Quote Originally Posted by principal View Post
The “logic” in this article is headache inducing:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/07/30/h...mpression=true

Principal
First sentence in this article is apropos for recent conversation:

"Vaccination alone won't stop the rise of new variants and in fact could push the evolution of strains that evade their protection, researchers warned Friday."

To my point that I've made a few times on this thread - we are trying to play God with this, and the virus is winning. We should've of taken Sweden's approach, because in the end, "the virus is gonna virus". I fully understand the mitigation efforts we tried in the very beginning (note: I too was concerned with this in March - hell, we washed our groceries for a couple of weeks!), however, once we realized that the virus was most dangerous to older people and those with comorbidities, we should've taken steps to protect them, and simply allowed the virus to run it's course through healthier populations (younger). I believe we would've achieved herd immunity long ago, and this would be mostly behind us by now.

This was totally mismanaged. Prior to the pandemic the WHO had studies that clearly showed that lockdown don't work. And yet, world leaders ignored them. They need to get out of the way because they keep making the same mistakes.