Comments by "surely you joke, mein failüre" (@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531) on "Wednesday update" video.

@katiehettinger7857 Correct. And if the unvaccinated people happen to make contact with the new Indian variants, then we may see the numbers going up. It's not as if they haven't had time to digest the news that there's a nasty virus going around and that vaccines are available.
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@spud7823 Aww, I'm sorry your very thin skin got hurt by facts. You might want to put on some thicker clothing. Have you ever thought of getting "I am a plague spreader and science denier" tattooed on your forehead? Anyway, it's happening already. I'm past caring if the virus takes out a few science deniers. The gene pool needed some lifeguards anyway.
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The trouble with that Indian variant is that it spreads a lot more easily than the previous versions. I fear it will blow through the prior level of precautions all too easily. Is Australia widely vaccinated already? Hope so.
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@misenplace8442 Sorry to hear .. I've got friends in Oz and now I am pretty worried about them. From their videos I can see that lots of people there have not been observing precautions all along - business as usual with restaurants, stores, social gatherings, not a mask to be seen. Where I live (the county is 67.2% fully vaccinated for 16yo+ people, 54K covid cases per million overall) the Indian variant is here already but not spreading very quickly. Mostly it will affect the people who are vaccine averse and who don't observe precautions - usually they are the same people anyway. I am closely following the numbers for counties where vaccination rates are lower, and from what I'm seeing, the protection from prior community exposure is not as good as the protection from vaccines. For example, we've got a county where 48.8% of the 16yo+ population is fully vaccinated, where over 10% of the population has at one point contracted covid, yet the new-cases number has been going up steadily for 8 weeks in a row. I fear that the double whammy of a) low prior community exposure and b) new variants on scene will cause bad outbreaks in places that until now had been doing fairly well.
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