Reports from the UK suggest almost all of the critically ill (ICU) patients are unvaccinated – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/23/covid-patients-in-icu-now-almost-all-unvaccinated-says-oxford-scientist
It must be the case that the UK, Spain, Italy and France are _benefiting_ from having larger numbers of recovered patients who are protected by antibodies. This can be deduced from the number of active cases, versus the number of critically ill patients (given vaccine rate are pretty equal).
My son is just about to turn 7 and three of his birthday parties have been cancelled- basically every birthday he can remember. We are heading into another hard lockdown over Christmas- unavoidable. __100K Dead!__
Have fun but for god’s sake be responsible!
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Probably just gonna get worse. The fact that most people have endured 2 years of this pandemic and have gotten the vaccine, they will refuse skipping out on this years christmas events. Its an all around shitty situation where people who are doing the good things get punished by others being irresponsible.
They should just let them die. As simple as that. No vaccination = no treatment, end of story
>It must be the case that the UK, Spain, Italy and France are _benefiting_ from having larger numbers of recovered patients who are protected by antibodies.
This doesn’t necessarily follow. Sure some slight benefit might exist, but differences in behavior because of experience with the virus is enough to explain most of the numbers.
Those nations had a shock awakening to the pandemic with in some cases the military having to transport dead bodies from the hospitals were there simply wasn’t enough room to store them. That’s something Germany hasn’t (yet) experienced. Germany did well in the first and second wave, worse in the third and absolutely catastrophically now in the fourth.
Our early success us now coming back to bite us as people get annoyed with social distancing and preventative measures while completely underestimating the severity and risk because it hasn’t been bad enough yet.
It’s the prevention paradox in action. Because preventative measures were successful the risk assessment of the population is skewed towards underestimating the risk and thus preventative measures are abandoned leading to a worse outcome than in places where the risk assessment is correct due to negative experience.