As far as whether this vaccine provides sterilizing immunity, we don't know because they didn't specifically test for it - testing for real-life transmissibility of the virus is much more difficult than testing whether you have disease symptoms and is not the priority
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But the basic way this vaccine works means that in order to keep you from getting COVID-19 the vaccine *must* cause the body to produce neutralizing antibodies Logically it probably does reduce transmissibility, we just don't know by how much and whether it gets down to zero
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Anyway, you are flat out incorrect about the public policy situation in NZ NZ's population is seeing a huge economic upswing as they head into Christmas *without* any lockdowns, because they've gotten down to zero cases without the use of a vaccine
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The thing that's "locked down" in NZ is letting people from *other* countries into their borders, thanks to the massive public policy failures in the rest of the world
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This is obviously not ideal, since they do have a fair amount of tourism income, but the overall situation is obviously worse for the US and UK economies - a LOT worse - than it is for them
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The idea that lockdown is a permanent no-win scenario that you can't get out of until you achieve "herd immunity" is, of course, mindless defeatism from idiots who don't know the basic way an infectious disease works
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If we could lock down the whole world for 14 days the virus would vanish forever That's how a virus works, that's its basic weakness - it's not really alive, it can only grow inside a human body, and it can only do so for so long before it needs to jump elsewhere
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The collective result of the actions of schmucks like this guy has been too kill so many people. They’re too dumb to even realize they shouldn’t appear in public anymore.
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The ridiculous sour grapes here He doesn't even know that the last NZ lockdown ended in October Taiwan just had a huge 10,000-person two-day rave in November to celebrate 200 days with zero endogenous cases
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I have friends from NZ who can't go for Christmas due to the 2 week hotel quarantine at their own expense. The idea that they are back to normal is Chinese fake news
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Yeah you mean they can't go IN AND OUT OF THE COUNTRY Blame other countries for that situation
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On top of everything else it's just utterly comical watching a Brexiter suddenly demand free movement across borders at all times as a God-given right
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It's not comical watching a Chinese stooge demanding the end of free movement
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