Barely a blip.
Herd immunity doesn’t look possible give mutations and the lagging vaccine rollout - that idea was always stupid anyway. But partial immunity seems very close. We’re close to 40% and after that the virus is going to run out of hosts at some point.
BUT. This could be an every-few-year thing, unfortunately. The manner in which we live our lives has created this mess and if we don’t change….C-19 will be the rule rather than the exception.
