foo monkey: weddingsinger: foo monkey: BitwiseShift: Well over 90% of the American public has now been infected, vaccinated or both, meaning that the level of protection against severe disease is vastly different than it was when vaccines were first introduced in December 2020.


Which explains there is probably no hospital bed available where you live for COVID or anything else -- so an emergency room visit will have you living in the ER, waiting for a room to become available.

What's worse, pretty sure "vaccinated" is defined as getting the original shots from 2021.  No boosters. No variant vaccines.  Vaccinated for original recipe COVID, which barely exists anymore.

It appears that which variant its for is less important than how recent your shot was. Even original flavor has done a pretty good job reducing harm risk (still something like twice as effective as a flu shot is).

Though what we really need is to start with air filtration and other mitigation efforts or we're all just screwed eventually, one way or another (ourselves or someone we care about)

Agreed.  My point was more that people and statistics are saying, "90% vaccinated" when "vaccinated" means they got the original shot two years ago and that's it.  Then it's "vaccinated and boosted" at a far lower rate.

As far as air filtration, I hear there are these inexpensive personal air filtration systems you can hook right up to your face.  If everyone used those, we could starve the virus for hosts and eliminate it, like polio.