Unless everything we’ve been told about vaxx is a lie, Germany has achieved vaccination levels sufficient to make Corona less dangerous, population-wide, than influenza. And yet containment continues. RKI now publishes new guidance calling for closures at even lower metrics ...
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Replying to @eugyppius1
I keep hearing "variants" as motivation for not lifting things. Otoh, apparently China is getting "hit hard" by the "Indian variant" right now.
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Replying to @The_WGD
The variants are all variations on a theme, all have related mutations in spike protein that confer an advantage, maybe 10-30%. But something about this is unstable, each variant loses the advantage over time, until a new fresh variant with related mutations leaps ahead again.
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Replying to @eugyppius1 @The_WGD
Gain of function processes responsible for the virus seem to have already more or less optimised its transmissibility.
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Vaxx works against all of them too. I’m sure there will be escape mutations, but they aren’t here yet.
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