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Once you and your friends are vaccinated, can you quit social distancing?
Expect life to return to normal in 3 stages not all at once.
By Sigal Samuel Updated Jan 12, 2021, 2:05pm EST
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The best way to set realistic expectations around what life will look like in 2021 is to think of it in three stages. Stage 1 is what you can safely do once you and your close friends or family are vaccinated. Stage 2 is what you can safely do once your city or state has reached herd immunity, where enough people are protected against infection that the virus cant easily spark new outbreaks. Stage 3 is what you can do once herd immunity is reached internationally. (Note that theres a good chance we wont reach that last stage in 2021.)
A lot will depend on the answer to a crucial open question: Are the vaccines only good at preventing symptomatic disease, or are they also good at preventing infection and transmission?
Bloom and other experts are optimistic that the vaccines help reduce infection and transmission, but nobody knows by how much. We just need more data on transmission, he said. Hopefully it will come out of the trials in a couple of months.
In the meantime, even vaccinated people have to assume they can still become infected and pass along the virus. That means they need to keep wearing masks and social distancing whenever theyre around unvaccinated people.
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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22219362/end-of-covid-19-pandemic-social-distancing-masking
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)TeamPooka
(24,278 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)We can still be asymptomatic carriers.
Volaris
(10,275 posts)Can all kiss my dick.
Herd Immunity is the equalivant of biologic socialism...your inaction is defended by the pro-action of everyone else. YOU are kept safe by the actions of the rest of US.
'Party of Personal Responsiblity' my ass. NEVER come to me with that argument ever again, and fuck off. Your anti-vaxxer, herd immunity self should be held down to the flat earth and a needle shoved into your ass.
Complain, I dare you.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)In 2022 when I finally can get vaccinated
Mostly to not encourage unvaccinated idiots from thinking going maskless is ok.
We need to get past the pandemic as soon as we can for several reasons including the human cost and economic recovery.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)before vaccines were available. Deaths will continue even among vaccinated people if they disregard
the basic common-sense protections many of us have used so far.