I'm really frustrated with the "vaccines won't free us from masks" framing.https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-cdc-models-cast-doubt-on-vaccines-freeing-us-from-masks …
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it's _actually OK_ that vaccines won't get us to herd immunity, because that was never the only, or the likeliest, way to control COVID. vaccines plus masking plus new social mores plus government interventions can effectively stop transmission even with lower levels of immunity.
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instead of "why don't vaccines mean we can just act like nothing ever happened???" we should be thinking "what problems in our society has this exposed, or exacerbated, that we should work to fix both to make everyone's lives better, and to mitigate the NEXT pandemic?"
