The list of countries with super low vaccination rates is enormous and India, where Delta came from, is not even at 50%. Pretty much all of Africa is "naked" and they may not even get the vaccine until 2023.
Higher ed here, general sysad. Small but mixed shop of sysad, security, network engineering. Frustratingly resistant to moving full WFH, though we've been full remote for the last 18mo, minus a visit or two for failed disks/batteries. We just started the process of implementing our 'hybrid' policy... Just as the uni announced we're going back to masking up indoors (per CDC and local health admin guidance). I'm actually betting a fiver that we go back into lockdown due to delta before I take a step into the office.
I'd say the WFH is a mixed bag. I personally love it, and have been doing it for nearly 3 years. I don't think I'd ever want to go back to 4-5 days/week in the office. Others do better with a separation between home life and work life, especially if you don't have the space at home for dedicated work spaces.
And the wheels of the bus go round and round. I'm starting to feel like Delta is just going to race around the world, kill allot of people and create another drop in the world economy (likely not as bad as the first year). Swell. On the plus side, maybe this will *finally* wake up some people so they get vaccinated. With all the vaccine doses ordered by the US government, everybody eligible could have been vaccinated by the end of summer (IIRC). The biggest threat to humanity is humans
And the wheels of the bus go round and round. I'm starting to feel like Delta is just going to race around the world, kill allot of people and create another drop in the world economy (likely not as bad as the first year). Swell. On the plus side, maybe this will *finally* wake up some people so they get vaccinated. With all the vaccine doses ordered by the US government, everybody eligible could have been vaccinated by the end of summer (IIRC). The biggest threat to humanity is humans
WashPo had a good article yesterday. The question is whether this is a temporary spike, or a durable trend.
I think the current best guess is, it prevents an infection from landing you in a hospital 99% of the time, but it doesn't prevent you from spreading it, as immunization usually would to a virus. Normally by the time the virus has replicated enough to reasonably start infecting others, your immune system goes all sparta on it. This replicates so damned fast that you're breathing it out before your immune system has a chance to start firing up... Like, within hours of infection you're a vector.
Originally(early versions of covid), if you tested positive & you quarantined for a period of time you had a little immunity & it was safe to be around others... not spreading it to others.
As far as I know, if you quarantine yes, you won't infect others, you won't be contagious, etc.
The general health of a population doesn't make the few people's suffering any less. Long COVID sucks and I'm fortunate the effects have been mostly temporary. But "temporary" is 3-4 months in my case. The pulling of the Black Lotus remains to devastating to those whose immune system happen to offer no protection.
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