CV and mad panic behaviour

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Let's for a minute say we go with your figures.
What happens when a mutated variant comes into play for which a vaccine does not offer the same protection?
If the Omicron takes off it is liable to displace the currently dominant Delta.
As I said we can only go with the best current advice (that's my own personal position) but it seems to me the covid is staying one step ahead.

But at the moment the game remains as stated, and the vaccines still have efficacy.

The new legislation taken up here and abroad is designed to slow the spread, to buy time for the evolution of vaccines by slowing the infections. At this stage it is working, the biggest risk is public non-compliance not the virus. Even though it's a fantasy and impossible, if when the virus was first detected we all locked down for a month and remained distanced, it would be extinct now.

No matter how contagious a virus needs a vector to spread and that vector is generally formed by a combination of actions from people who are in a proximity. In close proximity, one infected unvaccinated person might be the equivalent of 10, 100 or 1000 infected vaccinated people.

Omicron impacts efficacy in many ways, transmission is only one of probably dozens of terms in a very complex real world equation. None of us can escape Sars-CoV-2 forever, eventually we will all get it or some future variant, because it's now endemic. That's why closing borders can't work, it encourages bad behaviour by allowing people to resume the old ways and those old ways are now inherently risky, because from here onwards spread is always a mater of when not if! It is almost as bad as doing nothing like the protestors basically demand.