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While most people would prefer to stop wearing masks as soon as we could....
We are only about 1/4th currently vaccinated....
And....now this is here:
"New research published this week in the British Medical Journal found the coronavirus variant originating in the United Kingdom, called B.1.1.7, is substantially more deadly than the original strain of SARS-CoV-2.
The authors say the B.1.1.7 variant is between 32 and 104% deadlier.
...
... more infectious than the original strain (UK authorities have suggested it’s up to 70% more transmissible).
The UK variant is likely deadlier, more infectious and becoming dominant. But the vaccines still work well against it
AND:
Soon to be 90% of all new cases. Because it spreads so much more easily and rapidly than the older strain.
So...with only about 1/4th of us vaccinated at the moment...
I think we should follow Fauci's example and set the mutual all-in-it-together group example -- group behavior people tend to follow -- of continuing to wear masks for the follow-by-example effect for a while longer.
Until vaccinated rates are high enough to really stop it, the new variant is still contagious enough to spread very rapidly if people stopped wearing masks too soon, and dangerous enough to kill plenty more people.
We are only about 1/4th currently vaccinated....
And....now this is here:
"New research published this week in the British Medical Journal found the coronavirus variant originating in the United Kingdom, called B.1.1.7, is substantially more deadly than the original strain of SARS-CoV-2.
The authors say the B.1.1.7 variant is between 32 and 104% deadlier.
...
... more infectious than the original strain (UK authorities have suggested it’s up to 70% more transmissible).
The UK variant is likely deadlier, more infectious and becoming dominant. But the vaccines still work well against it
AND:
Soon to be 90% of all new cases. Because it spreads so much more easily and rapidly than the older strain.
So...with only about 1/4th of us vaccinated at the moment...
I think we should follow Fauci's example and set the mutual all-in-it-together group example -- group behavior people tend to follow -- of continuing to wear masks for the follow-by-example effect for a while longer.
Until vaccinated rates are high enough to really stop it, the new variant is still contagious enough to spread very rapidly if people stopped wearing masks too soon, and dangerous enough to kill plenty more people.
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