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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If  you live in MOCO do you plan to resume if you dinned before, do you plan to stay away or do you plan to modify?[/quote]

Easing restrictions has the effect of putting just enough evolutionary pressure on the virus that it accelerates its mutation rate, which statistically, at some point, will lead to the emergence of vaccine-resistant variants. The South African variant is already not has vulnerable to our vaccines as the others.
What we should be doing is going the other way: being MORE restrictive while getting everyone vaccinated, so as to avoid the virus becoming endemic and/or resistant to vaccines. Otherwise, the best-case scenario is that we'll need booster shots every year. The worst-case scenario is that a variant will emerge that is completely resistant to current vaccine technology and will set us back to square one, and millions more deaths.

As a molecular biologist, who has worked in virology, I understand this. It saddens me that most people don't. It further worries me that scientists working in public health are pressured to act on criteria other than health. Of course businesses and kids are suffering right now. But this suffering is nothing compared to what we might suffer if a truly resistant variant emerges. So there's a calculation of risk here that divides the experts, mostly because a pandemic of this scale has never happened in modern, high-tech times (we didn't have all this vaccine technology at our disposal for the 1918 flu pandemic) and we don't know how much risk to apply to any one direction.

So... no, I will not be dining out until I am fully immunized. 
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I wish you could post this on every thread. Exactly. 
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