"The Delta coronavirus variant can transmit easily from vaccinated people to their household contacts, a British study found on Thursday, although contacts were less likely to get infected if they were vaccinated themselves."
It seems like the only people who think the vaccines should provide a 100% gold-plated guarantee against getting the tiniest bit sick are the people who don't want to take them.
In reality the vaccines reduce the severity of the disease most of the time. This frees up some hospital resources for people with other problems.
I've never believed that the vaccines would "100% gold-plated guarantee against getting the tiniest bit sick". This is what governments tried to make people think, and 80% of Canadians believed it. The India variant wave would have rapidly subsided as it did elsewhere even without a mass vaccination campaign, any strains on the health care system could have been mitigated by other means.
SK like other provinces had a year to prepare and could have been using treatments that could have mitigated the problem, but instead chose to maintain pre-pandemic hospital capacity and adopted and vaccines-or-bust strategy. This is why only c. 80 patients in ICU are resulting in a "crisis". You should be very concerned that out medical system (apparently) can't cope with a "new" virus that has a 99.99% survival rate. Too bad "health experts" were more concerned with politicizing covid19 than actually working in the public's interest to end this "pandemic".
You say "they could have done it different" but provide nothing else.
You should be very concerned that out medical system (apparently) can't cope with a "new" virus that has a 99.99% survival rate.
I gather you're not a taxpayer. Taxpayers would be screaming themselves to death if they had to pay for a system that stood around waiting for global pandemics.
99.99% survival
That number is only valid if you include the people who don't get the virus, so it's pretty much useless. Look at the "Closed Cases" box on the following web page and grade school math will show you that of the people who test positive for the virus globally, one in fifty dies. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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"The Delta coronavirus variant can transmit easily from vaccinated people to their household contacts, a British study found on Thursday, although contacts were less likely to get infected if they were vaccinated themselves."
It seems like the only people who think the vaccines should provide a 100% gold-plated guarantee against getting the tiniest bit sick are the people who don't want to take them.
In reality the vaccines reduce the severity of the disease most of the time. This frees up some hospital resources for people with other problems.
I've never believed that the vaccines would "100% gold-plated guarantee against getting the tiniest bit sick". This is what governments tried to make people think, and 80% of Canadians believed it. The India variant wave would have rapidly subsided as it did elsewhere even without a mass vaccination campaign, any strains on the health care system could have been mitigated by other means.
When? Back that statement up.
How could Saskatchewan have avoided shipping ICU patients to Ontario last week.
SK like other provinces had a year to prepare and could have been using treatments that could have mitigated the problem, but instead chose to maintain pre-pandemic hospital capacity and adopted and vaccines-or-bust strategy. This is why only c. 80 patients in ICU are resulting in a "crisis". You should be very concerned that out medical system (apparently) can't cope with a "new" virus that has a 99.99% survival rate. Too bad "health experts" were more concerned with politicizing covid19 than actually working in the public's interest to end this "pandemic".
You say "they could have done it different" but provide nothing else.
I gather you're not a taxpayer. Taxpayers would be screaming themselves to death if they had to pay for a system that stood around waiting for global pandemics.
That number is only valid if you include the people who don't get the virus, so it's pretty much useless. Look at the "Closed Cases" box on the following web page and grade school math will show you that of the people who test positive for the virus globally, one in fifty dies. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/