The world is nowhere near the end of the pandemic, says famed epidemiologist Larry Brilliant

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https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/08/09/covid-epidemiologist-larry-brilliant-on-delta-variant-vaccinations.html

Key Points:

The pandemic is not coming to an end soon — given that only a small proportion of the world's population has been vaccinated, said Larry Brilliant, a well-known epidemiologist.

Brilliant, who was part of the WHO team that helped eradicate smallpox, said the delta variant is "maybe the most contagious virus" ever.
The doctor said vaccinated people aged 65 and have a weakened immune system should get a booster shot "right away."

Much more at link.

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5. Sadly, yes

They will break Social Security & Medicare / Medicaid with long haul. (Dr. Ding has tweeted that 19% of fully vaxed healthcare workers in small study ended up with long haul & I'm guessing the number must be similar or higher for unvaxed.)

Not to mention medical care & psych services.

[wackadoo wabbit]

9. I hadn't seen that Dr. Ding tweet. That's just terrifying!

Thanks for the info!

[SheltieLover]

10. Yw

I don't have rwitter. I just read there, but Dr. Ding did post that. Perhaps you can search for it if you have an account?

Yes, it is terrifying.

[krawhitham]

2. It's is only a mater of time until there is a variant that the vaccines don't work on

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7. Yup

That's what Dr. Fauci has been saying, and common sense really.

[misanthrope]

8. We were warned

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4. And this guy knows what he's talking about

Because he is... wait for it... Brilliant!

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6. Lol

I love his name, too!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. Absolutely true.

Here's what I've been saying for at least a year now.

Pretend it's the spring of 1939, and you and I are planning a trip to Europe next year. Hi friend! Anyway, we've been planning this for some time now, saving our money, working extra jobs, figuring out just how we will do it. It's going to be a great trip! We'll go to London, Paris, Rome, maybe the French Riviera, perhaps Spain. We haven't worked out all the details yet, but we can hardly wait.

Then September rolls around. Germany invades Poland and a new war breaks out. Oh, crap! We won't be going to Europe next year, but we're hopeful and optimistic that the war won't last very long, and we'll take our trip in 1941.

But the war drags on. And on. It doesn't finally end in Europe until May, 1945. The soonest we might make that postponed trip is 1946. More likely a year or two or three after. And when we finally get there, we'll see a Europe profoundly different from the one we might have seen in 1939. Nothing is the same. Nothing will ever be the same again.

And so with this pandemic. It's going to last longer than people think. I'm not about to make any predictions, other than to say longer, a lot longer. And a lot of changes will be set in place. Changes involving how we travel, how we interact with others, how we live our day to day lives. I strongly suspect that schools will be hugely changed by this. I think that the whole model of educating in classrooms will be fully re-thought. Again, I'm not going to make any predictions, other than school will be a lot different a few years down the road.

We are all in this for the long haul. Trying to pretend that things are "Back to normal" is a fool's game. There really will be a new normal down the road, and it won't look at all like normal looked in 2019.