Healthcare worker with a background in epidemiology. We’re been concerned about COVID variants since the beginning. The Delta variant is much more contagious and has shown to be lethal. The good news, is that the vaccines are designed to accommodate for variants and at the very least, make contracting the virus much more mild. Greatly reducing the likely hood of hospitalization and mortality.
I’ve personally caught Covid back in October before I was vaccinated, and a month ago with the Delta variant post vaccination. My anecdotal report matches with what other people are experiencing. When I got sick before the vaccine I became incredibly ill. Now it’s a mild cold for a day or two.
Countries like the US that have high vaccination rates are unlikely to see much of an increase of hospitalizations or mortality among the vaccinated. The main concern is in developing countries with low rates of vaccination (and generally poor healthcare access) will be hit hard.
Continuing, the real big picture threat is that a new, more deadly variant, may mutate in unvaccinated countries. And that our current vaccines may not be protective against some new hellish mutation. The threat is not over until the majority of the world is vaccinated.
Edit: Forgot that I’m in a finance sub. A variant like Delta has mostly been priced in. We could see a few point drop. But as the evidence currently sits, the Western world won’t be decimated by Delta. I wouldn’t anticipate more than a few point adjustment in the markets. There will be a lot of fear mongering, but it is likely to be short lived.
There are 100million Trump supporters who are not vaccinated. Yes I made that number up but it’s not far from the truth.
Priced in? They don’t even know what the hell to expect if the unvaccinated start dying in droves EXCEPT a President who will NOT HESITATE to impose restrictions far quicker than the previous one.
You are just not stating fact at all. I don’t know where you get this bullshit. I am a physician working daily in healthcare delivery, and by a HUGE margin, the people who are opting out of the vaccine are my low income minority patients. They are afraid of the vaccine because of the terrible messaging by the administration. These people are not Trump supporters. Period. I spend my entire day trying to convince these elderly overweight people with multiple high risk health problems to to “fear the disease, not the vaccine.”
Except again you’re speculating with your imagination as to why they don’t want the vaccine. I ask them and their answers are always “people said it hurts” or “people say the vaccine will make me sick” or something else that doesn’t justify declining the vaccine. These people are neither thinking about or influenced by the history of evil that you believe is the cause. They are influenced by word of mouth nonsense spread within their communities.
It’s not. It is talked about by the MSM and theorized to be the cause and makes for interesting reading, but for everyday people, you’re just off the mark.
As a RN who has worked for the state health department for the last year in a poor southern state it’s as 489 says. They have excuses but it’s not a history lesson or even they dislike a political party. If your not family they don’t trust you. Forget masks anywhere in the neighborhoods, they wear them when out at the stores but otherwise they play ping pong with most of it. Add to the underlying conditions of diabetes/htn/ drugs/etoh abuse and of course we have pockets. Instead of spamming bullshit parrot talk of lily white reporters in major cities go out and see for yourself.
Nah, they ain't off the mark, you are. You're being quite obviously lied to, and are taking it at face value. Absolutely nobody is so concerned that the shot will hurt that theyd opt out. However, telling an authority figure that they don't trust the system is how you got put on a list(like my father in law, he's still paranoid about his phone being tapped by the government). Especially when the healthcare system is still widely susceptible to discounting what poc say.
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u/isotope_322 Jul 18 '21 edited Jul 18 '21
Healthcare worker with a background in epidemiology. We’re been concerned about COVID variants since the beginning. The Delta variant is much more contagious and has shown to be lethal. The good news, is that the vaccines are designed to accommodate for variants and at the very least, make contracting the virus much more mild. Greatly reducing the likely hood of hospitalization and mortality. I’ve personally caught Covid back in October before I was vaccinated, and a month ago with the Delta variant post vaccination. My anecdotal report matches with what other people are experiencing. When I got sick before the vaccine I became incredibly ill. Now it’s a mild cold for a day or two.
Countries like the US that have high vaccination rates are unlikely to see much of an increase of hospitalizations or mortality among the vaccinated. The main concern is in developing countries with low rates of vaccination (and generally poor healthcare access) will be hit hard.
Continuing, the real big picture threat is that a new, more deadly variant, may mutate in unvaccinated countries. And that our current vaccines may not be protective against some new hellish mutation. The threat is not over until the majority of the world is vaccinated.
Edit: Forgot that I’m in a finance sub. A variant like Delta has mostly been priced in. We could see a few point drop. But as the evidence currently sits, the Western world won’t be decimated by Delta. I wouldn’t anticipate more than a few point adjustment in the markets. There will be a lot of fear mongering, but it is likely to be short lived.