Delta is taking the US by storm ... among the unvaccinated.
And vaccinated. More than 60% of all hospitalised in Israel are people who have been fully vaccinated.
According to the Israeli Ministry of Health registry, by the end of April 2021, a total of 397 fully vaccinated patients were hospitalized with the severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS-CoV-2 after their second vaccine dose – with 234 of them suffering severe COVID-19 and 90 of them succumbing to the disease.
I don't know the numbers for Britain and other countries, but it wouldn't surprise me if the numbers were the same.
Vaccines don't protect many people from being infected with this new variant, but let's hope they protect the vast majority from hospitalisation and death. It seems that a vaccinated person can spread the virus as much as those who have not been vaccinated.
This happens to be, predominantly, a demographic mindlessly following a particular political party that is advocating all sorts of conspiracy theories that basically lead the unsophisticated to refuse to be vaccinated. It also happens that this demographic is predominantly: rural, white, obese and poor. In red states, non-whites cluster into metro areas and are smarter than the average white bear ... they also have all of their teeth.
Knowing that there is a high number of crazy anti-vaxxers and people who are for good reasons vaccine-sceptics, our epidemiologists and politicians should have predicted that a lot of people would be refusing vaccines and the consequences of a such refusal. They should have predicted new virus variants, a possible spread of these, and the risk that these variants could render mass vaccination futile.
We can't blame anti-vaxxers and vaccine-sceptics for the obvious incompentence of our epidemiologists and politicians. I repeat, this new delta variant has not come from outer space. Someone, who had been infected with it, has, at some point, crossed the border, and spread the deasese in the community. And now we are playing catch-me-if-you-can game with this virus.
We don't need "epidemiologists" who are trying to "control" the virus and "dance" with it. We don't need "epidemiologists" who are waving with their statistical models and smart power-point presentations in front of TV cameras. We don't need their half-hearted restrictions, measures and lockdowns. What we need is real epidemiologists who know how to prevent pandemics and who know how to implement strict border control so the virus, or its mutations, can not be imported from abroad.
'The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.' - Voltaire
This is the third time the British government repeat the same huge mistake, but on the other hand Britain has had a success with the mass vaccination. Covid vaccines had shown an excellent efficacy against Wuhan and British coronavirus variants, the number of infections and deaths had been in a free fall as well....up until this Delta variant started to spread rapidly. For the families of some (young) people, who have died (we don't know the real numbers) from Covid vaccines, the mass vaccination has been a nightmare. Astra-Zeneca was forbidden first in Denmark, and then in the other Scandinavian countries, as early as in March 2021. Johnson & Johnson as well. Soon, many other countries have followed and restricted the use of these two vaccines. Also mRNA vaccines have some nasty side effects mostly affecting young males (miocarditis and pericarditis). People die from Covid vaccines, and still nobody knows what the long term side effects of these vaccines will be.
The vast majority of us have accepted to be a part of what one of the EU bureaucrats cynically (and proudly!) called 'The largest medical experiment in the human history'. We have accepted to get vaccinated with vaccines that are approved for emergency use only, well knowing that Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, Astra-Zeneca, Johnson & Jouhnson etc. have all been granted protection from future product liability, which means they won't be paying for any claims for damages in case of side effects if something goes wrong with their vaccines. Pharmaceutical companies typically aren’t offered much liability protection under the law, but this time they are. In the US you also can’t sue the Food and Drug Administration for authorizing a vaccine for emergency use, nor can you hold your employer accountable if they mandate inoculation as a condition of employment. Congress created a fund specifically to help cover lost wages and out-of-pocket medical expenses for people who have been irreparably harmed by a “covered countermeasure,” such as a vaccine. But it is difficult to use and rarely pays. Attorneys say it has compensated less than 6% of the claims filed in the last decade.
Why am I so angry? Because we have accepted all the risks from the vaccines and endured harsh lockdowns in order to prevent this nasty desease to spread, and at the same time our governments treat us like shit by letting more infectuous coronavirus variants cross the borders and putting all OUR efforts in jeopardy.
