Apparently at least in Europe and America (52% NA / 51% SA is partially vaccinated to date. WHO), desperately seeking to obtain the dose against Covid-19 is a thing of the past; as well as earn millions, days off from work, pizzas or beers as a gift if he managed to be ‘convinced’ to the injection.
With almost a third of the world population being reluctant to the vaccine, among conspirators and skeptics, the tax strategy takes force, especially in a context where the arrival of variants ventilates a new scale of uncertainty in the face of the pandemic, so frustrating for the believer in science, as confirmatory for everyone who sees Covid-19 as false, invented, or exaggerated.
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In epidemiology, each variant that a virus develops can strengthen its contagion capacity and / or consequences in the affected individual. Until now, the pattern of the new coronavirus (including Delta) is based on double-positive patients infected, pressing the need for agility in immunization while moving the goal of ‘herd immunity’ away from 70 to 85% of the population (CDC).
Because the greater the number of variants, those who were infected with the first versions continue to be exposed to the rest, which for the purposes of this pandemic may include those already immunized, given the level of novelty of the virus and its treatment … it is already beginning to be known / Hearing of people who have contracted the disease twice even after receiving the vaccine, living in constant fear and therefore estranged from all humans.
Examples that strengthen the ‘pièce de resistance’ of the growing skepticism around vaccines, those who do not want to feel like ‘guinea pigs’ of the pandemic, who are not willing to immunize themselves until confirming that the vaccinated person is not sterile and does not have a microchip in their body. A friend tried to place a refrigerator magnet on my vaccinated arm, trying to confirm if I had graphene… So we go.
Being ‘pro’ or ‘anti’ vaccine evolves from a controversial issue, to one of the main generators of human division, because in different countries (including the United States) the exponential arrival of the Delta variant delayed the return (and reactivation) of entertainment, work in offices, types of businesses … in addition to the restrictions, rules and routines that the peaks bring, and the drama of a disease that was and continues to be real, beyond detractors.
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The vaccinated person feels that the unvaccinated one delayed / delays / will delay ‘normality’, but is also afraid of contracting Covid-19 (so you know that your chances of reaching the ICU are minimal). Those who do not want to be immunized feel that returning to the pre-pandemic will happen when everyone who fears it ‘takes off the blindfold’ and confirms that it is not so serious, or it is a ‘master plan’.
Meanwhile, the variants continue on their way … Delta is confirmed as predominant in the United States, and it will be in Latin America in a few weeks until the end of this year depending on the country, other experts are already beginning to review Lambda, the next mutation of Covid-19, whose first cases were discovered in the Andean region of South America.
How to give a resolution and outcome to this inconvenient continuity? For some, including governments and corporations, it lies in committing those already vaccinated to a third dose, and promoting the mandatory application of doses for those who do not have it, both issues’ raise the temperature’…
The possibility of repeating the vaccine (in addition to facing countries and WHO) increases those fearful of side effects and questions the intentions of the pharmaceutical industry, historically little reputed … although without it today there would be no previously unthinkable treatments, such as the morning-after pill or the 2,400,000 million doses that Pfizer sells per year of its blue pill only in the Nafta area.
Giving vaccination mandatory tonality for many implies going against individual rights and freedoms. And here Competitive Strategy is the name of the business, like Pfizer (again), which achieved full FDA approval for Comirnaty -commercial name of its Covid-19 vaccine- which will allow them to have publicity and mobilize schools, universities, businesses, and corporations to place it among their requirements.
It remains to emphasize a technical question at this juncture: how the vaccines should be combined in the event of reaching the third dose. Experts, media and researchers have guesses… Pfizer with AstraZeneca ?, Modern with Johnson & Johnson ?, until the patents are public there will be no certainties. Who will manage to convince these giants …
It seems like a mathematical question: to ensure that the variants do not spread, it is necessary to immunize large groups of the clinically or economically vulnerable population (the least likely to access or believe in the vaccine) in a hyper-agile way, regardless of the country where it occurs. is rich or poor. How to confirm that Delta could have been contained by vaccinating 1/3 of the population of India in three months.
For Doctor Fauci, in the United States normality will return by spring 2022 depending on administering the third dose and reaching more non-vaccinated ones … it seems that he had to take into account some ‘pending’ letters of the Greek alphabet to arrive and gain confidence of the majority, skeptical at least … because the conspirators are not going to be convinced, with a really massive and re-tested product.
Unlike the days without a vaccine, where its arrival meant hope for the best tomorrow, the variants today affect collective optimism. So far to continue fighting and participate in the economic reactivation the best option is to get vaccinated – all an incentive to move forward and optimism – it also seems that it will be ‘voluntarily mandatory’ for many aspects and routines very soon.
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