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zipplewrath

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2. Two things

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Fri Mar 12, 2021, 03:37 PM

Mar 2021

1) Way more people have been infected than we know. Easily 30% or more have already been infected and don't know it.

2) By the fall, when a new surge starts to occur, it will be predominately among people that refused to get the vaccine, and weren't unknowingly infected. I'm far more worried about a significant variant such that the vaccines lose much of their effectiveness, especially in the most vulnerable groups.

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